Do you have a need to improve math scores? Or writing skills for students in your district or site? MD School Solutions, Inc provides content specific training for districts, sites, and specific grade levels. We offer a variety of training to impact the specific needs of a discipline and will design our professional development to match your specific needs. The specifics of our work focuses on the following areas:

• Content Specific Learning Like...
  • Understanding and teaching to a Standard,
  • Reading for Meaning
  • Building a Writing Program
  • Understanding the Concept in Math
  • Teaching with Models and Representations
• High Impact Practices
• Building Academic Language

When teachers are learning more about content and instructional practices, lesson plans will change. The structure of a lesson design evolves as teachers gain strategies for using questions, engagement, and feedback throughout a lesson.

How do you know if your daily instruction is truly effective? How do the leaders (both in title and in actions) discuss and provide feedback about instruction and its impact on student learning? We use the theoretical frameworks from Wiggins and McTighe’s Understanding by Design, Fisher’s Gradual Release of Responsibility along with Marzano’s Instructional Strategies that Work and Rick Stiggin’s Assessment for Learning to analyze the instructional framework being used in classrooms. The professional development is designed to improve the impact of your model by implementing sustainable processes that will have a lasting impact on student learning. The professional development can be designed to implement or refine the following structures:

• Instructional Framework
  
• PLC
  
• Lesson Study
  
• Instructional Walks
  

How do you use data to drive instruction? How do you know if the assessment you are using is well designed to measure the concept or skill you need if your students have achieved? In order to get the most out of classroom or district assessments, it is important to start with a test blueprint and identifying the best methods for gathering this information. Second, you need to use the data effectively and in a timely manner in order for students to benefit. It is important to use quality formative assessments to identify struggling students and the key standards so interventions are targeted, purposeful, and timely. Our professional development can assist you in this data journey.

• Test construction and data collection
  
• Reading and interpreting data to guide interventions
  
• Identifying needs of specific students