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Services
Overview:
CMT’s core commitment is to support teachers in the process of grounding their teaching practices with the focus, expertise, clarity and judgment necessary for providing their students with a world-class education.
Services include but are not limited to:
- Creating a core team of master-track facilitators
- Providing school-wide professional coaching based on specific school or district student achievement goals
- Upgrading teaching practices to engage 21st century learners such as:
- Teaching explicit lessons that demystify the essential processes of reading, writing and problem solving aligned with the rigorous demands of the Common Core Standards
- Making the paradigm shift from curriculum driven instruction to student-centered instruction
- Recasting instruction from inert, memorization to dynamic processing and understanding of information and concepts
- Recasting instruction to foster the habits and strategies of self-regulated learners (drivers not passengers)
- Embedding brain-based learning throughout the curriculum
- Creating job-embedded staff development practices such as:
- Peer coaching
- Action research
- Collegial circles
- Providing School Leadership Coaching
- Facilitating the implementation of professional development initiatives such as:
- Staff workshops
- Curriculum up-grades
- Writing rubrics