Required PD Modules by Topic
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Description: This module provides a protocol for analyzing data (Whole Child, SBA, i-Ready, etc.) to inform next steps and situates data use within the Plan-Do-
Study-Act cycle to support decision-making and continuous improvement within a school’s Problem of Practice.
Participant Learning Outcomes
Become familiar with how data analysis protocols are used to inform instructional decisions.
Analyze and reflect on EOY data using a data analysis protocol to develop schoolwide and grade level/department Problem of Practice.
Note: All schools should complete this module by August 26, 2025.
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Additional Resources to Help Facilitators Prepare for This Module
Whole Child 2.0 Job Aid to Pull Data for "Data-Driven Decision Making" PD module
DCI Live Sessions (Zoom) Calendar 2025-2026
Link to Module Evaluation on MyPLN: https://bit.ly/btt242524
Description: This module will provide educators with evidence-based strategies and tools to support struggling readers across all content areas, using the District’s Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) to address learning loss and promote grade-level achievement.
Participant Learning Outcomes
Participant will understand what a multi-tiered system of support is and what it looks like in a classroom setting
Participants will learn about summarizing as a highly effective strategy for supporting comprehension and improving writing
Participants will explore scaffolds that can be used with the strategy of summarizing
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Link to Module Evaluation on MyPLN: https://bit.ly/pd2425003
Description: This module provides an overview of culturally and linguistically responsive spaces for multilingual multicultural learners as envisioned in the 2025 Multilingual Multicultural Master Plan. The module provides educators skills in delivering data driven instruction for ELs with an emphasis on receptive and expressive skills within the curriculum.
Participant Learning Outcomes
Introduce the Elegance of 12 Suite of Strategies focusing on Receptive language skills and the 3 LISTENS Strategy
Build an understanding about the 3 LISTENS Strategy in the Elegance of 12 Suite of Strategies
Plan for the use of the 3 LISTENS Strategy from the Elegance of 12 Suite of Strategies in an upcoming lesson
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Link to Module Evaluation on MyPLN: https://bit.ly/btt242507
Description: This module provides an overview of the fundamentals of translanguaging and the Five Pedagogical Areas of CLR for multilingual multicultural learners as envisioned in the 2025 Multilingual Multicultural Master Plan. The assets based methodologies defined in this module will strengthen in-classroom practices that honor the fluid linguistic identities of multilingual communities. Students will culturally thrive as their dynamic, multilingual ways of communicating, learning and expressing themselves wholly are leveraged to boost their academic excellence and sociocultural competence across the instructional day.
Participant Learning Outcomes
Reach a common understanding of CLRP and effective practices as outlined in the TLF
Learn how to create an academic climate using CLR strategies and a translanguaging design that meets the needs of multilingual learners
Engage with language scenarios across content areas to deepen the understanding of translanguaging
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Link to Module Evaluation on MyPLN: https://bit.ly/btt242505
Description: This module will use an SBA/CAST/Curriculum Performance Task to unpack standards, determine success criteria, and analyze the learning experiences and instruction in the curriculum.
Participant Learning Outcomes
Examine a sample SBA/CAST Curriculum performance task to identify key standards, success criteria, and assessment expectations
Apply the principles of backward planning by identifying desired learning outcomes, determining acceptable evidence of understanding, and designing aligned learning experiences using their adopted curriculum
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Link to Module Evaluation on MyPLN: https://bit.ly/btt242503
Description: This module will equip educators with a high-leverage strategy that can be easily applied to help students write a persuasive/argumentative piece. Teachers will learn how to apply the strategy with flexibility, fostering an environment where students can thrive and confidently achieve the intended learning objectives.
Participant Learning Outcomes
Develop an understanding of how to support students in writing an argument
Reflect and plan for student engagement in argumentation and discourse
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Link to Module Evaluation on MyPLN: https://bit.ly/btt242510
Description: This module will introduce a common protocol to analyze student work. Participants will also engage in a review of authentic student work to identify misconceptions or misunderstandings and plan targeted instruction to increase student proficiency.
Participant Learning Outcomes
Deepen their understanding of how the ATLAS Protocol supports analyzing student work to inform instruction
Apply the ATLAS Protocol by examining student work to determine the next steps in the instructional design
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Link to Module Evaluation on MyPLN: https://bit.ly/btt242522
Description: This professional development module equips secondary educators to use effective strategies within an MTSS framework to support secondary students struggling with reading. It focuses on research-based approaches that boost literacy skills across disciplines and help students recover from learning loss.
Participant Learning Outcomes
Understand MTSS in the context of Secondary Reading
Know research-based strategies tailored to the continuum for MTSS
Plan for implementation of Tier 1 intervention as a team for 3-5 target students per educator
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Link to Module Evaluation on MyPLN: https://bit.ly/btt242512
Description: This professional development model equips secondary educators with high-impact strategies within an MTSS framework to boost numeracy and real-world math application across disciplines, helping students overcome learning loss.
Participant Learning Outcomes
Understand MTSS in the context of Secondary Math
Know research-based strategies tailored to the continuum for MTSS
Plan for implementation of Tier 1 intervention as a team for 3-5 target students per educator
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Link to Module Evaluation on MyPLN: https://bit.ly/btt242511
Description: Teachers will examine a task an SBA/CAST/Curriculum performance task from their content area to identify key standards, success criteria, and assessment expectations. Teachers will apply the principles of backward planning by identifying desired learning outcomes, determining acceptable evidence of understanding, and designing aligned learning experiences using their adopted curriculum.
Participant Learning Outcomes
Examine a task an SBA/CAST/Curriculum performance task from their content area to identify key standards, success criteria, and assessment expectations
Apply the principles of backward planning by identifying desired learning outcomes, determining acceptable evidence of understanding, and designing aligned learning experiences using their adopted curriculum
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Link to Module Evaluation on MyPLN: https://bit.ly/btt242502
Description: This module will equip educators with a high-leverage strategy that can be easily applied to help students write a persuasive/argumentative component of a content specific task. Teachers will learn how to apply the strategy with flexibility, fostering an environment where students can thrive and confidently achieve the intended learning objectives.
Participant Learning Outcomes
Review the CER short-constructed response format
Unpack ELA or History CER and understand guiding questions to support students in developing their CER response
Participate in group CER activity and planning time
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Link to Module Evaluation on MyPLN: https://bit.ly/btt242508
Description: This module will equip educators with a high-leverage strategy that can be easily applied to help students write a persuasive/argumentative component of a content specific task. Teachers will learn how to apply the strategy with flexibility, fostering an environment where students can thrive and confidently achieve the intended learning objectives.
Participant Learning Outcomes
Explore the CER (Claim, Evidence, Reasoning) high-leverage instructional strategy for secondary math.
Develop an understanding of how to use CER with a math task to promote math understanding leading to increase student ability to explain their mathematical reasoning.
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Link to Module Evaluation on MyPLN: https://bit.ly/btt242508
Description: This module will equip educators with a high-leverage strategy that can be easily applied to help students write a persuasive/argumentative component of a content specific task. Teachers will learn how to apply the strategy with flexibility, fostering an environment where students can thrive and confidently achieve the intended learning objectives.
Participant Learning Outcomes
Apply Claim-Evidence-Reasoning structure to help students effectively develop persuasive/argumentative writing and meet science specific learning goals.
Deepen confidence in planning supports for students as they develop a claim, identify strong evidence, and explain their reasoning.
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Link to Module Evaluation on MyPLN:https://bit.ly/btt242508
Description: This module will equip educators with a high-leverage strategy that can be easily applied to help students write a persuasive/argumentative component of a content specific task. Teachers will learn how to apply the strategy with flexibility, fostering an environment where students can thrive and confidently achieve the intended learning objectives.
Participant Learning Outcomes
Apply the CER strategy to writing tasks in non-core content areas
Identify valid forms of evidence and reasoning in their subject
Plan and implement structured, reflective writing
Experience a model of CER from the student perspective
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Link to Module Evaluation on MyPLN: https://bit.ly/btt242508
Description:
ELA/HSS: In this module participants will use a modified ATLAS protocol to analyze authentic student work to identify misconceptions or misunderstandings and plan targeted instruction to increase student proficiency across the content areas.
Math: In this module participants will use a modified ATLAS protocol to analyze authentic student work to identify misconceptions or misunderstandings and plan targeted instruction to increase student proficiency across the content areas.
Science: In this module participants will use a modified ATLAS protocol to analyze authentic student work to identify misconceptions or misunderstandings and plan targeted instruction to increase student proficiency across the content areas.
Other Content Areas: In this module participants will use a modified ATLAS protocol to analyze authentic student work to identify misconceptions or misunderstandings and plan targeted instruction to increase student proficiency across the content areas.
Participant Learning Outcomes
Deepen their understanding of how the ATLAS Protocol supports analyzing student work to inform instruction
Apply the ATLAS Protocol by examining student work to determine the next steps in the instructional design
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Link to Module Evaluation on MyPLN: https://bit.ly/btt242522