By Public Impact®, February 6, 2020
To help Opportunity Culture® multi-classroom leaders, their teaching teams, and other teachers lead student success, Public Impact® has added to its suite of instructional excellence support. Our tools and professional development are based on experiences and feedback of top Opportunity Culture® educators, as well as hard research.
We provide a free, full set of tools on Instructional Leadership and Excellence to help educators master each element—free training, teaching team study guides, educator videos, and other help for teachers, multi-classroom leaders, principals, and others in Opportunity Culture® schools.
New instructional excellence tools:
- Instructional Excellence Support Guide: Overview and Support Tool—This guide provides detailed actions for each element in the Instructional Excellence Summary, and help for multi-classroom leaders in using that detail to guide and support teachers. Two detailed action lists are linked (Connect; Lead the Classroom), with more coming in 2020.
- Instructional Excellence Summary—This handy tool summarizes the critical elements of instructional excellence in one page. It is based on the strategies of outstanding, high-growth teachers who have worked in schools served by Public Impact® and the common elements of several leading instructional experts, whose work is listed within. See the two new action lists (Connect; Lead the Classroom) below; action lists show key steps for each element in the Instructional Excellence Summary.
Don’t miss the newest study guides and accompanying action lists for two key elements of instructional excellence:
- Connect—establishing strong relationships with students and families to cultivate a culture of learning and respect. Study Guide and Action List
- Lead the Classroom—leading with purpose and compassion, setting and reinforcing norms for routines and behavior, in face-to-face learning and online. Study Guide and Action List
For curriculum guidance, Public Impact® offers two resources:
- Recommended High-Quality Curricula: Detailed Summary for Curriculum & Instruction Professionals—this publication in the Opportunity Culture® Connect series offers recommendations for high-quality curricula, with links to free and low-cost options.
- Recommended High-Quality Curricula: Leadership Summary—this one-pager in the Opportunity Culture® Connect series summarizes our recommendations for high-quality curricula.
And for help in teaching reading, Public Impact® provides overview tools on the science of reading:
- The Science of Reading—Introduction: Understanding the Simple View of Reading—this slide deck details the simple view of reading equation—Decoding X Language Comprehension = Reading Comprehension—and distinguishes misleading conventional wisdom from facts based on research about teaching methods that boost students’ reading comprehension.
- The Science of Reading—Study & Action Guide: Improving Your Multi-Classroom Leadership Team’s Instruction—this slide deck is intended to help multi-classroom leaders, their teaching teams, and other teachers improve reading instruction and student learning growth fast.
- Bringing the Science of Reading Into the Classroom—in this new publication in the Opportunity Culture® Connect series, educators get a one-page reminder of the critical elements of reading research.
Public Impact® will continue to produce materials and trainings to help multi-classroom leaders bring the best curricula and pedagogy to their teams. For more tools and PD, see Tools and Professional Development You Need Now.