Project+Green

** Topics & themes: Student Engagement and interaction, promoting academic language through accountable talk and meta-cognitive skills, collaborative approaches to planning, co teaching, serving 21st Century learners (including New MN Language Arts Standards and technology integration) ** ** Note: ensuring student metacognitive skills is shown to increase achievement beyond IQ alone ** ||
 * **Name of Project: GREEN ** ||
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 * **Through strategic professional development and classroom coaching, teachers will impact and increase student learning through strategies for meta-cognition and language engagement. **
 * **Teachers will expand upon their own strategies for consist ant student language engagement and content learning through collaborative practices (collaborative planning, collaborative instruction-co teaching, and collaborative communication). **
 * **Build school-wide capacity for and alignment of student engagement strategies to increase achievement and academic language interaction ** ||
 * **Timeframe of Project: Aug 2011-Aug 2012 ** ||
 * **Write short description about the project: purpose, scope of work, etc., **
 * **All faculty collaborative & interactive professional development series, which will align with internal and external efforts to increase academic language and student achievement. **
 * **Professional development and instructional planning to align with Minnesota’s new Language Arts standards (standards are available immediately, and required for full implementation by 2012). The new MN standards have an increased focus on content area collaboration, global connections, digital collaborations and increased technology use. **
 * **specific support for professional collaboration and coteaching **
 * **specific support for technology to support instruction toward new MN LA standards **
 * **Identify Who Needs to Be Involved in the Planning ** ||
 * **Identify Who Will Be Doing the Work ** ||
 * **Identify Input Group ** ||
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">** Project Approved By: **** _ _ **** Jana Hilleren-Garcia, Executive Director Date ** ||