About the Pathway
Educators everywhere try to meet all students’ needs while engaging them in rigorous learning. The UnboundEd Planning Process™ (UPP) pathway gives everyone in your school the essential tools to get the job done in every lesson, every day. In the four-day Standards Institute experience, participants learn and practice a set of impactful instructional practices to improve student achievement on a daily basis. They also reflect on the mindsets necessary for culturally relevant, student-centered instruction.
Bring active learning to every student, every day.
What to Expect
By the end of four days, participants will be able to:
- Learned six concrete strategies for giving all students the skills to engage with grade-level tasks
- Identified research-based mindsets and strategies for culturally relevant teaching
- Developed a clipboard-ready lesson plan to reference impactful teaching strategies in the classroom
- Set goals for carrying new strategies into their everyday practice
Who is the UPP pathway for?
K-12 teachers, coaches, and school or district leaders responsible for instructional leadership
What Participants Learn
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Day 1
- Describe the essential ideas behind GLEAM® Instruction.
- Describe the mindsets of culturally relevant teachers.
- Identify the characteristics of grade-level activities.
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Day 2
- Plan to highlight grade-level activities and prioritize them while teaching.
- Describe the mindsets and practices associated with engaging instruction.
- Describe the purpose and basic types of scaffolds that support all students.
- Create scaffolds that allow access to grade-level lesson activities.
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Day 3
- Describe the educator actions that lead to students leading the learning in a lesson.
- Design a lesson task where students lead the thinking, discussions, reading, and writing.
- Describe the mindsets and practices associated with affirming instruction.
- Define funds of knowledge and their role in learning.
- Plan a way to use student funds of knowledge in a lesson.
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Day 4
- Describe the mindsets and practices associated with meaningful instruction.
- Identify characteristics of meaningful, real-world units and lessons.
- Adapt or create a unit to give students a meaningful, real-world learning experience.
- Develop goals to implement new learning in everyday practice.
The facilitators were-well prepared and pushed us as a group to dig deeper with our responses and questions. I felt comfortable taking risks with my responses because of the safe space.
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