Systems, Leadership

Standards-Aligned Instructional Materials Matter: Pursuing Equitable Instruction through a Culture of Anti-Racism Webinar Series

Objectives: Understand the connection between high-quality instructional materials and equitable outcomes for all students Selection: Learn from a story of how a district selected their instructional materials Implementation: Better understand best...More
Literacy, Systems, Math, Leadership

Meaningful Professional Learning Matters: Pursuing Equitable Instruction through a Culture of Anti-Racism Webinar Series

Objectives: Participants will have a greater understanding of how our anti-racist commitment informs the work alongside partners to increase equitable instruction through professional learning strategy implementation Understand from our partners...More
Literacy, Math

Great Schools Milestone Videos for Parents

Overview Milestones is a free online collection of videos aimed at helping parents understand grade-level expectations in grades K-12. Milestone videos show students demonstrating what success looks like in reading, writing and math, grade by grade...More
Literacy, Leadership

Developing A Distributive Leadership Model at The Belair-Edison School

Overview Learn how the leadership team at The Belair-Edison School | Middle in Baltimore, MD, is developing a distributive leadership model. Hear from school leaders, content leads, teachers, and students on how they do it, why they do it, and the...More
Literacy

The Value of Scaffolding TDQs to a Culminating Writing Prompt

Overview In this video, a 4th grade teacher from Fall Hamilton in Nashville, TN shares her perspective on the value of scaffolding text dependent questions to a focus question when planning for instruction.More
Literacy

What’s the Value and Impact of Text Talks

In this video, the principal of Fall Hamilton in Nashville, TN shares his perspective on the value and impact of conducting text talks before teachers use a text in instruction.More
Literacy

The Value of Engaging in Text Talks with Colleagues

Overview In this video, two teachers from Fall Hamilton in Nashville, TN share their personal experiences about why it is important and valuable to engage in text talks with colleagues.More
Literacy

Advice for Schools as Beginning to Implement Text Talks and Text Based Planning

Overview In this video, leaders from Fall Hamilton in Nashville, TN share advice for other leaders who are beginning to implement text talks and text based planning.More
Literacy

Teacher Perspective on Text Based Planning

In this video, a 4th-grade teacher from Fall Hamilton shares her perspective on what it was like to transition from a standards-based to text based approach to planning. We also see a clip of her grade-level team engaging in text based planning...More

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