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Teachers describe districtwide push for aligned essential standards and assessments
Summary
District teacher learning leaders and administrators told the board that multi-site Professional Learning Community (PLC) work with Solution Tree is producing district-aligned essential standards, common formative assessments and instructional plans intended to improve student readiness for SBAC testing.
District staff and teacher learning leaders told the Snowline Joint Unified School District board they have moved from isolated PLC conversations to a districtwide, standards-aligned system built around essential standards, common formative assessments and instructional plans.
Director Pam Buchanan and a team of teacher learning leaders outlined work at six elementary sites and said Solution Tree consultants helped the district deepen the PLC process. Teachers described creating pacing guides, shared instructional plans and a phonics assessment they called…
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