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REACH INSTITUTE FOR SCHOOL LEADERSHIP

The Reach Institute for School Leadership offers four sequential programs for educators working in small, innovative schools:

• Intern Credential Program, which leads to a California preliminary teacher credential
  
• Professional Teacher Induction Program, which leads to a California clear teacher credential
  
• Coaching Academy, which supports the development of teacher leaders and mentors
  
• School Leadership Coaching, which supports principals and school leaders

Reach Program Practices:
There is a positive relationship between student learning and teachers' flexibility, creativity, or adaptability. Successful teachers tend to be those who are able to use a range of teaching strategies and who use a mix of interaction styles, rather than a single, rigid approach. In a focused effort to develop flexible and dynamic teachers, all Reach Institute programs employ six central Program Practices:

1. Job Embedded Coaching: Participants are regularly observed in the classroom by coaches and peers, and in turn observe peers and master teachers. Observations are structured to identify specific practices and are debriefed to maximize learning.
2. Personalized Professional Development: Each participant develops and implements, with the help of peers, master teachers, and coaches, an Individualized Learning Plan.
3. Need to Know Content Knowledge: Based on the practice of Emergent Curriculum, content knowledge (including the California Teacher Preparation Standards), is selected, studied and discussed as topics become relevant to the teachers’ practice.
4. Coaching & Mentoring: Emphasis is placed on the participant through questioning, challenging, feedback, and help from master teachers and coaches.
5. Collaborative Work: Participants work both in cohorts of 8-12 new teachers and in small subgroups of 3 or 4 teachers. Cohort groups meet in dialogical seminars and reflection meetings to discuss theory, practice, and obstacles to great work. Sub-groups meet to co-plan lessons, develop projects, and provide ongoing support.
6. Reflection: Participants discuss their practice and the obstacles to great work in order to achieve “high performance.”

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