1. Are you in the right place?  Middle School English/Reading/Drama—308  High School English/Reading/Drama—309

2. WELCOME NEW TEACHERS English/Reading/Language Arts

3. Focusing Activity Complete the Teacher Survey This will help guide us in developing training items and resources.

4. Focusing Activity Practice: What activity will you do so that students know who you are and you can quickly assess some skill set of your students?

5. Today’s Agenda 1.Welcome and Introductions 2.General Information 3.English Non-Negotiables 4.Digging into the Curriculum Resources

6. Objectives Today we will…  familiarize you with the instructional expectations for English and Reading in HCPS.  expose you to valuable resources available to you in Henrico County.  provide you with the opportunity to explore and understand critical documents.

7. What do I believe? (Mrs. Basnight-Johnson) To truly teach is to be a facilitator. Teachers should provide the guides and structures so that students learn how to seek out knowledge. Skills-Based Instruction Rigor and Relevance Active Readers and Writers Reflective Practioners Kids come first!

8. What do you believe? What is your philosophy of teaching? What do you want your classroom to look like? Skills-Based Instruction Rigor and Relevance Active Readers and Writers Reflective Practioners Kids come first!

9. What does the Specialist do?  Write, Edit Curriculum Resources  Provide Professional Development  Make Content Decisions  Conduct Observations & Walkthroughs  Order Textbooks and other materials  Support Instruction  And much more…

10. Observations and Walkthroughs - What’s the Difference?  Observations  Purpose:  Probationary  Continuing Contract  Structured or Intensive Growth  Planned  Pre-conference  Post-conference  PQRs  Done upon Admin Requests  Walkthroughs  Purpose  For Data  To provide feedback and support  Unplanned  No pre- or post- conference  Use Look-For Document

11. Programs You Need To Know About

12. County-Wide Reading Programs  Middle School Author (not annual)  All Henrico Reads  April 12, 2016, Glen Allen High School, 10:00 a.m.  Featured Author: Chitra Divakaruni  Stories include Oleander Girl (community), One Amazing Thing (good for high school), The Conch Bearer (good for middle school), Grandma and the Great Gourd (great picture book for model/mini lessons), and many poems

13. Summer Reading  Middle School Honors &Non-Honors; High School Non-Honors  County Assignments  High School Honors  County-Wide Guidelines  Schools Specific Choice  AP  County-Wide Guidelines  Syllabus Requirements  School-Specific Choice and Assignments

14. Digging Into the Curriculum

15. Curriculum Documents What guides your teaching?  County Non-Negotiables & Pacing Guide (What)  State Curriculum Framework (How)  State Testing Blueprints (Largest Foci)  School Planning Meetings

16. County Documents http://blogs.henrico.k12.va.us/ hcpsenglish-staff  Resource Links  Non-Negotiables  Pacing

17. State Documents  SOLs SOLs  Curriculum Framework Curriculum Framework  Blueprints` Blueprints

18. Your Goal is to use all the resources to create student centered, integrated Unit Plans

19. Why the Integrated Unit Plan? A Good Lesson… Is based on the standards and what students need to know Addresses various learning styles and levels Is developed to address real-world concerns of the student

20. Instructional Planning Items  Daily Daily (Let’s explore the elements of this item)  Weekly Weekly (Same elements as the daily, just with drop- down menus)

21. Instructional Planning Items  Lesson Activities Guide Lesson Activities Guide

22. Student Growth Measures Pick two of the options:  Option 1: NWEA pre and post RIT scores (middle school only)  Option 2: Writing Portfolio (pre-writing and SOL paper score serve as your pre and post scores)  Option 3: Annotation  Option 4: Précis Statement or Summary Statement

23. HCPS Assessments  Varies by school, but in general—  1st Nine Weeks  Semester 1  3rd Nine Weeks  Semester 2  8 th Grade Specialty Center Prompt Administration (November 16-20)  Benchmark Exams (county-wide for SOL courses) in Dec

24. SOL Assessments  Reading  English 6  English 7  English 8  EOC Reading - English 11  Writing  English 8  EOC Writing - English10

25. Professional Organizations and Events  VATE – Virginia Association of Teachers of English - http://www.vate.org/http://www.vate.org/  NCTE – National Council of Teachers of English - http://www.ncte.org/http://www.ncte.org/  ALAN – The Assembly for Literatute on Adolescents - http://www.alan-ya.org/http://www.alan-ya.org/

26. Questions/ Comments/ Concerns

27.  Contact Information:  Erica L. Basnight-Johnson  652-3740  elbjohnson@henrico.k12.va.us elbjohnson@henrico.k12.va.us  Central Office on Nine Mile Road