Transcript Instructional Learning Cycle

The key to building professional learning communities
that share effective instructional strategies for the
classroom to improve student achievement.
Objectives
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Create and execute a plan to implement the
Instructional Learning Cycle during the 20142015 academic year.
Utilize the specific components of the
Instructional Learning Cycle to dramatically
improve instruction in your building.
Measure adult implementation and impact on
student learning from the Instructional
Learning Cycle.
Organize and execute a School Support
Team meeting designed to share results of
the first Instructional Learning Cycle.
Roles and Assignments
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Assistant Superintendent
Principal
School Improvement Facilitator
Intervention Specialist
Teacher (1)
Teacher (2)
Teacher (3)
Teacher (4?)
This team will identify the teachers who will
participate in the first cycle of ILC implementation.
Task 1: School Support Team
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Using your data and knowing about the strategic school
design changes that are also being implemented in your
building indicated in your goals, objectives, strategies, and
activities of your school improvement plan, think about and
plan for ILC implementation for the entire academic-year.
Chart your plan to include the information below:
 Where will you begin for the first cycle?
 How will you continually increase the sphere of influence of the
ILC in the building?
 What will the plan look like for each quarter of the 2014-2015
academic year?
 Select the teachers you want to work with by name/subject in the
first cycle? How will you sell this process to them? You will be
meeting with these teachers in just a few minutes.
The Launch: Pre-Planning
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Share your plan with the teachers you’ve chosen to
include in the first cycle.
The SST will teach these teachers specifically how to
implement all the components of the Instructional
Learning Cycle. These teachers will know nothing
about the ILC and this is a new and foreign way of
doing instruction. The SST will coach them through
the entire process.
Task: The SST will coach the teachers through the
Pre-Planning Phase of the ILC process. Next, the
SST will assist teachers in recording their data from
the Pre-Assessment on the the Classroom Results
Pre-Assessment form.
The Launch: Instructional-Planning
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Task: The SST will coach the
teachers through the Instructional
Planning Phase of the ILC process.
Next, the SST will assist teachers in
recording their data from the PostAssessment and will record the data
on the the Classroom Results PostAssessment form.
The Launch: Follow-Up
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Task: The SST will coach the
teachers through the Follow-Up
Phase of the ILC process. Next, the
SST will assist teachers in planning
how they will present their ILC Cycle
formally to the SST.
Process Review
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Define or review the building process
 What does the Instructional Learning Cycle
process look like in our building?
 Who is participating at this time?
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Reports from individual teacher teams on
their ILC experience
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Instructional Strategy
Implementation data (adult actions)
Impact data (student learning)
Reflection on instructional practice
Next steps for ILC implementation