July 5th & 6th: Excellent Instruction & Systems for Instructional Improvement I & II

Facilitated by the LLA Team

• Read “A Pernicious Myth” by Jal Mehta, and come prepared to discuss the following questions:

1. 1. 1. Choose one or two sentences that particularly resonate with you.

      2. How comfortable are you with this approach? Why or why not? As a leader? As a teacher? As a learner?

      3. What are the larger take-aways from the reading? How does it apply to our work?

• Read TNTP's The Opportunity Myth and Accelerate, Don't Remediate (Skim. Understand the graphs representing data and the conclusions of each study.)

1. What are the key conclusions of this research?

2. How, if at all, do these ideas connect to the concepts in "A Pernicious Myth?" Dr. Perry's research? Dr. López's scholarship?

3. When you reflect on practices currently playing out in your school, to what extent and in what ways do they align with the practices advocated for in this research?

• Read LLA's System for Identifying and Addressing Equity Gaps 3.0 and LLA's System for Instructional Improvement Criteria

1. Begin to collect, analyze, and triangulate data from your context. Bring key data sets or data points with you to Summer Institute.

2. Prepare to dig into the question (with the support of your cohort-mates and LC) 'What inequities should I prioritize disrupting in my school next year?' Consider both the data you triangulate and the locus of control in your role (in particular for Aspiring Principals).

3. Begin to reflect on the effectiveness and quality of the components of your school's system for instructional improvement. Anyone switching contexts should begin to consider how you will learn this. Aspiring principals who are new to their context should partner with mentor principals to gain some context.

• Read the 2022 Lynch School Case Study and Case Study Data.

1. Given the data (quantitative and qualitative) shared in the case, begin to triangulate as described in LLA's System for Identifying and Addressing Equity Gaps 3.0.

2. What instructional improvement efforts should be centered in the coming year? What inequities in the context should be disrupted? What problems will you prioritize solving?

3. Begin to reflect on the effectiveness and quality of the components of the Lynch School's system for instructional improvement. Through what aspects of the systems is instructional work currently improving? In what spaces could practice be established or strengthened?

• Bring with you the dates, times, and any agenda items you already have for your Opening PD days with your faculty. (If you don’t have school-specific Opening PD, then the first PD you have with your faculty.)

PD Vision Padlet

Lynch K-8 School Culture of Achievement Indicators