LEADERSHIP

In addition to coaching, modeling, and assisting teachers, our consultants have extensive experience in leadership roles and training.  Excellent leadership is key for improving teaching and learning.

New Directions Educational Solutions partners with districts, schools, and leaders to:

· Develop challenging goals for instruction and learning

· Establish and support an environment conducive to effective teaching and learning

· Allocate time effectively in order to be visible, accessible, and in classrooms 

· Create strong teacher and leadership teams

· Understand and embrace high quality, standards aligned unit-based curriculum to plan with attention to text complexity and performance tasks

· Apply observation feedback practices weekly to enrich and adjust instruction

· Monitor student progress frequently and discuss data walls with teachers

· Support instructional practices including: strategic grouping, acceleration for ELL and SPED students, open-ended and differentiated questioning scaffolds as well as academic discourse, and curriculum-embedded performance tasks that maintain the rigor and learning outcomes of the written curriculum

· Provide professional development opportunities to improve teaching and learning

· Communicate effectively with all stakeholders

· Provide strategic opportunities for EL learners and students with disabilities to build background knowledge and preview the text from Tier 1 curriculum before regular instruction

· Ensure that PLC time is used to analyze student work against the expectations of the Louisiana Standards and to inform interventions and future instruction

For additional information on how we can customize job embedded or virtual professional development for your school or district, please contact Ginger Merritt, Sales and Marketing CEO for New Directions Educational Solutions, at (318)-614-4224 or at 

gmerritt@NewDirectionsEdu.com