IM Toolkit - Instructional Planning

Instructional Planning

Curriculum implementation is change management and one lever to support this change is instructional planning. When school leaders support teacher teams through instructional planning, it can help propel teacher use of the curriculum, promote collaboration, and advance their practice forward. Below are several tools and resources to support math departments during different phases of instruction.

Before Lesson

To teach IM well and with confidence, you will need to uncover and internalize the story of each unit and lesson yourself. The following tools and protocols can deepen discussion around long term pacing, unit planning, and lesson facilitation and provide opportunity for peer feedback before teaching with students.

High-level calendar overview for secondary IM classes.

Year-at-a-glance and unit-level info that includes links to in-depth unit planning tools.

Backwards planning for units by first identifying the big ideas before aligning and refining your approach.

A list of which IM lessons use which tools (i.e., tape diagrams, hangers, double number lines, etc.).

Shows how units are connected conceptually, and how some units provide a foundation for other units later in the sequence.

Best practices when planning with IM: read and annotate teaching notes with key questions in mind.

Practice facilitating a portion of a lesson and receive feedback from peers.

During Lesson

The following resources are offered to support the logistics and structuring for the different types of observations that typically occur throughout the school year.

Capture observational evidence on pre-selected priority indicators and reflect on celebrations, elevations, and applications to own classrooms

Comprehensive collection of priority indicators organized by milestone stages.

IM's full version of the IMplementation Reflection Tool, including "look fors".

After Lesson

Implementing a new curriculum is a change management journey for school communities, and successful change requires regular reflection and adjustment to plans in response to implementation data. Offered below are tools and protocols that can support teacher teams with reflective practice and data driven instruction.

Collaboratively reflect on lesson facilitation and priority indicators.

Collaboratively analyze and reflect on student work from Lesson Synthesis to drive data-informed instruction.

Collaboratively analyze and reflect on student work from Cool-Downs to drive data-informed instruction.

Collaboratively analyze and reflect on student work from Unit Assessments to drive data-informed instruction.

Support

Elementary Math Coordinator
Helen Kim
helen.x.kim@lausd.net

Secondary Math Coordinator
Firoza Kanji
firoza.kanji@lausd.net

Secondary Math Coordinator
Philip Ogbuehi
philip.ogbuehi@lausd.net

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