The document outlines several pedagogical concepts for teaching and learning including 5 teaching patterns, 9 supportive practices, 5 critical experiences, 3 principles of learning, high operational practices, habits of mind, and 9 strategies. The concepts are focused on ensuring excellence, mastery of skills and practices, discourse and creative thinking, applying knowledge to real world situations, and developing lifelong learning habits.

1. FIVE Teaching and Learning Patterns
• Ritual
• Rhythm
• Recitation
• Repetition
• Relationship
NINE Supportive Practices
• Expectation of excellence
• Continual search for patterns
• Insistence on working toward mastery
• Teacher modeling of skills and practices
• Intensive direct instruction and practice
• Study of African deep thought
• Focus on discourse, inquiry and creative/symbolic thinking
• Using knowledge for social criticism and community action
• In-depth study and performance of African culture
FIVE Critical Experiences
• Responding to a variety of texts (fiction, non-fiction, expository, etc.)
• Composing texts in a variety of modalities
• Sustained reading of a variety of self-selected texts
• Studying and mastering language patterns
• Learning how to learn
THREE Principles (Stages) of Learning
• Priming
• Processing
• Retaining for mastery

2. Pedagogy of Confidence/High Operational Practices
• Identify strengths
• Enable relationships
• Nurture HIP
• Mediate the learning
• Provide enrichment
• Situate learning in life of the learner (make it culturally relevant)
• Apply pre-requisites (priming)
Habits of Mind
• Persisting
• Managing impulsivity
• Listening with understanding and empathy
• Thinking flexibility
• Thinking about thinking (metacognition)
• Striving for accuracy
• Questioning and posing problems
• Applying past knowledge to new situations
• Thinking and communicating with clarity and precision
• Gathering data through all senses
• Creating, imagining innovating
• Responding with wonderment and awe
• Taking responsible risks
• Finding humor
• Thinking interdependently
• Remaining open to continuous learning
Marzano’s Nine Strategies
• Identifying similarities and differences
• Summarizing and note taking
• Reinforcing effort and providing recognition
• Homework and practice
• Nonlinguistic representations
• Cooperative learning
• Setting objectives and providing feedback
• Generating and testing hypotheses
• Cues, questions, and advance organizers