NEW ES 2025-2026
Instructional Choice Board Topics
NEW ES 2025-2026
Instructional Choice Board Topics
The Banked Time Choice Board Modules below are designed to supplement a school’s year-long professional development plan and reflect best practices from various LAUSD departments and divisions.
These modules may also be used during other structured professional learning opportunities—such as grade-level, department, professional learning community, or small learning community meetings—where educators collaborate to plan and accelerate student learning, as part of the school’s comprehensive professional development plan.
Analyze data to form purposeful small groups. Plan and implement engaging, differentiated instruction. Track student academic progress while fostering student independence.
Implement protocols to collaborate with colleagues to analyze data, engage in long term planning, plan daily lessons, and identify assessments to measure learning.
Use rubrics, checklists and sentence stems to empower students to reflect on their own work. Identify what makes feedback clear, specific, actionable, and student centered.
Use protocols to examine student work to identify strengths, common errors, misunderstandings, and skill gaps. Create targeted lesson to reteach, scaffold and accelerate learning.
Explore the 3 stages of backwards planning: 1) Identify standards-based student outcomes, 2) determine evidence of learning, and 3) plan and implement instruction. Analyze data and refine the cycle.
Differentiate instruction to engage all learners, including multilingual learners and students with disabilities. Implement strategies for questioning, discussion and critical thinking.
Use quantitative and qualitative data to identify a meaningful Problem of Practice (PoP). Using PDSA cycles to test, reflect and refine instructional practices to address the POP. Teams discuss, refine and provide feedback on PoPs.
Create an action plan to engage parents authentically. Honor diverse backgrounds, strengthen communication, equip them with strategies to advocate and support students.
Implement daily SEL strategies to help students manage emotions, set goals, and develop resilience. Refine structures to measure impact.
Implement tools and structures for progress monitoring. Analyze formative data to identify patterns in student progress and design responsive instruction