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Instructional Core

NPS Essentials of Effective Instruction

Student Including the Portrait of a Graduate

• Brain Basics: Structure and Functions

• Upstairs and Downstairs Brain

• How the Brain Process Information

• Memory, Retention, and Learning

• Retention and Retrieval Including strategies to promote retention and retrieval

• Culture and Cultural Identity

• Implicit Bias

• Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain

• Self-Efficacy

Content Including High Expectations

• Challenging All Students to Meet GL/Course Expectations

• Aligned Learning Tasks

  • Promoting transfer and understanding goals

  • Rigor Relevance Framework

• Social Emotional Learning

  • Executive Functioning

Teacher  Including Gradual Release of Responsibility Framework, Learning Target Framework, and NPS Instructional Practices

• Culturally Relevant Pedagogy - The WHY and the 3 Tenets

  • • Essential Vocabulary

    • Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Ready for Rigor Framework 

    • Race and Ethnicity

    • Culturally responsive and sustaining practices

    • Culturally responsive classroom management

    • Curriculum and instruction through a culturally responsive lens

    • Practices and policies that support equitable literacy education

    • Culturally responsive read aloud and identity work

    • Supporting Multilingual Learners through Culturally Relevant Pedagogy

• Tier One Strategies

  • Scaffolding 

  • Prior Knowledge and Prerequisites

  • Explicit Vocabulary Instruction

  • Questioning

  • Marzano's Essential Nine Strategies

  • Strategies for Multilingual Learners 

  • Accommodations and Modifications

  • High-Leverage Practices

    • • Identify and prioritize long- and short-term learning goals

      • Systematically design instruction toward a specific goal

      • Adapt curriculum tasks and materials for specific learning goals

        • • Includes methods for pre-assessing for differentiation

      • Teach cognitive and metacognitive strategies to support learning and independence

      • Provide scaffolded supports

      • Use explicit instruction

      • Use flexible grouping

      • Use strategies to promote active student engagement

      • Use assistive and instructional technologies

      • Provide intensive instruction

      • Teach students to maintain and generalize new learning across time and settings

      • Provide positive and constructive feedback to guide students’ learning and behavior

Systems and Structures

• SRBI

• PLCs: Expectations, Protocols, and Samples

• Understanding by Design (UbD)

• Courageous Conversations

Professional Learning Series

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