All teachers fully implement high quality, deeply rigorous, and fully aligned TEKS Resource System curriculum.
Follow and understand the depth of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills and follow the TEKS Resource System Curriculum for the content area and teaching assignment.
Complete lesson plans per campus expectations prior to the team or department planning.
Instructional Coaches will provide support and feedback in the design and implementation of fully aligned lesson plans.
Copy electronic department lesson plan to your personal lesson planner and, if necessary, alter your personal changes to the instructional strategies five days prior to beginning the lesson.
Instruction & Feedback
All teachers' instruction is constantly improving in its alignment to TEKS and instructional practices due to actionable, evidence-based feedback.
Utilize instructional decision points that include high yield researched-based instructional practices and 7 Steps to a Language-Rich Interactive Classroom to help students achieve the learning.
Collaborate with colleagues in Professional Learning Communities to review data, align instructional strategies to meet student needs, and improve learning.
Teachers are encouraged to reflect and adjust instruction daily based on checks for understanding and student feedback, such as exit tickets or formative assessments.
Instructional coaches will provide reflective instructional feedback through coaching sessions.
Data-Driven Instruction (DDI)
All teachers incorporate results from analysis of periodic common formative assessments and/or performance tasks to inform instruction and address student misconceptions and preconceptions.
Prior to teaching, review 9 weeks assessment and plan according to the rigor of the assessment with a focus on Marzano's High-Yield Instructional Strategies to teach the objectives: Comparing - Similarities, Contrasting - Differences, Classifying, Summarizing, Reinforcing, Practice/Feedback, Linguistic Representation, Cooperative Learning, Generating/Testing Hypotheses, Cues and Question Strategies.
Analyze 9-week assessments, which measure grade-level progress on the state standards and be prepared to discuss results with principals and campus leaders.
Re-teach and adjust teaching practice based on the analysis of student progress against the standard.
To assist with monitoring student growth and effective instruction, students will take a Star Renaissance test four times a year.
Culture of Safety & Development
All educators report feeling part of a safe, risk-taking environment where it is safe to try new things and get smarter at implementing the state standards.