Overview
Engaging in collaborative data-informed planning is imperative for curriculum leaders. These skills are crucial for creating actionable plans that promote student success and achieve educational goals. Practicing collaborative analysis and strategizing based on concrete data, fosters a deeper understanding of how to meet specific school goals. Ultimately, this equips future curriculum leaders with essential tools and underscores the importance of collaborative efforts in driving school improvement and instructional excellence.
Part 1: Action Planning Imagine you are the curriculum leader at a middle school and are working with a grade-level PLC team that consists of math, science, social studies, ELA, art, and computer science teachers who all teach the same students throughout the day. To demonstrate the work done within a PLC, you will work with your CLC group to analyze the beginning of the year data in the “EDU-556 7th Grade Class Profile” and complete the “EDU-556 Data-Informed Planning” template to devise an action plan to meet the chosen SIP (School Improvement Plan) goal.
Complete the “EDU-556 Data-Informed Planning” template with the following:
- SIP Goal: Select one of the SIP goals from the template as the focus for the action plan.
- Student Grouping: Place the students in groups for targeted instruction, and provide a rationale explaining how the grouping choices are supported by the profile data, selected SIP goal, and research-based best practices.
- Targeted Instructional Strategies: Select at least four 7th-grade standards from different content areas that would support student progress toward meeting the identified SIP goal. Write an aligned and measurable objective for each. Provide a 3-5 sentence description of at least two research-based instructional strategies for each content area that demonstrates differentiation and support in a selected area of multiple means.
- Student Engagement and Motivation: In a minimum of 100 words, describe at least two age-appropriate ways the teachers or staff can improve overall student engagement and motivation in learning and practicing the skills needed across all content areas and at home to meet the SIP goal.
- Family and Community Involvement: In a minimum of 100 words, discuss a plan for including families and the community during the school year to help promote student progress towards the SIP goal.
Part 2: Progress Monitoring To establish an effective PLC, members need to clearly monitor and share student progress. Create a tracking form that all members of the PLC can use to efficiently track and share student progress toward meeting the SIP goal.
Support your work with 2-3 scholarly resources.
Only one member of the CLC group needs to submit the group’s Part 1 template and Part 2 tracking form. The same group member should submit both parts of the assignment.
While APA Style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.