Teacher Summer Institute

Want to learn how to implement an intervention plan that actually works? Together using data, curriculum resources, and our own observations, we will determine what the most important standards are in our grade-level and content area. Then, we will shift gears and identify what the data tells us about the achievement gap in our own schools/classrooms. Being empowered with both of these tools will leave teachers in a position to create meaningful intervention to ensure that all students are reaching the ultimate goal: meeting or exceeding grade-level expectations.

Who is this session for?
Elementary, Middle School, and High School Teachers teaching Math or ELA

What do you need?
LAPTOPS, Pencil or Pen, Your Thinking Caps

We will explore a pathway to maximize instructional time by effectively planning from Common Core standards to target your students’ specific learning needs.  In the session, we will analyze how BPS formative assessments provide information on student performance on specific standards, we will utilize the UBD model to unpack key standards, and we will develop cognitively demanding tasks aligned to standards. As a result of this work, we will create a backwards plan for instruction that will provide progress-checks towards standard proficiency for all students. Participants will  be able to replicate this best practice with ILT, CPT/PLC, or in other collaborative spaces.

With the recent overhaul of the Boston Code of Conduct and the passage of Chapter 222 legislation to reduce out-of-school suspensions and expulsions and promote alternative methods of discipline, the Boston Student Advisory Council (BSAC) developed a Boston student rights phone app that allows students, teachers and administrators to stay up-to-date with policy and practice and report violations of the Code to the BPS Office of Equity, in addition to empowering the user to identify, interrupt and report hate crime and speech and harassment. Available on both the Apple and Android Google store, the app has been downloaded close to 12,000 times and is the first of its kind. 

What many teachers don't know about language objectives is that they are not another bureaucratic nuisance; rather, they are an integral part of lesson construction that should directly reflect how a teacher makes content comprehensible. This is designed to be the next level after RETELL training for teachers.

As technology becomes a presence within students’ lives the importance of teaching students to navigate technology safely and efficiently is rising. This session explores key elements of "Digital Citizenship" such as social media, cyber-bullying, digital footprint, and digital learning. Participants will analyze safe, efficient, responsible, and respectful student uses of technology while learning to infuse digital citizenship/literacy activities into their curricula.