Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
Element 1.1                 Emerging                    Exploring                     Applying                     Integrating                   Innovating
                     Learns about students       Gathers additional data to   Uses data from a variety      Uses data from multiple       Uses comprehensive
                     through data provided by    learn about individual       of formal and informal        measures to make              knowledge of students to
                     the school and/or           students.                    sources to learn about        adjustments to                make ongoing
                     assessments.                                             students and guide            instruction and meet          adjustments and
                                                                              selection of instructional    individual identified         accommodations in
                                                                              strategies to meet diverse    learning needs. 4/23/23.      instruction.
                                                                              learning needs. 9/17/22       11/7/23
Using knowledge of
students to engage
                     Some students may           Students engage in single    Student engage in                                           Students take ownership
them in learning
                     engage in learning using    lessons or sequence of       learning through the use      Students actively utilize a   of their learning by
                     instructional strategies    lessons that include some    of adjustments in             variety of instructional      choosing from a wide
                     focused on the class as a   adjustments based on         instruction to meet their     strategies and                range of methods to
                     whole.                      assessments. 9/17/22         needs.                        technologies in learning      further their learning that
                                                                                                            that ensure equitable         are responsive to their
                                                                                                            access to the curriculum      learning needs. 11/7/23
                                                                                                            4/23/23.
                                                 Based on student             I use data from our           I use data from multiple      My students take
                                                 assessment data from         school-wide platform,         measures, such as SIS         ownership of their
                                                 informal, formal, and        Pathways Student              (Student Information          learning by having
                                                 school-wide assessments,     Information System            System), PPEP (Pathways       multiple choices for
                                                 I provide adjustments in     (PSIS), to access student     Personalized Educational      projects, assessments,
                                                 instructional strategies     demographic                   Program), Illuminate,         and modalities of
                                                 and curriculum to meet       information, statewide        NWEA, PFT (Physical           learning. In particular, my
                                                 my students’ individual      assessments, and special      Fitness) testing, ELPAC       use of choice boards with
                                                 needs. I have the freedom    programs information. I       testing, formative and        my students allows them
                                                 to adjust the school-wide    also use information from     summative assessments         to take ownership,
                                                 curriculum based on my       our Pathways                  to make targeted              provides them with
                                                 students’ assessment data    Personalized Educational      adjustments to                autonomy, and allows for
                                                 to make target changes to    Program (PPEP) meetings       instruction. These data       more differentiation to be
Evidence
                                                 individual lessons or        with the school Learning      sources allow me to           incorporated. 11/7/23
                                                 sequences of lessons.        Lead (administrator) and      determine what areas I
                                                 9/17/22                      our school counselor to       need to support each
                                                                              determine target              student in. 4/23/23
                                                                              instructional strategies to
                                                                              meet students’ diverse        I provide my students
                                                                              needs. 9/17/22                with a robust education
                                                                                                            that utilizes a variety of
                                                                                                            instructional strategies
                                                                                                            and technologies, such as
                                                                                                            our online curriculum,
                                                                                                            Desmos, Achieve 3000,
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
                                                               Clever, Moby Max, Z-
                                                               Space, 3D printer, and
                                                               other online platforms
                                                               that ensure student
                                                               equitable access to the
                                                               curriculum. Providing my
                                                               students with a wide
                                                               variety of technological
                                                               applications ensures my
                                                               students are developing
                                                               21st century skills.
                                                               4/23/23
                                                               I continue to use data
                                                               from multiple different
                                                               measures, such as SIS
                                                               (Student Information
                                                               System), PPEP (Pathways
                                                               Personalized Educational
                                                               Program), Illuminate,
                                                               NWEA, PFT (Physical
                                                               Fitness) testing, ELPAC
                                                               testing, formative and
                                                               summative assessments
                                                               to make targeted
                                                               adjustments to
                                                               instruction. I have also
                                                               been accessing data
                                                               through Achieve 3000,
                                                               BrainPop, and summative
                                                               SBA assessments. These
                                                               data sources allow me to
                                                               determine what areas I
                                                               need to support each
                                                               student in. 11/7/23
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
Element 1.2                   Emerging                      Exploring                    Applying                    Integrating                   Innovating
                      Develops awareness of          Uses gathered                Uses school resources and    Integrates broad              Develops and
                      prior knowledge, culture,      information about            family contacts to expand    knowledge of students         systematically uses
                      backgrounds, life              students’ prior              understanding of             and their communities to      extensive information
                      experiences, and interests     knowledge, cultural          students’ prior              inform instruction.           regarding students’
                      represented among              backgrounds, life            knowledge, cultural          11/7/23                       cultural backgrounds,
                      students.                      experiences, and interest    backgrounds, life                                          prior knowledge, life
Connecting learning                                  to support student           experiences, and interests                                 experiences, and
to students’ prior                                   learning.                    to connect to student                                      interests.
knowledge,                                                                        learning. 9/17/22 ;
backgrounds, life                                                                 4/23/23
experiences, and      Some students connect          Students participate in                                                                 Students can articulate
interests             learning activities to their   single lessons or            Students make                Students are actively         the relevance and impact
                      own lives.                     sequences of lessons         connections between          engaged in curriculum,        of lessons on their lives
                                                     related to their interests   curriculum, and their        which relates their prior     and society.
                                                     and experiences. 9/17/22     prior knowledge,             knowledge, experiences,
                                                                                  backgrounds, life            and interests within and
                                                                                  experiences, and             across learning activities.
                                                                                  interests. 4/23/23           11/7/23
                                                     I make targeted              I use our school’s           I have been tapping into
                                                     adjustments to our           PSIS platform, special       my students’ community
                                                                                                               knowledge and
                                                     school curriculum to         programs data, IEP           experiences in our service
                                                     help my students             case managers, and           learning courses. As
                                                     relate more to their         counselors to further        students engage in service
                                                     learning by providing        understand my                learning, I have been able
                                                     options, choices, and        students’ unique             to gather information
                                                                                                               about the cultural and
                                                     encouraging student          backgrounds to help          social makeup of the
                                                     voice. Many writing          inform instruction. I        community. This has
                                                     topics can be                also frequently              allowed me to provide
Evidence
                                                     adjusted to directly         communicate with             more culturally relevant
                                                     relate to my students’       families during the          and sensitive examples in
                                                                                                               my instruction to allow all
                                                     interests and                enrollment process           students to connect to the
                                                     experiences. 9/17/22         and throughout the           content. 11/7/23
                                                                                  program to learn how
                                                                                  I can best suite their
                                                                                  student’s needs.       My students are actively
                                                                                                         engaged in the curriculum
                                                                                  9/17/22
                                                                                                               because I always help
                                                                                                               students make
                                                                                  I have continued to use a
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
                                              variety of sources and        connections between
                                              contacts to help make         content and their
                                              learning more connected       personal lives, to help
                                              and meaningful for my         with engagement. For
                                              students. I have started to   essays, I allow students to
                                              better use our Naviance       choose any topic that
                                              surveys to learn more         connects to their prior
                                              about my students’            knowledge, experiences,
                                              unique backgrounds to         and interests. 11/7/23
                                              better connect them to
                                              the content. 4/23/23
                                              I have also begun to help
                                              my students make these
                                              connections between
                                              themselves and the
                                              content through specific
                                              assignments that require
                                              students to reflect, apply,
                                              and critically think about
                                              how the content relates to
                                              them and the real world. I
                                              have found success
                                              implementing these
                                              learning activities in both
                                              social science and science
                                              courses. 4/23/23
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
Element 1.3                    Emerging                       Exploring                     Applying                    Integrating                   Innovating
                        Uses real-life connections     Explore using additional     Integrates connections        Integrates connections to     Engages student in
                        during instruction as          real-life connections to     from subject matter to        meaningful, real-life         actively making
                        identified to curriculum.      subject matter in single     meaningful, real-life         contexts in planning          connections to relevant,
                                                       lessons or sequence of       contexts, including those     subject matter instruction    meaningful, and real-life
                                                       lessons to support           specific to students’         and is responsive during      contexts throughout
                                                       understanding. 9/17/22 ;     family and community.         instruction to engage         subject matter
                                                       4/23/23                      11/7/23                       students in relating to       instruction.
Connecting subject
                                                                                                                  subject matter.
matter to
meaningful, real-life
                        Some students relate                                                                      Students actively engage      Students routinely
contexts
                        subject matter to real-life.   Students make use of         Students utilize real-life    in making and using real-     integrate subject matter
                                                       real-life connections        connections regularly to      life connections to subject   into their own thinking
                                                       provided in single lessons   develop understandings        matter to extend their        and make relevant
                                                       or sequence of lessons to    of subject matter.            understanding.                applications of subject
                                                       support understanding of     11/7/23                                                     matter during learning
                                                       subject matter. 9/17/22 ;                                                                activities.
                                                       4/23/23
                                                       In addition to our
                                                       curricular focus on          I do a strong job of
                                                       individuality, I seek        integrating real-world
                                                                                    contexts into the
                                                       additional                   curriculum, in particular
                                                       opportunities for my         for math. I help my
                                                       students to integrate        students see how math
                                                       their personal lives         content can be connected
                                                       into their learning.         to their personal lives and
                                                                                    real-world situations,
                                                       Conversations with           increasing
                                                       students regarding           comprehension and
Evidence                                               their real-life              engagement. 11/7/23
                                                       connections help to
                                                       increase student             My students are required
                                                                                    to complete reflections
                                                       voice in their               and summaries about
                                                       learning as they             how the content connects
                                                       apply these                  to the real world. My
                                                       experiences to their         students are able to
                                                       learning. 9/17/22            identify how their
                                                                                    learning is applied to the
                                                                                    real world, deepening
                                                       I have continued to help
                                                                                    content connections in
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
                                                        my students make real-        math and history in
                                                        life connections in subject   particular. My students
                                                        matter through reflection     have mentioned that
                                                        assignments, essays, and      these connections help
                                                        mini projects that require    increase their
                                                        students to apply their       comprehension and
                                                        new learning to real-         interests. 11/7/23
                                                        world contexts. I have
                                                        found this particularly
                                                        helpful in math courses,
                                                        where students complete
                                                        performance tasks that
                                                        relate to the real-world
                                                        and the content. 4/23/23
Element 1.4                     Emerging                       Exploring                     Applying                    Integrating                  Innovating
                         Uses instructional             Explores additional           Utilizes a variety of        Creates, adapts, and         Refines the flexible use of
                         strategies, resources, and     instructional strategies,     strategies including         integrates a broad range     an extensive repertoire of
                         technologies as provided       resources, and                culturally responsive        of strategies, resources,    strategies, resources, and
                         by school and/or district.     technologies in single        pedagogy, resources, and     and technologies into        technologies to meet
                                                        lessons or sequence of        technologies during          instruction designed to      students’ diverse learning
Using a variety of                                      lessons to meet students’     ongoing instruction to       meet students’ diverse       needs.
instructional                                           diverse learning needs.       meet students’ diverse       learning needs. 11/7/23
strategies, resources,                                  9/17/22                       learning needs. 4/23/23
and technologies to
meet students’           Some students participate                                    Students participate in      Students actively engage     Students take
diverse learning         in instructional strategies,   Students participate in       instruction using            in instruction and make      responsibilities for using
needs                    using resources and            single lessons or             strategies, resources, and   use of a variety of          a wide range of strategies,
                         technologies provided.         sequence of lessons           technologies matched to      targeted strategies,         resources, and
                                                        related to their interests    their learning needs.        resources, and               technologies that
                                                        and experiences. 9/17/22      4/23/23                      technologies to meet their   successfully advance their
                                                                                                                   individual students          learning.
                                                                                                                   needs. 11/7/23
                                                        My targeted                   I have improved in my
                                                        adjustments to the            ability to inform            I have increased my skills
                                                                                      instruction through a        in integrating technology
                                                        curriculum include            critical lens that           into the classroom to
Evidence                                                providing additional          incorporates culturally      meet students’ needs. In
                                                        supports and                  responsive pedagogy and      particular, I have been
                                                        resources,                    resources. In particular,    using the 3D printer, the
                                                        individualized                each course has some         Z-space, VR headsets, and
                                                                                      element in which             NearPod with my
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
                                                 approaches, and               students are required to      students to help engage
                                                 different                     look at different             them and demonstrate
                                                                               perspectives, provide         learning in a different
                                                 technologies to meet          counterarguments, and         manner. 11/7/23
                                                 students’ needs. I            research different
                                                 value students’ input         cultures. My students         My students effectively
                                                 in what they feel they        seem to participate well      engage with technology
                                                 need to be successful         with these activities as      resources to meet their
                                                                               there are a plethora of       individual learning needs.
                                                 to make personal              resources and tools that      I provide my students
                                                 connections to their          guide students through        with choices in their
                                                 learning. 9/17/22             this process. 4/23/23         technological tools, based
                                                                                                             on their interests and
                                                                                                             strengths. 11/7/23
Element 1.5                 Emerging                    Exploring                     Applying                      Integrating                 Innovating
                     Asks questions that focus   Includes questions in         Guide students to think       Supports students to         Facilitates systematic
                     on factual knowledge and    single lessons or a           critically through use of     initiate critical thinking   opportunities for student
                     comprehension.              sequence of lessons that      questioning strategies,       through independently        to apply critical thinking
                                                 require students to recall,   posing/solving problems,      developing questions,        by designing structured
                                                 interpret, and think          and reflection on issues in   posing problems and          inquiries into complex
Promoting critical                               critically.                   content. 9/17/22              reflecting on multiple       problems.
thinking though                                                                                              perspectives. 4/23/23;
inquiry, problem                                                                                             11/7/23
solving, and         Some students respond to    Students respond to           Students respond to                                        Students pose and answer
reflection           questions regarding facts   varied questions or tasks     questions and problems        Students pose problems       a wide-range of complex
                     and comprehension.          designed to promote           posed by the teacher and      and construct questions      questions and problems,
                                                 comprehension and             begin to pose and solve       of their own to support      reflect, and communicate
                                                 critical thinking in single   problems of their own         inquiries into content.      understandings based on
                                                 lessons or a sequence of      related to the content.       4/23/23; 11/7/23             in depth analysis of
                                                 lessons.                      9/17/22                                                    content learning.
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
                                                                          Our curriculum is        In each course, students
                                                                          designed to provide      are required to develop
                                                                                                   questions, pose problems,
                                                                          stimulating              and reflect on
                                                                          questions, solve real-   perspectives. In
                                                                          world problems           particular, our social
                                                                          through project-         science and science
                                                                          based learning           courses involve students
                                                                                                   in multiple projects in
                                                                          opportunities, and       which they have to
                                                                          reflect constantly       conduct research and
                                                                          throughout all           create a product. Students
                                                                          processes and            are required to formulate
                                                                          products. My             their own questions and
                                                                                                   responses based on this
                                                                          adjustment of these      content, while
                                                                          questions and            representing their
                                                                          problems help to         learning through creative
Evidence
                                                                          direct students          products. 4/23/23
                                                                          toward posing their
                                                                                                   I continue to provide my
                                                                          own questions and
                                                                                                   students with
                                                                          hypotheses. 9/17/22      opportunities to pose
                                                                                                   questions and problems,
                                                                                                   look at multiple
                                                                                                   perspectives, and
                                                                                                   construct inquiry into
                                                                                                   their learning. In our
                                                                                                   science and history
                                                                                                   classes, students are
                                                                                                   required to create
                                                                                                   hypotheses, collect data,
                                                                                                   analyze data, create
                                                                                                   arguments, and solve
                                                                                                   real-world issues.
                                                                                                   11/7/23
Element 1.6                   Emerging                Exploring                  Applying                Integrating                  Innovating
Monitoring student      Implements lessons     Seeks to clarify           Makes ongoing            Adjusts strategies during    Makes adjustments to
learning and            following curriculum   instruction and learning   adjustments to           instruction based on the     extend learning
adjusting instruction   guidelines.            activities to support      instruction based on     ongoing monitoring of        opportunities and provide
while teaching.                                student understanding.     observation of student   individual student needs     assistance to students in
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
                                                                    engagement and regular      for assistance, support, or   mastering the concepts
                                                                    checks for understanding.   challenge. 4/23/23            flexibly and effectively.
                                                                    9/17/22                                                   11/7/23
               Some students receive   Students receive                                         Students are able to          Students monitor their
               individual assistance   assistance individually or   Students successfully       articulate their level of     progress in learning and
               during instruction.     in small groups during       participate and stay        understanding and use         provide information to
                                       instruction. 9/17/22         engaged in learning         teacher guidance to meet      teacher that informs
                                                                    activities.                 their needs during            adjustments in
                                                                                                instruction.                  instruction. 4/23/23;
                                                                                                                              11/7/23
Evidence                               The nature of our            Based on student            I have made dramatic          I have begun having my
                                       school supports both         participation and           improvement in making         students engage in self-
                                                                                                on-going adjustments in       reflection and self-
                                       small group and              formative                   instruction to provide        assessment of their
                                       individualized               assessment data, I          students with the             learning each day through
                                       instruction. I hold          make in-the-moment          necessary supports that       exit ticket slips and
                                       small group tutoring         targeted adjustments        they require. For             frequent check-ins. My
                                       sessions in a hybrid         to instruction to meet      example, I have been          students’ responses
                                                                                                improving on having a         provide me with
                                       format to meet my            my students’ needs. I       repertoire of strategies      information as to how I
                                       students’ needs. I           frequently engage my        available at my disposal      can effectively adjust
                                       also instruction             students in checks          to make immediate             instruction to help
                                       students individually        for understanding to        adjustments to                students achieve their
                                       in-person and                determine what              instruction if necessary.     goals. 4/23/23
                                                                                                4/23/23
                                       virtually to provide         adjustments to either
                                       guidance and                 instruction or                                            My students can extend
                                                                                                                              learning opportunities in
                                       assistance. 9/17/22          motivational                                              all projects by completing
                                                                    approaches need to                                        the extension activities
                                                                    be made. 9/17/22                                          and the above standard
                                                                                                                              activities that makeup our
                                                                                                                              honors courses. My
                                                                                                                              students can choose how
                                                                                                                              they want to extend their
                                                                                                                              learning through choice
                                                                                                                              boards, increasing
                                                                                                                              engagement and
                                                                                                                              motivation. 11/7/23.
                                                                                                                              I continue to provide my
                                                                                                                              students with
                                                                                                                              opportunities to engage
Standard 1 CSTP: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
                                                                    in self-reflection through
                                                                    Google Forms, exit tickets,
                                                                    Menti, and other tools. My
                                                                    students have found it
                                                                    useful to be able to self-
                                                                    assess their progress to
                                                                    influence their daily and
                                                                    weekly goals. 11/7/23.