UCLA Center X - FremontUCLA Center X - FremontScience & Literacy Science & Literacy

PartnershipPartnership

A partnership that works to increase student success

Change Teacher PedagogyChange Teacher Pedagogy

Move from teacher-directed to student-centered classrooms

Work to change teachers’ beliefs about their students’ abilities

Improve Content LiteracyImprove Content Literacy

Teachers learn and practice new tools

Assist teachers in integrating literacy techniques into content instruction

Improve Content LiteracyImprove Content Literacy

Implement Research-based strategiesReading Apprenticeship

Cornell Notes, Double-entry notebooks

Rigorous Mathematical & Scientific Thinking

Instrumental Enrichment

Implemented StrategiesImplemented Strategies

Standards-based PlanningStandards-based PlanningUnderstand what the standards really askAnalyze standards for levels of rigorCreate scaffolded key activitiesDevelop standards-based culminating tasksAnalyze student workUse data to inform instruction

Professional DevelopmentProfessional Development

Full-day monthly PDPresent & practice new literacy strategiesObserve other teachers, debriefTeachers share new key

activitiesAnalyze student workContinue to plan units

Professional DevelopmentProfessional Development

Buy-back DaysSpecial Trainings

Inter-disciplinary unit-building

Common Planning Time PD’s

Professional DevelopmentProfessional Development

Create Ways to CollaborateCreate Ways to Collaborate

Work with administrators to create time for teachers to work together

Foster peer-to-peer mentoring

Create Ways to CollaborateCreate Ways to Collaborate

Monthly Saturday PD’s

Weekly after- school Planning

Coaching in the ClassroomCoaching in the Classroom

Facilitate small group activities

Model high-level questioning

Model appropriate class management

Individualized CoachingIndividualized Coaching

Observe & debrief teacher practice

Planning and reflective conversations to foster professional growth

Work with SLC’sWork with SLC’s

Present and model new strategies

Facilitate conversations

Assist in designing inter-disciplinary units

Cognitive coaching with SLC leaders

Build Teacher CapacityBuild Teacher Capacity

Increase teacher retention by creating a supportive and dynamic environment

Develop leadership roles for teachers

Foster deepened content knowledge

Build Teacher CapacityBuild Teacher Capacity

Assisting in planning and co-teaching content-based fieldtrips

Supporting teachers attendance at:Professional Conferences

AP Institutes

Science Successes: 2003-2006

Teacher Retention: 88% have chosen to stay at FremontCST: ICS & Physics students have tripled scores in 3 yearsLiteracy strategies: 85% of teachers use them consistentlyDouble-entry notebooks and Cornell notes: 81% of students use them to document and reflect on their workInstrumental Enrichment and/or RMST: 17 teachers have been trained to increase cognitive skills in studentsReading Apprenticeship: 3 teachers trained & implementingICS training: 26 teachers attended all 8 days“Thinking Maps” training: 100% attendanceAVID Summer Institutes: 8 teachers attendedAP Summer Institutes: 24 teachers attended AP science classes & students: tripled numbers - our first 4’s and 5’s in 2005Leadership roles: 8 teachers have key roles in SLC’s

Create a Love of Learning!Create a Love of Learning!