DESE Instructional Leadership Institute - August 2023

In August 2023, DESE hosted the first ever summer Instructional Leadership Institute. District teams gathered from across Massachusetts to engage in an interactive, learning-centered approach to building the effectiveness of instructional leadership teams towards advancing innovative, high quality instructional practices and equitable student outcomes.

This opportunity was developed in response to requests from school and district leaders for more support with:   

  1. deeply examining what relevant, real-world, and interactive grade-level work looks and sounds like within the Massachusetts ELA and Mathematics Curriculum Frameworks,

  2. deepening their understanding of how to equitably use high-quality instructional materials to engage all learners at the rigor of the standards, and

  3. helping to build the necessary equity-centered routines and rituals for instructional leadership teams to effectively support high-quality instruction across all classroom and drive professional learning.

The Institute materials are now available to any school or district.

Resources

Instructional Leadership Institute materials

Source

Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and TNTP

Text Complexity and the Growth of Reading Comprehension

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A “quick reference guide” explaining how to evaluate text complexity and how it impacts reading comprehension.

Resource Links

Quick Reference Guide: Text Complexity and the Growth of Reading Comprehension

Source

Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Curriculum & Instruction

 

Reading Closely to Analyze Complex Text

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A “quick reference guide” explaining how to use close reading lessons to promote understanding and analysis of complex text.

Resource Links

Reading Closely to Analyze Complex Texts - Elementary

Reading Closely to Analyze Complex Texts - Secondary

Source

Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Curriculum & Instruction