Jeff Zwiers Instructional leadership Community of Practice

Event Type: COP
Description: Jeff Zwiers Instructional Leadership Community of Practice to support site teacher leaders and administrators in implementing professional learning at their sites on Engaging ALL students in Academic Talk Across Disciplines. 4 Full Days: The AM sessions will be spent in classrooms, Dr. Zwiers will be available to model lessons and/or coach at hosting site. Four different interested participating sites will be chosen to host. The PM sessions will be workshop time to learn and further develop content knowledge and plan professional learning specific to your site to expand and deepen implementation to increase quantity and quality of of academic oral language across disciplines. Dates: 10/16/25 Session 1: Getting the Work Started,  12/03/25 Session 2: Learning & Planning from Student Talk,  2/03/26  Session 3: Deeper Learning & Planning form Student Talk,  4/14/26  Session 4: Bringing it all Together. Reflecting, Celebrating, Next Steps.
Intended Audience: Site Leaders, Teacher Leaders, District Leaders
Max Participants: 25
Additional Information: Lunch will be provided Target Audience: Site teacher leaders and administrators who have attended and/or had staff members attend prior Jeff Zwiers professional development on engaging students in oral academic language and are interested in expanding and strengthening implementation across their site.

Attendance Type: In-Person
Location: TBD
Address: 400 Encinal Street
Notes: Participants will be informed in advance of location and will vary depending on participating sites interested in hosting.

Contact: Barbara Huebner
Email: bhuebner@santacruzcoe.org
Phone: (831) 515-9504