3-5 Deep Dive Series

$625 Per Participant

The 3-5 Deep Dive Series strengthens instructional practices to support student achievement and increase support for teachers as they learn new practices.

seven students sitting in library reading books teacher helping one student

Benefits

This series provides teachers with deeper knowledge and tools needed to support differentiated instruction in reading through small group instruction and independent reading practices to increase student achievement.

  • Develops educational leaders through targeted training and strategic planning sessions.
  • Equips educators with tools, strategies, and resources for effective literacy instruction.
  • Provides assistance to develop and implement long-term literacy goals.
  • Creates opportunities for peer learning and networking among educators.

Session Goals

  • Strengthen instructional practices that support differentiated instruction and student transfer to improve literacy instruction.
  • Explore and strengthen assessment practices to meet the needs of all students.
  • Strengthen and explore ways to plan instruction to meet the needs of all students.

Add-on Implementation Coaching Goals

  • Coaching side by side with your coaching staff to increase capacity of supporting teachers with these new practices
  • Coaching teachers along a gradual release continuum in planning and implementing instruction
  • Planning
  • Analyzing Assessments
  • Implementing Small Groups
  • Coaching through looking at the current state of differentiated instruction and finding first steps of implementing small groups

Who Might Benefit From Participating?

  • Grades 3-5 classroom teachers
  • Literacy or Instructional Coaches
  • Administrators

Structure/Schedule

3 Learning Days at CESA 6

  • September 25, 2024
  • November 6, 2024
  • February 6, 2025
  • Personalized on-site coaching available as an add-on service

Day 1 - Scheduling

  • Student independent reading
  • What students do during this time
  • Independent reading work that transfers learning to their reading practices
  • Scheduling time

Day 2 - Foundational Skills Small Groups

  • Multisyllabic words
  • Morphology
  • Sentence structure
  • Comprehension Small Groups
  • Building background knowledge
  • Building oral language
  • IRA Clubs Vocabulary

Day 3 - Monitoring and Planning

  • Monitoring with formative assessment
  • Planning instruction overtime
  • More planning time
  • Coaching - Current state and finding first steps of implementing small groups
  • Thinking through scheduling
  • Coaching teachers along a gradual release continuum in planning and implementing instruction
  • Planning
  • Analyzing Assessments
  • Implementing Small Groups

Outcomes/Deliverables

  • Build knowledge and understanding of small group differentiated instruction in a science aligned classroom
  • Build understanding of shifts in independent reading practices
  • Build knowledge and understanding of high impact student assessment and data practices
  • Build understanding of and implement science aligned high leverage instructional routines
  • Build capacity for practice change in literacy instruction
  • Support in planning and scheduling small group instruction and independent reading