1. Office of Curriculum and Instruction
April 24, 2019

2. 2016-2021 Strategic Plan Goal 1: Ensuring Academic Achievement
Ensure high academic standards to prepare all students for college and career.
A: Personalize instruction using data to empower students and increase student achievement.
B: Provide every student with aligned curriculum, instruction and assessment.
C: Improve the quality and type of language acquisition supports and services for all English Language Learners.
D: Improve the quality of services for students with disabilities.
E: Provide multiple pathways that prepare students for both college and career.

3. 2016-2021 T and L Plan 2021 PPSD Teaching and Learning Vision
The Providence Public Schools’ community believes in its ability to empower ALL students to achieve their unlimited potential. We believe that students achieve best when their school communities:
Hold ALL students to high standards and expectations.
Put students at the center of their own learning.
Meet student’s academic and social emotional needs.
Ensure access to culturally and linguistically relevant learning experiences.
Use data to analyze student progress and technology to assist with instruction.

4. Let’s Do Some Math Objective:
Students will be able to self-regulate while working in pairs on function problem.
Students will be able to utilize multiple methods to solve a complex function and provided a choice to explain their strategy.

5. Reflection of Learning
What was the experience like for you as a learner?
What about the experience you just had was personalized?
What implications does this have for our practice as a district?

7. Reflection of Learning
Review two questions from last year’s 8th grade math exam connected to this standard:
Which one do you think students were more successful? Why?
What surprises you in the data from all middle schools in the state?
What implications does this have for student and educator learning?

8. Theory of Action: Coaching

9. Implications for Students
Teams, Trust and Transparency

10. Implications for Educators
Teams, Trust and Transparency

11. Implications for Leaders
Teams, Trust and Transparency

12. Implications for Instructional Leadership Teams
Teams, Trust and Transparency

13. Success: PPSD PLCs Have Grown
39/42 schools participating in (district initiated) Professional Learning Communities
PLC participants:
2017: 176
2018: 236
24 PLCs

14. Success: National Recognition
PPSD White Paper on Personalized Learning
April , 2019
Providence Journal: Blended and Personalized Learning Conference Spotlight on Providence
April 5, 2019
LearnLaunch Conference: Will the Digital Revolution Change the Way Schools are Organized? February 1, 2019
Ed Tech: Data Interoperability Loom Large as Districts Pursue Innovation and IT Savings January 8, 2019
Rethinking Ethnic Studies (Section 6: Organizing for and Sustaining Ethnic Studies - Ethnic Studies in Providence Schools)
January 2019
Ed Week; Case Study - Giving Students More Personalized Choices Takes ‘Great Teaching’ November 6, 2018
Council of Great City Schools: Becoming a Learning Organization PPSD’s Journey
October 2018
Getting Smart: Providence Public Schools: A Getting Smart Data Interoperability Case Study June 2018 ​

15. Success: Increased Focus on Arts
Teams, Trust and Transparency

16. Support Needed from You
Let’s go back to your experience today as a learner, what supports do you think we need to be successful?
What implication does this have for our collective work in Providence?