Coaching Community #2 Resources

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Joyce and Showers Professional Development Research

Flaherty's Flow of Coaching Explanation:

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Reflecting on Coaching Article

Planning Questions:

1.  What standards are you teaching today?
What are your student-friendly outcomes?
2.  How will you know your students have met the 
daily outcome?
3.  What steps will you take to ensure your students 
meet the daily outcome?
4. What will you do if they do NOT meet the daily outcome? 
5.  What will you do if they DO meet the daily outcome?

4 Steps to Analyze Student Work

1.  What standard or standards are addressed?

2.  What do you consider a proficient response for this formative assessment?

3.  What do you see in the work samples? Strengths?  Weaknesses? 

4.  What do students’ needs indicate for designing instruction to move their learning forward? 

A great day of learning at 

Fairfield High Preparatory School!

Vertical Professional Learning Community 

Resources:

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The Leadership Compass Self-Assessment

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Emily Kissner Blog (Summarizing and Paraphrasing Author)

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Real Life Ready Scenarios

Region 5 CCRS Quarterly Meeting #2 Recap:

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CCRS Implementation Team Resources 2014-2015

Appendix B of the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in 

History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects contains annotated writing samples to illustrate the criteria required to meet the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for particular types of writing—argument, informative/explanatory text, and narrative—in each grade. The samples, which are actual writings from Grades K-12 students who attended school in a number of states and districts across the country, should be a valuable resource in interpreting the level of writing demanded by the standards.(page 104)

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2013 Alabama ELA Course of Study

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Curriculum Guide to the Alabama Course of Study: ELA K-12

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Achieve the Core Basal Alignment

Grades 3–5

What it is: A collection of replacement lessons for the most commonly used basal readers.

How to use it: Use these high-quality, Common Core-aligned questions and materials
with your existing textbook.

How it's organized: Lessons are organized by grade level and listed under the title of the

basal reader with which they are used.

Fisher and Frey's Text-Dependent Questions article:

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Text-Dependent Questions

Collaborating to Review Student Work Video:

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Teaching Channel Video: Collaborating to Review Student Work

CCRS Quarterly Meeting #2

Tuesday, November 4, 2014 

The Lincoln Professional Development Center

901~ 9th Avenue North ~ Birmingham

CCRS Quarterly Meeting ELA K-5 Take it Back:

• Take the EQuIP rubric review tool back to your school and use it to analyze a unit of study from any content area.
• Use the analysis results to determine what needs updating to meet the criteria of the unit.
• Bring back findings to share with others.
• Begin to use The Curriculum Guide to the Alabama Course of Study: English Language Arts K-12 to provide differentiated support for special populations in Tier One instruction.

To view the calendar dates for all of the CCRS Quarterly Meetings:

http://alex.state.al.us/ccrs/

Review the 2014-2015 CCRS Implementation Team Resources:

http://alex.state.al.us/ccrs/node/312

 

 

 

Region 5 has been planning with Bessemer City Middle and High Schools to incorporate literacy standards into strategic lessons. Using the following planning questions and the lesson planning thinking tool, we have created very engaging and literacy-rich content lessons!

Planning questions

Lesson Planning Tool

Summary of CCRS Quarterly Meeting #1:

Message from Dr. Bice

http://alex.state.al.us/ccrs/node/310  

Curriculum Guides

If you are looking for ways to break standards down into prerequisite skills to support struggling learners, click on the link below. ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies K-12 courses of study are all included. Though typically used by special education teachers, this can be a great resource for all teachers.

http://alex.state.al.us/specialed/curriculum.html  

EQuIP Quality Review Rubric

Are you looking for a tool for self-assessment of your lessons/units or self-assessment of your teaching as it relates to implementing College and Career Readiness Standards? This rubric might just be your solution. Use the link below, click on Download All and select the correct rubric (Social Studies teachers should select the ELA/Literacy).

http://achievethecore.org/page/605/equip-quality-review-rubric   

CCRS PD

30 hours of professional development will be available through eLearning courses starting October 1. Go to STI-PD and look at STI-PD numbers CCRSELA01, CCRSELA02, CCRSLIT01, CCRSMTH01, or CCRSMT02 for descriptions of courses related to ELA, Content Literacy, and Mathematics.

Insight Tool

The improved Alabama Insight Tool includes standards, lesson plans, and resources for K-12 in math, ELA, social studies and in content area literacy. Go to http://alex.state.al.us/ . Click on the Personal Workspace box and create a unique account. The Alabama Insight Tool button is included with other resources available for teacher use after you create an account. The individual accounts are customizable for content.

Great Technology Resource

Check out https://getkahoot.com/ for a new way to ask questions.

**Check out ARI's fabulous new website!  Click on the tab above labeled "ARI Webite" to go directly to the new website.**

Don't miss this exciting event happening all across our state!

The Future of Public Education Tour Information and Tour Dates

Miss The Future of Public Education Tour location near you?  

Click the link below to view the previously recorded presentation at Carver High School:

The Future of Public Education Tour previously recorded at Carver High School

UAB Pre-Service Training: ARI Beginning Reading

Resources and Links

Professional books:

Explains how to select words for instruction, introduce their meanings, and create engaging learning activities that promote both word knowledge and reading comprehension.

Link to purchase on Amazon.com

A list of the critical words students must know to be successful with the Common Core State Standards and any other standardized assessment they encounter. 

Link to purchase on Amazon.com

Assessment resources and tools you need to document a child’s strengths and areas of need and get effective instructional strategies to teach skills that are missing.

Link to purchase on Amazon.com

Websites:

Make Take & Teach Blog:

Instructional Materials for Small Group Intervention

Printable resources for teaching reading:

Resources for small group and station activities. Florida Center for Reading Research

Download Progress Monitoring materials and other early literacy resources:

DIBELS Website

Phoneme Segmentation Assessment:

Yopp Singer Phoneme Segmentation Assessment

San Diego Quick Assessment:

Grade level K-11 Word Recognition Test to Determine Entry Level for Text

ELA CCRS:

One page vertical alignment of ELA CCRS

Useful Apps:

Great to allow students to record themselves reading - for fluency, reports, and other projects.

AudioBoo App Link

Educational Literacy Apps Link

Table Tap Method Explanation: