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“Your services have made a world of difference to my math lessons…My students love the hands-on activities which I had only dabbled with before. You should see their faces. They have such a deeper understanding of the material. It makes me want to go back and re-teach all the lessons!”
Jennifer Felter
5th Grade Teacher
Merwin Elementary School
Teacher Programs
› Balanced ELA
› Balanced Math
› Teacher Leader Workshop
› SB472 Training
New Balanced English Language Arts
Pivot Learning Partners is expanding its professional development offerings to educators with Balanced ELA, a specialized Reading/Language Arts training program. Balanced ELA is an introduction to the Houghton Mifflin Medallion Edition series, which expands on the current Houghton Mifflin adoption and content. The training is designed to raise ELA achievement while addressing the varied learning needs of all K-6 students, from English Learners to special education.
Balanced ELA allows for a flexible delivery model of two to four days of training. The building block structure of the training allows districts to choose from a variety of topics to meet their time schedules and particular needs.
All Balanced ELA packages are modeled after the highly-acclaimed Pivot Balanced Math program for Harcourt California HSP Math and Houghton Mifflin California Math in which over 1,000 California teachers have been trained.
For more information and pricing, please contact Tim Browne
or call (415) 348-5523.
Who should attend: Classroom Teachers
Duration: Two, Three, or Four-Day Training
As an alternative to the SB 472 five-day training, Pivot Learning Partners now offers districts the option to choose a flexible delivery model of either two, three, or four days of training on their adopted textbook series for Math and English Language Arts. This curriculum-based professional development is drawn from Pivot’s approved SB 472 Institute Program and enables districts to determine the number of training days based on their needs.
Teachers begin their Balanced Math training on Day One with a Foundation Day (Mathematics Framework for California Public Schools, academic content standards, components of a balanced math program, and the Three-Phase Instructional Model) and then continue on through one or more of these additional topics as determined by the district: Instructional Strategies, Universal Access and Assessments, Instructional Planning, and Intervention. Pivot Learning Partners believes that through relevant rigorous modeling of equitable best practices for classroom instruction, teachers can help all students achieve to their highest level.
NewTeacher Leader Workshop Series
Highly-skilled and effective teacher leaders can have a powerful influence on the instruction and educational practices at their schools. Pivot Learning Partners has created a workshop series to help teacher leaders refine and reinforce the skills, identified through research, as being the most significant in bringing about positive change for students.
Elementary and secondary districts statewide are represented in this professional development program, made possible through a pilot grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundation.
During six half-day sessions, teacher leaders (along with the district and site leaders who support them) meet as a Professional Learning Community to explore the roles of teacher leaders, learn how to plan and lead meetings, establish a classroom Cycle of Inquiry, and use data about student achievement and teacher practice to improve instruction and outcomes for all.
The program, set in the context of district or site improvement goals, is receiving very positive reviews. Teacher leaders are noting that “learning the importance of the roles of others and sharing our experiences in a professional manner” is a cornerstone of the work of Professional Learning Communities. Participants can then extend that understanding to “talking to my fellow teachers and the principal about effective and non-effective classroom practices” as a way of improving teaching and learning.
In addition to the six seminar sessions facilitated by a Pivot Learning presenter, two days will be allocated for a Pivot Learning coach to work with participants at the district or site level to help with implementation of this work.
For more information about the pilot program or future training dates and pricing, please contact Claudia Carbonell-Bensley
Programs for Classroom Teachers
SB 472 TRAINING ON STATE-ADOPTED MATH AND
ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS
Who should attend: Classroom Teachers
Duration: 40 hours (Five-day training)
All students deserve a curriculum which is engaging, rigorous, and aligned with standards. And all teachers deserve access to the best possible instructional materials. Professional Learning Communities of teachers draw on these materials to create a strong foundation of common practice that helps teachers improve and students learn more. But none of this can happen without high-quality professional development programs for teachers. Pivot Learning Partners is committed to providing such a program.
Pivot Learning Partners is an approved SB 472 provider for several state-adopted textbook series. Contact us for the most up-to-date schedule of textbook series and grade levels available.
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