ASCEND

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Program Duration: One Year
Program Manager: K. Celeste Murray
Participants: Teachers with 5 or more years of experience
Number of Participants Served: 200 teachers and 10 CoP Facilitators

PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Ascend is the Priority Schools Bureau’s initiative to support and empower experienced teachers as they work to dramatically improve student achievement in their schools.

The Ascend program is designed for teachers with 5 or more years of teaching experience and/or who have completed Lift or Achieve Excellence Rising (AE-R). It focuses on strategies that expand and extend teacher skills and knowledge while simultaneously developing networks of collaboration across the state through Communities of Practice (CoPs).

Topics covered include:

  • Brain-based teaching and learning

  • Mindsets and instructional practices that engage students and increase student achievement.

  • Understanding and meaningfully using Depth of Knowledge (DOK)