Individual Coaching &
Professional Learning Communities
Workshops are rich sights of learning, but they are not enough to shift practice. We learn best when we can try out new instructional practices and reflect on how they impact our students' learning. Annie is a collaborative partner in that process.
She works with teachers one on one or in small groups to identify and explore opportunities for growth in their own practice.
Teacher Coaching
Annie works with individual teachers to reflect on and strengthen their instructional practice. She collaborates with the teacher over six weekly visits to set a measurable goal that has an impact on student engagement and learning.
After each visit, she reflects on the lesson with the teacher and establishes indicators of progress. She uses video, student data, and modeling to support reflective, targeted conversations.
Coaching is informed by Jim Knight and Elena Aguilar.
Unit Planning and Instructional Coherence
Annie meets with individual teachers or teacher teams to develop culturally relevant and sustaining, project-based UBD/UDL designed units. They embed the development of conceptual knowledge, critical thinking, academic literacy and language and formative and culminating assessments.
Vertical & Horizontal Alignment
Annie works with departments across content classes, grade levels or ENL levels to:
- Plan instructional sequence (scope and sequence)
- Integrate shared approaches and protocols to support student learning
+ Scaffold content for Multilingual learners
+ Differentiate for SIFE
+ Integrate all school instructional initiatives
Ideally this work is coupled with classroom coaching.
Book Study
Annie works with teacher teams to facilitate the exploration of shifts in practice anchored in professional texts.