The CSTP Refresh:

Relationships Front and Center

Social-Emotional-Academic/MTSS Coaches

Santa Cruz County Office of Education

Wendy Baron, MA

Suzanne Denham, MA

Shannon McQuaide, MA

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May 15-16, 2025

Santa Cruz COE Team

Wendy Baron MA.

Social-Emotional-Academic Development Specialist

Shannon McQuaide,

MA

Social-Emotional Learning Consultant

Founder: FireFlex Yoga

You are welcome here.

We welcome your:

• Culture

• Ethnicity

• Origin

• Race

• Histories & Herstories

• Experiences of your ancestors

• Children, loved ones

• Religious Affiliation

• Spiritual Practice

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We welcome your:

• Sexuality and gender identities and how that is unfolding

• Ignorance, privilege, guilt and shame

• Quirks, ambiguities

• Humor and silent contemplations

• Feelings

• Roles

• How you love, who you love

• All of you!

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We welcome all the parts of yourself you are still figuring out.

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Let’s take a pause to arrive.

Introducing:

The 2024 CSTP

Connecting

• History
• Exploring the 2024 CSTP

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What are the CSTPs?

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• The foundational document for teacher preparation, Induction - Tier 2 credentialing (BTSA).

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• Common language and core expectations for teaching and learning.

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• A guide to support individualized goal setting and collective professional learning.

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The 6 Domains

Domain 1:

Engaging & Supporting All Students in Learning

Domain 3:

Understanding & Organizing Subject Matter for Student Learning

Domain 5:

Assessing Students for Learning

Domain 2:

Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning

Domain 4:

Planning Instruction & Designing Learning Experiences for All Students

Domain 6:

Developing as a Professional Educator

A Brief History

• 1997: Six interrelated domains built as narratives with “Key Elements” and guiding questions. Accompanied by the Continuum of Teaching Practice.
• Provides a framework for individual goal setting tailored to students & context
• Guides teacher development and evaluation statewide
• 2009: Same 6 domains with 5-7 bulleted elements
• Updated to address needs of a diverse student body
• Added focus on social development & differentiated instruction
• 2024: Same 6 domains with 4-7 focused elements and indicators
• Attending to the social, emotional, physical cognitive &

academic needs of students

• Ensuring inclusive learning experiences & equitable outcomes for all students

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The revised CSTP aims to rehumanize our system by focusing on the whole student, their identities, and what’s meaningful in the world to them. They have the potential to transform all our classrooms into culturally and linguistically responsive and sustaining communities.”

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• Instructional Coach, Fontana, USD

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On your own:

• Review each of the 6 CSTPs.
• What words stand out to you? What is inspiring and affirming?

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Review

3-5 minutes

Connecting with Colleagues

Briefly discuss with an elbow partner:

• What are you noticing about the intentional language of the CSTPs, including the nouns and verbs used?
• What is affirming? Inspiring?
• In what ways do the 2024 CSTP move us further towards relationship-centered schools, integration of social and emotional learning, and creating schools as centers of wellbeing?

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8 minutes

Whole Group Share Out

Outcomes

Our Journey Ahead

• Explore 2024 CSTP for entry points to strengthen teacher leadership and well-being.

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• Expand a vision for learning environments with connected relationships, identity development, equity, inclusivity, student and teacher agency as foundational.

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• Prepare to facilitate conversations about the 2024 CSTP with stakeholders for awareness and implementation.

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• Welcome.

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• Connecting: Introducing the 2024 CSTP

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• Our Journey Ahead

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• Exploring: Developing as a Professional Educator

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• Self-Assessing: Creating & Maintaining Effective Learning Environments

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• Closure

Ways of Being Together

• Speak Authentically
• Listen Deeply
• Be Compassionately Curious
• Take Space and Make Space
• Notice

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Exploring CSTP 6:

Developing as a Professional Educator

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CSTP 6: Developing as a Professional Educator

Stand Up Meeting: Sole Mates

Individually: Review CSTP 6G and Example Indicators.

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Stand up, find a partner, introduce yourselves, and share:

• After reading Standard 6G with Example Indicators:
• In what ways is your district/site/organization cultivating teacher leadership?

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• In your context, in what ways is personal and collective wellbeing being cultivated?

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• What routines and practices are in place at your site that cultivate positive, connected relationships?

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10 minutes

Whole Group Share Out

CSTP 2: Reflections

Reflections on Practice

With an elbow partner

• In what ways are you integrating and/or supporting the development of caring and inclusive learning environments? What are intentions for deepening and expanding in this area?

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• In what ways are you affirming identity, agency and voice of students and/or adults? Which voices or perspectives would you like to see lifted?

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5 minutes

Reflective Conversation

• Turn to an elbow partner.
• Introduce yourselves.
• Partner A shares their self-assessment (anything they feel comfortable sharing)--strengths and areas for growth
• Partner B engages A in reflective conversation about areas for growth. (7 min.)
• Partners switch. (7 min.)

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15 minutes

Resources to Support 2024 CSTP Awareness and Implementation

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Closure

Please share in triads.

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• What’s one thing you’re taking from today’s session that you’ll apply in your context?

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• What’s next? How will you further develop relationship-centered schools and collective wellbeing?

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• Post-It Reflections:

What had heart and meaning for you today?

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5 minutes

Thank you!

Please contact us:

Wendy Baron,

wbaron@santacruzcoe.org

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Suzanne Denham, sdenham@santacruzcoe.org

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Shannon McQuaide

smcquaide.consulting@gmail.com

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Resour

2024 CSTP

Resources

Articles