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The biggest learning experience, a-ha moment for me as a leader, was the importance of the standard in the curriculum. If we did not have ANet’s support really helping us hone in and focus on standards and had we not embedded standards aligned instruction in conversations with teachers – making them unpack that standard, getting them to look at student’s work and vetting it against the standard and not just the curriculum – there would have been many opportunities that we would have missed to really demonstrate student learning.
Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum & Instruction, East Baton Rouge Parish School System Louisiana
When educators shift to high-quality instructional materials, a powerful system change happens. With clarity on the standards and how to teach toward them, teachers move from a procedural place—what is the next step?—to a conceptual place: where do all the steps lead? Seeing that north star opens up multiple routes for getting there.
Changing mindsets to embrace a new curricular resource also means putting students first. ANet creates opportunities to help educators internalize the curriculum and understand students’ diverse perspectives and experiences. Our partnerships empower leaders and teachers with creative opportunities to bring students closer to the means of their own learning. For example, if a teacher finds that something isn’t working for all learners, the teacher can tap into the interests and needs of students in order to work toward mastery of the standards. That makes the classroom a more collaborative space.
ANet supports leaders to implement professional learning for teachers, continued throughout the year, to intensify teachers’ understanding of the standards and grade-level instruction, to adopt a student-centered mindset, and to support them in making pedagogical shifts in their practice.
So often in teaching, we tend to get stuck in our own grade-level “bubble.” When the larger arc of student progress from grade to grade is clear, school and district-wide instructional goals are possible. Seeing and building strong connections across grade levels can transform the quality of learning within each grade—even within each classroom.
ANet offers professional learning that can bring all your educators into one room. Together, ANet facilitators share how standards work at individual grade levels, and compare them to how those standards progress over time. This learning not only unifies educators around cohesive goals, it also makes reaching those goals easier and less burdensome on individual teachers. Instead of each grade bearing the responsibility of teaching an entire skill in a short time, educators are empowered to trust that they only need to be one link in the chain of progress.
Trust is a critical key to great outcomes. Generating it starts with finding an intentional seat at the table for all members of the curriculum adoption team, and hearing their diverse voices: teachers on the selection committee, the district team, and the broader community. Trust means making sure teachers are especially involved in decision-making—giving them a large sample of options to consider and choose from.
When you partner with ANet, our team can coordinate and facilitate professional learning sessions that guarantee all voices are heard and weighed. We ensure that everyone’s role in decision making is well defined so that comfort and trust are there from the start. We bring our own content expertise, as well as an “external view” of our partner schools and districts. This enables us to see what our partner educators may at times not see from the inside, and to be trusted advisors so that you can make the best possible choices for your needs.
When educators shift to high-quality instructional materials, a powerful system change happens. With clarity on the standards and how to teach toward them, teachers move from a procedural place—what is the next step?—to a conceptual place: where do all the steps lead? Seeing that north star opens up multiple routes for getting there.
Changing mindsets to embrace a new curricular resource also means putting students first. ANet creates opportunities to help educators internalize the curriculum and understand students’ diverse perspectives and experiences. Our partnerships empower leaders and teachers with creative opportunities to bring students closer to the means of their own learning. For example, if a teacher finds that something isn’t working for all learners, the teacher can tap into the interests and needs of students in order to work toward mastery of the standards. That makes the classroom a more collaborative space.
ANet supports leaders to implement professional learning for teachers, continued throughout the year, to intensify teachers’ understanding of the standards and grade-level instruction, to adopt a student-centered mindset, and to support them in making pedagogical shifts in their practice.
So often in teaching, we tend to get stuck in our own grade-level “bubble.” When the larger arc of student progress from grade to grade is clear, school and district-wide instructional goals are possible. Seeing and building strong connections across grade levels can transform the quality of learning within each grade—even within each classroom.
ANet offers professional learning that can bring all your educators into one room. Together, ANet facilitators share how standards work at individual grade levels, and compare them to how those standards progress over time. This learning not only unifies educators around cohesive goals, it also makes reaching those goals easier and less burdensome on individual teachers. Instead of each grade bearing the responsibility of teaching an entire skill in a short time, educators are empowered to trust that they only need to be one link in the chain of progress.
Trust is a critical key to great outcomes. Generating it starts with finding an intentional seat at the table for all members of the curriculum adoption team, and hearing their diverse voices: teachers on the selection committee, the district team, and the broader community. Trust means making sure teachers are especially involved in decision-making—giving them a large sample of options to consider and choose from.
When you partner with ANet, our team can coordinate and facilitate professional learning sessions that guarantee all voices are heard and weighed. We ensure that everyone’s role in decision making is well defined so that comfort and trust are there from the start. We bring our own content expertise, as well as an “external view” of our partner schools and districts. This enables us to see what our partner educators may at times not see from the inside, and to be trusted advisors so that you can make the best possible choices for your needs.
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