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.
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.
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.
