Training Materials
Audience: English Department (Grades 6–12), including 3 Reading Interventionists and 2 Multilingual Specialists.
Purpose: To introduce team members, cast a shared vision for the upcoming school year, and align departmental goals.
Strategy: Emphasized the importance of collaboration to achieve individual and collective success. Highlighted the need for instructional alignment and a unified direction across grade levels and roles.
Training for Impact: Aligning Educators & Advancing PracticeAudience: English Department (Grades 6–12), including 3 Reading Interventionists and 2 Multilingual Specialists.
Purpose: Establish clear expectations for educators to set student-centered goals. This includes analyzing data, defining measurable indicators of success, and creating actionable plans to drive achievement.
Strategy: Highlight the critical role of data-driven instruction and goal setting in promoting student growth. Emphasize its alignment with teacher evaluation criteria and its potential to significantly improve literacy outcomes across grade levels.
Audience: English Department (Grades 6–12), including 2 Multilingual Specialists.
Purpose: Share best practices to support students in writing clear, concise, and effective responses. Raise the level of rigor and align expectations for student writing across grade levels.
Strategy: Teachers will collaborate to share strategies that simplify the writing process and improve clarity and quality in student work. As a department, we will identify and eliminate unnecessary expectations, while reaffirming our shared non-negotiables for writing instruction.
Initial Audience:
IB students enrolled in high school courses for college credit.
Purpose:
Provide training on how to successfully complete the Extended Essay.
Second Audience (Students were dismissed. We took a break and then started the second half of the training):
Educators and EE Supervisors.
Purpose:
Train staff on the logistics of the Extended Essay, including grading criteria, uploading procedures, and plagiarism prevention.
Audience: 11th and 12th Grade English Teachers from across the district, including Diploma Programme (DP) teachers who deliver advanced coursework to students pursuing college credit.
Purpose: Provide key deadline reminders and create a supportive workspace for teachers to upload required artifacts, complete grading tasks, and meet IB deadlines.
Strategy: Foster a collaborative environment where both veteran and novice teachers can complete essential IB requirements while leveraging the collective expertise of their peers for troubleshooting and sharing best practices.
The Audience - CPS Workers, Church Leaders, Community Members
The Goal - Raise awareness of how anyone can contribute to addressing the orphan crisis.
The state emphasizes three key focus areas:Prevention
Reunification
Foster Care, Adoption & Aging Out
Speaker’s Vision
This is Bishop’s heart-driven message.
Keep it simple. Let the story speak—connecting with both compassion and reason.Presentation Approach
Clean, minimal slides with very few words
Visually support (not overpower) the message
Designed to be easily understood, shared, and acted upon
TRaining Community Leaders
