• On-site coaching two to four times a month to develop an evidence-based practice that involves looking at student work to determine instructional moves as well as consistent and rigorous use of literacy strategies to build content and skill mastery
• Monthly cross-network PDs to introduce teachers to literacy and content understanding strategies as well as to provide an opportunity to discuss their progress with the curriculum
• Curriculum Institute in the summers of 2014 - 2016
• Digital support through Google + communities where teachers will be able to communicate with pilot colleagues, ask questions about the curriculum and watch archived coaching videos

• Demands of new Common Core aligned assessments require that literacy skills are addressed throughout all content areas.
• The Living Environment culminates in a required Regents exam and can serve as a core skill building course that supports access to even more rigorous science courses
• Teachers can spend more time focusing on how to teach and less time researching what to teach
• Crowd-sourced solutions to common problems in both literacy and content
• Excellent PD opportunities in a community of practice for often isolated teachers
• Opportunity to develop leadership skills and norm on how NVPS teaches LE and develops cohesive curricula

New Visions Charter School for Advanced Math and Science
The High School for Innovation in Advertising and Media
New Visions Charter School for Advanced Math and Science II
Bronx Engineering and Technology Academy
New Visions Charter School for Advanced Math and Science III
Frederick Douglass Academy II
Belmont Preparatory High School
New Visions Charter School for the Humanities
New Visions Charter School for the Humanities II
Business of Sports School
New Visions Charter School for the Humanities III
Collegiate Institute for Math and Science
West Bronx Academy for the Future
Civic Leadership Academy

2014-2016 Instructional Specialists:

Kiran Purohit

Libby Chatham