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Join us for a professional learning session focused on Zaretta Hammond’s influential book, Rebuilding Students’ Learning Power: Teaching for Instructional Equity and Cognitive Justice. This event will equip teachers with practical strategies to foster cognitive capacity, instructional equity, and social emotional growth in every classroom. Through collaborative exploration and hands-on application, participants will learn to empower dependent learners to become independent thinkers and to nurture students' social and emotional well-being alongside academic success.

 

Session Objectives:

  • Deepen understanding of instructional equity and cognitive justice to help close learning gaps and support student independence.
  • Identify ways to reduce over-scaffolding, encouraging autonomy and resilience in students.
  • Connect strategies from Hammond’s book to the SIOP framework, including intentional planning, academic language development, explicit modeling of cognitive skills, peer collaboration, and reflective teaching practices.

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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)