Bloomfield High School invites you to participate in an open and transparent dialogue about the benefits of structure and instructional practices. Topics include: building an effective and collegial professional learning community, ongoing job-embedded professional development, writing standards-based curricula, vertical and horizontal interdisciplinary data teams, ongoing formative and summative assessments, collaborative and calibrated scoring of student work, and providing specific and timely feedback aligned to standards-based analytical rubrics. When teachers reach a common understanding of what excellence looks like, a set of practices are put in place to achieve excellence at the highest level.
Participants will leave with the knowledge of how to build capacity in teachers to transform a school, utilize high effect sized instructional and assessment strategies to promote student achievement and narrow and/or close achievement gaps, and tailor data teams to serve as effective professional learning communities.
