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Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment

Curriculum

The goal of the curriculum team of the Educational Service Center (ESC) of Northeast Ohio and State Support Team 3 is to provide high quality support to districts through professional development and coaching to teachers and administrators in Northeast Ohio. While we offer ongoing workshops at our organization, workshop can be offered within districts. These can be customized to better meet the needs of the district. Customizable Professional Development is what we strive for to ensure that the work aligns with district’s initiatives and so that it is not viewed by staff as “one more thing.” Often, we work over time with districts, so that the work is job-embedded and time is often a part of the school’s or district’s current infrastructure.  

Services Offered:

In-District Professional Development Workshops available, but not limited to:

  • Assessments - Revising, Creating Formative and Summative Assessments, as well as blueprints
  • Curriculum Mapping - District-wide, building and /or subject/department specific
  • 21st Century Learning
  • Differentiated Instruction Workshops
  • Reading Intervention and Monitoring Plans (RIMP): How to Write, Implement and Monitor a Useful Plan
  • Reader’s Workshop
  • Writer’s Workshop
  • Co-Teaching support
  • RTI training
  • Individualized and grade level team content specific
  • Coaching support
  • Individualized leadership support for principals with a focus on identifying building priorities and making actionable plans
  • Using Data Tools
  • STEM Education and Implementation
  • District-Embedded Facilitation and Coaching

Here are some of the ways we have worked with districts, however, it is not limited to this list:

  • Facilitation of ongoing PLC’s
  • Observation and feedback of TBTs with a focus on instruction
  • Coaching for Principals
  • Modeling in class lessons
  • Curriculum Mapping
  • Writing Across the Curriculum

This support provides the district with the initial implementation and then support over time to ensure that the practices are in place.

Consultants work hard to integrate a variety of interactive approaches and model strategies throughout their presentations. We can also provide connections to these topics and the OIP 5 step process, Teacher Based Teams (TBT's), Ohio Teacher Evaluation System (OTES)...so that today's teacher can see how these all tie together.

Links to Helpful Curriculum Websites:

OHIO'S LEADING ORGANIZATIONS:

NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
 

Instruction

The Educational Service Center (ESC) of Cuyahoga County and the State Support Team for Region 3 offers high quality professional development and technical assistance to district personnel and parents on research-based practices that address academic and behavioral needs of students with and without disabilities.

The goal of this work is to:

  1. build regional capacity of district personnel to support improved teaching and learning of all students, and
  2. to provide technical assistance related to early learning and school readiness and special education compliance.

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The staff collaborates with ODE Office for Exceptional Children, Office of School Improvement, Early Learning and School Readiness, Ohio Center for Autism and Low Incidence (OCALI), and other collaborative partners in these school improvement efforts:

Assessment Literacy

Ohio is currently transitioning from state developed assessments to the "Next Generation Assessment System".  During the 2014 school year students, depending on what grade level students are in, will take the Ohio Achievement assessment (OSS, Grades 3-8) in Reading, Math, Science, and Social Studies.  At the high school level they will take the Ohio Graduation Test (OGT) at grade 10.

Beginning in the 2014-15 school year, students will begin to take the "Next Gen" assessments.  PARC is developing the assessment for Science and Social Studies.  The "common thread" to all of these assessments can be easily summed up in the following words: Evidence-based design, (Evidence, evidence, evidence) and argument as well as analysis.  The evidence-based design will require students to show evidence from text that they read, write arguments on topics and be able to analyze data.

The "evidence-based" design is also inherent within Ohio Teacher Evaluation System (OTES),  and the writing of Student Learning Objectives (SLO's).  As teachers assess student work in the classroom both formative (assessing student learning along the way to guide instruction) and summative assessments (assessing student learning at a point in time), teams of teachers (Teacher-based teams [TBT's], PLC's, Grade level teams) learn what students know and can do and work to differentiate instruction to meet the needs of all students.