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Resources on This Page:

• Professional Development Resources
• Lesson Plans
• Culture at Cochrane
• Useful Websites

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Professional-Development Resources

• Presentation on Interactive Learning Non-Negotiables

• Summary of Interactive Learning Non-Negotiables to be demonstrated daily in the classroom at Cochrane Collegiate Academy

• Essential Questions

  Presentation on essential versus higher-order-thinking questions

• Worksheet used to analyze student data

• Weekly professional-development schedule for teachers at Cochrane

• Presentation on the Cochrane strategy to have students read 25 minutes per day

• Presentation on raising the level of intellectual rigor in the classroom

• Cochrane Academy lesson-planning form

• Learning-Focused

  Presentation on Learning-Focused teaching strategies

• Presentation on self-reflection teacher evaluation at Cochrane

• Teacher-evaluation form for Cochrane staff

Lesson Plans

Examples from a characterization lesson from Angela Johnson’s ninth-grade English class:

• Lesson plan for characterization lesson; includes classroom examples of some of Cochrane's "Non-Negotiables":

  • Essential Question
  • Activating Strategy
  • Graphic Organizer
  • Higher-Order-Thinking Questions

Examples from various ninth-grade math lessons:

• Outline for algebra expressions unit

• Lesson plans for algebra expressions unit

• Overview map of algebra expressions unit

Culture at Cochrane

• Presentation on the restructuring plan at Cochrane

• Presentation on raising expectations for students in the classroom

• Expectations for teachers at Cochrane

• Expectations for Cochrane parents

• Daily schedule at Cochrane

Useful Websites

• -- by Principal Josh Bishop

• -- website with free graphic organizers

• -- website with free graphic organizers

• -- from Worksheet Works

• -- website for K-12 professional development

• -- website with animated math and reading courses

• -- website with educational hip-hop music for K-12

• -- website with animated educational resources, including curriculum-based online games