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courses during the year.

• Completes Graduate-level Coursework - The educator completes one (or more) graduate-level course in an educationally relevant field of study during the year. • Principal-approved Professional Development - As a learner or a presenter, teacher participates in professional development (one or more) that is tied to the teacher’s content area teaching, with approval of the principal. Cognitive Rigor Rubric - Students receive feedback in the form of a rubric that outlines expectations for students in a learning task that reflect higher-level thinking at DOK level 3 or 4 . It is the required high level of thinking that distinguishes it from a traditional feedback rubric. • Feedback Rubric - Students receive feedback in the form of a rubric that outlines the expectations for meeting a standard or objective. It is the act of sharing the rubric with students and providing feedback on their progress that has a strong positive effect on student achievement. Scaffolding Scaffolding strategies are temporary tools or supports that teachers plan for and provide to students in order to enhance student learning and help them master the learning objective/intention. Common High-Yielding Scaffolds include: (1) pre-teaching vocabulary; (2) modeling/demonstrating; (3) referencing prior knowledge to provide a foundation for learning new concepts; (4) structured small group and/or partner work for purposeful learning; (5) rubrics that outline what is expected and how student can meet the success criteria, or how students self-assess their work; (6) based on student response, teacher questions are adjusted and/or additional instruction is provided (instructional agility); (7) sentence starters and frames for classroom discussion or writing tasks; (8) graphic organizers that help students visualize relationships between facts, concepts, and ideas; (9) visuals and realia that are incorporated into instruction; and (10) classroom resources that are referenced by students during independent work to facilitate student understanding. Rubrics •

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