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Bullhead City principals say new teaming and coaching are raising classroom discussion and short-cycle growth
Summary
Principals at a Bullhead City School District workshop described deeper student talk, new coaching cycles and calibration of classroom rubric work tied to the district’s Instructional Empowerment/Model of Instruction program. They presented mixed but improving year-over-year benchmark and site-level test gains.
At a March 20 workshop, principals for Bullhead City School District presented school-by-school progress on the district’s Instructional Empowerment (IE/MOI) model and the supports intended to sustain it.
Julie Bella, a site principal, told the board that classroom teaming has emphasized literacy routines—reading, writing, listening and speaking—backed by task sheets, role cards and evidence-based discussion. “You can really hear a lot more back and forth between the conversations with the kids,” Bella said, adding that several teachers have moved up in implementation progressions: “7 out of 16 core teachers have progressed into 301.” She also described the district’s look-and-learn and rigor-walk processes for triangulating implementation…
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