Sultan Middle School Sultan Middle School Learning Improvement Plan Learning Improvement Plan 2011-2012
Three Big Goals • Purpose • Curriculum and pedagogy • Professional learning teams with teacher-leaders to build and sustain capacity
1. Purpose • Teaching with a purpose and letting the purpose or “learning target” be visible. • Teaching the learning target, including success criteria. • Checking for student understanding of the learning target and success indicators.
2. Curriculum and Pedagogy • Alignment with state standards, CCSS • Reasonably sound, common curriculum that covers an adequate amount of subject-area content. • How we teach – best instructional practices and time for reflection on effectiveness of our application of best instructional practices. • Intentional reading and writing all day, each day.
3. Professional Learning Teams • Teachers collaboratively sharing, planning, and assessing student work is essential to student achievement. • Teaching is too important to do in isolation; it takes teamwork. • PLTs are not staff meetings; they are learning focused and rely on the use of data, through a cycle of inquiry.
Four Important Questions • What do we want students to learn? • How will we know if they have learned it? • What will we do if they don’t learn it? • What do we do when they already know it?
How do we keep it alive? • Set meeting schedule to review progress, including student work, and conduct lesson studies. • Monitor student learning using frequent cycles of inquiry, immediate professional development targeted towards instructional strategies to address deficiencies and strengthen the program as we go.
The short simple explanation of the cycle of inquiry • If we don’t know, how will we know when we do know? Once we know what we don’t know, what will we do next? And what do we do after that? (We should probably do something.)
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