SLIFE Fall 2023

Facilitators: Mayra Da Rocha, Nairobi Mateo, Ariana Sicairos-McCarthy

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Networkers: Kristen Cacciatore/Garcie Champagne

Get the slides at

https://tinyurl.com/SLIFEpc

Easy access to ZOOM link for our virtual sessions!

Introductions

• Name, School, years teaching SLIFE, and a curriculum resource you draw from

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Connector

• What is your favorite fall activity?

Get the slides at

https://tinyurl.com/SLIFEpc

Objectives/Agenda

• Welcome / Lunch / Connector (20 mins)
• Making Planning Manageable History & Logistics (10 mins)
• Unit Assessment Deep Dive & Unit Plan Stage 1 (70 mins)
• BREAK (10 mins)
• Unit Plan Stage 2 (25 minutes)
• Unit Pacing (45 minutes)
• Closing & Exit Ticket (10 minutes)

Get the slides at

https://tinyurl.com/SLIFEpc

Our Goals

• Develop efficient and manageable planning habits
• Familiarize yourself with available resources for your content area(s) that are suitable for your students
• Create a focused and standards aligned unit plan that you will actually teach
• Plan in a collaborative space to share ideas, receive feedback, and hold each other accountable
• Reflect on process and provide feedback for improvement

Group Mindsets

• We all have expertise and we are all learners
• Be a collaborator
• Sharing ideas and resources with colleagues helps us to desilo and improve learning across BPS.
• Confidentiality and psychological safety in this educator-centered space
• Be present!
• Work big to small
• Unit→Week→Day
• Be open and find what works
• Student- Centered, Teacher led, Coach Supported

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To receive 1 ALC credit

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• Attend the Unit Planning Launch
• Attend 4 out of the 6 Weekly Planning Sessions (prioritize first virtual session if you can)
• Note that virtual sessions are mostly work time, so you need to be in a place where you can really work.
• Submit a completed Unit Plan
• Includes Weekly Plans for all 6 weeks
• Submit a Final Artifact to show student impact
• Submit a final reflection (survey during last meeting)

Note that if you do not meet all requirements you will earn PD hours for time spent.

Upcoming Dates

Easy access to ZOOM link for our virtual sessions!

Structure of Monday Planning Session

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Structure of Today!

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Unit Assessment

• Model a unit assessment (by content area)
• Ask folks to brainstorm, describe, flesh out their summative assessment for their upcoming unit OR to create a student exemplar for their existing assessment

Curriculum Planning Resources

ESL resources from BPS OMME

Entire ESL curriculum (all grades)

SLIFE-specific resources

Vista Get Ready newcomers program (Sign-up form)

Math Resources

MA - Math Framework

Order of Operations Slides

PBL Sample Project

Math Curriculum Template

Native Literacy Resources

Sample Unit - Identity & Dreams

Example Assessments

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SLIFE ESL Unit 1 Plan w/ Project

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PBL Sample Project

Native Literacy: New Student Assessment (Spanish)

Speaking Assessment (rubric adapted from WIDA)

Join our Google Classroom!

Unit Plan Stage 1

WIDA 2020 Standards PDF

(grades 2-3 p.85, grades 4-5 p.107, grades 6-8 p.140, grades 9-12 p.179)

BREAK!

Will return to content groups in 10 minutes

Stage 2: Evidence

• Describe the assessments you will use during your unit
• These are good opportunities for providing feedback to students and grading.

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Stage 3: Pacing

Plan out the weekly targets for your unit.

Closing

• Complete Exit Ticket
• Share out one of the following:
• What was worthwhile today?
• What is a new resource you found?
• What’s one lingering question you still have?

Next Steps:

• Please take the Telescope Fall Leading & Learning Survey!
• It’s what determines what PD Telescope offers and we use it to advocate for educators’ needs with admin / leadership
• Look for calendar invites for the virtual sessions

See you next Tuesday 10/10 at 4:30 pm on Zoom!

Virtual session 1

Connector

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In the chat, share one thing that makes you feel appreciated.

Objective

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• Complete week 1 plans

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• Work on incomplete parts of Stages 2/3 (if time allows)

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Agenda for Today!

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Feedback Review

Themes from your feedback:

• It was helpful to spend time planning with colleagues
• Appreciation for the facilitators
• Appreciation for the content-specific support
• Almost everyone finished Stage 1, about half finished Stage 2 also
• Wishes for an exemplar

Responding to your feedback:

• We’re so glad it was helpful! Let’s keep this rolling!
• If you didn’t finish the beginning stages you can fill those in as we go.
• We don’t have exemplars in the exact format as this is the first SLIFE PC, but we do have unit-type resources for you to draw from.

Gather your materials

• Unit assessment
• Unit plan template
• Instructional materials you will be drawing from in Week 1

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Weekly Planning Template- Part of Unit Plan

Today’s goal is to complete this!

Breakout rooms

• Head to your content breakout room
• Your facilitator will model planning from the unit level to the week and then the day

Native Literacy

Modeling the lesson planning process

• What do I want students to get out of this lesson?
• Where does EVERY student need to get?
• For later….what’s the extension?
• How should I pace this lesson?
• Two-day lesson?
• One-day investigation, one-day practice?
• What can I cut?
• How do I launch?
• How does this fit into the overall unit plan?
• What skills need a remind/review/scaffold?

Native Literacy

Modeling the lesson planning process

Native Literacy

Modeling the lesson planning process

MALP: Mutually Adaptive Learning Paradigm

Math

Modeling the lesson planning process

• What do I want students to get out of this lesson?
• Where does EVERY student need to get?
• For later….what’s the extension?
• How should I pace this lesson?
• Two-day lesson?
• One-day investigation, one-day practice?
• What can I cut?
• How do I launch?
• How does this fit into the overall unit plan?
• What skills need a remind/review/scaffold?

Math

Modeling the lesson planning process

Topic:

Objective:

Lesson:

Activity:

ESL

Modeling the lesson planning process

What is my end goal/product?

For this week:

• What do I want students to be able to do or know as a result of the lessons?
• How can I chunk the skills into manageable (for both me and my students) lesson objectives?
• Where does EVERY student need to be? Where can I push some of my students who know a little more?

For each day-

• How do I launch?
• What can be whole group? What can be 1:1 or small group?
• What skills need a remind/review/scaffold?

ESL

Breakout Room Goal

• Plan for Week 1 of your unit
• Fill in the Week 1 plans on your unit plan
• Put questions into the live question document so that we can pop in to answer and/or discuss them more later!

If finished….

• Remember to add any useful materials to our shared folder!!!
• Backfill this piece of the unit plan

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• Begin lesson planning (e.g. editing slides or documents)

How can you use the facilitators?

Some ways you can use a coach include:

• Feedback on pacing
• Help with unit-aligned objectives
• Decide on your high impact lesson
• Sounding board/ideas for agenda items

Questions a coach might ask you:

• How does this agenda build toward your objective?
• What formative assessment data will you gather to assess your objective?
• How does this lesson fit into your larger unit plan?

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Questions / Debrief

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• What questions do you have?
• How is the planning going?

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Check Out

• Please fill out the exit ticket/check out form. Your feedback matters AND it’s how we track attendance.

See you next Monday 10/16 at 4:30.

Have a great week!

FACILITATION PLAN

Virtual session 2

Connector (please share in the chat):

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How do you like to relax after a busy day or week?

Objectives/Agenda

• Objective
• Complete week 2 plans
• Agenda
• Gather resources
• Check-In
• Planning time / talking with coaches
• Questions / exit ticket

Feedback Review

Themes from your feedback:

• Facilitators were helpful and folks got planning done.
• Asks for exemplars on the weekly planning piece (e.g. LOs, assessments)
• Questions about pre-print literacy resources

Responding to your feedback:

• Each facilitator made a week 1 model that you can look at (see following slides). They are also available to check in with you 1:1 about what you have in Week 1.
• Ariana will check in with individuals around pre-print literacy resources
• We can do a whole group mini-lesson around Language Objectives next week if you want. Please ask about this in the exit ticket if desired.

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Native Literacy

Modeling the lesson planning process

ESL

Math

Gather your materials

• Unit assessment
• Unit plan template
• Instructional materials you will be drawing from in Week 1
• Here are some of the resources we looked at at the launch.

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Check-in

Please complete your row in the check-in table.

Then change the text of your name (or highlight it) to be red, yellow or green to tell us where you are at (see the top of the document for an explanation of the colors).

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Weekly Planning Template- Part of Unit Plan

Today’s goal is to complete this!

How can you use the facilitators?

Some ways you can use a coach include:

• Feedback on pacing
• Help with unit-aligned objectives
• Decide on your high impact lesson
• Sounding board/ideas for agenda items

Questions a coach might ask you:

• How does this agenda build toward your objective?
• What formative assessment data will you gather to assess your objective?
• How does this lesson fit into your larger unit plan?

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Head to your breakout room!

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Questions / Debrief

• What questions came up for you?
• How is the planning going?

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Check Out

• Please fill out the exit ticket form. Your feedback matters AND it’s how we track attendance.

See you next Monday 10/23 at 4:30.

Have a great week!

M83

FACILITATION PLAN

Virtual session 3

Connector:

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What is your favorite fall drink & Why?!

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Drop it in the chat!

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Check-in

Please complete your row in the check-in table.

Then change the text of your name to be red, yellow or green to tell us where you are at.

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Objectives/Agenda

• Objective
• Complete week 3 plans
• Agenda
• Gather resources
• Check-In
• Final goal
• Planning time
• Questions/check out

Feedback Review

Themes from your feedback:

• Folks are getting a lot of planning done!
• Progress with generating ideas for instructional activities & assessments, yay!
• Finding the check-ins useful, some asks for more coaching/support
• Need to define high impact lesson
• Need easy access for resources and links

Responding to your feedback:

• If you would like more coaching, please reflect it in the check in doc.
• We will do a think aloud through an example of a high impact lesson
• We will post the requested resources, examples, and links to google classroom.

High Impact Lesson Think Aloud

Gather your materials

• Unit assessment
• Unit plan template
• Instructional materials you will be drawing from in Week 3
• Here are some of the resources we looked at at the launch.

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Weekly Planning Template- Part of Unit Plan

Today’s goal is to complete this!

Week 3

How can you use the facilitators?

Some ways you can use a coach include:

• Feedback on pacing
• Help with unit-aligned objectives
• Decide on your high impact lesson
• Sounding board/ideas for agenda items

Questions a coach might ask you:

• How does this agenda build toward your objective?
• What formative assessment data will you gather to assess your objective?
• How does this lesson fit into your larger unit plan?

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Questions / Debrief

• Any questions coming up?
• How is the planning going?

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Check Out

• Please fill out the exit ticket/check out form. Your feedback matters AND it’s how we track attendance.

See you next Monday 10/30 at 4:30pm.

Have a great week!

FACILITATION PLAN

Virtual session 4

In the Chat:

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Do you celebrate Halloween culturally?

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What are your plans (if any) for the day?!

Check-in

Please complete your row in the check-in table.

Reminder: To receive 1 ALC credit

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• Attend the launch
• Attend 4 out of the 6 Weekly Planning Sessions
• Submit a completed Unit Plan
• Includes Weekly Plans for all 6 weeks
• Submit 1 artifact from a “High Leverage Lesson” (e.g. student work sample, instructional material you created / modified)
• Submit a final reflection (survey during last meeting)

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We have not everyone has gotten a chance to fill out their unit plan document. If you are jotting down notes elsewhere be sure to capture that thinking in your unit planning document. Facilitators will be checking in about this today.

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Feedback Review

Themes from your feedback:

-Lots of helpful clarifications in coaching conversations

-Progress on final assessment planning

-Most of us have gotten through 2 weeks of planning; approaching 3rd week

Responding to your feedback:

• We were able to look through unit plans, and we are all in different places. If working on alternative docs, please note and link.
• We will make room for more targeted coaching conversations today
• Mid-planning check in to share/get ideas from other planning groups
• Remember 6 weeks of planning required for course credit. If you are feeling stuck, let us know.

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Objectives/Agenda

• Objective
• Reconnect with group members
• Complete week 4 plans
• Agenda
• Check-In
• Mid-course conversation in mixed content groups
• Gather resources
• Planning time
• Questions/check out

Mid-Course conversation

We’re going to talk in mixed content groups for a few minutes just to hear from others and continue to connect.

What’s going well?

What are you excited about trying? Learning more about?

What challenges are you still facing?

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Please ask someone in the group to take notes on the group slide. Be ready to share out.

Mid-Course conversation – group 1 notes

Challenges: figuring out how to merge different ideas and curriculum in a cohesive way

Successes: getting a lot of planning done, almost done! Being able to use thinking from last year to build on; Inserting independence building skills into planning

Mid-Course conversation – group 2 notes

Launch went well, students seem to be understanding content

Our pacing is on target, but with the variety of needs and skills some students are finishing at different times etc. = challenging to meet the needs of the variety of pacing needed for students to process and show their learning. Because of combining HILT 1 and HILT 2- means HILT 1 aren’t necessarily showing mastery but more getting exposure.

Using target language to practice both written and oral language.

Building in oral review and extension activities on a regular basis

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Mid-Course conversation – group 3 notes

• Intentional planning time feels good
• Being in the cohort helps with gathering ideas and being exposed to different perspectives
• A challenge is the ever changing landscape of the classroom (new students all the time)
• This community is supportive. We’re not alone.
• Sharing resources
• Teaching multiples courses (ESL & Literacy) makes pacing challenging.
• Different student needs also calls for differentiation

Gather your materials

• Unit assessment
• Unit plan template
• Instructional materials you will be drawing from in Week 3
• Here are some of the resources we looked at at the launch.

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Weekly Planning Template

Today’s goal is to complete this!

Week 4

Questions / Debrief

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• Any questions?
• How is the planning going?

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Check Out

• Please fill out the exit ticket/check out form. Your feedback matters AND it’s how we track attendance.

See you next Monday 11/6 at 4:30pm.

Have a great week!

FACILITATION PLAN – SESSION 5

Virtual session 5

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Where are you at today? Which doggo best describes how you are feeling?

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Drop your # in the chat!

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Check-in

Please complete your row in the check-in table.

Take a moment to LINK any planning and resources in your planning document. This is will inform our coaching conversations.

Feedback Review

Themes from your feedback:

-Helpful to know discuss and share ideas with others facing the same issues

- Coaching advice is helping to move planning along.

-Differentiation is a common challenge that we are thinking about as we plan

Responding to your feedback:

• We will address the challenge of differentiation by sharing how each coach approaches differentiation in their context.

Objectives/Agenda

• Objective
• Complete week 5 plans
• Agenda
• Gather resources
• Check-In
• Differentiation approaches
• Planning time
• Questions/check out

Approaches to Differentiation

ESL

Output (speaking/writing):

- Number of tasks

- Use of sentence frames

- using text to speech or other tech tools to support

Input (listening/reading):

- Target vocabulary

- Length or complexity of text

** Grouping of students

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Math

Output (speaking/writing):

• Number of tasks
• Use of sentence frames
• Filling in the blank
• step by step instructions
• Bold words
• Manipulatives
• Input (listening/reading):
• Target tasks
• Direct prompts/ discussion questions
• ** Grouping of students

Native Literacy

Output (writing):

• Number/length of tasks
• Use of sentence frames
• Using text to speech
• Scribe (Hilt 1/as needed)

Input (reading):

• Length or complexity of text
• Read aloud (Google Read/Write)
• Varied Independent reading options

Gather your materials

• Unit assessment
• Unit plan template
• Instructional materials you will be drawing from in Week 3
• Here are some of the resources we looked at at the launch.

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Weekly Planning Template- Part of Unit Plan

Today’s goal is to complete this!

Week 5

Remember to LINK any planning and resources in your planning document.

Breakout Room Goal

• Join your course room/partner.
• Plan for Week 5 of your unit
• Fill in the Week 5 plans on your unit plan
• Put questions into the live question document so that we can pop in to answer and/or discuss them more later!

If finished….

• Remember to add any useful materials to our shared folder!!!
• Backfill this piece of the unit plan

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• Begin lesson planning

Questions / Debrief

• Any questions?
• How is the planning going?

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Check Out

• Please fill out the exit ticket/check out form. Your feedback matters AND it’s how we track attendance.

See you next Monday 11/13 at 4:30pm.

Have a great week!

Virtual session 6

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Share in the chat…

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What is a success you experienced during Term 1?

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To receive 1 ALC credit

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• Attend the Unit Planning Session - DONE
• Attend 4 out of the 6 Weekly Planning Sessions- DONE
• Submit a completed Unit Plan
• Includes Weekly Plans for all 6 weeks (This is what you have been working on!)
• Submit 1 artifact that shows student impact of planning
• This can be a formative assessment, sample of student work, OR a student facing task you created/ gave
• Submit a final reflection (survey during last meeting)
• Will have time to do today

Objectives/Agenda

• Objective
• Complete week 6 plans
• Agenda
• Gather resources/Check-In
• Planning time (a little shorter this week)
• Reflection Circle (15 mins)
• Final Reflection Exit Ticket (10 mins)

Feedback Review

Themes from your feedback:

• Lots of progress on final assessments. Hurray!
• Some asks for a walkthrough of final doc.

Responding to your feedback:

• Make a note on check-in doc if you want to do a walkthrough with your coach. Or just let your coach know in the chat!

Check-in

Please complete your row in the check-in table.

Gather your materials

• Unit assessment
• Unit plan template
• Instructional materials you will be drawing from in Week 6
• Here are some of the resources we looked at at the launch.

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Weekly Planning Template- Part of Unit Plan

Today’s goal is to complete this!

Week 6

Reflection Circle

• 3 Rounds of Reflection

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• Something I’m proud of from this work…
• Something I learned about about the planning process for SLIFE is…
• I think this work impacted/will impact student learning by…

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Speaking Order

1. Amanda
2. Casey
3. Andres
4. Sandra
5. Faustino
6. Nyree
7. Gillian
8. Shayla
9. Kimberly

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MAY 30th 2024

Save the Date! A space to share about learning we have done SY 23-24.

More SLIFE-specific professional learning from Telescope is coming this winter!

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We will have opportunities to visit SLIFE classrooms and learn from each other. Details coming soon.

What’s next for SLIFE Learning Opportunities?

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VIRTUAL MEETINGS

1.18.24

3.21.24

5.16.24

4:00-6:00 p.m.

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RSVP

DETAILS

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❖ 4 two-hour sessions on Zoom

❖ Attend as many sessions as

you want to

❖ Learn from BPS colleagues

❖ Generate ideas for your class

❖ Earn PD hours

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TOPIC

How can SLIFE educators from across BPS collaborate to problem solve around common instructional challenges?

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AUDIENCE

SLIFE educators, all grades and contents

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Presented by

Office of Multilingual and Multicultural Education (OMME) and Telescope Network

SLIFE

Reflection & Check Out

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• Fill out the final reflection form. This is part of your ALC credit so please take your time.
• Your feedback matters AND it’s how we track attendance, PD hrs & ALC credit.
• Unit plan and lesson plan artifacts due in Google Classroom on November 22, the day before Thanksgiving.

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Thank you for your participation!