SLC Design and Implementation
School and SLC leaders develop the skills to move school practices closer to SLC best practices. To support student achievement, schools organize into interdisciplinary teaching and learning teams, which are then empowered to pursue rigorous and relevant curriculum and instruction, inclusive programs and practices, and continuous program improvement.
Core Trainings:
- Designing a Professional Development Strategy
- Planning, Extending, Improving SLCs
- Shifting Schoolwide Practices To Support SLCs
- Resource Reallocation
- Leadership Team Coaching
More Trainings:
- Professional Learning Teams
- Academic Advisories
- SLC Scheduling
Site Visits
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Core Trainings:
Designing a Professional Development Strategy
School teams learn best practices about professional development, drawn from research and successful schools.
Audience: School leadership teams
Length: 1 day
Topics: SLC research-based best practices; best practices for professional development
Outcomes: Professional Development Alignment Plan
Cost: Our trainings are tailored to individual district/school needs; please contact us for pricing and scheduling.
School teams are supported in engaging staff in professional learning experiences about SLC practices and planning, using Core & More materials and tools. Teams leave with a plan for aligning and implementing SLC-related professional development offerings.
Planning, Extending, Improving SLCs
School and SLC leadership teams assess current practices with an eye toward improvement.
Audience: School and SLC leadership teams
Length: 2 – 3 days
Topics: Best practices for Interdisciplinary teaching and learning teams; rigorous and relevant curriculum and instruction; and inclusive programs and practices
Outcomes: Self-assessment of SLC practice; gap analysis; implementation plan
Cost: Our trainings are tailored to individual district/school needs; please contact us for pricing and scheduling.
Teams learn how to evaluate current SLC practices while using tools for planning and improvement. The training focuses on interdisciplinary teaching and learning teams; rigorous and relevant curriculum and instruction; and inclusive programs and practices. Teams develop plans for implementing improvements and monitoring progress.
Shifting Schoolwide Practices To Support SLCs
School leadership teams take stock of existing practices.
Audience: School leadership teams, including principals, APs, SLC leaders, special education representatives, counselors, master scheduler, registrar
Length: 2 – 3 days
Topics: Course offering analysis; academic department function; programs for special populations; scheduling analysis
Outcomes: Self-assessment; five-year implementation plan
Cost: Our trainings are tailored to individual district/school needs; please contact us for pricing and scheduling.
This training guides teams as they look at practices such as course offerings and scheduling; organization of special education programs; and academic department functioning. Teams consider strategies for shifting these practices to better support SLC organization, and they leave with a five-year Implementation Plan.
Resource Reallocation
School and district leadership teams analyze current staffing patterns and their impact on class size, as well as the capacity to strengthen the core curriculum.
Audience: School and district leadership teams including master scheduler
Length: 2 days
Topics: Staffing analysis; resource allocation; increasing time in the core
Outcomes: SLC staffing plan
Cost: Our trainings are tailored to individual district/school needs; please contact us for pricing and scheduling.
Teams examine trade-offs in different resource allocation choices. You’ll study strategies used in successful SLCs and develop your own plans for strategic staff hiring and deployment.
Leadership Team Coaching
Core & More coaches support leadership teams at your schools to continue to develop and implement your plans. Coaches troubleshoot teams’ progress and collaborate closely to help maximize benefits and minimize risks of your improvement efforts.
Cost: Our coaching is tailored to individual district/school needs; please contact us for pricing and scheduling.
More Trainings
More trainings provide an in-depth look at specific SLC practices. More trainings are most beneficial to participants when districts make a systemic commitment to school improvement.
Professional Learning Teams
Teams gain resources for working together toward improved student achievement.
Audience: SLC teacher teams
Length: 3 days
Topics: Inquiry cycle; team process; protocols
Outcomes: Focusing question; plan for engaging in a cycle of inquiry
Cost: Our trainings are tailored to individual district/school needs; please contact us for pricing and scheduling.
What do successful teaching teams do together? Core & More PLT training provides protocols, activities, tools, and resources to help teams work together smoothly and identify practices that impact student achievement. Professional Learning Teams engage in an inquiry cycle; take stock of current practices; identify a focusing question; study promising practices; change instruction to better serve students; and examine data on student achievement. Teams leave the training with a focusing question and a plan for engaging in this cycle of inquiry.
Academic Advisories
SLC leadership teams plan or refine advisories within the context of school personalization.
Audience: SLC teacher teams; school leadership teams; counselors
Length: 3 days
Topics: Youth Development Framework; matching advisory structure and curriculum to purpose; professional development for advisors
Outcomes: Plan for advisory curriculum development; professional development plan
Cost: Our trainings are tailored to individual district/school needs; please contact us for pricing and scheduling.
Advisories are a common strategy for schools looking to improve personalization. This training helps SLC leadership teams target how advisories can be used for academic monitoring and support. Teams explore the youth development practices that advisories use to foster academic achievement for all students. Teams will set purposes for your advisory, and then look at how grouping, staffing, and scheduling can best support the continuity, high expectations, and caring relationships that help all students achieve. Teams will identify curricular strands for advisory, and create a plan for curriculum development. Teams will also look at the role of teachers as advisors and plan professional development to support them in taking on new relationships with students.
SLC Scheduling
Scheduling teams learn how their efforts can make or break high school transformation efforts.
Audience: School leadership teams, including principal, APs, master scheduler, SLC leaders, counselors, registrars, and others
Length: 2 days
Topics: Team approach to setting scheduling priorities; instructional blocking; elective lanes; increasing coherence of electives; SLC equity; common planning time; increasing instructional time in the core; scheduling for credit recovery
Outcomes: Scheduling priorities; year-round scheduling process plan
Cost: Our trainings are tailored to individual district/school needs; please contact us for pricing and scheduling.
Core & More trainers help bring schedules into alignment with school transformation priorities by taking a team approach to scheduling. Scheduling teams include SLC leaders in setting priorities for scheduling, simplifying course offerings to increase program coherence, and balancing choice and challenge. The training also addresses the twin aims of creating cohorts of students served by a team of teachers and finding common planning time for teaching teams. Follow-up coaching includes creating a master schedule side-by-side with the scheduling team.
Site Visits
The Core & More team provides on-site "critical friends" who reflect on SLC implementation with you. Visits generally last one day per school, and use a protocol for collecting information and facilitating reflection with the leadership team on findings. The visit includes conversations with administrators, focus groups with teachers and students, and classroom observations. We include a collaborative debriefing designed to take stock of progress and outline next steps. For districts with several implementing schools, the team will facilitate a district strategy session focused on supporting SLC implementation district wide. Core & More site visitors generate a report with recommendations for strengthening school improvement.
Cost: Our site visits are tailored to individual district/school needs; please contact us for pricing and scheduling.