This Let’s Talk guide offers classroom-ready strategies you can use to plan discussions and to facilitate conversations about topics such as white privilege, police violence, economic inequality with your students
New York State: Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework
The New York State Education Department (NYSED) has their Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education (CR-SE) framework, intended to help all stakeholders incorporate four high leverage CR-SE strategies. School leaders should reference page 34 for inclusive curriculum guidelines. District leaders should reference page 39 for inclusive curriculum guidelines.
It’s About Time: Lessons from Expanded Learning Time
Partnering with external or replicating high-quality afterschool programs provides students with opportunities for academic supports and enrichment that lead to positive outcomes. Learn from It’s About Time, a report capturing the extended school day experiences of Meriden, CT and their positive outcomes.
High-Dosage Tutoring: Recruiting, Selecting and Training Guides
Choosing the right people for the job is critical: tutors’ values should align with your own and tutors’ skills should be suited to their work. This toolkit has strategies and tools for tutors for recruiting, selecting and training tutors.
Session Structure for High-Dosage Tutoring from the National Student Support Accelerator
Similar to classroom instruction, tutoring sessions should be carefully planned, proactive and relate to the grade-level content students are learning in the classroom. Help leaders guide tutors to have consistent structure and flow in their tutoring session design using this exemplar tutoring session structure from the National Student Support Accelerator.
Strategies for Scheduling: How to Find Time to Intensify and Individualize Intervention
School days are packed, but leaders must prioritize specific tutoring times in order to truly accelerate learning. Help schools find time in the day using these three strategies for scheduling from the National Center on Intensive Intervention.
Score Institute’s High-Dosage Tutoring Planning and Implementation Guide
Various strategies support learning acceleration, but implementing tutoring is at the core. The Score Institute’s High Dosage Tutoring Planning and Implementation Guide includes a helpful section (pages 4-6) on preparing to staff your tutoring program.
High-Dosage Tutoring: A Proven Strategy to Accelerate Student Learning Guide
Various strategies support learning acceleration, but implementing tutoring is at the core. The Office of the State Superintendent of Education in Washington, DC created a guide detailing specific features and practical considerations for establishing and managing effective high-dosage tutoring programs. See page four for clear description of what high-dosage tutoring is and isn’t.
FutureEd’s Blueprint for Testing
A key to igniting learning is establishing the expectation that supports and interventions are designed to help bring students to grade-level content and skills. Assess proximity to grade level at the start of the school year and design supports and interventions accordingly. FutureEd’s Blueprint for Testing guides districts through what assessments to prioritize (page 10) and use of assessment …
Priority Instructional Content in English Language Arts/Literacy and Mathematics
Determining which content should be the highest priority based on what students will need to deeply know and understand to demonstrate readiness for the next grade is an important piece of igniting learning. Student Achievement Partners (SAP) suggest prioritizing ELA and Math for all grades. Their priority instructional guides are designed to help instructional leaders find new efficiencies …
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