District

HCPS Literacy Days - Instructional Coaching Project School Year 2015-2016

L. Douglas Wilder Middle School and Fairfield Middle School

This project was a collaborative effort between Advanced Learning Partnerships, the HCPS ELA Specialist and the Department of Instructional Technology. The goal was to provide a year long coaching approach which included job embedded PD to ELA teachers to support student achievement in weak areas as shown in SOL data. During the course of the year, myself and a consultant coached teachers in strategies that addressed these weak areas. We worked diligently with teachers at several schools that had shown weaknesses in the same areas.

Through this model we hoped to achieve:

1. Develop awareness of Standards Alignment with instruction and learning activities
2. Collaborative Planning: work with Cadre to Plan, Implement, and Reflect on their practice
3. Using concrete assessment strategies to increase student engagement in the content
4. Integrate 21st century elements to increase student engagement and retention
5. Goal: decrease teacher talk; increase student centered differentiated lessons
6. Incorporate an indicator to measure growth
7. Additional PD on these strategies for all other contents except for math.
8. Build in Admin Support
   1. What does Instruction look like with these strategies?
   2. Accountability at the Building level using looks-fors during walk throughs.

TeacherFEST August 10, 2016 Deep Run High School

"Collaborate with US!" Collaboration with Katherine Kier, Librarian

We would like teachers to walk away with clear ideas on how they can collaborate with their librarian and/or ITRT to produce innovative and unique learning opportunities for their students. Presenters will share examples of collaborative lessons with teachers in order to provide them with a better understand of the roles of the librarian and ITRT as co-teachers, collaborators and instructional support.

New Teacher Academy (Secondary 101) site August 2016 Freeman High School

"A Vision of 21st Century Teaching" Collaboration with ITRT team

As we begin a new school year, we want to support teachers who are new to HCPS with the pedagogy and skills to be successful in a 1:1 environment.

HCPS Middle School Summit June 19, 2017 L. Douglas Wilder MS

"Creating a Maker Culture"

Collaboration with Katherine Kier and Melissa Glanden, School Librarians and Mike Dunavant, ITRT

How do you build a Maker Culture? How can Makerspaces support student critical thinking, problem solving and build grit? Come learn how Hungry Creek Middle and Wilder Middle Schools began building Maker Cultures in their buildings through harnessing community resources and collaboration with their librarians.

** This presentation was also presented at the MS Principals meeting (May) and is entered as a proposal for VSTE 2017

HCPS Content Specialist PD Day/ Math October 12, 2015 Henrico High School

"Don't Hesitate to Remediate. But Do it Better!"

Explore a fresh approach to remediation in your classroom through use of digital tools and instructional strategies for formative assessments.

** This presentation was also presented to the Wilder MS Science Dept. as a PD January 2015