Administrators

Zoom In is embedded professional development for your teachers

Too often, PD is disconnected from what teachers do in the classroom. With Zoom In, teacher learning is practice-based.

Each Zoom In lesson is an opportunity for teachers use, reflect on, and build these high-leverage practices, which loom large in the Danielson framework:

• Posing higher-order questions

• Helping students read and comprehend challenging texts

• Facilitating effective classroom discussions

• Using formative assessment and timely feedback to focus student improvement

• Building students' skills as academic writers

As they teach, print and on-screen teacher guides give teachers clear rationales for each instructional move, and specific prompts to use with students. Videos demonstrate the moves in clear ways. Built-in assessment tools help teachers identify and address gaps in students’ knowledge and skills.

A school-wide solution

Leverage the strengths of your ELA and social studies teams. Team-teaching with Zoom In helps your ELA teachers gain skills in teaching informational texts and your social studies teachers gain skills in teaching close reading and writing.