A weekly meeting with teachers to discuss different topics.
What is a collaborative?
100
An ongoing child observation assessment tool.
What is GOLD?
100
Daily written information about a coaching session sent to a teacher, principal, and Team Lead.
What is a feedback form?
100
CPOC, CMS, IS, and Team Lead meet with the principal and other school leadership at the beginning of the school year.
What is an introductory meeting?
100
A DCPS, Central Office employee who evaluates teacher's practice using the IMPACT rubric
What is a Master Educator (ME)?
200
A play-based curriculum that develops self-regulation, math and literacy skills.
What is Tools of the Mind?
200
One required for every dimension.
What is the number of pieces of documentation you need for every advisory?
200
Daily written report of a: principal, collaborative planning meeting, or other school capacity building activity completed by an IS.
What is a school-based work form?
200
An ECE teacher leader at every school.
What is a Grade Level Chair (GLC)?
200
The Disabilities coordinating office for Head Start.
What is Early Stages?
300
A coaching method that demonstrates for a teacher a developmentally appropriate teaching practice.
What is modeling?
300
An Individual Child Report and a Development and Learning Report.
What are the two supplemental reports that can be sent home with a report card?
300
A protocol of the process between IS and teacher to develop plans for the coaching cycle.
What is a goal setting interactive form?
300
A meeting between the principal and teacher, facilitated by the IS, that recognizes a teacher's progress towards their teaching goals and encourages them to continue to reflect on their practice.
What is a wrap-up meeting?
300
An individual that works with first and second year teachers.
What is a Mentor Teacher?
400
Coaches meet with specific teachers within a 8-9 week period working on specific goals.
What is the coaching cycle?
400
Widely held expectations.
What do the color bands represent?
400
Proposed outline that shows the actions a coach and teacher will take to meet a goal.
What is a process plan?
400
Started in 2010, a time of day dedicated to building capacity in using the child observation assessment system--GOLD.
What is the Gold Power Hour?
400
The office that provides support with dual language or immersion programs.
What is the Office of Bilingual Education?
500
A discussion after a coaching session between a teacher and an IS.
What is a debrief or conference?
500
A virtual place for teachers to learn how to manipulate data in the GOLD system.
What is the Sand Box?
500
A protocol that helps an Instructional Specialist reflect on their colleague's coaching practice.
What is peer to peer observation form?
500
The process of approving the effective implementation of a specific curriculum offered in 3 of our Title 1 schools.
What is Montessori Accreditation?
500
Two programs that provide alternative pathways to teaching for those that do not have a degree in education
What are DC Teaching Fellows and TFAers- (Teach for America)?