Our Instructional Vision
Our Vision for Excellent Instruction
In order to ensure that all students have access to high quality teaching and learning every day, we have to have a picture of what that looks like. Our Instructional Vision serves to paint that picture. An instructional vision provides understanding for every staff member about what strong instruction looks like. This improves our ability to measure progress, helps ensure we're spending our time and energy on the most important work, and fuels collaborative work toward a common goal.
Operationalizing Our Vision
If we want to improve student outcomes, our classrooms are the most important unit of change. Our Instructional Vision serves as a centerpiece that identifies the four big "rocks" which should guide our practice, shape our instructional decision making, and serve as a focus for school improvement planning. In order to make this Vision come to life in our schools, we have identified key actions and instructional strategies for each "rock" of the vision. Click on the links below to access documents which operationalize the key actions and strategies for each aspect of our Vision.
We have created subject-specific Core Instructional Actions and Core Student Practices for this aspect of our Instructional Vision. You can find them in the discipline-specific pages under the "Curriculum" tab above; links to the documents are also pasted below for your convenience.
Bilingual Education & English as a New Language: Core Instructional Actions and Core Student Practices
Early Childhood: Core Instructional Actions and Core Student Practices
Health Education: Core Instructional Actions and Core Student Practices
Library Systems: Core Instructional Actions and Core Student Practices
Literacy & ELA: Core Instructional Actions and Core Student Practices
Mathematics: Core Instructional Actions and Core Student Practices
Physical Education: Core Instructional Actions and Core Student Practices
Science: Core Instructional Actions and Core Student Practices
Social Studies: Core Instructional Actions and Core Student Practices
World Languages: Core Instructional Actions and Core Student Practices