Priority 1

Strategic Priority One – Impactful Instruction

Importance
There is significant research to support the importance of teacher effectiveness and the role it plays in student academic achievement, academic growth, and success beyond high school. Therefore, teachers who deliver impactful instruction will have the highest student success rates.

Action Steps

• On-going refinements and informed improvements of Instructional Coaching
• On Boarding refinements
• Mentorship refinements
• Evaluation of Professional Development
• Observations during instructional time: Admin; Instructional Coaches; DIT Team
• COMTSS District Implementation Team (DIT) continuous goal refelction and work toward problem of Practice
  • There is minimal/inadequate school- wide median growth percentile in math using the School Profile Report because instruction is ineffective due to lack of formal and informal professional development targeted to math, testing conditions, potentially misaligned content, across disciplinary connections to math lack. 
• Using the data collected during that review, LASD leadership teams met with CDE in July 2025 to draft our “Big Rocks” to move the dial on teaching and learning.
• We utilize the Comprehensive Training Opportunities for Paraprofessionals (CO-TOP) resource to facilitate training for our paras throughout the school year.
  

Evidence of Implementation
–BOCES Professional Development Opportunity
–PDSA Goal Setting Sheet
–PDSA Cycles in classrooms
-30 minute Data Driven Dialogue used with students when write PDSAs and goals.
–NWEA Retesting – LAESIncentive System
–Accommodations
-Junior High and High School NWEA Schedule
–Look For Tool
Example: Data from Look For Tool so far this Spring
–Data from Look For Tool
–Math specific targeted time using Zearn k-6
–Zearn Documents
–Elementary Instructional Coach Observation tool
–JH/HS Instructional Coach Observation tool
–JH/HS Advisory Observation tool
–Administration Observation tool
–Diagnostic Review Big Rocks
–Comprehensive Training Opportunities for Paraprofessionals (CO-TOPS)

Evidence of Impact
–Junior High Intervention Data
–High School Interventions
-JH and HS NWEA Yearly Data
– Cultural Responsiveness
–Student engagement and Differentiation
– Student Goal Setting
–Assessment Literacy
–Lesson Launch
–Growth for all
–Peer observation Process
–Performance Management Session Running Agenda (JH/HS)
–Observation Results from Performance Management Observations
-Staff retention 
22-23 Cohort 1-9/16 New Hires Returned 
23-24 Cohort 2-10/12 New Hires Returned
24-25 Cohort 3-4 new hires
25-26 Cohort 4-1 new hire (August) 2 new hires (Fall Semester)

Next Steps

• Continued use of Look For Tool in all content areas starting Spring 2025 and Fall/Spring2026.
• Continue to support the implementation of Proficiency Scales at all grade levels across the district.
• Continue to support staff with tiered interventions of instructional strategies and classroom management tools.

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