2012 SCORE Prize Winners: Embracing High Standards | Page 3

Classroom teachers
have become more
attuned to the learning
styles of the students
identified for special
education and place more
Professional development opportunities during the
summer continued to enhance teacher skills. For
example, during the summer of 2012, the district
provided day-long sessions on “Teaching Smarter, Not Harder,” which addressed several topics in
different sessions including how to select the most
critical instructional tools and which strategies are
associated with the highest effects on learning.
Additional sessions covered topics such as shared
reading, reading beyond the text, conveying information in multiple formats, unpacking informational
texts, teaching with primary sources, motivating students, world languages, geometry, co-teaching in
inclusion classrooms, using trade books for teaching reading, [