Specifications include, but are not limited to: Leadership, Instructional Support Services and/or Multi- Tiered System of Support (MTSS) The professional development plan will: ● Provide training in job-embedded professional development for instructional staff in English/Language Arts, Math, Science and Social Studies, including but not limited to instructional coaching, data coaching, assessment coaching, lesson planning, lesson modeling, differentiated instruction, scaffolding and utilizing and identification of resources. ● Provide coaching to develop and implement data plans to impact differentiated instruction for all learners to further implement the Multi- Tiered System of Support approach to instruction. ● Provide professional development and leadership through job-embedded coaching and workshops to include, but not limited to collaboration, research-based reading and math teaching strategies and classroom management. ● Provide professional development, coaching and support to implement approved standards-aligned curriculum. ● Develop and submit daily reports to the school administration and/or district contact no later than the second day following observation. ● Analyze data and use multiple data points to correlate student achievement to teacher effectiveness. ● Assist the school’s and district’s leadership team in assessing students’ learning strengths and gaps using assessment data from a variety of sources to include state, school, district data, or other sources; help to facilitate regular data meetings with the school’s and district’s leadership team to assess, monitor, and adjust students’ learning based on the students’ identified strengths and weaknesses. ● Provide any other training as identified by observation or upon the district’s request. All responses to the RFP must demonstrate the vendor’s expertise and capacity to integrate the use of technology to do the following at each school: ● Guide teachers in setting up technology in their classrooms to enhance the instructional process. ● Model for teachers how to use technology such as electronic ( interactive) whiteboards, student response systems, document cameras, laptops, IPAD, IPAD carts, Chromebooks, cloud technology and slates to monitor or to improve the instructional program and improve the teaching and learning process. ● Coach teachers on how to use approved digital curriculum and software to create lesson plans integrating technology. ● Critique teachers’ lesson plans integrating technology and provide teachers feedback on improving those plans. ● Assist the school’s administrator in creating a plan to monitor teachers integrating technology in their lesson plans.
