Excellence in teaching requires layers of professional learning including utilizing effective management practices, backward design, consistent monitoring systems, analyzing data, providing interventions, critical reflection, and aligning assessments with state standards and format.

• Our Work Involves Supporting and Improving Teaching and Learning

 We provide support for teachers including actionable feedback, modeling, co-teaching, coaching, intervening and PLCs, to include:

• Helping teachers with annotating lesson plans, modeling and coaching research based instructional practices, and frontloading information for struggling learners 

• Demonstrating classroom management practices including student engagement strategies and effective questioning techniques

• Utilizing foundational supports (FIRE, LIFT, FUEL, FLAME), guided reading, writing strategies and fluency tasks 

• Supporting teachers in helping students think at a higher conceptual level

 • Monitoring pacing and progress monitoring to inform instruction

 • Supporting teachers with differentiating for students based on needs gathered from diagnostic and formative assessment data

 • Increasing effective instructional time

 • Implementing strategies to effectively address and prevent unfinished learning in an equitable way 

• Repeating the constant cycle of analyzing data, customized planning, implementing plan, and consistent monitoring

 • Providing actionable feedback frequently to improve instruction and learning

 • Assisting teachers with utilizing CER writing strategies and scoring methods

 • Providing resources and strategies to prepare students for state assessments

 • Communicating frequently with leaders and instructional coaches 

NDES analyzes formative data frequently in addition to Beginning of the Year, Middle of the Year, and End of the Year data for grades/subject(s) supported for agreements of 10 or more days to adjust and improve our work.