Colloquium
SUHSD Curriculum, Instruction & Professional Development
April 2015
Input from diverse stakeholders is informing planning for the 2015-16 school year at several levels.
SUHSD Curriculum Policy/Guides
Please see links below to access recent SUHSD Curriculum documents/guidelines
District-level Professional Development Through Summer, 2015
While the last Cohort and zone workshops for 2014-15 ended last quarter, planning for a variety of district-level professional development is under way.
Computer Science Principles (CSP) and Exploring Computer Science (ECS) - June/July 2015
Literacy TA (for ELA Site Specialists and ELA PLC Leaders) - May 11, 2015
Advanced Placement Teacher Workshops (Statistics - 5/18 (experienced teachers) or 5/25 (teachers new to AP Stats); AP Calculus - 5/15 (experienced teachers) or 5/22 (teachers new to AP Calc); AP English Lit/Comp & AP English Lang/Comp - virtual meetings via Canvas; AP US History - 5/8; AP World History - 5/14; AP Government - 5/12) - May 2015
Reading Apprenticeship for Science Teachers - May 2015
College-Preparatory Math (CPM) Workshops - May 4-7 or May 11-14; June 8-11, 2015
C-STEM Integrated Math with Computing/Robotics - June 29-July 3, 2015
Positive Prevention Training for GS1 Teachers - May 7, 2015
SDCOE Next Generation Science Standards Rollout at UCSD - April 17-18, 2015
World Geography Training - May 19-20, 2015
SDCOE Social Science Leadership Conference - May 26, 2015
SPARK Summer Institute for PE Teachers - July 2015
SDCOE Common Core Training for PE Teachers - July 2015
Content-area Workshops for Teachers of Fundamentals Classes: ELA - 5/5; math - 5/7; H/SS - 5/11; science - 5/18, 2015
Spanish for Spanish Speakers Workshop - May 14, 2015
Spanish Language Curriculum Planning Day - May 19, 2015
Mariachi Workshop - June, 2015
Diving Deep: Transforming Instructional Practice for all students through CCSS/NGSS - May 2, 2015
Site Curriculum Specialists Leadership Workshop - July 17, 2015
Professional Development Essential Questions:
1. What role does the teacher play in implementing the Common Core Standards?
- Teachers must make informed decisions that are responsive to demonstrated student needs. They are empowered to creatively select and use resources they need to help students succeed.
- Teachers are collaborators: with peers, administrators and content experts. Cohort, zone and PLC experiences are based on this principle.
- Academic literacy and productive collaboration are fundamental considerations when planning instruction. Site PD plans focus on these goals.
2. How do challenging tasks affect teacher expectations, practice and student learning?
- SUHSD Internal Assessments (final exams and performance tasks) and PLC common formative assessments require students to demonstrate mastery of complex skills.
- Tasks are embedded in ongoing instruction and inform teacher decision-making by generating a variety of formative data.
- Teachers are transforming existing tasks to better align with CCSS and NGSS.
3. How is subject matter embedded in a larger context? How can we explore complexity and depth of understanding?
- Application of knowledge across content areas supports content integration.
- Complex skills (labs, writing, inquiry, research) are valued by colleges and employers. Instructional guides emphasize these outcomes.
- Relationships among SUHSD teachers, administrators and regional experts (UCSD, SDCOE, feeder school districts, Qualcomm, others) support collaborative planning.
Tested Curriculum:
SUHSD Internal Assessments Include Performance Tasks and Final Exams
Office Hours for SUHSD Final Exams in Core Content Areas
Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) publishes information on achievement levels
Talking with Parents and Community Members about SBAC
The SDCOE Communications Unit has created resources to assist school leaders in talking with others about the new State assessments. Please see Spanish-language versions of articles and talking points.
Written Curriculum
Join Other Educators in Developing Relevant, Interdisciplinary Curriculum on 4/21!
Taught Curriculum
MSTI: Quality Interventions Make the Difference
During the day, tutors work with students in small groups to facilitate academic discourse and acquisition of content knowledge & skills. After school, the MAGIC Center (MOH) and GIFT Center (MOM) provide students with extended opportunities to learn after school until after 5 p.m. daily. Last quarter, an average of 90 students visited the MAGIC Center daily; 25 visited MOM daily. Students demonstrated improved engagement in school; school leaders are collecting data on academic achievement in order to study results at the end of the school year. Congratulations to Principals Tom Rodrigo & Louie Zumstein, along with Assistant Principal Brenda Garcia and Coordinated Intervention Specialists Tim Murphy, Kelli Hay (now at SYMS), and Rudy Torres for working as a team to provide students with quality, vertically-aligned academic support within- and beyond the school day.
New Learning Management System (LMS) and Student Information Systems (SIS)
Illuminate (replacing Data Director beginning in 2015-16) - training is under way for Coordinated Intervention Specialists (CIS), Site Curriculum Specialists and District-level Curriculum Specialists
Infinite Campus (replacing PowerSchools beginning in 2016-17)
Semester 2 Instructional Guides drive planning by PLCs
Administrators and Teachers
District and Site Curriculum Specialists
Core Content Colleagues across Sites
Explore Content-area Monthly Newsletters!
SUHSD Office of Curriculum, Instruction & Professional Development
Roman Del Rosario, Executive Director of Curriculum & Instruction
Katrine Czajkowski, Lead Curriculum Specialist
Daniel Cohen & Mimi Williams, Math Curriculum Specialists
Gina Vattuone & Rhea Faeldonea-Walker, ELA Curriculum Specialists
Ana Garcia & Melanie Brown, Science Curriculum Specialists
Kelly Leon & Olga Loya-Estrada, History/Social Science Curriculum Specialists
Email: katrine.czajkowski@sweetwaterschools.org
Website: www.sweetwaterschools.org
Location: 1130 Fifth Ave Chula Vista CA 91911
Phone: 619-691-5586