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Least Restrictive Environment. A Learner Selecting Vocabulary for a Sentence Frame Shirley Wilson demonstrates how to use a sentence frame for students with physical or severe disabilities in a video that is two minutes long.

Least Restrictive Environment

The learner helps select the vocabulary strips which have the word and an icon on each. Then the vocabulary words are place in proper sequential order on the child's frame attached in front of the learner. Lastly, he reads the words in a sentence moving from left to right. A Learner Spells His Name Using a Smart Board (Example 1) Shirley Wilson demonstrates a technique for teaching children to spell their name using the Smart Board. A Learner Spells His Name Using the Smart Board (Example 2) Shirley Wilson demonstrates a technique for teaching children to spell their name using the Smart Board.

Administrator Co-Teaching Resources Featured resource Watch the videos to hear from district level administrators who talk about the benefits of the co-teaching training. Advanced Phonics Dr. Dr. Resources. UK.Instructional%20Coaching. Teacher Excellence Narrows the Achievement Gap. By embracing research-backed instructional design, consistent PD, and strong, caring relationships, all boats are rising and teachers have gone from surviving to thriving at this once-failing middle school.

Teacher Excellence Narrows the Achievement Gap

Once among the worst-performing middle schools in the state, Cochrane has been making great strides by narrowing its achievement gap and doubling student performance in the past three years. Credit: Zachary Fink The bell rings and most of the ninth-grade students in Ms. Johnson's English class are still standing. As she dims the lights and presses play on the laptop, it becomes clear why. Once the song is over, the students settle into their seats, and Ms. Lessons from a Public School Turnaround Running Time: 05:15 min. This is one of the dynamic ways that students learn -- and retain -- lessons at Cochrane Collegiate Academy, a once failing middle school in Charlotte, North Carolina, that's now on the rise. Challenges of Poverty Teaching Strategies That Work on Teachers Too. Instructional Coaching. TeacherProgressMap.doc. WHAT WORKS IN EDUCATION The George Lucas Educational Foundation.

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How Principals Can Grow Teacher Excellence. At Cochrane Collegiate Academy, teachers credit their principal with helping them continually improve their practice through effective PD, ongoing support, and mutual trust.

How Principals Can Grow Teacher Excellence

Cochrane principal Josh Bishop (right) makes sure his teachers receive strong support and consistent PD -- up to 90 hours every year. Credit: Zachary Fink At Cochrane Collegiate Academy, in Charlotte, North Carolina, high-quality teachers have been an important part of turning the school around, and many of them credit their principal, Josh Bishop, for helping them reach their full potential. Here are some of the ways that Bishop brings out their best. 1. By providing the following kinds of PD, you can make sure your staff gets the most out of these sessions: Research-based: Let research guide your strategies. 2. Following the flipped-classroom model, Bishop has "flipped" his faculty meetings. Providing adequate time for professional development can help improve student performance as well. 3. 4. 5. How to Engage Underperforming Students. Narrowing the Achievement Gap By focusing tightly on instructional strategies and PD, educators at Cochrane Collegiate Academy saved their school from closure.

How to Engage Underperforming Students

In just three years, they have doubled student performance, and they continue to reach higher. The educators have developed an instructional model called Interactive Learning (IL). It is a collection of their ten best practices, which they call their non-negotiables, and teachers must implement them in every lesson, every day. Shana Oliver, the school's academic facilitator, runs the training sessions for these best practices, and she helps the teachers see and experience how they can incorporate all ten into one lesson. Ausl-coaching-tool. Twice as Many Students Meet State Standards. Classroom strategies backed by research and ongoing teacher development are helping to narrow the achievement gap at this Title I school.

Twice as Many Students Meet State Standards

See the infographic below for more details. Sources: North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education. Infographic: Maili Holiman Key Accomplishments From the 2007-08 school year to 2010-11, the percentage of students in grades 6-8 at Cochrane Collegiate Academy meeting North Carolina's math standards increased by 74 percent, and the percent meeting reading standards increased by 64 percent.

The Power of Professional Development According to the principal and teachers at Cochrane Collegiate Academy, a major reason for the growth in student performance is a signature strategy for classroom instruction and professional development called Interactive Learning. Goals to Work Toward. Ausl-think-pair-share.