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National Academy for Curriculum Leadership

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Year 1
Fall (5 days) Spring (2 days)
Frameworks
  • Science as Inquiry
  • How People Learn
  • AIM Paper Screen Process & Tools
  • AIM Implementation Process & Tools
Leadership Skills
  • Change Process
  • Norms of Collaboratioon
  • Ledership Practices
  • Characteristics of Professional Learning Communities
  • Long-term Planning
  • Change Game
  • Stages of Concern
  • Dealing with Resistance
  • Advocacy
Strategies and Tools
  • Essential Features of Inquiry
  • AIM Conceptual Flow Diagrams
  • AIM Pre-screening Tools
  • Program Elements Matrix (PEM)
  • Collecting Formative Data on Student Learning and Teacher Implementation
Data-Driven
  • Collaborative Inquiry
  • Data-driven Dialogue
  • AIM Paper Screen Data
  • AIM Implementation Data
  • Using Concerns Data


Year 2
Fall (5 days) Spring (2 days)
Frameworks
  • Transformative Learning & Effective PD
  • PD Design Framework
  • Five Critical Levels of Evaluating PD
  • NSDC Standards for Staff Development
Leadership Skills
  • Stages of Team Development
  • Team Development Inventory
  • Norms of Collaboration
  • Developing a PD Plan
  • Developing a PD Evaluation Plan
  • Advocacy
Strategies and Tools
  • Immersion into Inquiry
  • Immersion into Instructional Design
  • Examining Student Work
  • Using Case Discussions
  • Evaluation Tools
  • Profiling Program Quality
Data-Driven
  • District Demographic and Assessment Data
  • Identify Student Learning Problem
  • PD Evaluation Data
  • Program Evaluation Data
Year 3  
  Fall (5 days) Spring (2 days)
Frameworks
  • Sustainability Framework
  • Concerns-based Adoption Model (Stages of Concern, Levels of Use, Practice Profiles)
  • Formative Classroom Assessment
  • PD Standards into Practice: Innovation Configurations
Leadership Skills
  • Leading in a Culture of Change
  • Team Development Inventory
  • Norms of Collaboration
  • Developing a Sustainability Plan Using CBAM
  • Advocacy
  • Revising Plans for Sustainability
Strategies and Tools
  • Examining Student Work
  • Collaborative Lesson Study
  • Action Research
  • Implementation Tools for Student Understanding
  • PD Standards Assessment Inventory
Data-Driven
  • CBAM Data
  • Student Work Data
  • Monitor Strategies and Outcomes
  • Student Assessment Data
  • PD Assessment Data