Interviews

Stephanie Wasson & Donnell Armstrong, Wilmer-Hutchins High School

Stephanie and Donnell share their process for planning and integrating the NSI work into their work with the DISD curriculum.

Planning

Stephanie and Donnell discuss how they begin the process of planning instruction.

Integrating the NSI work into the Curriculum

Stephanie and Donnell discuss how they work with non-negotiables in the district curriculum.

Framework

Stephanie and Donnell spoke about using the DOL as the start of planning for integrating the NSI work into the DISD curriculum. The above tool is meant to help you think through that process.

STAAR

Stephanie and Donnell discuss how STAAR is considered in the instructional planning that they do.

Tequila Butler & Crystal Newman

Tequila and Crystal discuss the process that they go through to plan for high-leverage instruction using the IFL instructional routines.

Tequila Butler & Crystal Newman discuss their work with IFL instructional tasks. Click the time stamps below to take you to specific sections of the video.

0:00 Introduction

0:24 What does instructional planning look like for IFL tasks?

4:38 Supporting reading of complex texts

6:55 How much flexibility do you have with the curriculum?

7:05 Working with coherent arcs of lessons

9:32 Working with paired texts

13:21 How do you incorporate the IFL work with the "non-negotiable" requirements?

16:09 Going beyond STAAR

17:19 IFL instructional practices get results

19:41 What does it look like when you plan with complete autonomy?

24:02 Authentic ELA instruction can't be put in a box