Program Improvement Instructional Coaches: Nancy Fewins and Jeanne Clements
With the goal of increasing student achievement at our Program Improvement schools, we are working with the administration at each school site to provide staff development, coaching and ongoing support for teachers. Our trainings focus on standards based instruction and the resources we are developing reflect that focus.
Credentialed Reading Specialists and former Reading Specialists with CVUSD, we are Project G.L.A.D. Key trainers, certified trainers in Step Up to Writing and Thinking Maps. Nancy is also a certified key trainer for Write from the Beginning.
Group Announcements
Which school has trained the most Project GLAD teachers?
Levi Dickey! Dickey has trained 26 teachers over the past year. Congratulations to the Dickey administration and teaching staff.
Borba is close behind with 17 trained teachers and more scheduled for this year. The Borba staff has found that Project GLAD supports their IB philosophy/training and the Project GLAD strategies work well with their IB units.
We are very excited about the school wide implementation of Project GLAD at both of these schools.
CVUSD Project GLAD Trainings Scheduled for 2008-09 School Year
SIGN UP NOW! SIGN UP NOW! All attendees need to have CVUSD E.L.D. training before attending Project GLAD training.
Check with your principal and then go to Go Sign Me Up! You must attend a Project GLAD 2-day overview, theory, research, and strategies training before attending a Project GLAD 5-day or GLAD Camp.
September 22nd and 23rd: 2-day training @ Walnut
October 27th - 31st: Science/RLA @ Walnut (2-6)
February 11th and 12th: 2-day training @ Walnut
March 9th - 13th: RLA/Social Studies (2-6) Site TBD
April 28th and 29th: 2-day training @ Walnut
May 11th - 15th: 5-day Science/RLA (K-1 only) Site TBD
June 16th and 17th Project GLAD 2-day training
June 18th and 19th: GLAD Camp!
Curriculum Resources
Check out our Curriculum Resources under Group Links! A new one we'd like you to visit is the Smithsonian at www.SmithsonianEducation.org Enter "California Standards" as well as the grade level and content area you want to search and you'll find a wealth of resources for your grade level. We found one for the 1st grade G.L.A.D. Ocean Life unit that we just demo'd: http://www.mnh.si.edu/livingfossils/
CVUSD developed GLAD strategies
Check out our CVUSD developed GLAD Strategies folder under our Group Files. We've just added some new chants developed by our Project GLAD teachers. Have you developed Project GLAD chants, songs, narratives, pictorials, etc. that you would be willing to share? Send them to Jeanne. Just click on my name under Group Contacts at the bottom of this page.
Using Edusoft to reinforce Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension and Literary Response
Have you checked out the Edusoft question bank? To assist our Program Improvement teachers, we've created Edusoft grade level assessments in Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, and Literary Response that you can use for practicing CST test-like questions with your students. As we've discussed in our trainings - model, model, model and keep it short and sweet! These are not meant to be big packets of handouts or homework, but scaffolded for success teacher directed lessons.
Go to www.edusoft.com, log in, and you will find them in the Shared Tests section for your grade level.
C.V.U.S.D. Project G.L.A.D. Key Trainer Team
The Chino Valley Unified School Districts Key Trainers are Nancy Fewins, Carol Garman, Valerie Gracia, Jeanne Clements. C.V.U.S.D. Project G.L.A.D. trainings are now posted on Go Sign Me Up.
CDE Released Questions from CST
