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Curriculum
& Instruction (C&I):
Standards Implementation
Standards-Aligned Instruction and Learning (SAIL)
- Curriculum Calibration
- Assessment
- Explicit Direct Instruction
Coordinator - Instructional Leadership, Cheryl Hansen
925.942.3445
chansen@cccoe.k12.ca.us
A Three-Part Professional Development Series: When state content standards, classroom content and assignments, and assessments are aligned and teachers teach grade-level work every day, student achievement will improve. Our Three-Part Professional Development Series is aimed at giving teachers and administrators important strategies to attain this alignment and implement a coherent standards-aligned instructional program.
Training is available for secondary or elementary school teams or individual districts, schools, or departments. Teachers and administrators may participate in one, two, or all three parts of the SAIL series.
The SAIL series includes:
- Curriculum Calibration
• Examination of the depth, breadth, and rigor of the content standards across the grade levels.
• Practical strategies and tools to align both teacher and publisher-created curricula to grade level standards to raise expectations and improve student achievement. - Assessment
• Use of grade-level formative and summative assessments to improve student achievement.
• Application of research-based strategies to create effective assessments. - Explicit Direct Instruction
• Application of effective instructional strategies and efficient, well-designed lessons to ensure student mastery of the standards taught.
SB472 Mathematics Training
Cordinator, Pam Tyson, Ph.D.
925.942-3381
SB472 mathematics is an intensive State Board of Education approved training in a District’s adopted textbook materials. The 40-hour grade-level specific training presents the main features of the textbook and ancillary materials, the conceptual orientation of the textbook and its alignment with the California Mathematics Content Standards. The training includes modeling of instructional strategies, an examination and use of formative assessments, and time for planning six weeks of text-specific instruction.
Contra Costa County currently offers SB472 math trainings in the following programs:
- enVisionMath (K-6) published by Pearson Scott Foresman
- Everyday Mathematics (K-6) published by Wright Group/McGraw Hill
- Holt California Mathematics (6-8) published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston
- Houghton Mifflin California Math (K-6) Houghton Mifflin Company
- MacMillan/McGraw-Hill Math (K-6) published by MacMillian/McGraw Hill School Division
- Prentice Hall Mathematics California (6-8) Pearson Prentice Hall
- Prentice Hall Mathematics California Algebra Readiness published by Pearson Prentice Hall
We can arrange to provide trainings in other mathematics textbooks at the request of districts in Contra Costa County.
English Language Development (ELD)
Coordinator, School
Improvement, Elvia Teixeira
925.296.1439
English Language Development support services are offered at district and countywide levels. The Contra Costa County Office of Education staff is a liaison for information regarding:
- English Language Learner professional development
- Curriculum
- Resources
- East Bay Bilingual Educational Council (EBBEC), a monthly network meeting attended by English Language Development coordinators/managers from school districts in Contra Costa County.
School-to-Career (STC) Program
Coordinator,
Resiliency & Prevention Programs, Louise Barbee
925.942.3385
School-to-Career is a K-18 school reform initiative that promotes changes at the classroom system levels. In the classroom, teachers use project-based learning, service-learning and other instructional strategies that engage students, require in-depth investigations, have a "real world" audience, bring relevance to the curriculum, and develop necessary skills that students will need for the future.
Learning is both rigorous and relevant. School-to-Career also encourages students to engage in work-based learning opportunities, such as job shadows, internships, work site visits, career speakers and other opportunities that connect the knowledge and skills students are learning in the classroom with those they will need to be successful in college and careers. The Contra Costa Office of Education provides technical assistance to school districts to develop and implement effective School-to-Career programs.
