Blueprint
The _____________________for Continuous Improvement is DoDEA's strategic plan for school years 2018/19 through 2023/24.
What is the Blueprint?
In order to provide multiple opportunities for students to access high level coursework at every DoDEA school, regardless of location or size, we will develop and sustain advanced academic options for all students.
What is Access to Rigorous Instruction?
A structured form of collaboration that focuses educators on making decisions that are grounded in evidence, accumulating and circulating knowledge and ideas, and providing one another with support that improves the effectiveness of teaching.
What is a Profession Learning Community?
Provide all students with instruction that is aligned to rigorous standards and is differentiated based on an appropriate assessment system and the needs of individual learners.
What is Data-Informed Instruction?
In order to systematically observe the instructional shifts in classrooms, encourage teacher growth through actionable feedback, and design professional learning to improve school, district, and system-wide teaching and learning, we will implement and refine this tool.
What is the Learning Walkthrough Tool?
Found in DoDEA's Blueprint the Vision is ...
What is Excellence in Education for Every Student, Every Day, Everywhere?
DoDEA's Goal 1: Challenge and prepare each student to maximize his or her academic growth and well-being for college, career, and life.
What is student excellence?
DoDEA's Goal 2; Develop and sustain each school to be high performing within a culture of innovation, collaboration, continuous improvement, and caring relationships.
What is School Excellence?
DCAS stands for.
DoDEA Comprehensive Assessment System
The Learning Walkthrough Tool is not...
What is evaluative or an evaluation protocol?
Educate, Engage, and Empower military-connected students to succeed in a dynamic world.
What is DoDEA's Mission?
Creating an environment in which each student is expected to learn at high levels, each student is supported so he or she can learn at high levels, and each student demonstrates learning at high levels.
What is rigor?
The two initiatives that directly address DoDEA's need to provide workforce development opportunities to educators and world-class instruction to students.
What are focused collaboration and CCRS?
Current components of the DCAS at the elementary level.
BAS, PARCC
Which Learning Walkthrough Tool cluster focuses on an environment that is conducive to student-centered learning; uses DoDEA-adopted materials and appropriate digital tools or multimedia resources?
What is Learning Environment?
An actionable plan that communicates and guides the work of all involved in a project.
What is a Blueprint?
The type of lessons that incorporate elements of motivation and engagement in order to help students succeed.
What are rigorous?
Focus on student learning, culture of collaboration and focus on results are three defining characteristics of what?
What is a Professional Learning Community?
In order to directly meet each student's academic and developmental needs, we will provide tiered support in the classroom and through extracurricular activities.
What is Differentiated Instruction for All Students?
Which LWT cluster focuses on the teacher communicating high expectations for student success; lessons that are paced and structured to keep all students engaged; flexible/differentiated groups; and formative assessment and/or feedback to guide the ongoing learning process?
What is Facilitating Learning?
A research-based, ongoing process intended to increase overall effectiveness and make a positive, measurable impact on all stakeholders.
What is continuous improvement?
Raise the level of content. Increase complexity. Give appropriate support and guidance. Open your focus. Raise expectations. These are all examples of what?
What are ways to increase rigor in the classroom?
In order to assist principals in establishing shared leadership within schools, we will advance this through professional learning that enables teachers to share their expertise and learning.
What is a Culture of Shared Leadership?
In order to advance the impactful use of assessment results, we will clearly define and appropriately communicate with stakeholders the vision for how, when, and why assessments are used in DoDEA and how they will inform instruction.
What is a Common Understanding of the DoDEA Comprehensive Assessment System?
Which LWT cluster focuses on clear communication of goals/objectives; tasks that are challenging for all students; use of domain specific vocabulary; student ability to articulate understanding of complex text and concepts; student response to higher order questions; and student ability to support their written and spoken opinions with evidence from the text?
What is Instructional Shifts?