II-A: Instruction

1. High Expectations and Support: Supports all students to meet or exceed high expectations for grade-appropriate, standards-aligned learning, produce high-quality work, and develop self-awareness and skills for independent learning by:

   • Using evidence-based, culturally and linguistically sustaining instructional practices to provide equitable opportunities for grade-level learning.
   • Providing flexible and responsive supports, scaffolds, and tools to meet students' needs.
   • Communicating clear criteria for success (e.g., models, rubrics, exemplars).
   • Reinforcing perseverance and effort with challenging content and tasks.
   
   

2. Engaging Instruction: Engages all students as active participants in learning experiences that are relevant, real-world, and interactive by:

   • Providing opportunities for students to make choices, explore topics and apply learning in culturally and linguistically sustaining ways, and through real-world, interactive contexts.
   • Building on students' strengths, interests, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and prior knowledge to support and motivate learning.
   • Facilitating purposeful student-to-student academic discourse with equitable student participation in discussion.
   • Integrating digital tools and educational technology that enhance learning experiences and promote the development of digital literacy skills.
   
   

3. Inclusive Instruction: Accommodates and supports individual differences in all students' learning needs, abilities, interests, and levels of readiness, including those of students with disabilities (in accordance with relevant IEPs or 504 plans), English learners and former English learners, academically advanced students, and students who have been historically marginalized, by:

   • Using appropriate inclusive practices, such as tiered supports, educational and assistive technologies, scaffolded instruction, and leveraging of students' native language and linguistic resources, to make grade-level content accessible and affirming for all students.
   • Providing students with multiple ways to learn content and demonstrate understanding, as appropriate.

Last Updated: July 5, 2024