Student Learning Goals

How Urban Academy is becoming more driven by student learning

goals?

Focusing on StudentLearning Goals

Schoolwide Focus

Aligned andIntensive PD

PLCs

Teacher coachingand observation/eval protocols

Why?

• Textbook or standards driven• Struggle with classroom management• Don’t prioritize concepts• Become isolated• Become too activity driven• Don’t align modeling and practice to core concept• Don’t track meaningful and ongoing curriculum based

assessment data• Inexperienced teachers that….

What gets in our way

• provide the time• show how• provide examples• provide ongoing guidance• We don’t create a culture of learning• We don’t provide mechanisms• We don’t communicate• We don’t collaborate• We don’t align our evaluation procedures

What we decided to do

We are trying to focus

Data + discussion about what’s really important

Develop a common language

Commit PD time and resources

Make accountability goals meaningful goals at grade level

Question underlying issues

Get everyone on the same page

Align curriculum, instruction, PD, and evaluation processes to goals

Schoolwide goals

• What would make a difference

• If we focused on _____, how would that improve their lives

• What big skills help them learn other things

Common Procedures

Curriculum Mapping

Weekly PLCs

Aligned Teacher Evals

Collaborative Lesson Planning

Sharing What’s Working and What’s Not

Lesson Analysis

Developing CBAs

Examining Data from CBAs