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Our TeachingWise™
Professional Development Solutions include a
range of customized, data-driven professional
development programs designed to help teachers
use important information to inform their
Language Arts, Math and Science
instruction. Developed by our own team of
experienced educators and curriculum
specialists, these programs combine proven
teaching practices with current research. All
are aligned with the mission of Community
Partners Initiative: to measurably improve
student achievement.
CPI delivers a data-driven,
collaborative professional development program to
participating schools. We use MCAS data and
school-based assessment results, combined with
knowledge of each school's programs, to determine
what specific professional development is needed
and customize our work accordingly.
The professional development
program is based on the following five strands:
- Using MCAS Data:
Training in the specific
uses of CPI's data reports. Includes
interactive seminars that clarify information
about performance at the grade, class, and
individual student levels and help teachers
use this information to plan instruction.
- Ongoing Data:
Guidance to help teachers
identify additional, reliable sources of
student achievement data to use throughout the
year. Includes class- and student-level action
planning to address performance trends and
classroom assessment techniques to help
teachers continually monitor students' growth.
- Curriculum Mapping:
Training and tools to
support teachers and curriculum coordinators
as they plan, implement, and evaluate their
school's curriculum mapping system (a critical
first step toward standards-based
instructional improvement). Includes
guidance on the use of MCAS and other data to
continuously update plans for when and how
each Massachusetts standard will be taught.
- Open Response
Strategies:
Tools and techniques to
address several aspects of Open Response
questions, which are emphasized on the MCAS
and represent an area of difficulty for many
students. Topics addressed
include: the format and purpose of Open
Response questions; how to write effective
Open Response questions for use in the
classroom; and the development of shared
expectations regarding students' Open Response
writing.
- Standards-Based
Mathematics:
Modeling and practice of
effective classroom activities that address
aspects of mathematics with which many
students struggle. Activities function
as ongoing assessment, support literacy
concepts, strengthen teachers' comfort level
and skill regarding content, and help prepare
students for MCAS success.
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