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Supporting Rigorous Curriculum
(Overcoming Isolationism)
Participants are expected to purchase the book Results Now
Instructional Leadership
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• Name of Superintendent
– Welcome
– Why Important
Welcome
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• Name of Facilitator
– Overview / Agenda
– Enduring Understandings
– Guiding Questions
– Targeted Objectives
– Introductions
Overview & Introductions
Proposed Norms & ExpectationsProposed Norms & Expectations
• Stay focused and fully engaged– no competing conversations please
• Participate to grow– share openly and monitor your listening
• Be a learner– create your own meaning and application
• Get your needs met– ask questions that benefit the group– personal questions on breaks
• Housekeeping– silence cell phones– handle business later– share ONE point …then next person
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Instructional LeadershipCore Component is Managed through Key Processes
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• There is…
– ambitious academic content
– provided to all students
– in all core academic subjects.
Rigorous Curriculum:
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• Supports participation in professional development that deepens teachers’ understanding of a rigorous curriculum.
• Secures the teaching materials necessary for a rigorous curriculum.
• Provides teachers with time to work on developing and strengthening the curricular program.
• Supports teachers to teach a curriculum consistent with state and national content standards.
Research-Based Critical Behaviors
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• By the end of this workshop you will develop an action plan focused on applying the Research-Based Critical Behaviors.
• In the column labeled “Current Reality” – Rate yourself on a scale of 1-5
5 = Highly effective 3 = Satisfactorily Effective 1 = Ineffective
– Describe the evidence that supports your application of this concept
Action Plan
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How do instructional leaders support teachers to teach a rigorous curriculum?
Supporting Rigorous CurriculumSegment Guiding Question
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• Brainstorm some barriers to teachers teaching a rigorous curriculum.
What gets in a teacher’s way?
• Share some of your ideas.
Set
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One comment, One question•Read the article
– Isolation – The Enemy of Improvement.•At the end of each section, pause …
– make 1 comment– ask 1 question
•When finished, thank your partner and return to your table top.
Results Now: Isolation - The enemy of improvement
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• At your table top, identify
– Common comments or significant
– Common questions or significant
• Be prepared to share out.
Discussion
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• Consider the factors– Resources & PD to teach
standards• List challenges or obstacles (at
least 3 & 3)• Brainstorm ideas to raise rigor
and overcome challenges & obstacles
• Record prioritized ideas on a chart paper and post on the wall.
Task:
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• Read the information
• Check obstacle you had not considered
• Record ideas that seem promising for your school
Gallery Walk
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• Consider the Guiding Question.
• Use column labeled “Strategies/Ideas”
– connect today’s work with the “Research-Based Critical Behaviors.”
– List at least THREE things per box
• Pair Share ONE strategy you learned today and how you plan to use it at your school.
Closure for this Segment
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• Review the following…– Targeted Objectives– Research-Based Critical Behaviors
• Next Steps – What additional data do you need?– Who will you involve in process? – What resources do you need?
• Action Plan– Do what? – By when?
Conclusion and Development of an Action
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• In table groups (in a round robin format)
– Share one new learning and describe how you will apply it in your job
– NO REPEATS!
Workshop Closure
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