Building Best Practices

1. Building Best Practices Aligning Curriculum for Students with Disabilities Donna Zimmerer Coordinator for High School Special Education Clear Creek ISD

2. Building Best Practices How do we build best instructional practices?

3. Foundation • Independent Program Evaluation • Shared results with District/Campus Administrators • Shared results with District SPED Team • Developed Initial Action Plans for Campuses

4. Building Best Practices • Initial Action Plan • High School Proposal for Improving AA Instructional Practices • September • Work with Assistive Technology team to create AT chart. • Work with campuses to: • Create Campus AA Classroom Behavior/Processes • Chart (per campus) using Boystown as a reference. • Work with AA teachers to create lessons on the following topics: • Bus transitions in morning and afternoon • How to transition between classes • October-December • Instructional : • Project Discovery Training and kits • Lesson Plans/design/process – from TEKS to the • AA Classroom • Environment: • Visual Schedules-Individual and Class • Instructional emphasis • Paraprofessionals: • Levels of Support to promote independence • January – May • Instructional: • Differentiation • Assessment • Data • Environment - Materials: • Age appropriate • Functional • Paraprofessionals: • Think and share – “What did I do today to • promote/support independence?” • Design visual reminder – “What does • independence look like?”

5. Building Best Practices How do we enter into best instructional practices?

6. Steps for LessonDesign Lesson Plans Accommodations Modifications Data Data Verb Levels Assess. Tasks Essence Statements Vertical Alignment 9 wks at a Glance TEKS

7. Building Best Practices Lesson Plans • Professional Development Accommodations Modifications Data Data Verb Levels Assess. Tasks Essence Statements Vertical Alignment 9 wks at a Glance TEKS

8. Is it aligned? You be the judge. • Sort the cards on the T-Chart

9. Is it aligned? You be the judge. • Sort the following cards on the T-Chart

10. Building Best Practices • Instruction • Lesson Plans • Steps of Lesson Design • Program Eval.

11. Building Best Practices How do we protect our new initiatives?

12. Building Best Practices • Shared walk-throughs • Shared lesson plan review • Instructional Coaching & PD • Regular meetings with specific instructional targets • Teacher evaluations

13. Building Best Practices • Provide AT Information to Admin.

14. Building Best Practices • Create Campus Action Plan from Meetings

15. Building Best Practices Benefits of Partnerships: • Win-win! • Authentic Partnership – hiring, moving on • Campus Administrators sell it! HS #3 HS #1 HS #4 HS #2 HS #5

16. Building Best Practices “Effective teachers get students to do the right things, and they design things for them to do that are right for the students they teach.” Phillip Schlechty