Review Agenda Item
Meeting Date: 6/16/2021 - 3:30 PM
Category: Consent Calendar
Type: Action
Subject: 11.12 CURRICULUM: Agreement With T4 Learning To Provide Teacher Training And Professional Development In Curriculum, Instruction, Teaching And Learning At Pinacate Middle School (funded through Various COVID Funds in the amount of $36,000, not the General Fund)
Strategic Plan:
Enclosure
File Attachment:
T4 Proposal for Pinacate MS- 2021-22.pdf
Summary: The District would like to enter into an Agreement with T4 Learning to provide teacher training and professional development at Pinacate Middle School.  T4 Learning is designed to transform teaching and learning by strengthening first and best instruction and providing multiple and continuous student-focused collaboration and inquiry opportunities.  Efficacious instruction in the 21st Century requires focusing on the Common Core State Standards and implementing high-engagement teaching strategies to promote thinking, communicating, and problem-solving.  T4 Learning’s four components - Teacher, Training, Tools, and Time - will work together to promote educational excellence at Pinacate Middle School.

T4 Learning will provide Pinacate Middle School teachers with instructional strategies for increased student engagement and mastery, Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and daily lesson objectives, strategies for checking and understanding, efficacious instruction and mastery of CCSS and ELD standards, identification and communication of effective and best classroom practices, lesson design and delivery of rigorous instruction, brisk and effective pacing of delivery to maximize use of instructional time, high engagement strategies to deliberately plan into CCSS lesson designs, and classroom coaching of instructional strategies for CCSS delivery and implementation.

The cost of service is $3000 per day for twelve (12) days of Common Core State Standards professional development for teachers and instructional coaching, for a total cost of $36,000.  Professional development will be held on designated days between August 31, 2021, and February 3, 2022.
Funding: The cost for this item will be included in the 2021-22 operating budget funded through Various COVID Funds, not the General Fund.
Recommendation: It is recommended that the Board of Trustees approve the Agreement with T4 Learning to provide teacher training and professional development in curriculum, instruction, teaching and learning at Pinacate Middle School.
Approvals:
Recommended By:
Signed By:
Dian Martin - Director - Educational Services
Signed By:
Robert Brough - Assistant Superintendent of Educational Services
Signed By:
Dawn Bray - Director - Purchasing
Signed By:
Candace Reines - Deputy Superintendent
Signed By:
Grant Bennett - Superintendent
Vote Results:

Original Motion
Member Dr. Randall Freeman Moved, Member David Nelissen seconded to approve the Original motion 'It is recommended that the Board of Trustees approve the Agreement with T4 Learning to provide teacher training and professional development in curriculum, instruction, teaching and learning at Pinacate Middle School.'. Upon a Roll-Call Vote being taken, the vote was: Aye: 5 Nay: 0.
The motion Carried 5 - 0
   
Elizabeth Vallejo     Yes
Anthony T. Stafford, Sr.     Yes
Dr. Randall Freeman     Yes
Dr. Jose Luis Araux     Yes
David Nelissen     Yes