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Instructional Foci 2019-20
Teachers will use culturally responsive strategies that value all learners’ backgrounds, identities and abilities and provide access to high achievement for historically disadvantaged and marginalized student populations by:
- Using curricula and pedagogy that academically challenge all students through a lens of equity and honors and reflects the diversity in our student body
- Building strong relationships with students by seeking to understand and celebrate their identities
- Developing restorative approaches to discipline and classroom management and create emotionally safe spaces
- Examining one’s own personal beliefs and interrupting implicit bias
- Leading and participating in school activities that promote a positive and college-going culture
Instructional Focus 2018-19
Teachers will use writing strategies across all subject areas to deepen their understanding of content and check students’ comprehension by
- Planning language objectives
- Teaching sentence expansion techniques
- Increasing vocabulary knowledge
- Providing feedback for effective revision
Instructional Focus 2017-18
Teachers will increase opportunities for student-to-student interaction by:
- increasing the frequency of student-centered discussion
- employing flexible grouping strategies
- giving students access to tools and technologies that foster collaboration (e.g., Google Docs, Google Classroom)
Instructional Focus 2016-17
Teachers will help students build knowledge in the content areas by increasing student access to complex texts across the curriculum using a variety of strategies including:
- close reading
- explicit teaching of academic vocabulary and language objectives
- interdisciplinary connections through content, texts and vocabulary
- Annotation Symbols
- Sentence Phrase Word
- Question Cards
- Oracion Frase Palabra
- Opinion Continuum
- La Opinion Continua
- La Mesa Redonda
- Grid Sample Template
- Grid Sample Spanish
- Conversation Roundtable
- Accountable Talk Card
- Text Reference Cards
- Sharing Cards
- Paraphrase & Moderate Cards
- Feedback Cards
- Student Interaction Rubric
- Student Interaction Rubric 2
- Student Interaction Rubric 3
- Student Interaction Rubric 4
- Student Interaction Rubric 5
- Student Interaction Rubric 6
- Conjunction Cards
- Because, But, So
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