Grade-Level Rigor & Access
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Plan and deliver instruction where all students engage in grade-level standards, texts, and rigorous tasks daily
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Internalize curriculum to ensure alignment to standards, pacing, and high-quality outcomes
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Design and execute tasks that require students to analyze, justify, and apply learning
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Provide scaffolds that increase access without lowering rigor, including modeling, guided practice, and strategic supports
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Anticipate misconceptions and plan targeted supports to ensure all students can access grade-level content
What will I be evaluated on?
Instruction consistently ensures that all students engage in grade-level standards, tasks, and content aligned to curriculum and pacing, with scaffolds that maintain rigor. Student work demonstrates analysis, justification, and application, resulting in increased access and success with grade-level learning.
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Design lessons where students do the majority of the thinking, talking, reading, writing, and problem-solving
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Facilitate structured academic discourse that requires students to explain, justify, and build on ideas using academic language
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Use questioning and task design to promote analysis, reasoning, and cognitive lift
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Create opportunities for students to make connections, defend thinking, and engage in meaningful dialogue
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Ensure engagement reflects cognitive work, not just participation or compliance
Students consistently do the cognitive work of the lesson, engaging in meaningful discourse, reasoning, writing, and problem-solving. Engagement is driven by rigorous thinking, with students independently explaining, justifying, and building on ideas using academic language.
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Establish and maintain a classroom environment grounded in high expectations, strong routines, and productive struggle
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Implement systems that maximize instructional time and ensure students remain focused, accountable, and independent
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Create a safe and structured environment where students take academic risks and persist through challenging work
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Reinforce consistent expectations for behavior and learning aligned to school-wide systems
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Build strong relationships with students and families to support both academic and cultural outcomes
The classroom reflects high expectations, strong routines, and maximized instructional time, resulting in a focused and productive learning environment. Students demonstrate independence, persistence, and productive struggle, taking academic risks within a safe and structured culture.
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Embed frequent checks for understanding into daily instruction to assess student thinking in real time
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Analyze student responses and adjust instruction immediately to address misconceptions and advance learning
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Provide clear, timely, and actionable feedback that enables students to improve their work
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Monitor student progress toward learning goals and ensure students understand success criteria
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Implement data-driven cycles, including reteach and intervention, to accelerate student achievement
Instruction is continuously informed by frequent checks for understanding, with real-time adjustments based on student thinking. Students receive actionable feedback, engage in revision, and demonstrate measurable progress toward learning goals through effective data-driven instruction cycles.