The Contractor shall be responsible for: 1. Project One: develop and facilitate training on textbook and resources and how HQIM should be designed to meet new ELA Standards. The targeted audience for the training will be state-approved textbook reviewers, which may include school division personnel: teachers, principals, administrators, content specialists, reading and mathematics specialists, or other educators who have content-area expertise. As deliverables, the contractor will have to develop 12 hours of training content on HQIM and 2024 English Standards of Learning in 6-12 English, host one in person day (6 hours of delivery) and one virtual day of training (6 hours of delivery) on approved training content for each content area (contractors can be separated for two content areas of ELA and Mathematics), provide model textbook evaluation tools for each content area (contractors can be separated for two content areas), and support the VDOE in technical assistance of the review of HQIM. HQIM training should be aligned to the Council of Chief State School Officers’ guidance on HQIM, including professional learning focused on adopting and launching a curriculum with HQIM, providing ongoing support to teachers as they implement HQIM, and designing systems that foster ongoing professional learning for teachers to build the capacity of school leaders to drive strong HQIM implementation. 2. Project Two A: develop training on the implementation of ELA Standards of Learning for the train the trainer experts for the 2024 Summer Symposiums. The targeted audience for the training will be stateapproved trainers, which may include school division personnel: teachers, principals, administrators, content specialists, reading and mathematics specialists, or other educators who have content-area expertise. Contractors can be separated for two content areas. This training must include 3 hours of content for ELA (contractors can be separated for two content areas), 3 hours of content on HQIM and the standards, 3 hours of content on lesson planning cycle, and 3 hours on coaching models to support implementation of standards, HQIM, and the lesson planning cycle. Contractors must use existing resources including the VLA Implementation Playbook (for ELA), HQIM deliverables used during Spring 2024 Literacy Implementation Network (for ELA) and the lesson planning cycle (for ELA and Mathematics) as foundational components of this training. 3. Project Two B: Facilitate two days of ELA train the trainers train the trainers sessions. One day (6 hours of content delivery) must be in person and one day (6 hours of content delivery) would be virtual. i. All content, training materials, and videos of training developed will be the property of the Virginia Department of Education and would be marketed as such. ii. As part of the train the trainer series, the contractor would also deliver four 15-25 page toolkit (Grade Bands: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12 ) for ELA so that train the trainers to use in their training for school-based educators to deepen understanding of standards, HQIM, implementation of both and use support structures such as the Lesson Planning Cycle to ensure that educators feel prepared for implementation. iii. Materials must be made available no later than May 25. Trainings must occur the first week of June.
