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By Ruben Reyes, Joanne Bookmyer, Susan O’Hara, Debi Pita and Bob Pritchard
Categories: Change management, College- and career-ready standards, Implementation, Instructional materials/curriculum, Leadership, Learning systems/planning, School leadership, Teacher leadership
February 2020
Vol 41, No. 1
What drives many educators is the need to advocate for students for whom our system does not work. We need to find ways to close the equity gap for English learners and kids living in poverty, and that means we need to find ways to improve their access to a high-quality education. As a key strategy for building teachers’ capacity to provide effective instruction, the Robla School District in Sacramento, California, in partnership with UC Davis, is re-envisioning its professional learning support system. In 2016, the district realized that its professional learning approach was not improving teaching and learning. Like many districts, Robla offered a variety of disconnected professional learning initiatives. There was, for example, an initiative targeting student performance for English learners and low-income

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Ruben Reyes, Joanne Bookmyer, Susan O'Hara, Debi Pita, and Bob Pritchard

Ruben Reyes (rreyes@robla.k12.ca.us) is superintendent of Robla School District in Sacramento, California. Joanne Bookmyer (jbookmyer@ucdavis.edu) is senior director and Susan O’Hara (sohara@ucdavis.edu) is executive director of Resourcing for Excellent Education at UC Davis School of Education. Debi Pita (debipitta@gmail.com) is vice president for professional learning and Bob Pritchard (rpritchard@epfteach.com) is co-founder of EPF for teaching.

References

EPF for teaching. (2018). SOAR Teaching Frames for Literacy deep dive manual: Disciplinary discussions in elementary classrooms. Davis, CA: Author.

Fullan, M. (2014). The principal: Three keys to maximizing impact. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

O’Hara, S., Bookmyer, J., Martin, R., & Newton, R. (2018). Theory of action for resourcing professional growth. Journal of Professional Capital and Community, 4(1) 52-65.

O’Hara, S. & Pritchard, R. (2016). Framing teaching for Common Core literacy standards: SOAR Teaching Frames for Literacy. Psychology Research, 6(2), 92-101.


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Susan O’Hara (sohara@epfteach.com) is co-founder of EPF for teaching. She was formerly a research center director at University of California Davis and professor of education and center director at Stanford University. She has served as a Principal Investigator on numerous large federal grants and projects funded through private foundations. She has more than 50 publications, including three books, the most recent through Teachers College Press.

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Categories: Change management, College- and career-ready standards, Implementation, Instructional materials/curriculum, Leadership, Learning systems/planning, School leadership, Teacher leadership

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