This session focuses on strengthening classroom engagement, ensuring all students are actively engaged in rigorous thinking. Through the lens of Participation and Think Ratio, participants will explore and practice high impact instructional strategies that deepen student responses and broaden participation. Participants will leave with practical tools and ready to use language they can immediately apply in their classrooms.
This interactive three‑hour professional learning session guides educators through the process of deeply internalizing essential standards to strengthen daily instruction and ensure clarity around student mastery. Participants will explore why internalization is a foundational practice in our district, how it supports collaborative planning, and the impact it has on instructional decision‑making.
This interactive professional learning session equips educators with the tools and processes needed to design clear learning targets, craft meaningful exit tickets, and develop collaborative exemplars that anchor instruction in shared expectations for student mastery. Participants will explore how these three components work together to create a coherent, student‑centered instructional cycle that supports clarity, feedback, and continuous improvement.
This session focuses on modeling as a high-leverage Bambrick reteach, where teachers create and deliver a clear, correct exemplar that demonstrates the exact thinking, steps, and output required for mastery. Participants script and rehearse targeted models that directly address the identified gap and make expert reasoning visible to students.
Many solid student writers score a “zero” on their ECR because they don’t fully address the prompt. In this session, participants will explore analyzing ECR prompts, “flipping” the prompts to craft a thesis/central idea, and using the flipped prompt as a lens for reading the text and answering the prompt effectively.
This session focuses on using intentional questioning techniques with a strong culture of error to increase rigor and student accountability. Participants will explore and practice strategies such as Right is Right, Stretch It, and No Opt Out to respond effectively to student answers. Participants will leave with practical tools and ready to use language to normalize error, uphold high expectations, and deepen student thinking.
Some students are able to select text evidence that supports an idea and explain in detail why the evidence supports the idea. Others can select the evidence, but they struggle to articulate and contextualize it. This session will focus on activities to support selecting and explaining relevant text evidence.
Learn how to use guided discourse [Show-Call] as a Bambrick reteach strategy by scripting purposeful, sequenced questions that lead students to uncover and correct their misconceptions. The session emphasizes facilitating student thinking - not telling - so learners reconstruct understanding and reach mastery through structured academic talk.
