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Support

This work will be completed when we begin our live session.

Please work together in your school team to create a slide for your team that captures:

What do you need from your principals to continue to move the improvement work forward?
What do you need from the district to continue to move the improvement work forward?
What do you need from the IFL to continue to move the improvement work forward?

Please add your work to the slide with your school’s name. If (for some reason) your school is not there, please create a new slide. Your slide can look however you’d like.

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Adamson High School

Need from Principal	Need from District	Need from IFL
Master scheduling that provides IFL teachers with collaboration time during the week. Provide an “IFL Planning Period” to collaborate during the school day to review IFL tasks/assess performance and gather data for future implementation.	District providing direction of curriculum delivery via IFL task sheets. Task sheets integrated into district curriculum instead of needing to develop our own task sheets (this takes a lot of time)	Student Improvement Data Exemplars
Principals should be supported to provide teachers extra time and resources to implement new programs like ILF that require additional planning/review/PD time.	Provide IFL training during the summer as part of DISD’s summer PD programming.	Time to process/implement/analyze current IFL work before creating additional task sheets
	Dallas-area IFL meetings should be during the school day. Substitute teachers should be provided so teachers can attend.	PD on how to implement student interaction/engagement via online platforms
	Lead school-level administrator training on the IFL program, best practices for implementation and data gathering practices with a calendar of action items to implement.	Template for writing IFL-formatted questions (comprehension, inference, analysis questions)

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Atwell

What do you need from your principals to continue to move the improvement work forward?

Time to plan and implement lessons with fidelity within an “IFL” Planning Period
Support and safe place to fail when trying new strategies/processes
Continued support and autonomy to deviate from district lessons when they don’t fit the needs of our students

What do you need from the district to continue to move the improvement work forward?

Include IFL strategies into our district lesson plans
Designate time for IFL implementations within the planning

What do you need from the IFL to continue to move the improvement work forward?

Professional development sessions on teaching virtually with IFL
Database of best practices that have been gleaned from other schools

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Carter HS

What do you need from your principals to continue to move the improvement work forward?

-More opportunities to see IFL strategies in real time

2. What do you need from the district/team coordinator to continue to move the improvement work forward?

More instruction and direction concerning writing.

3. What do you need from the IFL to continue to move the improvement work forward?

Specific strategies/visuals for newcomers (ELs)

- For IFL to be more in touch and tune with the disadvantaged demographic groups

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Garcia

What do you need from your principals to continue to move the improvement work forward?

We would like for buy in on the IFL initiative. IFL looks good on paper, but we need to implement the practices with fidelity.

What do you need from the district to continue to move the improvement work forward?

IFL should play a factor in shaping the curriculum rather than being added as a supplementary activity.

What do you need from the IFL to continue to move the improvement work forward?

We would like to see the IFL work closely with our ILC to combine the AIM 2.0 and IFL.

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Kennedy-Curry

What do you need from your principals to continue to move the improvement work forward?	What do you need from the district to continue to move the improvement work forward?	What do you need from the IFL to continue to move the improvement work forward?
Clear, Cohesive, and exemplar expectations from Central/Principal What is the expectation?	Time to modify lessons to culturally responsive relevant and IFL aligned to implement quick writes to naturally engage scholars to use student voice. *modify central networks lesson	A stream lined platform for accessing templates, tools, and any information to successfully implement IFL strategies.

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Kimball

What do you need from your principals to continue to move the improvement work forward?	What do you need from the district to continue to move the improvement work forward?	What do you need from the IFL to continue to move the improvement work forward?
The opportunity to plan IFL Task Sheets during PLC times Administration being mindful and intentional with the scheduling of professional development (i.e. not making meetings in the middle of a class period) Genuine temperature checks on teachers to check on well being Adequate time to plan in content teams without constantly questioning Realistic deadlines and expectations	Avoid placing conflicting meeting times with other district meetings Making IFL training summer PD sessions times; making meeting during school hours and not later (time zones may be a factor) Too many tests and teachers barely have time to teach	Clearer communication on stipend payments Better scheduling dates and times; making meeting during school hours and not later (time zones may be a factor)

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Lincoln High School

What do you need from your principals to continue to move the improvement work forward?	What do you need from the district to continue to move the improvement work forward?	What do you need from the IFL to continue to move the improvement work forward?
IFL planning time Accommodating teachers days of IFL training to provide adequate time to get home and situated before training starts Frequent communication with IFL to help support teachers with the district and IFL expectations.	IFL implementation options within the curriculum Integrating IFL practices with district curriculum Collaborate with IFL to avoid conflicting district meetings	Trainings on implementing IFL material in an online class structure Resource drive for teacher working with IFL (includes virtual resources. Collaborate with districts to avoid meeting conflicts. Pre- work should be set-up to be done prior to meeting

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Marsh - Matadors Lead the Way, Ole!

What do you need from your principals to continue to move the improvement work forward?	What do you need from the district to continue to move the improvement work forward?	What do you need from the IFL to continue to move the improvement work forward?
Teacher time to plan IFL implementation Additional time for writing/differentiation Block off/include more instructional time to implement test of change/IFL resources	Alignment with Novels Funds Different ways to show knowledge to support student growth in IFL principles Alignment with IFL texts Differentiated testing/adding in other ways to demonstrate student learning Memberships to websites like padlet so we can have other ways for charting	Training on implementing IFL virtually Block out weeks/pre-plan to incorporate trainings into hectic schedules (avoid back-to-back weeks so we can all be fully present in this work) Clearer communication about stipend and logistics

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North Dallas

What do you need from your principals to continue to move the improvement work forward?	What do you need from the district to continue to move the improvement work forward?	What do you need from the IFL to continue to move the improvement work forward?
Continue to provide specific planning time for IFL materials	District provided curriculum more aligned with IFL student centered routines and practices District and IFL display examples of how to balance STAAR aligned questions that are high level writing tasks District funded Kami accounts for ELAR students (annotation platform)	Model how to increase engagement for virtual Task Sheets - exemplars Meeting time moved to workday hours, not evenings Google site or drive where everyone can share their Task Sheets, exemplars, ideas, etc.

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Spence TAG Academy & Middle School

What do you need from your principals to continue to move the improvement work forward?

TIME

August planning time before school begins for IFL team to set up norms, systems, & structure
Master schedule meetings with IFL teacher's only for IFL collaboration with PBL
Planning with purpose with action plans and first grading period ś IFL task sheet, exemplar and rubric.

LEADERSHIP

Guidance to integrate the IFL with our PBL planned framework
More time devoted to feedback for students and addressing needs than time devoted to testing. Allow for more opportunities to collect a diversity of data.
Trust the process of authentic writing and questioning.
Approve culturally responsive and relevant texts

MANAGEMENT

Systems: shared drives for IFL templates, task sheets used sorted by focus TEKS
KAMI accounts for better IFL resrouce
EXEMPLARS!!!!! More varied and leveled.
IPC includes relevant time necessary for IFL
One PLC per grading period that focuses on IFL
Rubrics that help align focus TEKS

What do you need from the district to continue to move the improvement work forward?

TIME

Curriculum - include it in the YAG as well as SWAG for each 6 weeks as a part of at least every Pre-AP, AP class in middle school for projects. Make designated time to help shore support from campus admin for teacher's. “It is the district plan…”
Schedule change: Can this monthly meeting occur during the day or at 4pm?

LEADERSHIP

to school admin that IFL is essential to the progression towards the MASTERY of STAAR as it allows for the deeper understanding of the text enabling students to analyze text, questions and answer choices

MANAGEMENT

Systems: Can the ELAR/ Writing/ ESL departments collaborate with making district wide shared resources such as templates, suggested task sheets, rubrics as part of the curriculum?

What do you need from the IFL to continue to move the improvement work forward?

TIME

Can you work with Dallas ISD to offer better scheduling of our professional development with you? Love the classes, hate the time.

LEADERSHIP

Guidance to us on how to share in a cross curricular way

MANAGEMENT

Systems: Can you create a shared Google Drive? There are some of the materials on the website, but can you create something more easily resourced where we can share? We try putting links in the presentations, but they dont always work.
Perfect world: in this drive or resource, we could search by focus TEKs or by genre or specific text? .

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Wilmer Hutchins

What do you need from the Principal? District? IFL?

Principal

Autonomy to do the work and stability. Using one platform consistently rather than switching. Switching from virtual to hybrid and then another scheduling change with flex. The switch in scheduling might have been confusing for students.

District

The district should be more sparing with testing requirements. Too many tests are required that interfere with instruction.

IFL

Continued support from the IFL. Low risk environment with lots of resources, space to continue to connect with other teachers. Not too many meetings. Prework in manageable. The support is very needs based.

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WT White

What we need from our principal:	What we need from the district:	What we need from IFL:
More feedback and guidance on lesson quality and delivery Continue to provide autonomy in lesson planning and freedom to make decisions based on engagement and interest.	Less local testing (wishful) to ensure that content is delivered and students are not burning out during “testing season”	More virtual implementation ideas Realistic planning and action based on campus needs/situation Resources with autonomy to choose what does/does not work for our campus

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Zan Wesley Holmes Middle School

What do you need from your principals to continue to move the improvement work forward? Seek IFL teachers input for master schedule Provide necessary training from certified individuals that will facilitate quality virtual instruction Guidance on how to integrate IFL practices into our district plans	What do you need from the district to continue to move the improvement work forward? Provide necessary training from certified individuals that will facilitate quality virtual instruction Implement IFL strategies into our district lesson plans Be aware of teachers’ mental health and work overload with time constrictions	What do you need from the IFL to continue to move the improvement work forward? Autonomy regarding text selection Obtaining other school’s examples of IFL work A growing list of best practices in order for teachers to progress