Instruction Partners
Project Title
As a final grant to build science instructional capacity and services
Date
Dec. 12, 2024
Duration
12 months
Description
Instruction Partners was established in 2015 to work with district partners to develop instructional leadership and share resources and tools to guide learning and curriculum implementation. School districts face significant challenges in providing high-quality science education and often struggle to balance numerous administrative responsibilities with the need to support effective science instruction. To address this, Instruction Partners works directly with school and district leadership to strengthen science education. This final grant will enable Instruction Partners to continue its collaboration with district partners, focusing on strategies for science curriculum adoption and implementation, ensuring a cohesive approach across all schools in a district. The project will enhance district leaders’ capacity to provide targeted instructional support, empowering them to offer more effective guidance and resources. Additionally, they will equip district leaders with tools to assess and improve science education outcomes for students, allowing for data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement.
Project Title
For general support
Date
Jun. 08, 2023
Duration
18 months
Description
When teachers have access to high-quality professional learning that is aligned with their curriculum, they are better equipped to meet the diverse needs of their students and ensure that every child can succeed. However, school leaders are faced with numerous nonacademic responsibilities, especially in the aftermath of the pandemic, which makes it operationally challenging to provide curriculum-based professional learning (CBPL) at the school level. For teachers to be most effective, school and district leaders need to provide strong, effective instructional leadership and leverage the supportive conditions and structures thatCBPL requires. Instruction Partners supports school and district leaders to provide their teachers with effective curriculum-based professional learning. This general support grant will allow Instruction Partners to continue supporting their partners and build the field of CBPL.
Project Title
For general support
Date
Dec. 02, 2021
Duration
18 months
Description
Effective content instruction is difficult to accomplish when educators do not have a deep understanding of their instructional materials and when system and school leaders do not have a clear view on how to improve teacher instruction. Intervention models and systems can help narrow these content and instruction gaps for educators, school leaders, and system leaders. Instruction Partners works with schools, districts, and states to mitigate challenges related to unfinished teaching and learning in English language arts (ELA), math, and science. Through this renewal grant, Instruction Partners will a) improve ELA and math instruction for partner schools, b) improve science implementation with partner schools and states, and c) share their learnings with the education field.
Project Title
For general support
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
15 months
Description
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the education field anticipates a massive need for leader and teacher support as schools plan to reopen. The field will need models for accelerating student learning during compressed learning periods. Instruction Partners, an organization founded in 2015 to build the capacity of systems and school leaders to support effective and equitable instruction, took an early lead to develop and share COVID-19 school toolkits and frameworks through their online School Resource Hub. They anticipate that in the fall, school and system leaders will continue to need tools and professional learning supports. Through this renewal grant, Instruction Partners will develop: a) a Framework for Learning Recovery and Acceleration for system and school leaders, b) professional learning for school leaders and teachers, and c) dissemination strategy for the Recovery Framework and professional learning materials to share with the field.
Project Title
As an emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic to develop, test, and disseminate learning recovery and acceleration models to support the reopening of school systems
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
6 months
Description
Developing teacher capacity to deliver stronger and more equitable instruction is an essential part of education reform in our country. To combat the effects of inequities during this time of disrupted schooling, districts and school systems need to enact distance learning models during the summer and fall to mitigate learning loss. Educators will need to be prepared to effectively respond to exacerbated inequity with instructional responses that accelerate learning as opposed to focusing on remediation. This project will test new and simple models for learning recovery and acceleration and support system change and expansion in educator capacity to respond to the increased learning demands. Through this grant, Instruction Partners will: a) engage in an inquiry of stakeholders about best practices in accelerated student learning; b) develop frameworks and mental models for learning acceleration across multiple curricula; c) design professional learning for teachers using these frameworks; and d) refine and scale these models and frameworks with their partner systems.
Project Title
For a project to launch district and school partnerships to implement new science standards with high-quality instructional materials
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
21 months
Description
Despite the adoption of new college and career-ready standards around the country many teachers still find themselves unprepared to teach at the level of rigor required to move these standards into implementation. Similarly, districts find themselves ill equipped to support their educators in making this shift. Instruction Partners recognizes the need in districts for instructional support and access to in-depth professional development. Their work over the past three years has successfully aided districts and schools in improving their instruction in math and English Language Arts. This grant will support Instruction Partners in developing internal capacity to support science instruction with a middle and high school science pilot program and middle school science specific professional development in Tennessee.