UCLA Center X - Fremont Science & Literacy Partnership A partnership that works to increase student success

Change Teacher Pedagogy Move from teacher-directed to student- centered classrooms Work to change teachers’ beliefs about their students’ abilities

Improve Content Literacy Teachers learn and practice new tools Assist teachers in integrating literacy techniques into content instruction

Improve Content Literacy Implement Research-based strategies Reading Apprenticeship Cornell Notes, Double-entry notebooks Rigorous Mathematical & Scientific Thinking Instrumental Enrichment

Implemented Strategies

Standards-based Planning Understand what the standards really ask Analyze standards for levels of rigor Create scaffolded key activities Develop standards-based culminating tasks Analyze student work Use data to inform instruction

Professional Development Full-day monthly PD Present & practice new literacy strategies Observe other teachers, debrief Teachers share new key activities Analyze student work Continue to plan units

Professional Development Buy-back Days Special Trainings Inter-disciplinary unit-building

Common Planning Time PD’s Professional Development

Create Ways to Collaborate Work with administrators to create time for teachers to work together Foster peer-to-peer mentoring

Create Ways to Collaborate Monthly Saturday PD’s Weekly after- school Planning

Coaching in the Classroom Facilitate small group activities Model high-level questioning Model appropriate class management

Individualized Coaching Observe & debrief teacher practice Planning and reflective conversations to foster professional growth

Work with SLC’s Present and model new strategies Facilitate conversations Assist in designing inter-disciplinary units Cognitive coaching with SLC leaders

Build Teacher Capacity Increase teacher retention by creating a supportive and dynamic environment Develop leadership roles for teachers Foster deepened content knowledge

Build Teacher Capacity Assisting in planning and co-teaching content-based fieldtrips Supporting teachers attendance at: Professional Conferences AP Institutes

Science Successes: Teacher Retention: 88% have chosen to stay at Fremont CST: ICS & Physics students have tripled scores in 3 years Literacy strategies: 85% of teachers use them consistently Double-entry notebooks and Cornell notes: 81% of students use them to document and reflect on their work Instrumental Enrichment and/or RMST: 17 teachers have been trained to increase cognitive skills in students Reading Apprenticeship: 3 teachers trained & implementing ICS training: 26 teachers attended all 8 days “Thinking Maps” training: 100% attendance AVID Summer Institutes: 8 teachers attended AP Summer Institutes: 24 teachers attended AP science classes & students: tripled numbers - our first 4’s and 5’s in 2005 Leadership roles: 8 teachers have key roles in SLC’s

Create a Love of Learning!