RCSD NUA Collaborative 2020-21

    2020-21 NUA RCSD Virtual Collaborative NUA RCSD Liaison: Linda Montes Project Director: Maria Sudduth Senior Scholar: Robert Price Senior Scholar: Stefanie Rome  Lead NUA Coach: Whitney Eakin Essential Question: How does belief in the learner to achieve and thrive in high intellectual performance manifest itself in our instructional practice and our district/school culture? NOTE: THIS BLOG, INCLUDING THE LINKS HEREIN, CAN ONLY BE SHARED BY PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR (MARIA SUDDUTH) . IT IS MEANT TO BE INFORMATIVE, PROTECTED BY CONFIDENTIALITY. We have learned that strong cross-collaborative communications are critical for the success of this work. We are now seeing a substantial increase in sign-ups for the work. We have added two weeks in November, specifically to support Cohort Two schools.  Over the last two weeks we have held four meetings, with a focus on successes and challenges (for moving the work forward).  Linda Montes met with NUA Principa...

  2020-21 NUA RCSD Virtual Collaborative NUA RCSD Liaison: Linda Montes Project Director: Maria Sudduth Senior Scholar: Robert Price Senior Scholar: Stefanie Rome  Lead NUA Coach: Whitney Eakin Essential Question: How does belief in the learner to achieve and thrive in high intellectual performance manifest itself in our instructional practice and our district/school culture? NOTE: THIS BLOG, INCLUDING THE LINKS HEREIN, CAN ONLY BE SHARED BY PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR (MARIA SUDDUTH) . IT IS MEANT TO BE INFORMATIVE, PROTECTED BY CONFIDENTIALITY. Equity Consciousness is the insurmountable belief and the action upon that belief that all children can learn, achieve and excel at high intellectual performance as is evident by students ability to:  analyze a variety of texts: transfer learning across content areas; synthesizing concepts across lessons and units;  creative problem solving It is the understanding that within our community we realize the potential of ...

  2020-21 NUA RCSD Virtual Collaborative NUA RCSD Liaison: Linda Montes Project Director: Maria Sudduth Senior Scholar: Robert Price Senior Scholar: Stefanie Rome  Lead NUA Coach: Whitney Eakin Essential Question: How does belief in the learner to achieve and thrive in high intellectual performance manifest itself in our instructional practice and our district/school culture? NOTE: THIS BLOG, INCLUDING THE LINKS HEREIN, CAN ONLY BE SHARED BY PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR (MARIA SUDDUTH) . IT IS MEANT TO BE INFORMATIVE, PROTECTED BY CONFIDENTIALITY. District Planning:  Our team has planned for both the  Board Presentation, October 2nd  and for District Wide Faculty training for Tuesday.  Agenda for the Board: Introduction: Dr. Baker Overview (Share our current work in the schools) Linda Equity Consciousness Foundational Principles Leveraging Excellence Yvette’s Article (interactive strategy)  What is our responsibility: Advocate, Enable, Ask Distri...

2020-21 NUA RCSD Virtual Collaborative NUA RCSD Liaison: Linda Montes Project Director: Maria Sudduth Senior Scholar: Robert Price Senior Scholar: Stefanie Rome  Lead NUA Coach: Whitney Eakin Essential Question: How does belief in the learner to achieve and thrive in high intellectual performance manifest itself in our instructional practice and our district/school culture? NOTE: THIS BLOG, INCLUDING THE LINKS HEREIN, CAN ONLY BE SHARED BY PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR (MARIA SUDDUTH) . IT IS MEANT TO BE INFORMATIVE, PROTECTED BY CONFIDENTIALITY. This was our "launch week". We held planning meetings on September 1st, 8th, 9th, 15th (Pedagogy Coach Training) and 16th in preparation for launching our Distance Learning support for Redwood City. In addition, Maria Sudduth, Linda Montes and other members of the team as available created support documents for the work. The Principal/Assistant Principal documentation provides a summative document that we are using as we move this wor...