PD aligned to priorities

Core Teaching Practices

All Grades

• Checking for student understanding
• Managing student behavior
• Building classroom relationships
• Establishing routines and procedures
• Facilitating group discussions
• Eliciting student thinking
• Presenting and explaining content
• Culturally responsive teaching
• Improving student:teacher talk ratio
• Effective pacing
• Differentiation strategies
• Giving feedback to students

Science of Reading

Pre-K to 3

• Phonological sensitivity
• Phonemic awareness
• Handwriting and print awareness
• Alphabet knowledge
• Sight recognition & decoding
• Vocabulary building
• Spelling & word structure
• Storytelling and sentence structure

Grades 4 to 12

• Writing skills and grammar
• Vocabulary depth
• Prefixes, roots, suffixes
• Genre knowledge
• Inference making
• Figurative language
• Background knowledge
• Comprehension