CCL/COLLABORATIVE COACHING & LEARNING GUIDES

• Plain Talk About CCL: Crafting a Course of Study
• Plain Talk About CCL: Learning in a Lab Site
• Straight Talk About CCL: A Guide for School Leaders

VIEWER'S GUIDES TO BPE VIDEOS

Soon BPE's videos will be  on our website. Until then, please  mcohen@bpe.org for copies.

A Look at Readers’ Workshop: Grade 9 at Burke HS

BPE’s 24-minute video features one lesson from one teacher — how to find parts of the text in “Of Mice & Men” that create its meaning — and her reflections on how she planned and taught the lesson, what she watched for as it unfolded, and what she learned about her students’ responses to help her plan for the next day’s lesson.

• Workshop Grade 9 Viewer's Guide

Preparing for Workshop: Grade 1 at Lee ES

Filmed in SY2002-2003, this three-part video follows a first grade
teacher in Boston as she introduces classroom routines to increase
student independence — independence that is a prerequisite to
workshop instruction. As the year progresses, she notices dramatic
changes in the behavior of some of her most challenging students, as well as strong gains in reading and writing for every student. Classroom segments are interspersed with reflective interviews with the teacher and literacy coach. The 65-minute video is in three segments: A Quick Look; Part 1/Getting Started with Routines; Part 2/Managing Student Behavior.

• Preparing for Workshop Viewer's Guide

Reading is Thinking! Reading Aloud at the Jackson-Mann ES

Reading aloud “Oliver Button is a Sissy,” teacher Fran Ahearn models
thinking skills with her second graders and draws out their thinking at key points during the read aloud and at the end-of-reading share time. Intermixed with the lesson are interviews with Ms. Ahearn in which she discusses how she chooses a book, prepares for each read aloud, and uses the lesson to assess students’ thinking and plan future lessons.

• Reading is Thinking Viewer's Guide

Order forms for other BPE videos

• Reading with your kids (available in English and Spanish)
• PD With Purpose: Coaching in Boston's Schools
• Interactive Read Aloud: A Training Video in Seven Parts
  for Boston’s After-School Program Staff