CURRENT PLANNING:
All 6 New Small Middle Schools + Sankofa & Explore
Connected Math integration
project with Debra Coggins.
All 6 New Small Middle Schools
Getting PD in
"Teaching Math with the English Learner in Mind"
with Debra Coggins.
All 6 New Small Middle Schools
Advisory
program to be implemented with 25-50 minutes daily, and morning programs or immediately following lunch. Variations include gender-based, multi-grade, two-three year relationships.
CCPA, PCMS, ROOTS, UFSA
Coring Humanities
in 6th & 7th
Alliance
Coring Humanities
in 6th only
UFSA
Coring Math & Science
in 6th & 7th
Alliance, CCPA, PCMS, UFSA
Using
Habits of Mind, Work, & Heart
that include:
Evidence, Perspective, Conventions, Connections, Common Good, Collaboration.
Alliance, CCPA, ECP, PCMS, ROOTS
Implementing the
READ180 Reading Intervention
for struggling readers.
Alliance possibly
, CCPA, PCMS, ROOTS
6+1 Writing Traits
used as basis for teaching and assessing writing across the curriculum.
Alliance, CCPA, PCMS, ROOTS
Common practice of Reading Comprehension
across the curriculum. Variations include "Skills that Work", SLI Approach, Reciprocal Teaching.
Alliance, CCPA, ROOTS
Using an
"Understanding by Design"
approach to curriculum planning, including essential question development and thematic instruction.
CCPA, UFSA
Engaging in
TRIBES
training for whole staff in summer, prior to opening.
PCMS
Focus on
Equity Pedagogy
approach w/ emphasis on Reciprocal Teaching, Scaffolding, & Metacognition in Year One and Instructional Conversations, Memory Retention, & Cultural Competence in Year Two.
UFSA
Application of
Project Based Learning
through a 6 week project cycle and an 18 term course of study for each subject area.
ROOTS
Emphasis on
Culturally Responsive Teaching
with student centered instruction that integrates home culture and experience as central to content and access to content.
CCPA
Emphasis on
Instructional use of Technology
to both demonstrate learning as well as content itself.
Alliance
Emphasis on
Developmentally Appropriate Practices
that will provide for a balanced middle school environment of consistenct and structure school-wide, while providing for differentiated classroom instruction and active learning opportunities as a standard across the content.
ROOTS & CCPA
Schools will provide
Afterschool Program w/ Youth Sounds and SF State
that will include classes such as Robotics, Video Game production and Digital Video.
PCMS & UFSA
Schools will provide
Afterschool Program w/ Spanish Speaking Citizens Foundation and Urban Arts Academy
that will include both an academic enrichment component, as well as dance, sports, music production, Graffiti Arts, breakdance, Salsa and many other performaing and visual arts.
