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2006 Summer Academy Strands
The content immersion experience for Summer 2006 will focus on Earth science for teachers of all grade levels (elementary, middle, and high school teachers). Facilitators will strive to model instruction consistent with the recommendations from How People Learn and provide opportunities to explicitly deconstruct key instructional strategies with Teacher Leaders. Goals:
This strand will focus on developing distributed leadership practices to support continued professional learning and growth at the building, district, and regional level. This strand will link the district Science Strategic Plan, NCOSP commitments, and an accountability plan for reporting on progress toward goals identified in those plans. This strand will provide Teacher Leaders with concrete experiences in leadership and facilitation to enable them to contribute as leaders. Importantly, portions of this strand will include participation of district and building administrators. Goals:
This strand will focus on strategies for enacting the recommendations in How People Learn. The sessions will be carefully coordinated with the content strand to provide grade-level and curriculum appropriate experiences for participants to develop the pedagogical strategies modeled in the content immersion. Goals:
This strand will revisit the characteristics of Professional Learning Community described in the first Summer Academy. The strand focus on fostering the growth of the Teacher Leader learning community as well as providing opportunities to consider how Teacher Leaders can develop similar communities within their building or district. The strand will provide opportunities for Teacher Leaders to learn from one another and make connections between what they have learned through three years of partnership professional development experiences. Goals:
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