Resource is committed to building leadership capacity for administrators and teacher leaders in Central Minnesota by providing learning and leadership opportunities to support school improvement processes and the emergent needs of staff as they meet the needs of all students. Job-embedded, high quality professional development ensures that what is learned through Resource will be directly applied in engaging classrooms
to support student achievement.
Program Contacts:
Resource will serve you in the following ways:
- Assist district and school teams in the development, implementation, and on-going review and refinement of school improvement plans while serving as a liaison between District and School Leadership Teams and MDE.
- Work with district and school teams to identify and analyze data and facilitate team dialogue.
- Provide high quality professional development to meet the needs of district and school teams.
- Provide customized online learning and face-to-face support for PLCs, mentors, principals, and instructional leaders.
Key features of Resource's high quality professional development include:
- Train-the-trainer models of job-embedded professional development.
- Build internal leadership capacity
- Assessment and data analysis to drive a school's response to instruction and interventions.
- Standards-based emphasis.
- Active learning strategies for all.
The mission of Resource cohorts is to provide information and classroom strategies that will be shared and implemented so that participants will deepen understanding and build leadership capacity in our schools and districts. Research-based strategies and effective high quality professional development from the cohorts will be embedded in the School and District Improvement process. Progress monitoring of assessment data will be shared as administrative leaders and reading and math leaders support each other in school improvement efforts.
The Principals' Leadership Cohort engages administrators in meaningful discussions about how to lead the school improvement process. Topics include the following:
- Leadership for improved instruction and assessment practices to promote meaningful student engagement and increased student achievement.
- Using data to measure/monitor progress and celebrate success.
- Observational strategies for principals regarding research-based instructional practices.
- Creating high quality professional development for staff.
- Shared experiences of learning and leading within each school.
- Exploration of leadership topics to support all aspects of the school improvement process.
The Reading Cohorts offer elementary and secondary sessions to more closely address grade-specific needs. Participants can expect the following:
- Exploring best practice and research-based reading strategies.
- Discussing MCA test preparation techniques.
- Sharing strategies involving phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension instruction.
- Aligning current curriculum to reading standards.
- Creating formative assessments that inform and drive instruction.
- Exploring and developing tiered instruction.
The Math Cohorts offer elementary and secondary sessions. Both groups address similar topics, and each will be level-specific to address student needs more directly. Topics will include the following:
- Exploring best practice and research driven math instructional strategies
- Developing and/or sharing formative assessments that determine next steps in instruction
- Discussing MCA test preparation techniques
- Aligning the new math standards and the big ticket items or power standards to current curriculum
- Addressing algebraic and geometric thinking, a key aspect of the new standards
- Discussing resources that support classroom instruction to meet varied student needs
- Determining Response to Intervention/Instruction for students struggling with concepts and processes
The Math Science Teacher Academy focuses on Resource's collaboration with higher education and regional districts that use lesson study teams to plan lessons, deliver instruction, and evaluate the effectiveness of teaching strategies in relation to student thinking/reasoning. Full teams of teachers meet regularly to promote higher order thinking skills in math/science classrooms. Online support is available for all districts who desire to support their teachers/administrators with strategies to improve schools and the staff who serve their students.
Online Programs:
Online Principal/Teacher Leadership Courses
Online Learning for Students
4150 2nd Street South, Suite 550
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St. Cloud, MN 56301
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(888) 447-7032
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(320) 255-3236
