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
In the UPP pathway, participants will:
- Explore the meaning and value of GLEAM Instruction for all learners
- Learn a step-by-step strategy for applying GLEAM principles to any lesson and gain hands-on practice
- Leave with a personal action plan for bringing GLEAM Instruction to life in their classrooms
Who is the UPP pathway for?
K–12 district or school leaders, deans and directors of curriculum and instruction, instructional coaches, and academic department heads 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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