PAUSD GOALS

EQUITY & ACCESS WELLNESS & SAFETY

HIGH QUALITY TEACHING &

LEARNING

• We will be working alongside you, learning

with you, and sharing information and strategies with you.

• We value your insights and expertise. We look forward to sharing our collective best practices across the district.

• We support efforts to meet PAUSD’s focus goals: high quality teaching and learning, student equity and access to the curriculum, and both student and teacher wellness and safety.

• We are proud to have worked with PAUSD teachers on the middle school summer school redesign, STREAM, and on the PAUSD Professional Learning Conferences.

• We want to learn about the professional challenges you face, and we want to support you in your growth.

• With others, we help create a safe place for growth and resilience within the teaching and learning community.

PAUSD VISION

The heart of education as a practice of freedom is to promote growth. It’s very much

an act of love in that sense of love as something that promotes our spiritual and

mental growth.

bell hooks

Professional Learning Professional Learning is a comprehensive, sustained and intensive approach to improving teachers’, principals’ and support staffs’ effectiveness in raising student achievement. In order to provide all students the highest quality learning environment in every Palo Alto school, all certificated and classified staff must be continuously engaged in professional learning.

CONTACT INFORMATION (650) 329-3700

Karen Logue, klogue@pausd.org, X6291 Tammy Juarez, tjuarez@pausd.org, X5771

Suz Antink, santink@pausd.org, X5062

PALO ALTO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT

TOSAs SECONDARY EDUCATION

2017-2018 SECONDARY EDUCATION

GOALS

Karen Logue, Suz Antink, and Tammy Juarez

We support the implementation of Common Core State Standards, Next Generation Science Standards, Brain

Compatible Learning, and the Evolution of Learning Targets,

Common Assessments and Grading Philosophies so that all students have

access and opportunity to be successfully engaged in joyful,

purposeful learning.

WE SUPPORT GROWTH IN TEACHING AND LEARNING BY…

Collaborating Some of our main functions are to promote collaboration within and

across schools and disciplines.

Co-Planning TOSAs work with individual teachers

and course-alike/interdisciplinary teams of teachers to brainstorm ideas and instructional approaches, create projects, and plan lessons, units, and

assessments with rubrics.

Co-Teaching Co-teaching has many appearances.

TOSAs can demonstrate lessons and strategies, partner teach,

observe/coach in the classroom setting, and support your work with

individual students as well as with your entire class.

Who We Are Karen Logue

KarenhasworkedwithELA,ELD,andHSS

departmentsoverthelasttwoyears.Amongotherthings,shehasfacilitatedHS/MSpeerobservations,calibrationofwritingscoring,and

curriculumdevelopment.Thisyearherworkwillincludeatextbookadoptionfor

MSHSS. Tammy Juarez

Tammy,aNBCTinSciencehasbeenworkingwithoncoursedesign,curriculum,

andinstructionaltechniquestomeetthe

NextGen.ScienceStandards.Shehas

developedmaterialsandtrainingsonphenomena-basedscienceinstructionintegratingPracticesandCrosscuttingConcepts.

Suz Antink

Suz,aNBCTinMath,hasworkedwithMath,

ComputerScience,andWorldLanguage

departmentsoverthelasttwoyears.Herworkhasincludedtextbookadoptions,curriculumdesign,andgrading

philosophiesimplementations.

Our Guiding Principles

WE BELIEVE IN GROWTH MINDSET FOR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS.

WE BELIEVE WE ARE ALL LIFELONG LEARNERS.

WE BELIEVE IN THE DEDICATION AND PROFESSIONALISM OF OUR TEACHERS.

WE BELIEVE, GIVEN SUPPORT, PEOPLE HAVE THE CAPACITY TO SOLVE THEIR

OWN PROBLEMS.

WE BELIEVE IN ON-DEMAND SUPPORT. WE HONOR YOUR TIME AND NEEDS.

REACH OUT AND EMAIL US.

WE HONOR TEACHER CONFIDENTIALITY.

WE BELIEVE WE WILL GROW FROM OUR WORK WITH YOU.