• 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
• Three 2015-2016 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 Summer of 2015
• 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 Earth Science course 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 Earth Science and develops cohesive curricula

Alfred E Smith
Bronx Academy of Health Careers
Bronx Latin
Central Park East High School
Community Health Academy of the Heights
Fort Hamilton High School
Frederick Douglass Academy II
High School for Youth and Community Development 
Quest to Learn
New Visions Charter School for Advanced Math and Science
New Visions Charter School for Advanced Math and Science II
New Visions Charter School for Advanced Math and Science III
New Visions Charter School for the Humanities
New Visions Charter School for the Humanities II
New Visions Charter School for the Humanities III

2015-2016 Instructional Specialists:

John Salazar