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Ratification by the Board of Education of a Professional Services Contact between District and Vanessa Flynn, Berkeley, CA, for the latter to provide 435 hours of professional development to build the capacity of teachers and site-based literacy coaches at two high needs School Improvement Grant (SIG) middle schools, which will include 2 days of on-site coaching, demonstration and feedback over 32 weeks, 6 professional development sessions, (3 with a whole group focus and 3 with a small group focus) to build over the course of the year supporting all English Lanagage Arts, Social Science, and Science teachers to integrate leveled reading intructional practices into their daily classroom instruction; provude each teacher support to utilize instructional practices aligned with the Academic Language and Literacy framework including whole and small group Reciprocal Teachers; train school leaders in calibrating their view of quality reading intructional practices through conducting shared walkthroughs once per month, at Alliance Academy and Roots International Middle Schools, for the period September 10, 2011 through June 10, 2012, in an amount not to exceed $40,000.00.
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