Instructional Minute

The primary responsibility of instructional coaches is to improve classroom instruction and increase student achievement. Instructional Coaching in the Lansing School District has been designed to build teacher capacity while increasing student achievement outcomes. Instructional Coaches provide teachers with access to high quality instructional development; equipping teachers with the skills and knowledge to improve student achievement.

Instructional coaching is not limited to only new teachers to the profession.

• Model classroom instruction
• Collaboratively Plan Standards based lessons
• Support the use of teacher questioning practices to provide opportunities for students to dialogue.
• Support the use of teacher questioning practices to provide formative feedback to students to elongate the learning progression.
• Collaboratively develop learning maps (also called learning progressions") for standards based units.
• Collaboratively evaluate student work in relation to the learning targets to identify trends.

Below you can find the new, updated required instructional minutes by grade level and content area. Each grade level also includes a sample schedule.

April Meetings:

K-12 Math:

• April 30th at 4:15 pm

May Meetings:

K-8 Science:

• May 14th at 4:00 pm

K-12 Math:

• May 21st at 4:00 pm

K-8 ELA:

• May 21st at 4:15 pm

9-12 ELA:

• May 21st at 3:00 pm

The documents attached outline K-8 curricular resources, standards and pacing. This can also be found by clicking here on the LSD website.

The document attached outlines 9-12 curricular resources, standards and pacing. This can also be found by clicking here on the LSD website.

This on-demand professional learning resource provides micro-learning videos about every IXL feature and best practices for implementing IXL. Teachers must be signed into their IXL accounts to access these videos. https://www.ixl.com/resources/elearning-library

A resource to use as you see fit.