Key Activity #1: Engage in effective culturally responsive instructional choices to support gifted identification (GT ID) and talent development. How have your sites engaged in culturally responsive instruction practices to increase GT ID? Describe activities your site(s) have practiced in. *
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Key Activity #2: Appropriate use of the Colorado Department of Education Gifted and Talented Pathways. Describe how your I-REECCH participants have modified their understanding and use of the CDE GT Pathways for identification. What changes have you observed? *
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Key Activity #3: Developing and implementing an online computational thinking (CT) /computer science (CS) curriculum for elementary school students. What plans do you have in place to engage in online computational thinking/ computer science activity? What is your timeline for implementation? What does the process look like? *
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Key Activity #4: Implementation of culturally responsive teaching and leadership (CRT &L) practices. Reflect on the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) debriefs and results; share the change in I-REECCH participants' actions and behaviors you have observed. *
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Key Activity #5: Implementation of higher order thinking skills (HOTS), including the depth and complexity framework. What change in instructional practices have you observed in classrooms at your site(s) tied with higher order thinking skills (HOTS) implementation? *
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Key Activity #6 : Developing a comprehensive and innovative system of professional development and technical assistance using ECHO technology & Facilitate online ECHO training to integrate content to generate solutions to their identified problem of practice . Reflect on your Persistence Problem of Practice (PPP) and share the ECHO session(s) that have integrated content to support solutions for your site(s) PPP. How has the ECHO format (Content Presentations, Case Study, Networking/Community of Learners) inspired you to improve practices and influence positive change? *
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Key Activity #8: Using design thinking and iterative PDSA cycles to gain a deeper understanding of the user’s identified problem, to prototype interventions, to collect data and revise the intervention to improve rural student learning outcomes. Describe one of your site(s) short term goals (Small Dot) and how you have measured its success. How will you know you have made gains? *
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Key Activity #9: Preparing a cadre of rural teachers, principals, and coaches to lead best practice instruction. Share 3 ways you have developed a Network/Community of Learners (teachers, principals, Instructional Coaches) with your I-REECCH team(s). *
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Key Activity #10: Identifying appropriate gifted and talented assessment instruments that are culturally sensitive and account for language differences. What measurement tools & instruments have your site(s) added to their toolbox to support building a body of evidence (BOE) for possible GT ID or Talent Pool/Development? *
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Key Activity #11: Connecting rural students electronically with students in high-performing schools to collaborate on solving common problems. What plans do you have in place to engage in connecting rural students electronically? Describe. (This is the community partnership with Deb Nielsen.) *
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Key Activity #12: Develop and maintain an I-REECCH website, which will serve as a free repository for all materials. How are you disseminating the learning and content materials from the ECHO sessions? How do you handle I-REECCH participants who are absent? What is the accountability process to learn the content? *