1. Resource Site: Wikispace is Home

2. Setting the Bar High! Mission Goal:
Further develop teachers’ ability to plan lessons based on the Florida Standards Access Points using all available resources.

3. Rationale for Change
The starting point for instruction must be the Florida Standards Access Points. “Start with the Standard”
“Retro-fitting” wasn’t working:
Unique Learning System first
Access Point Standards second
Living the Least Dangerous Assumption

4. Rear Admiral Grace Hopper
Growing Pains
Barriers
The most dangerous phrase in our language is “We’ve always done it this way.”
Rear Admiral Grace Hopper
Bumps
Challenges that we encounter include the following:
Digital immigrants

5. Challenges
The lack of abundance of resources for a small population of students.
Changes in teacher mindset.
Teachers’ need for continued growth and development for instructional planning and delivery
“Digital Immigrants”
Willingness to join in to the larger community of students within the school district.

6. The 3-Step Planning Process
Identify standards that you will cover: Pacing Guide
Crosswalk to the Florida Standards Access Points
Plan for Instruction using all available resources
What can we create that would allow a teacher to be able to follow these steps in as easy a format as possible?

7. ACCESS Project resources
MDCPS resources
InD Team resources
Web-based resources
modifiedteacher.wikispaces.com

8. Our process is easy Step 1:
Refer to the Pacing Guide to identify the standards that you will cover in your classroom.
The Access Point Standards are now embedded into the MDCPS Instructional Pacing Guides

9. Step 2:
Crosswalk to your Access Points using Element Cards

10. “Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.”
Our process is easy
“Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.”
Trinity Bourne
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11. Instructional Supervisor:
Reagan Chalmers
Curriculum Support Specialists:
Briana Llado
Mary Surca