America’s Choice School Design

Contract Number: QC4390I (Whole School Reform)
America’s Choice School Design is for schools in which a substantial group of students is having difficulty meeting standards. The comprehensive school reform designs for elementary, K-8, middle, and high schools cover standards and assessment; curriculum and instruction; leadership and organization; and parent engagement. The designs come with extensive coaching and professional development.

Price: $75,000 to $200,000

Professional Development For School Leaders And Teachers
Contract Number: QR328BJ
We have identified five focus areas for professional development, selected because they reflect areas school leaders and teachers identify as priorities as they work to develop aligned systems and effective instruction in a standards-based environment and because they reflect current research in education and provide opportunities to connect the research with practice. The five areas are:
• Aligned school systems
• Using assessments to improve teaching and learning
• Engaged learning time
• Language development
• Cognition.

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Shoulder-To-Shoulder Professional Development

Should-to-Shoulder professional development provides job-embedded professional development for teachers, coaches, heads of department, assistant principals and principals. The focus for the professional development is determined according to the expressed needs and interests of the school. The professional development is conducted on-site in conjunction with the participants’ performance of their regular work roles. Examples of focus activities include:
• Lesson planning — co-planning with a teacher or teachers, combined with lesson observation and debriefing
• Developing a specific teaching and learning strategy through a combination of teacher meetings and in-class support; for example, lesson openings and closings, questioning techniques, student discussion, use of manipulatives
• Differentiating instruction — working with faculty to develop systems for identifying students’ needs and planning lessons that provide for varying levels of scaffolding of students’ learning, together with systematic monitoring of effectiveness of the scaffolding techniques
• Enhancing coaching — working with the coach to identify strengths and areas for growth and develop identified skills, determine priorities and goals, develop a work plan that reflects those priorities and goals, and plan systems for monitoring progress
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• Professional development needs assessment and planning — working with the coach, faculty and supervisors, as appropriate, to identify professional development needs, establish goals, prepare individual teacher plans and department-level plans, determine processes for evaluating achievement of the goals and apply those processes
•Supervising instruction — working with supervisors to gather information about the quality of teaching and learning, using assessment information coupled with classroom protocols, and develop processes for reflecting systematically on these sources of information and linking findings to professional development, coaching plans, resource allocation and supervision

A day of Shoulder-to-Shoulder professional development includes a full school day and may extend to include a teacher meeting or other activity before or after the normal school day.

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Customized Professional Development Programs

Customized Professional Development Programs are programs designed in response to specifications provided by a commissioning school, group of schools or office of the Department of Education.

The content, approach, audience and duration of these programs are determined in accordance with those specifications.

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