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Ratification by the Board of Education of a Professional Services Contract between District and Rochelle Weintraub, Oakland, CA, for the latter to provide 50.5 hours of professional development to 9th grade ELA and Social Science teachers that will follow a lesson study and writing based DBQ ("documents based questions") methodology, comprised of two cycles of lesson study during which contractor will: (1) Support teachers to do-develop assessments and to backwards map to unit lessons [2-3 days]; (2) Lead lesson enactment and peer observations [1 day]; and (3) Support teachers to engage in reflection and to analyze student work from the lessons that will inform how they can continually increasing the rigor (high expectation and scaffolding) of their future lessons, at Oakland Technical High School, for the period October 15, 2012 through June 30, 2013, in an amount not to exceed $4,300.00.