1.  A Step-by-Step Guide to Inform Instructional Planning Educational Service Center North 2014-15

2.  Be present.  What is learned here leaves here.  Listen to understand with a positive mindset.  Save questions until the end.

3.  Gain a deeper understanding of the purpose and organization of the 2014- 15 ELA Curriculum Maps.  Understand how to utilize the Curriculum Maps to plan and inform instruction.

5. The Curriculum Maps were designed to:  Provide a global vision of the academic year.  Assist ELA teachers in aligning their instructional program to the CCSS.  Allow teachers, departments, and schools flexibility in selecting texts and support strategies.  Maintain consistency throughout the District for students regarding standards taught and assessments given.

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7.  5 Instructional Windows  Standards bundles to be taught within each Instructional Window  An essential question and a culminating task for each Instructional Window

13. 1. Using the One-Pager,  Review the Focus Standards.  Review the Essential Question.  Review the Culminating Task. What must students know and be able to do? What does proficiency look like?

14. 1. Using the One-Pager,  Review the Focus Standards.  Review the Essential Question.  Review the Culminating Task. 2. Then, review the Grade __ ELA Year-At-A-Glance:  Textual Study.  Craft and Language Study.  Textual Expression.

15.  Current Anthologies  AAP Lessons  LAUSD Consumable Texts  Additional (Appropriate and Credible) Supplemental Resources

16. Ask yourself:  What academic vocabulary, or language of the standards, will you teach this Instructional Window?  How will you incorporate language instruction into daily lessons?

17. Ask yourself:  What strategies and activities will students use to:  Engage with the text?  Demonstrate their understanding of concepts and ideas?  How will you incorporate varied forms of writing everyday into daily lessons?

18. All writing genres are embedded into each instructional window.

20. 1. Using the One-Pager,  Review the Focus Standards.  Review the Essential Question.  Review the Culminating Task. 2. Then, review the Grade __ ELA Year-At-A-Glance:  Textual Study.  Craft and Language Study.  Textual Expression. 3. Plan your unit.

21.  Quality over Quantity  Close reading and rereading of short texts and/or text selections  Utilize Available Resources  Anthology Alignment Project (AAP) Lessons  AAP Lesson Planning Template  Include frequent formative assessments  How will you monitor to ensure that students are successfully working toward proficiency of the focus standards?

22.  Resiliency is a common thread throughout the Curriculum Maps.  Overarching themes can help to unify each Instructional Window.  Examples of overarching themes that incorporate resiliency:  The American Dream  Growing Up  Identity

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