School Successes - Professional Development

Below are the equity-promoting successes around professional development that were shared  during our Gallery Walk at Alton Jones:

• Differentiated instruction
• Advisory course/committee
• Disciplinary literacy model
• Collaborative scoring
• System wide PD for paraprofessionals
• Grade level benchmark scoring of written work
• Classroom walk throughs
• GLE tower building
• Looking at data by teams to inform instruction
• Coaches working with teachers to support core curriculum and interventions
• Showed all teachers how to use new NECAP web-based tools to examine and sort student data
• Sharing practice
• URI Diane Kern Literacy writing and Understanding by Design
• Facilitation
• Dana Center work
• Daily CPTs
• In school bi-monthly department meetings
• RtI
• Focus groups on job embedded PD specific to student learning
• Common planning with student work
• Faculty vertical articulation on essential outcomes
• Special ed/general ed collaboration regarding learning differences