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SCS High School English Plan Leveraging Aligned Instructional Materials to Impact Student Achievement Office of Academics

The quality of instructional materials in our classrooms has a large impact on student learning. “There is strong evidence that the choice of instructional materials has large effects on student learning – effects that rival in size those that are associated with differences in teacher effectiveness.” Chingos & Whitehurst, Choosing Blindly: Instructional Materials, Teacher Effectiveness, and the Common Core

Agenda • Introduction and Rationale • Request • Cost of Investment 3

Maintaining Growth Requires Continued Investment Over the last two school years, we have made strategic decisions that have positively impacted high school literacy: • Extensive revisions to the district curriculum maps • Providing high-quality, standards-aligned instruction in grades 6-8, allowing students to enter high school with knowledge and strategies not seen before. To provide equity for high school literacy teachers, we want to continue to provide the same level of support with instructional materials for 9-12 that we are providing for 6-8. 4

Current High School Units Course 1 st Quarter 2 nd Quarter 3 rd Quarter 4 th Quarter English I To Kill a Civil Rights and The Odyssey Fahrenheit 451 Mockingbird Romeo and Juliet English II Rhetoric Edgar Allen Poe Julius Caesar Henrietta’s Dance English III The Scarlet Letter Hamlet A More Perfect American Dream Union and and The Great Transcendent- Gatsby alism English IV A Hero with a Gulliver’s Travels Research Unit Public Education, Thousand Faces and Canterbury (PCG Paths Then and Now Tales Module 12.3) 5

Agenda • Introduction and Rationale • Request • Cost of Investment 6

Our Big Bets Standards- Printed Aligned Student and Curriculum Teacher Resources Materials 7

LearnZillion Supports Effective Instruction Standards-Aligned Resources: • LearnZillion is a digital platform that translates high-quality, standards-aligned curriculum to unpacked, scaffolded lessons for teachers. • The unit materials include teaching notes, lesson slides, quality work samples, student guidebooks, and unit readers. • The supplement to our curriculum ensures that students are engaging with complex text, supported by rigorous, yet intentional questions and tasks. The curriculum units cannot be accessed or purchased individually, effective July 2018. 8

LearnZillion Supports Effective Instruction The NEW LearnZillion Platform provides more resources and the ability to customize components: • LearnZillion slides and teaching notes can now be modified to fit the needs of SCS students. • SCS curriculum writers are able to add in units to create a universal access for teachers. • Teacher logins grant access to assessment resources that can be assigned to students. • Student logins allow students to practice reading and answering English questions in an online environment. • Both the teacher logins and student logins grant access to digital libraries. 9

Printed Materials from XanEdu Save Time for Teachers XanEdu is an educational publisher that is the sole source of printed student materials from Louisiana Believes. • Students: – Individual copies of required texts and work sheets. These materials align with lesson plans and instructional components and allow students to annotate and highlight during the lesson. • Teachers: – Individual copies of all grade level student materials that align with lesson plans and instructional components. These printed materials allow Teachers to annotate and highlight while preparing for the lesson. 10

Agenda • Introduction and Rationale • Request • Cost of Investment 11

Cost of Investment Curricular Resources Printed Materials LearnZillion Platform XanEdu Student Materials User Licenses $186,000 Student Editions $911,607.32 Professional Development $106,500 Teacher Editions $7,282.00 Total $292,500 Total $918,889.32 Total Costs: $1,211,389.32 The increased investment this year is due to three main factors: 1. LearnZillion platform access 2. Two additional 9-week units 3. Providing printed Teacher’s Editions 12