How we support you
TLA works side-by-side with teachers and school leaders to co-construct and continually revise professional learning experiences based on the unique needs of each school community. Experiences include:
- workshops
- job-embedded coaching
- curriculum planning
- facilitated peer inter-visitations.
We are committed to partnering with classroom teachers, instructional coaches, and school/district leadership to cultivate thriving, self-sustaining teaching and learning communities for student success, in the classroom and in life.
How can Teaching and Learning Alliance partner with Secondary Schools?
Our workshops and coaching are evidence-based while remaining customizable to the needs of the partnership.
Developing Accountable Talk/Academic Discourse Skills
The role of meaningful, purposeful talk is essential in and outside of the classroom. We provide job-embedded opportunities to develop and implement practices that cultivate and deepen discourse skills across all content areas in support of teaching, learning, leading, and thinking.
Fostering Student Agency, Independence & Critical Thinking
Grounded in our values and beliefs, adolescent development, and best practices, we create, revise, and refine practices that center students’ thinking, ownership, and empowerment. We ask, “What are students doing to build knowledge and the skills to pursue THEIR interests, passions, and future?”.
Incorporating the Intersection of Literacies Across all Disciplines: Reading, Writing, Thinking, Speadking, Listening, Digital &Visual
We collaborate with teachers, coaches, and leaders in creating and sustaining a school-wide culture of deep learning in and across all literacies. We work to cultivate professional practices that support the integration of multiple literacies in pursuit of meaning making, critical thinking, and conceptual understanding aligning to state standards.
Cultivating a Culture of Collaboration, Choice, Engagement & Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
Learning happens in community with others. We work with school communities in a variety of ways to cultivate opportunities for intentional and purposeful collaboration acknowledging our collective lived experiences, geniuses*, accountability to one another, and decision making capacities.
Leveraging Joy, Wellness & Equity for Students and Educators
Our work is grounded in the practice of supporting students and educators in reaching their genius* through culturally and historically responsive pedagogies in pursuit of joy, learning, and wellness. We provide structures and customized professional development opportunities that reclaim our humanity, efficacy, justice, and criticality.