Element 1A Example Indicators
Teachers:
1A–1: Create learning experiences that support the academic, behavioral, cognitive, functional, cultural, linguistic, physical, and social–emotional development of each learner.
1A–2: Articulate, plan, and implement learning experiences to support each student in meeting pre-K–12 content and performance standards.
1A–3: Use knowledge of students and a variety of evidence-based approaches to inspire, engage, and strengthen each student’s intrinsic motivation to embrace new learning challenges.
1A–4: Implement support systems for student access to learning opportunities that comply with legal requirements and include formal accommodations or modifications.
1A–5: Create a classroom community where each student is given choices, is valued, and experiences active and equitable participation in learning and success.
Element 1B Example Indicators
Teachers
1B–1: Affirm each student’s cultural, linguistic, and racial identities by actively seeking knowledge and approaches for creating culturally and linguistically responsive and sustaining learning opportunities.
1B–2: Create learning opportunities that draw on students’ interests, prior experiences, culture, and linguistic assets to support active engagement for each learner.
1B–3: Integrate student voice in planning and sustaining classroom structures and practices by including student participation and encouraging students to provide feedback.
1B–4: Provide learning experiences for language acquisition, using evidence-based approaches that leverage students’ linguistic assets and address the diverse needs of all students.
1B–5: Respond to and implement support for students’ social–emotional well-being and mental health needs, including those of students who have experienced trauma, homelessness or other situations.
Element 1C Example Indicators
Teachers
1C–1: Determine the most effective strategies for communicating with families, guardians, and caregivers, including those from under-resourced communities and those who communicate in languages other than English, to explicitly and systematically increase positive connections.
1C–2: Apply evidence-based principles of effective family engagement in partnering with families, guardians, and caregivers to achieve equitable outcomes for every student.
1C–3: Create reciprocal partnerships with families, guardians, and caregivers to better understand students’ and families’ lives and to work together to enhance student learning experiences.
1C–4: Engage in reciprocal communication about learning, academic, and social–emotional expectations with families, guardians, and caregivers and share systems of instruction and support.
1C–5: Maintain responsive, understandable, timely, and accessible communications with families, guardians, and caregivers about student progress and accomplishments.
Element 1D Example Indicators
Teachers
1D–1: Establish and maintain positive relationships with each student to promote understanding, respect, and affirmation of diversity.
1D–2: Recognize their own explicit and implicit biases and implement strategies and tools to counter those biases in order to create an inclusive learning community where each student’s unique experiences are seen and used as educational assets.
1D–3: Improve student outcomes by addressing individual student assets and needs while creating equitable outcomes for all.
1D–4: Close achievement and opportunity gaps among student groups, focusing on groups with disabilities and those with diverse cultural, racial, self-identity, linguistic, and socioeconomic backgrounds.