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Montgomery County Public Schools

andThe Critical Thinking Consortium

Promoting critically thoughtful use of Promethean Activboards

Year Two Budget

Item RatePartner fee $1250*Workshop planning andadditional research,facilitator training,development of MCPSspecific flipcharts formodeling and teacher use

30 days @ $600 = $18,000

Face-to-face facilitation forpods of teams; school-based support, JapaneseLesson study

50 days @ $1000 = $50,000

Co-construction oflessons/activities withteachers, co-facilitated withteacher leaders who polish(via Elluminate)

325 hours @ $80 = $26,000

Monitoring and coachingMCPS site

160 hours @ $80 = 12,800

Supervision and Liaison 15 days @ $600 = $9,000Creation of 5 On-linetutorials filmed inMontgomery Schools weown they have unlimiteduse.

$12,500

Writing and editing ofteacher leader handbook,or repository of flipchartsfor MCPS use

14 days @ $800 =$11,200

Desktopping, graphics and

online posting

$2500

Tools for Thought/ThinkingTool Kit subscriptions

$100/subscription x 23 schools plus centraloffice = $2300

Resource books for cohort2 180 books @ $25 = $4,500Travel 50 days @ $1000 per day = $50,000Total Year One $200,000,

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Proposed Dates:

August 17th 21st UDL group introduction to critical thinking, curriculumplanning through UDL, effective assessment, and theintegration of interactive whiteboard technology in the

classroom.

September 10th: Cohort 2 introductory session

3:30 5:30 session with subject leaders in Math and Socialstudies/humanities

September 11th: day principal session on critically thoughtful leadership day school walk-thru

September 21th: All cohort one teachers facilitated by Garfield (social

studies), Laura (math), Phil (science), Mary (primary)

3:30 5:30 session with subject leaders in science andelementary

September 22th: Phil and Mary school based work with teachers

Oct. 12th Laura UDL group planning curriculum andclassroom assessments

Oct. 12th Cohort One and Two Admin brain research, assessmentand critical thinking (am)

UDL group brain research, assessment and criticalthinking (pm)

Oct. 13th UDL group literacy Reading as Thinking

Nov. 4th: Cohort 1 and 2 together (elementary)

Nov. 5th Cohort 1 and 2 together (math/science)

3:30 5:30 session with subject leaders in all areas

Nov. 6th Cohort 1 and 2 together (social studies/humanities)

Dec. 15th: day principal session day walk thru

Dec. 16th Japanese Lesson Study

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Dec. 17th day School based support planning/ model lesson day session with subject leaders in all areas

Feb. 4th: Cohort 1 session (math/science) Laura

Cohort 1 session (social studies/humanities) GarfieldCohort 1 session (elementary) Mary

3:30 5:30 session for subject leaders in all areas

Feb. 5th: Cohort 2 session (math/science) LauraCohort 2 session (social studies/humanities) GarfieldCohort 2 session (elementary) Mary

March 3rd day Principal session day walk thru

March 4th: Japanese Lesson Study

March 5th: School Based support (model lesson, planning, coaching) day session with subject based leaders in all subjectareas

April 5th: day principal session day walk thru

April 6th day School Based support day session with subject based leaders in all subjectareas

April 28th: Cohort 1 and 2 together (elementary)

April 29th: Cohort 1 and 2 together (math/science)

April 30th: Cohort 1 and 2 together (social studies/humanities)

Note: Twice during the year cohorts 1 and 2 would meet together to share theirwork and questions. This would allow cohort 1 participants to share theirknowledge and ideas with cohort 2 and for some shared planning time to extendthe community.

Japanese Lesson Study: This would involve a TC2 facilitator co-planning alesson with a MCPS teacher. Either the TC2 facilitator or the MCPS teacherwould deliver the lesson while the other would observe the children and how theywere responding to the lesson. Following the lesson the 5:33 PMC2 facilitator

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and the MCPS teacher would debrief together to discuss what worked well andpossible revisions.

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MasterPlan

Add17days

Group

Dates

Foci

Facilitators

CohortOne

Sept.21

Garfield

Laura

Phil

Mary

Sept.22

Sc

hoolBasedsupport

Phil

Mary

Nov.4

Elementary

Garfield

Nov.5

Math/Science

Garfield?

Nov.6

Social

S

cience/Humanities

Garfield

MCPSteacher

leaders*

Sept.21(3:30

5:30)

Elementary

Science

Phil

Mary

Nov.5(3:30

5:30)

Allsubjectleaders

fromcohortOne

Garfield

CohortTwo

Sept.10

In

troductorysession

Garfield

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Nov.4

Elementary

Garfield

Nov.5

Math/Science

Garfield?

Nov.6

Social

S

cience/Humanities

Garfield

UDLcohort

August17-21

CriticalThinking,

cu

rriculumdesignand

theintegrationof

interactivewhiteboard

technology

Garfield(5days)

Laura(3days)

Mary(3days)

Sept.11pm

S

choolwalkthrough

Garfield

Oct.12

CurriculumP

lanningand

assessment

Laura

Oct.13

ReadingasThinking

GarfieldMary?

Admin

Cohort1&2

Sept.11am

Introductiontocritical

thinkingpedagogy

Garfield

Oct.12pm

BrainResearch,

Assessmentand

CriticalThinking

Garfield

AdminUDL

group

Sept.11am

Introductiontocritical

thinkingpedagogy

Garfield

Oct.12am

BrainResearch,

Ass

essmentandCritical

Garfield

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Thinking