BD Cherry Crest PD 2026-2027

During the 26-27 school year, staff will engage in professional development planned by building leadership teams and aligned to the content of current or anticipated assignment. Some topics include:

• Guided Language Acquisition Design (GLAD) to support all students, including multilingual learners (MLLs)
• Best practices for literacy intervention, including UFLI 2.0 (UFLI + Orton Gillingham) and Brick and Mortar
• Positive Behavior Intervention Systems (PBIS): Tier I practices to set students up for success, including learning from "The Behavior Code" and strategies to regulate, relate and reason
• Multi-tiered Systems of Support (MTSS): Analyzing student data in math and literacy, creating intervention plans, documenting progress, communicating with families, and adjusting interventions in response to data
• Shifting from compliance to information processing: Instructional Equity (in conjunction with Zaretta Hammond's book "Rebuilding Students' Learning Power")

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Content standards for continuing education credit hours that apply to this PD are highlighted below.

The content and objectives of in-service continuing education credit hours must relate to one or more of the following:

(1) Opportunities for participants to collect and analyze evidence related to student learning; 

(2) Professional certificate standards;

(3) Paraeducator standards of practice as described in Title 179 WAC;

(4) School and district improvement efforts;

(5) Education frameworks and curriculum alignment;

(6) Research-based instructional strategies and assessment practices;

(7) Content of current or anticipated assignment;

(8) Advocacy for students and leadership;

(9) Supervision, mentoring, or coaching; or

(10) Building a collaborative learning community.

Source: State Content Standards (Chapter 181-85 WAC)