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Welcome to the Bertie High School Early College Wikispace

North Carolina New Schools Project Design Principles o Ready for College: Innovative high schools are characterized by the pervasive, transparent, and consistent understanding that the school exists for the purpose of preparing all students for college and work. They maintain a common set of high standards for every student to overcome the harmful consequences of tracking and sorting .

o Require Powerful Teaching and Learning: Innovative high schools are characterized by the presence of commonly held standards for high quality instructional practice. Teachers in these schools design instruction that ensures the development of critical thinking, application, and problem solving skills often neglected in traditional settings.

o Personalization: Staff in innovative high schools understand that knowing students well is an essential condition of helping them achieve academically. These high schools ensure that adults leverage knowledge of students in order to improve student learning.

o Redefine Professionalism: The responsibility to the shared vision of the innovative high school is evident in the collaborative, creative, and leadership roles of all adult staff in the school. The staff of these schools takes responsibility for the success of every student, holds themselves accountable to their colleagues, and is reflective about their roles.

o Purposeful Design:  Innovative high schools are designed to create the conditions that ensure the other four design principles: ready for college, powerful teaching and learning, personalization, and redefined professionalism. The organization of time, space, and the allocation of resources ensures that these best practices become common practice.

Roles of an Instructional Coach Professional Development  Modeling/Co-teaching  Instructional Rounds  Data Analysis  <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Partnering for Instructional Leadership

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Wikispaces <span style="display: block; height: 1124px; left: 8624px; position: absolute; top: 10028px; width: 3267px;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">We will be using this Wikispace to share our thinking and responses to the six professional development activities this school year. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'arial black',gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">To record responses on a given page, just click on the EDIT button located at the top right hand side of the page. Record your thoughts, ideas, concepts and then click on the SAVE button. More directions for using a Wiki will follow as we progress through the year.
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**<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; marginbottom: 0pt; margintop: 0pt;">Every student reads, writes, thinks and talks in every classroom every day. **

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: large;">Common Instructional Framework and Student Learning Questions <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">This year we will continue to work with the 6 instructional strategies known as the Common Instructional Framework. Our goal is to gain a knowledge base for each strategy and implement the 6 strategies so students are using each strategy every day. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">As self assessment of your use of the CIF, please respond on the Entry Slip to each of the 6 instructional stratgies. Rate your knowledge of the strategy from 1 to 5; 1 being "none or very little knowledge" and 5 being "I use this in my classroom daily." Please share your experiences with any strategy you and your students have used. I have also included some student learning questions to use with each strategy.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Common Instructional Framework <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Sample Student Learning Questions for use with CIF .