Reporting of content area teacher professional development strategies that engage learners and enhance education

3. Instructional Programs Implemented:
1. Universal Design for Learning Strategies (UDL)
 FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT w/Classroom
Response (Clickers) for Pre/Post Assessment.
 Strategic Assignments-Big Ideas
 Web 2.0 Implementation Tools
 Close & Critical Reading (CCR)

6. Instructional Programs Implemented Cont:
3. Close & Critical Reading
 What Does the Text Say?
 How Does it Say it?
 What Does the Text Mean?
 So What?
2. SWIFT
Strategies to Engage Readers in Text
 KWL – BEFORE
 Math Problem Map - DURING
 Algebra Flow Chart - AFTER

7. SWIFT STRATEGIES
IMPLEMENTED

8. TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
1. UDL Training
2. SWIFT Training
3. Reading Apprenticeship
4. Emath (Geometry/Algebra)
5. Data Director
6. Powerschool
7. Strengthening Your Geometry Program
LEADERSHIP
1. Math Field Day (University of Michigan)
2. Field Trips (Chicago, NYC, DC, Washington)
3. Assertive Discipline Reward Committee
4. New Haven Green Project
5. School Improvement Team
6. Staff Scholarship Committee

10. 1. Differentiated Learning with Laboratory
Experiments
2. Student Culminating Projects
3. Word Walls
4. Pair-Share
5. K-W-L
(What you KNOW, What you WANT to know and
What do you want to LEARN?)
Instructional Strategies Implemented:

11. Instructional Strategies Implemented:
1. Universal Design for Learning Strategies:
Microbiology
2. Classroom Response System
3. Peer-to-Peer Work
4. Hands-On Experiences (CPR Training)
5. Real-World Training
6. Guest Speakers
7. Community Organizations/Involvement
(Blood Drive)

12. Assessment Strategies Implemented:
1. Classroom Response System-
Pre/Post Testing
2. Portfolios (Medical Careers)
3. Laboratory Practices (Dissections)
4. In-Class Subject Targeted Games
(i.e. Fly Squatter, Concentration,
Jeopardy)
5. Summative testing (Unit Testing)

13. Instructional Strategies Implemented:
1. Differentiated Learning with
Laboratory Experiments
(Water Quality Testing)
2. Classroom Response System

14. TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
1. UDL Training
2. Data Director
3. PowerSchool
4. Forensic Science Workshop
5. Reading Apprenticeship
6. Close & Critical Reading
LEADERSHIP
1. Blood Drive (Red Cross)
2. Field Trips
3. Clinton River Watershed Evaluation

16. Reading Apprenticeship
Partnership of expertise in the classroom
Teachers draw on strengths as discipline-based readers
Students discover underestimated strengths as learners
Resulting expectations of more powerful reading students
Close & Critical Reading
What Does the Text Say?
How Does it Say it?
What Does the Text Mean?
So What?

17. Universal Design for Learning Strategies:
~~Classroom Response Systems (Clickers)
~~Flocabulary (Week in Rap)
~~Wordle
C.C.R.
Step Up to Writing
Mel. Org Databases
Readers Theater
Weebly (Updated with Resources/Lesson Plans)
Socratic Circles

19. Classroom Response Systems
Interactive Journals
PhotoStory 3
ToonDoo (Comic Strips of novels)
Video Production (Beowulf)
Word Weave
Word of the Day (Teach the Class)
ACT Practice Tests
Collages

20. Debates
Presentation Skills/Speeches
Oral Presentations

21. Quick Write
Student Opinion Data
Clicker Surveys:
D.E.A.R. Silent Sustained
Reading
Word of the Day
Vocabulary Opinion Survey
ACT/MME Incentive Survey
Technology Use Survey
(Home & School)
MEAP Item Analysis
(Target Strengths/Weaknesses)
Research Paper Survey
Data Director Item Analysis

22. UDL Training
Reading & Writing Across The Curriculum
Facilitators of School Improvement Team
MEAP/MME ELA Workshops
Reading Apprenticeship
Curriculum Mapping
Brain Research with Karl Klimak
Mini-Lessons to help Motivate Students
Socratic Circle Training
Building Adolescent
Writers w/Kelly Gallagher
CCR Training w/Barry Chute
and Marty Zimmerman
Blackboard Boot Camp

23. ELA Genre Units – Pioneer Group
Worked with MISD to create thematic units
for literature
Units adopted to Michigan Dept. of Education
Setting Michigan High School Standards
(Invitation Only)
ED YES! Report Card Committee
Student Council Advisor
School Improvement Team
Scholarship Application
Committee

24. Close and Critical Reading Team
Building Leadership Team
Annual 10th Grade Field Trip
(Holocaust Museum)
D.A.R.E. /
Comcast PSA
Mentor/Mentee
Program
New Haven
Spring Program

26. Universal Design for Learning
Strategies:
Classroom Response Systems
(Clickers)
World War I/II WebQuests
Google “Expert of the Day”
Research

27. Classroom Response Systems
for Formative Assessment
Multimodal Responses
Choice of Assessment
Black History Month PowerPoints
Data Director Pre/Post-Tests to gauge comprehension
Class Discussion
Jigsaw

28. UDL Training
Data Director Training
Social Studies Networks with MISD & Genesee ISD
Close & Critical Reading (CCR)
Socratic Circles
Social Studies Power Standards
Historical Thinking Matters Workshop

29. • TIENET – TechnologyforImproving
School EducationTraining
• InterventionSystems/Strategies
to SupportStudentswith ASD
• CriticalStagesfor StudentEngagement
• BusinessProfessionalsof AmericaAdvisor
• CTE AdvisoryCommittee
• NationalHonor Society
• YearbookAdvisor
• New HavenGreen Club Advisor
• CrisisPreventionIntervention
• HOPEConferenceTraining –
“FailureisNOTanOption”
• AfterschoolTutoring