Performance Insight Institute

Assessment Focus:

• Common Assessments
  Outcome: Participants Create Quality Assessment Questions
• Formative Assessments
  Outcome: Participants Utilize Formative Assessment to Inform Instruction
• Text Dependent Analysis
• Outcome: Participants Learn Strategies to Help Students Use Information from Reading Passages as Support for Conclusions and Arguments
• Using Data to Inform Instruction
  Outcome: Participants Examine Best Practices in Using Assessment and Demographic Data to Inform Instruction
• Webb's Depth of Knowledge (DOK)
  Outcome: Participants Analyze DOK to Increase Instructional Rigor

Curriculum Focus

• Curriculum Mapping
  Outcome: Participants Develop Curriculum Maps Aligned with State and National Standards
• PA Core Standards in English/Language Arts
  Outcome: Participants Unpack the PA ELA Core Standards in Relationship to the Assessment Anchors and Eligible Content
• PA Core Standards in Mathematics
  Outcome: Participants Unpack the PA Mathematics Core Standards in Relationship to the Assessment Anchors and Eligible Content

Instruction Focus

• Differentiated Instruction
  Outcome: Participants Develop Differentiated Instructional Strategies by Varying Content, Process, and Product
• Integrating Critical Thinking Skills with Instructional Strategies to Improve Student Achievement
  Outcome: Participants Use Higher-Level Thinking Skills to Write and Ask Thought-Provoking Discussion Questions and to develop Rigorous Student Learning Outcomes
• PA Core Standards in English/Language Arts
  Outcome: Participants Unpack the PA ELA Core Standards in Relationship to the Assessment Anchors and Eligible Content
• PA Core Standards in Mathematics
  Outcome: Participants Unpack the PA Mathematics Core Standards in Relationship to the Assessment Anchors and Eligible Content
• Practical Instructional Strategies Based on Research
  Outcome: Participants Observe Research-Based Instructional Strategies in Literacy and Mathematics
• Project-Based Learning
  Outcome: Participants Plan Teaching and Learning Strategies that Engage Students in Authentic Experiences
• Standards-Aligned System
  Outcome: Participants Achieve Proficiency in Selecting and Applying SAS Resources
• Strengthening Classroom Practice
  Outcome: Participants Design and Implement Research-Based Instructional Strategies
• Text Dependent Analysis
  Outcome: Participants Learn Strategies that Help Students Learn How to Use Information from Reading Passages as Support for Conclusions and Arguments
• Webb's Depth of Knowledge (DOK)
  Outcome: Participants Analyze DOK to Increase Instructional Rigor

Leadership & Accountability Focus

• Differentiated Supervision
  Outcome: Participants Design a Differentiated Supervision Plan to Engage Teachers in Continuing Professional Learning
• Educator Effectiveness
  Outcome: Participants Identify and Collect Evidence of their Proficiency within the Context of the Danielson Framework for Teaching
• Professional Institute for Leadership, Learning and Results
  Outcome: Participants Study in a Blended-Learning Environment to Incorporate the Science and Art of Leadership into Daily Practice
• Promoting Teacher Accountability
  Outcome: Participants Learn to Use Coaching to Move Teachers Along the Continuum to Proficiency and to Establish Proficiency through Improvement Plans
• Student Learning Objectives
  Outcome: Participants Write Initial Drafts of Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) as Part of the Educator Effectiveness Process

Logistics

• Implementing the EdInsight Instructional Management System
  Outcome: Participants Gain Proficiency in the Use of the EdInsight System Tools