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    2019 Career Exploration Month volunteer toolkit
    Grades 9 - 12
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    The Career Exploration Month Volunteer Toolkit provides tips, sample tasks, and other examples of how volunteers can support students with career exposure. Volunteers play a crucial role in creating personalized and meaningful Career Exploration Month activities. This toolkit will provide you with resources to ensure a successful volunteer experien...

    Participatory budgeting
    Grade 12
    Social Studies
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    Participatory Budgeting (PB) is a democratic process in which community members decide how to spend a part of a public budget. This project is meant not only to educate students about how PB works, but also to empower the students by involving them in a process requiring them to demonstrate, in a meaningful way, the skills and knowledge introduced ...

    Getting to know your students: 4 part system
    Social and Emotional Learning
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    Four part system for getting to know your students. Shared by the Cult of Pedagogy.
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    • Curriculum
      Learn about the different curriculum options offered by the NYCDOE in English Language Arts and mathematics.
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    The observation and feedback cycle: Best practices for low inference notes

    This document outlines best practices for capturing evidence by taking low-inference notes on teacher and student actions during an observation. 

    Standards:
    Quality Review Indicators 4.1 Teacher Support and Supervision
    Audience:
    Administrator
    Educational Use:
    Professional Development
    Programs:
    Teacher Effectiveness

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    Gathering evidence
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    This collection contains resources and templates that support administrators and other observers in collecting evidence of teacher practice and student learning in an observation.

    Inter-visitation: From planning to practice
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    This collection demonstrates how one school engages in a grade-wide cycle of peer inter-visitation. These non-evaluative classroom visits focus on the collaborative development of teachers' instructional knowledge and skills.

    Inter-visitation: Focusing on student learning
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    This collection demonstrates how one school uses the Reflecting on Student Learning at the Lesson Level document as a tool to support teacher development. 
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