Candle Still Life

Candle Still Life
Peggy Aw, Grade 8

 

School restructuring and redesign

  • Presentations to the administration, School Leadership Team, Parent Teacher Association and Faculty explaining the reasons for the redesign, the advantages of smaller learning communities (SLCs) and the process for restructuring their school.
  • Workshops and strategies for creating a theme-based school.
  • Procedures for creating a school wide vision for academic excellence.
  • Workshops for addressing our clientele: the adolescent learner in a 21st century school.
  • Choosing selected staff to visit successfully restructured schools and the development of procedures for reporting their findings to the staff.
  • Oversee a faculty retreat or faculty meetings to assist school in developing a redesign plan.
  • Mentoring of principals, assistant principals and academy leaders in helping to move the process forward.
  • Workshops and team meetings to create a new school culture.
  • Workshops and subject area meetings to formulate theme-based curricula. Curriculum development and curriculum mapping will be emphasized.
  • Strategies and workshops for creating Interdisciplinary learning teams.
  • Creation of a mission, including the “nuts and bolts” of administration. Featured topics include student placement, teaming, meeting student needs, creating a school and academy identity, differentiated instruction, teacher preference and placement, development of a student choice plan and creation of a school brochure.

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Data support and analysis

  • Using data to identify specific areas of need
  • Using data to modify classroom planning and instruction techniques
  • Using data to shape teaching in the classroom
  • Using data to inform supervision of the teaching staff
  • Using school wide report card information to help prepare the principal and his/her staff for audits and the school quality review (SQR).

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Support services for elementary schools

  • Mentoring of new staff as outlined in the UFT-DOE contract agreement.
  • Classroom teacher support.
    • Effective classroom management
      • Optimal lesson planning
      • Essential classroom routines for all teachers
      • The importance of simple rules and specific consequences
      • Accountable talk strategies for each class and grade level
      • The workshop model in the elementary school classroom.
    • Balanced literacy approach to instruction
      • Establishing Literacy Routines
      • Scheduling the Literacy Block
      • The Basic Components of Balanced Literacy
      • Using the Writer ’s Workshop Program
      • The Process of Leveling Books.
    • Balanced math approach to instruction
      • Establishing math class routines
      • Scheduling the mathematics block
      • Basic components of balanced mathematics.
  • Academic Intervention Services
    • Assessment and remediation strategies
    • Using data to drive instruction
    • Differentiating instruction
    • Directing classroom instruction by analyzing Statewide and Citywide test questions
    • School wide data analysis support.
  • Needs assessments and recommendations
    • Principal
    • Assistant Principal(s)
    • Faculty
    • Parents
  • School Leadership Team building support
  • Writing the Comprehensive Educational Plan (CEP)
  • Support for and leading school planning committees
  • Effective parenting support
  • Preparation for open school night and parent visits
  • Grant writing support

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Instructional services for all school levels

  • Mentoring of teaching staff
    • Early childhood mentoring
    • Middle school mentoring by subject area
    • High school mentoring by subject area
    • Special education mentoring at all levels
    • ESL mentoring at all levels
      • CEI-PEA consultants work with designated staff to ensure all ESL compliance issues are met.
      • CEI-PEA supports the school in dealing with the influx of critical immigrant issues in the ESL classroom. (Illiteracy in their native language, students coming from devastated areas, etc.).
      • Strategies for creating an ESL classroom based on the individual needs of the school.
      • Principal/AP/teacher mentoring in specific areas
      • Planning for and classroom instruction in the multilingual classroom.
      • Best practices visits to ESL classroom models
      • Classroom routines and teaching techniques for ESL teachers
      • Development of effective intervention models for the ESL classroom.
    • New teacher mentoring program at all levels.
  • Specialized workshops to develop school culture
    • The adolescent learner in a 21st century school.
    • Classroom management and building respectful school climates
    • Open school night preparation
    • Strategies for making parent meetings more informative
    • Dealing with the “at-risk” student.
    • Dealing with the adolescent male in a middle school or high school
  • Curriculum development workshops
    • Differentiating instruction at a specific school level.
    • Using data to drive instruction (Including special education)
    • Interdisciplinary teaming
    • Using thematic Instruction in SLCs.
    • Using the workshop model.

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Support for ESL supervisors and teachers

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Leadership support for principals and assistant principals

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Human Relations Support

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Pupil Attendance issues


Administrative and operational services for all school levels

  • Programming and scheduling
  • Budget and Galaxy support, compliance issues and budget mentoring at all levels. Included in this support are strategies to have schools share expenses to get the services needed at a reduced cost to individual school
  • Technology support and development, including teleconferencing and telecommunication at all levels.
  • School Quality Review (SQR) preparation
  • School partnership support with local hospitals, community groups, etc.

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Support services for charter schools

  • Identification of potential applicants
  • Concept development
  • Application development
  • Support for start-up of chartered school
  • Charter compliance/renewal process
  • Setting and meeting benchmarks aligned with the charter achievement goals

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Support services for special educators

  • Development of effective Pupil Personnel Teams (PPTs) (4 three-hour meetings)
  • Development of effective IEP Teams (4 three-hour meetings)
  • Presentations (1 three-hour presentation on a specific topic to be chosen by the school, based on need)
  • Principal/AP mentoring in specific areas
    • Creating least restrictive environments
    • Increasing academic outcomes for students with disabilities.
    • Special education data management
    • Supervision of the IEP team
    • Assuring that all IEP services are being delivered (compliance issues)
    • Development of effective intervention and prevention models
    • Development of effective PPTs
    • Ensuring access for students with disabilities to the general education curriculum
    • General education curriculum.
  • Best practices school visits (3 site visits to successful schools)
  • Special education workshops
    • Improving instruction in the special education class
    • Behavior management in the special education setting
    • Dealing with NCLB and students with disabilities
    • Developing effective intervention and prevention strategies
    • Reviewing test access and modification
    • Working within instructional models
    • Collaborative team teaching
    • Differentiated instruction in the special education class
    • Orton-Gillingham approaches

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