School, District, and State Leaders that support elementary education! You are invited to join an OSPI statewide cadre of education leaders improving school systems through transforming elementary learning to effectively integrate content across science, ELA, and math.
This professional learning community will focus on maximizing student learning through anchoring reading, writing, speaking, listening, and math in deeply engaging science contexts and creating systems-wide cultures for equitable high-quality teaching and learning that addresses robust learning goals and standards for all subjects.
As part of this cadre, you will:
- Explore research and implementation examples focused on integrated learning anchored in science in service of equity, inclusion, and access to comprehensive learning for all students.
- Discover how integrated learning rooted in science provides for strong student engagement and Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) needs, and apply this to your own context.
- Understand how integrated learning design supports equitable access by maximizing instructional minutes to simultaneously address multiple content standards.
- Identify personally relevant focal areas for inquiry around leading shifts to integrated teaching and learning for meaningful student engagement.
- Collaborate with job-alike leader peers around building capacity and implementation strategies applicable to the system you lead.
- Deepen your leadership practice through learning from multiple national integration experts presenting on:
- integrating science and language development
- supporting multilingual learners through intentional integration
- integrating science and math
- PBL (problem or project based learning) as an integration model
- best practices in elementary science learning (NGSS)
This program will support you in leading change around integration using the current resources available within your system. The cadre will also be introduced to freely available, high-quality, OER (Open Education Resource) materials that might be leveraged to support integration in the elementary grades.
University of California, Berkeley's Lawrence Hall of Science will facilitate this cadre in partnership with OSPI.
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Leader Cadre Free Clock Hours and PGPs
This virtual professional learning series will provide cadre members with 25 free synchronous clock hours (including STEM, equity, and educational leadership) with the option to earn additional free asynchronous clock hours on your own.
If desired, this project alternately offers participants the opportunity to complete up to two Professional Growth Plans (PGPs) (one per school year). Each PGP provides 25 free clock hours.
Leader Cadre Format and Timeline
If numbers allow, participants will be grouped into two cadres.
Cadre 1: Meeting roughly twice a month on Mondays beginning in January or February 2022 and going to October 2023 (no meetings scheduled in early April, June or July).
Cadre 2: Meeting roughly twice a month on Mondays beginning in September 2023 and going to May 2023 (no meetings scheduled in early April).
Meeting times will be determined by cadre member majority preference.
Asynchronous application opportunities will be provided between virtual sessions.
Who is Eligible for the Leader Cadre?
We have openings for up to 100 education leaders in this cadre.
To apply, you must be a current leader in Washington State and be willing to actively participate.
The cadre is open to:
- Elementary Principals
- Elementary Site-Based Coaches
- School-Based and District TOSAS
- District Administrators and Content Leaders (science, ELA, and math)
- Superintendents
- LASER Alliance Directors
- ESD Content Coordinators (science, ELA, math)
- OSPI Content Directors (science, ELA, and math)
Please contact OSP at the email below if you are interested in participating, but hold a different role than those listed.
To Apply for the Leader Cadre
Participants are encouraged (not required) to register in pairs or teams.
Applicants will be notified in late December or early January.
A parallel TEACHER CADRE on elementary integrated learning will also be offered, so please encourage K-5 teachers in your sphere to apply to support teacher/leader collaborations around integration. A bulletin for the Teacher Cadre will be circulated separately.
For more information, please contact Kimberley Astle, Associate Director of Elementary Science at OSPI at kimberley.astle@k12.wa.us
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