District Professional Learning Choice Board Hub
District Professional Learning Choice Board Hub
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📣 📣 This is your time to ensure your practices remain aligned with Birdville ISD’s priorities. The district has allotted a full day for you to work on an item (or two!) of your choice from the options featured on this site. Follow your campus expectations for time, direction (if given) for choice picks, and any guidance surrounding demonstration of work.
📣 📣 This is your time to ensure your practices remain aligned with Birdville ISD’s priorities. The district has allotted a full day for you to work on an item (or two!) of your choice from the options featured on this site. Follow your campus expectations for time, direction (if given) for choice picks, and any guidance surrounding demonstration of work.
👀Read through the descriptions and select a District Best Practice choice item to work on today.
👀Read through the descriptions and select a District Best Practice choice item to work on today.
👆When you click on any of the choices, it’ll take you to an Action Page. This self-paced learning and work time will look different depending on where you are in your professional practices. What may seem easy or simple to you may be new content for others.
👆When you click on any of the choices, it’ll take you to an Action Page. This self-paced learning and work time will look different depending on where you are in your professional practices. What may seem easy or simple to you may be new content for others.
✅Work through the components of your selected Action Page and enjoy focusing on District Best Practices and allowing you to invest in YOU! Many of the choice items have videos, how-tos, and exemplars - take the time to watch the videos, read through the how-tos, and work toward emulating the exemplars in your practice. This is your time!
✅Work through the components of your selected Action Page and enjoy focusing on District Best Practices and allowing you to invest in YOU! Many of the choice items have videos, how-tos, and exemplars - take the time to watch the videos, read through the how-tos, and work toward emulating the exemplars in your practice. This is your time!
When you see a 🌶️, this indicates that the item is a hot, NEW Choice Item during the last publication.
🎯If you are interested in Continuous Improvement practices. . .
Have you ever wanted to get your PDSA up and going but you just didn't have the time to figure it out? TODAY IS YOUR DAY! Here is the gift of time AND a whole course created just for YOU about the classroom PDSA: what it is and how to use it! Enjoy!
🌶️Updated/added picture examples.
In this course you'll see how to use a Data Folder in your classroom. You see various options and have time to consider what would be a best fit for your classroom. Use your time to create what you've always wished you had time to create!
🎯Have your students ever wondered, "What are we learning and why are we learning it?"
Pairs well with learning from Tier 1 Priority 2.0: Engagement with the Vocabulary of the Standards choice.
Has the practice of communicating and breaking down the standard fallen by the wayside in the last few years? Have you forgotten what that means and how to do it? Are you a new teacher? Maybe you aren't even sure what it means to "communicate the learning expectations" with your students. This course is designed to take you through BISD's Learning Expectations rubric and to help (re)establish this best practice in your classroom. There are lots of example videos and pictures to learn from, too!
🎯Tools to grow 🌱 your PLC game
Do you know what your students need to know and be able to do in relation to what the standards say? Do you have your instruction mapped out with great structures and strategies? Do you have a plan in place for when/if your students do not master the concepts you've taught? If you see a need to grow your practice after reading any of these questions, this this may be the right course for you!
This learning is for the experienced Birdville ISD teacher that is well-versed in accessing and using the curriculum to design his/her lessons.
This course was designed to be completed as a group of 2-4. So, grab some colleagues and dig in! Think about a lesson or an idea for a lesson you've been wrestling with. Gather together and work through this protocol to help you polish that great idea into a powerful lesson!
🌶️🌶️🌶️ BONUS PLC CONTENT - QUANTILES and MORE!
Accessing student data and knowing how to use it to make instructional decisions are the driving force in a healthy PLC.
Do you know what Lexiles are? Well then, do you know what Quantiles are?
Really, REALLY want to learn about Quantiles and how it can totally fine-tune your math instructional skills? *Choose this Choice Item and learn more! This is an excellent Choice Item for the Math Interventionists. Additionally, see the hub link in the next paragraph - use it to go exploring . 🎉🎉 *BIG NEWS! Scroll to the bottom section of this choice item to see how you can enter to win a membership in the Quantile Academy* paid for by the PAR office! *(Does not include the Lexile Academy. Paid membership will be for the Quantile Academy only.)
After going through the Quantiles Choice Item, perhaps, take a deep dive and go exploring on https://hub.lexile.com/ . (This site is referenced and explored in the Quantiles Choice Item above. You should complete all tasks / watch all videos in the choice item above before exploring this hub.lexile.com site.) All Texas educators may register and create an account for free with your school email. This content is so interesting and valuable that you and your math colleagues could spend a good chunk of your day right here if you choose.
Math Interventionists will love exploring the Quantiles portion of this hub/site. You won't believe how you can pin-point prerequisite skills and group your students to meet their needs.
🎯Dive into some Tier One Priorities 2.0 >> top skills for your role
Teachers of all grade levels, come learn how Blended Learning connects with the K-12 Workshop Model! Put a tangible plan in place for masterful teaching and authentic learning!
Pairs well with learning from Establishing Expectations for Learning: Communication of Standards + Student Understanding of Learning Expectations choice.
Reflect upon your vocabulary instructional practices and make a plan to level up! Take the time to create an interactive word wall that meets best practice standards AND make plans to purposefully have your students engage with the word wall in your very next unit! Your students will benefit from this best practice strategy and your instruction will be enhanced!
🎯 Core Content LookFors and Best Practices >> 👟👟Put feet to those Tier 1 Priorities 2.0! 👟👟
🌶️🌶️🌶️The Core Content Areas of Math, Science, Social Studies, and Reading-Language Arts all upgraded and revised their Tier One Priorities to better reflect the thinking and learning required of the STAAR Redesign. You can see their new rubrics and puzzle piece icons, here.
Based off the Tier One Priorities 2.0, Content Coordinators created a LookFor form to help guide their eyes as they do campus walks. The following Choice Items give you a first-hand look at what best-practices in each of the Core Content areas may look like in a classroom. Grab a colleague and work your way through one or two of the Core Content Choice Items. Then, self-assess where you are and work to apply a best practice into your classroom--put feet to those Tier 1 Priorities by making them a part of your classroom structure and practices.
🎯Multilingual Services at your service! See what they've cooked up!
Build your Language Acquisition Foundation with this engaging coursework provided in both Elementary and Secondary levels. Watch insightful videos and learn about new strategies that are easy to implement.
Heads up, from 1:30 - 4:30, you can join a come-and-go support meeting to ask questions or show off your learning. 🎉🎉There is an opportunity to win prizes! See the last section of this Choice Item's page for details. **This message refers to our last Choice Board Day, 11.8.22.**
🌶️ New content.
🎯Sure can, CANVAS! >> Turn your CAN'Ts into CANs.
Enroll in Canvas University today and determine if you need to take course work in 101, 201, or 301 levels. Birdville ISD Digital Learning Specialits have created differentiated content to help you grow your digital instructional practices and turn your Canvas CAN'Ts into Canvas CANs.
🌶️ New content.
📣📣 Are you finished with your District Best Practice Choice Item and want to do more? See below to find Extended Learning and Exploration opportunities - or - pick a second Choice Item!🎯🎯
📣📣 Are you finished with your District Best Practice Choice Item and want to do more? See below to find Extended Learning and Exploration opportunities - or - pick a second Choice Item!🎯🎯
🍎Extended Learning and Exploration
STAAR 2.0 Video
STAAR 2.0 Video
🌶️ Moving from STAAR 1.0 to START 2.0
Take the time to watch this video. It is about one hour in length and chock full of GREAT content. You won't want to miss it! This content is best served in groups - go grab your colleagues and see if they'll watch it with you!
Recent Test Scores Not What You Wanted?
Recent Test Scores Not What You Wanted?
Dig deeper into your lessons design as you consider your latest round of test scores. Grab a buddy and try out the Lesson Design Protocol or the Refining a Lesson Protocol to see if you target trouble spots in your instructional design and really make the lesson match the expected rigor of the standard.
Assessment Course
Assessment Course
Would you like to learn about several of the assessments given in Birdville ISD? This self-paced course allows you to read about and watch videos concerning various assessments that must be conducted each year. Join here: https://birdville.instructure.com/enroll/Y6HK6B
Record Yourself to Improve Your Practice
Record Yourself to Improve Your Practice
Read this short post from George Lucas' Educational Foundation: Edutopia. Consider your teaching voice, class discussion habits, class behavior, student engagement, and classroom climate. Perhaps you could try a new strategy you learned about today and then video yourself to self-reflect on your implementation.
Continuous Improvement Course
Continuous Improvement Course
Would you like to learn more about the components of Continuous Improvement? This self-paced course allows you to navigate through the components that Birdville ISD would like to see in every classroom. You can join here: https://birdville.instructure.com/enroll/GC4CRG
But also, there are two Continuous Improvement choice items in the Recalibration Choice Item section at the top. Make sure you check those out as well.
A great place to start your self-assessment is to look through the Continuous Improvement Rubric.
Gallery Walks
Gallery Walks
There is much to celebrate about the learning that took place today. Perhaps your campus or your team would like the opportunity to share about their hard work from this self-paced Professional Learning half day. A Gallery Walk is a great tool to allow colleagues to share, discuss, and perhaps dig deeper into meaningful learning experiences.
Read up on them here:
Edutopia's Gallery Walk article
The Teacher Toolkit's article w/ templates for elementary and secondary.
Have you heard about the Tier 1 Priorities 2.0 and wondered what that meant?
Have you heard about the Tier 1 Priorities 2.0 and wondered what that meant?
Each of the core content areas + CTE have updated their designated Tier 1 Priorities to reflect the new learning needed for the STAAR redesign. For each content area, if you had their listed Tier 1 Priorities 2.0 implemented into your classroom's daily practice, you'd be well on your way to laying a solid foundation for your learners.
Each of the core content areas + CTE have updated their designated Tier 1 Priorities to reflect the new learning needed for the STAAR redesign. For each content area, if you had their listed Tier 1 Priorities 2.0 implemented into your classroom's daily practice, you'd be well on your way to laying a solid foundation for your learners.
These are the best practices Birdville ISD wants to see in every classroom.
These are the best practices Birdville ISD wants to see in every classroom.
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