If you have questions or need support, contact Tara Madden - [email protected] or Guy Lucas - [email protected]

• Emergency Lesson Plan

• Teachers, emergencies happen to the best of us. Please help the school and main office staff out by creating an emergency lesson plan folder and give it to the main office for safe keeping. The folder should include instructions and enough handout copies for all the students in each of your classes.  For your convenience, we have compiled a selection of emergency lesson plans for you to choose from. Remember, this is for emergencies and only meant to tide your substitute over until you can compile a more appropriate lesson plan that reflects you student’s current studies.

• Talent Development High School Professional Development
• Classroom Management - Techniques and guidelines for establishing effective classroom management.  Includes a checklist to continually assess classroom management.
• Cooperative Learning - History and of cooperative learning - Rational for using cooperative learning.  Practicing various cooperative learning strategies.
• Teaching in the Extended Block - Structure for using the 90 minute block.  Sample strategies for use in the 90 minute block.
• A Checklist for Teaching and Learning in the Talent Development High School - Self assessment for classroom management and cooperative learning.
• Gallery Walk Handout
• Task Card Handout

• Small Learning Community Coordinator Resources
• Clarifying roles, responsibilities and support - Discussion of the roles and responsibilities of an academy coordinator, co-coordinator, teachers on the team, and generating ideas of how administrators can best support your work
• Effective meeting practices - How to facilitate effective meetings; how to organize your meetings, how to keep meetings from becoming gripe sessions, collaborating to develop agendas for your up-coming meetings
• Sample meeting topics
• Task card attendance
• Task card newsletter
• Task card calendarc
• Task card recognition
• Task card rules
• Example minutes
• Small Learning Community template for agenda and minutes
• Effective Meeting Tips
• Building and Sustaining teams - Guidelines and steps to team building, sample activities on team building, guidelines and suggestions on how to sustain your teams, teaming assessment tools and practices
• Candy Land
• Feed the Teachers
• Retreat Activity
• Self Assessment
• Similarities and Differences for Team Building
• Alphabet Soup
• Team Building Documents
• Assessing Teams
• Building Business Partners
• Ways partners can contribute to Small Learning Communities
• Roles & Responsibilities of Advisory Board Members
• Interdisciplinary Planning - Guidelines & steps for planning an interdisciplinary event, lesson, project, or a unit will be shared.  Brainstorm some possible interdisciplinary topics, hooks and culminating activities to share with your team.
• Steps for planning interdisciplinary projects
• Internet resources for interdisciplinary projects
• Using Data to Drive Decisions - What types of data do teams use to drive decisions?  How do teams collect data?  How do teams use data to drive decisions?    Who collects, shares, interrupts data on a team?
• Activity set - Practice with interpreting data - Attendance, Climate for Achievement
• Weekly Attendance Chart - October
• Weekly Attendance Chart - November
• Faculty resources for Smarter Balanced Assessments
  

• Co-Op Learning Resource
• Content Standards and Benchmarks
• Rubrics
• TAM