Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund
Hire & Retain Effective Teachers
New Teacher Support
- Effective instructional strategies and classroom management
- Mentoring and job-embedded coaching for refinement of practice
- Research-based content standards focus
- Sustained support for retention
Professional Learning design
- Robust needs analysis to identify strengths and areas of need to build a shared vision and targeted goals
- Foundations Institute to build common language, understanding of comprehensive literacy to strengthen student thinking
- As needed supports based on walkthrough evidence, teacher feedback, and leadership input
- Job-embedded coaching to support effective instructional design
- Protocol driven supports for replicable and sustained efforts, including lesson refinement, classroom observation, and student work analysis
- Literacy Leadership support for common vision and enhanced collaboration
- Training for coaches and mentors
How CTL can help
- Provide challenging, engaging professional learning that is practical and applicable
- Results oriented increases in teacher efficacy, teacher effectiveness, and student achievement
- Build leadership capacity to support teacher implementation and improve culture
- Focus on comprehensive literacy practices:
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- Instructional planning to reduce cognitive load, and increase learning
- Gradual release process from teacher-directed to student-directed
- Reading comprehension activities for before, during, and after reading
- Student to self; student to student; student to teacher dialogue for deeper learning
- Writing to learn opportunities to make meaning of new content
- Vocabulary focused strategies to build stronger communication of learning
- Authentic writing tasks in forms, purposes, and audiences for all content areas
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CTL programming improves the skills of teachers to successfully and reciprocally link literacy and content to promote student leaning.
Impactful Tier 1 Instruction
Effective Leadership
Build a Culture of Success
Sustainability
