Culturally & Linguistically Sustaining Practices
in the Elementary Setting
LEARNING SITE
Virtual Session Follow-Up #1
Virtual Dates: 4/25, 5/9, 5/23
Time: 5-6 pm
Virtual Session Facilitators:
Kadian Simmonds
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Slide 11 in Artifact Slide Deck
TIME FOR CONNECTION:
Remind us of your:
AND
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Community Agreements
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Other norms to add today?
Purpose and Agenda
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Agenda:
The Process:
The Purpose:
A professional learning experience that is educator-driven with collaborative team coaching to keep us accountable and help move teaching practices forward.
“How do educators of color leverage their cultural identity to support the delivery of curriculum with authentic CLSP experiences?”
Aim
What are we trying to accomplish?
Primary Drivers
What students need [to influence the aim]
Classroom Relationships
learning atmosphere shows respect for students, staff, and diverse populations
What needs to happen [to influence driver]
Student Opportunity for Self-Assessment
Change Ideas
...changes in practice?
High Quality Instructional Materials (HQIM)
HOW
WHY
Leveraging Identity for CLSP:
Driver Diagram
Daily Work with Enabling, Complex Text
Instructional Practices
Instruction is contextualized in students’ lives, experiences, and individual abilities
Access for All Learners / Specially Designed Instruction (SDI)
Critical Consciousness
Planned learning experiences incorporate opportunities to confront negative stereotypes and biases
Culturally and Linguistically Sustaining Instructional Practices
SEL Integrated w/ Academic Instruction
Teacher encourages students to share their stories with one another and to have pride in their history and linguistic and cultural identities
Teacher routinely models making connections between personal or professional identity and curriculum where relevant
student and teacher input is given equal weight in driving the learning.
“Definitely incomplete, possibly incorrect”
Discourse
Lesson promotes active student engagement through discourse
Assessment Practices
Students are able to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways
Critical Consciousness
Learning experiences integrate or provide opportunities for expression of diverse perspectives
Classroom Relationships
Educator communicates high expectations for all students
Modeling Vulnerability
EDUCATOR PRESENTS
(3-5 min.)
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FEEDBACK FOR PRESENTER
(3-5 min.)
PRESENTER REFLECTION
(1 min.)
CHANGE IDEA:
TEAM FEEDBACK & REFLECTIONS
Presenter shares information about his/her “Change Idea”, including:
• Context
• Goals
• Focusing question for feedback
• One piece of warm feedback (something positive or strong about the change idea)
• One piece of cool feedback or a suggestion (something that might be improved)
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10 min per person = 30 min
Change Idea Feedback Reflection
Take two quiet minutes to reflect on the feedback and then write on slide #13:
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Data Menu
(pick one to document whether your change is working)
HW:
See you in 2 weeks!
4/25, 5/9, 5/23
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Culturally & Linguistically Sustaining Practices
in the Elementary Setting
LEARNING SITE
Virtual Session Follow-Up #2
Virtual Dates: 4/25, 5/9, 5/23
Time: 5-6 pm
Virtual Session Facilitators: Garcie Champagne & Malcolm Andrews
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MOMENT OF CONNECTION:
Two-Word Check-in:
What are two words that describe how you are feeling today?
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Community Agreements
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Other norms to add today?
Purpose and Agenda
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Agenda:
The Process:
The Purpose:
A professional learning experience that is teacher-driven with collaborative team coaching to keep us accountable and help move teaching practices forward.
“How do educators of color leverage their cultural identity to support the delivery of curriculum with authentic CLSP experiences?”
Aim
What are we trying to accomplish?
Primary Drivers
What students need [to influence the aim]
Classroom Relationships
learning atmosphere shows respect for students, staff, and diverse populations
What needs to happen [to influence driver]
Student Opportunity for Self-Assessment
Change Ideas
...changes in practice?
High Quality Instructional Materials (HQIM)
HOW
WHY
Leveraging Identity for CLSP:
Driver Diagram
Daily Work with Enabling, Complex Text
Instructional Practices
Instruction is contextualized in students’ lives, experiences, and individual abilities
Access for All Learners / Specially Designed Instruction (SDI)
Critical Consciousness
Planned learning experiences incorporate opportunities to confront negative stereotypes and biases
Culturally and Linguistically Sustaining Instructional Practices
SEL Integrated w/ Academic Instruction
Teacher encourages students to share their stories with one another and to have pride in their history and linguistic and cultural identities
Teacher routinely models making connections between personal or professional identity and curriculum where relevant
student and teacher input is given equal weight in driving the learning.
“Definitely incomplete, possibly incorrect”
Discourse
Lesson promotes active student engagement through discourse
Assessment Practices
Students are able to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways
Critical Consciousness
Learning experiences integrate or provide opportunities for expression of diverse perspectives
Classroom Relationships
Educator communicates high expectations for all students
Modeling Vulnerability
EDUCATOR PRESENTS
(3 min.)
01
03
02
FEEDBACK FOR PRESENTER
(5 min.)
PRESENTER REFLECTION
(2 min.)
CHANGE IDEA:
TEAM FEEDBACK & REFLECTIONS
Optional)
(Discuss):
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10 min per person = 30 min
Change Idea Feedback Reflection
Reflection
(Take 2-3 quiet minutes to reflect on the feedback. Capture your thinking on slide #17-18)
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Data Menu
(pick one to document whether your change is working)
HW:
4/25, 5/9, 5/23
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Culturally & Linguistically Sustaining Practices
in the Elementary Setting
LEARNING SITE
Virtual Session Follow-Up #3
Virtual Dates: 4/25, 5/9, 5/23
Time: 5-6 pm
Virtual Session Facilitators: Malcolm Andrews and Garcie Champagne
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Change Idea Input:
As you come in, take five minutes to update what you tried in your slide #23 of your artifact; “Describe what happened when you tried your change idea…”
We will use this information in our discussion later in this session.
If you have already updated your slide, you can look at other participants’ artifacts in the drive.
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CLSP Virtual Session # 3
MOMENT OF CONNECTION:
Two-Word Check-in:
What are two words that describe how you are feeling today?
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Community Agreements
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Other norms to add today?
Purpose and Agenda
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Agenda:
The Process:
The Purpose:
A professional learning experience that is teacher-driven with collaborative team coaching to keep us accountable and help move teaching practices forward.
“How do educators of color leverage their cultural identity to support the delivery of curriculum with authentic CLSP experiences?”
Aim
What are we trying to accomplish?
Primary Drivers
What students need [to influence the aim]
Classroom Relationships
learning atmosphere shows respect for students, staff, and diverse populations
What needs to happen [to influence driver]
Student Opportunity for Self-Assessment
Change Ideas
...changes in practice?
High Quality Instructional Materials (HQIM)
HOW
WHY
Leveraging Identity for CLSP:
Driver Diagram
Daily Work with Enabling, Complex Text
Instructional Practices
Instruction is contextualized in students’ lives, experiences, and individual abilities
Access for All Learners / Specially Designed Instruction (SDI)
Critical Consciousness
Planned learning experiences incorporate opportunities to confront negative stereotypes and biases
Culturally and Linguistically Sustaining Instructional Practices
SEL Integrated w/ Academic Instruction
Teacher encourages students to share their stories with one another and to have pride in their history and linguistic and cultural identities
Teacher routinely models making connections between personal or professional identity and curriculum where relevant
student and teacher input is given equal weight in driving the learning.
“Definitely incomplete, possibly incorrect”
Discourse
Lesson promotes active student engagement through discourse
Assessment Practices
Students are able to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways
Critical Consciousness
Learning experiences integrate or provide opportunities for expression of diverse perspectives
Classroom Relationships
Educator communicates high expectations for all students
Modeling Vulnerability
EDUCATOR PRESENTS
(3 min.)
01
03
02
FEEDBACK FOR PRESENTER
(5 min.)
PRESENTER REFLECTION
(2 min.)
CHANGE IDEA:
TEAM FEEDBACK & REFLECTIONS
Optional)
(Discuss):
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5-7min per person = 25 min
Change Idea Feedback Reflection
Reflection
(Take 2-3 quiet minutes to reflect on the feedback. Capture your thinking on slide #24-25)
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Data Menu
(pick one to document whether your change is working)
CLOSING:
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Share your one big takeaway from this process. What are you thinking about now?
AND
What do you think the impact on your students is from your learning during this Learning Site?
Final Artifact (for ALC credit) and rubric
On the slide deck:
“How do educators of color leverage their cultural identity to support the delivery of curriculum with authentic CLSP experiences?”
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Create a presentation to synthesize your learning.
What happens with this artifact after submission?
What happens here stays here, what’s learned here leaves here…
Due by
June 7th 2024
HW:
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THANK YOU!
Thank you so much for participating in this Learning Site!
We hope to see you at another Telescope Network event!
If you have any questions please contact us at telescope@bostonpublicschools.org
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THANKS
Do you have any questions?
telescope@bostonpublicschools.org
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