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Commonly Requested Professional Development Topics
List of areas in which teachers and administrators ask for support, including small-group instruction, centers, and reading components.
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Effective Instruction, Reflection Activity: Improving My Teaching
Provides tool for teachers to reflect on and plan next steps for improving their literacy instruction. Has teachers consider multiple instructional dimensions, including the five reading components, writing, scaffolding, effective instructional features, differentiation, and progress monitoring.
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Effective Instruction: Grouping for Instruction
Guidelines for using various grouping formats, including whole group, teacher-led small groups, partners, and cooperative groups. Includes suggestions for managing groups and a reflection activity for teachers.
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Effective Instruction, Reflection Activity: Grouping Formats
Activity for teachers to reflect on and plan their use of different grouping formats for instructional purposes.
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Implementing Structured Data Meetings: A Year-Round Tool for Optimizing Instructional Planning for English Learners
Developed by Project ELITE2, this tool supports schools in implementing structured data meetings at key assessment points throughout the year (Beginning-, Middle-, and End-of-Year) for all educators serving ELs, as well as monthly for core (Tier I) classroom teachers.
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Promoting Justice - Responding to Abuse Against Children with Disabilities
SAFE’s (Stop Abuse for Everyone) Disability Services has launched a website, Promoting Justice - Responding to Abuse Against Children with Disabilities to provide information and resources on recognizing, responding to, investigating, and prosecuting abuse and neglect against Texas children with disabilities, as well as supporting child victims and their families
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Professional Learning Communities Facilitator's Guide: Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade
Guide to help elementary administrators and others factiliate PLCs using the IES practice guide entitled Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade.
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Professional Learning Communities Participant's Activities For the What Works Clearinghouse Practice Guide: Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade
Booklet with activities developed for use with the What Works Clearinghouse Practice Guide Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade within professional learning communities.
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