- Organize teacher and principal professional learning, time, and resources to support their new needs. Professional learning is essential to support teachers’ social-emotional health and sense of efficacy in this ever-changing time. It will prepare them to teach in new ways, in a dynamic environment with students with varied needs and in close partnership with families and caregivers.
- Create a professional learning plan that reflects your district’s instructional vision and integrates recovery and renewal priorities into a yearlong PD scope and sequence that helps teachers:
- Build equity and anti-racist mindsets to ensure equitable learning environments.
- Gain a thorough understanding of priority grade-level content, standards, and skills for current, prior, and the following grade levels.
- Provide every student with equitable access to grade-level assignments and strong instruction by scaffolding and accelerating learning.
- Address unfinished learning and gaps in requisite knowledge and skills.
- Build teachers’ capacity to embed research-based literacy strategies into the content areas.
- Create strong relationships and connections with students and cultivate high-trust classroom environments through Culturally Responsive Education (CRE) and Social Emotional Learning (SEL).
- Partner with other local districts and learn from national organizations, such as NCTM and NCTE, about what’s working and the research on acceleration strategies and broad-scale interventions.
- Revise teacher evaluation frameworks and/or teacher observation protocols to include the effective use of diagnostic data and acceleration strategies to provide equitable access to grade-level content for every student, and the inclusion of blended and online learning strategies where appropriate.
- The School Renewal and Acceleration Professional Learning Series includes archived webinars, along with tools and resources that can be used with educators and school leaders to support renewal and acceleration planning.