New teachers will understand how the NYCDOE defines great teaching and how to leverage the Danielson Framework for Teaching to support their continuous growth and development. With expert guidance from the Danielson group, participants will develop a common language for great teaching and leave this session prepared to use the Framework as a tool f...

Through engaging in this 60-minute professional learning activity, participants will craft lesson-specific instructional outcomes that are rigorous, clear, measurable, written in the form of student learning, aligned to relevant standards, and represent important learning in the discipline.

Through engaging in this 40-minute professional learning activity, participants will explain the importance of using backwards design (Understanding by Design) to guide their planning practices. In an optional extension, participants will use backwards design to plan a unit using the unit plan template.