High-Leverage Teaching Practices
Core Teaching Practices: Teaching and Leading Through an Equitable Lens
Professional Development for BCPS Teacher-Leaders!
GVSU College of Education & Community Innovation Presenters
Megan Freudigmann
Teaching & Learning Senior Affiliate Faculty
Sheryl Vlietstra
Teaching & Learning Senior Affiliate Faculty

Teacher-Leaders will engage in 11 hours of professional development surrounding one core teaching practice each semester for four semesters. Three or four member PLCs will use Google Classroom, Google Docs and Zoom to engage in group work to support learning. Participants will receive a $1,000 stipend each June.
Professional Development Formats:
- Direct instruction
- Peer-to-peer interaction
- Role-play
- Video analysis
- Coaching sessions that will employ rehearsals with peers and with presenters
- Small group discussions
- Mursion virtual classroom technology
- Self-reflection on teaching in classrooms
Participants will become familiar with and enact critical elements of four
Core Teaching Practices:
Fall 2020 (Sept-Nov): Building Respectful Relationships with Students
Winter 2021 (Feb-June): Explaining and Modeling Content, Practices, and Strategies; Checking for Understanding; and Eliciting and Interpreting Student Thinking
Fall 2021 (Aug-Nov): Leading a Group Discussion; Analyzing Instruction for the Purposes of Improving It
Winter 2022 (Feb-June): Postponed until Fall 2022
For more information, please contact Megan Freudigmann (freudigm@gvsu.edu) or Sheryl Vlietstra (vlietssh@gvsu.edu).