Curriculum

Focus on Learning

Critical Content

  • Understand how people learn.
  • Understand high quality teaching and learning, including specific aspects of student engagement and learning assessment.
  • Understand current instructional frameworks.
  • How to lead the implementation of high quality teaching and learning.

Expected Outcomes

  • Participants will understand the foundational components of powerful teaching and learning based upon research-based studies of best practices, case studies of other districts, and by experience through participation in the seminar sessions.
  • Participants will make progress on a plan for creating, enhancing or sustaining a shared vision of powerful teaching and learning
  • Participants will make progress on implementing the vision of powerful teaching and learning in every classroom.
  • Participants will see the importance of planning and executing all meetings as models of effective instructional practices and transfer those practices back to their home districts.
  • Participants will also have the opportunity to present their work back to colleagues in the Academy, both as a means of sharing new learning and as a way to hold each other accountable for the work that is going on back home.

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