Planning Tools and Documents for building instructional efforts within your SLC/Academy or Small School

The materials provided in this blog were presented by Larry Tash on December 3, 2010, in San Diego at the California League of Schools Conference. They are being made available to those who attended the conference or those who read this blog as planning tools and documents for building the instructional efforts of your SLC/Academy or small school. Readers are free to use the documents on the condition that you let me and other readers know if the documents were helpful and valuable as you work to improve the teaching and learning practices within your school community. You may need further assistance to understand these documents, so please feel free to e-mail me at larry.tash@gmail.com or add a comment to this blog entry. Good luck with your work, and I hope that you find these documents useful.

HS MP Instructional Plan (document)
This template is the heart of the planning document that can be used by instructional teams within a SLC, Academy, or small school to create a sequential, cyclical teaching plan that provides students the connection between required standards-based curriculum, 21st century skills, shared instructional practices, and Linked Learning expectations.

HS MP Instructional Template (document)
This document provides a blank copy of the above sample document to be used by instructional teams.

Building Toward a Project-Based Learning School (document)
Was presented in order to help school teams to think how to move toward full implementation of PBL by all teachers in the community. This process for some teachers may be very uncomfortable at first and may take a significant amount of time to learn in order for this strategy to benefit students. So, while teachers are learning this new strategy or any other approach to instruction, how do we guarantee that we improve instruction immediately?

California League of MS/HS Schools PowerPoint Presentation (presentation)
This is the complete power point presented at this conference. This may take some time to load, so if you wish to download it, please be patient.

Other documents shared during the presentation:

• Targeted Instructional Behavior (document)
  
• Increasing Instructional Rigor Through Classroom Practice (document)