Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning

Element 2.1 Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating

Promoting social Models and Models fair and Reinforces positive, Develops shared Facilitates student
Development and communicates respectful behavior. responsible, and responsibility with self reflection and
responsibility expectations for fair Demonstrates respectful student students for resolving ongoing
within a caring and respectful commitment to interactions. Assists conflict and creating improvement of the
community where behavior to support fairness and respect students to resolve and maintaining a caring community
each student is social in conflicts. caring based on respect,
treated fairly and development. communications with Incorporates cultural classroom fairness, and the value
respectfully students about awareness to community. of all members.
language and develop a positive Supports students in
behavior. classroom taking leadership in
Seeks to understand climate. 09.19.20 developing a caring
cultural perceptions 04.30.21 community that is Students take
Some students share of caring responsive to the leadership in
in responsibility for community. Students diverse cultural resolving conflict and
the classroom demonstrate norms of creating a fair and
community. Students participate efforts to be identities of all students. respectful classroom
in occasional positive, 10.17.21 community where
community accepting, and student’s home culture
building activities, respectful of Students take is included and valued.
designed to promote differences. 04.30.21 responsibility Students
caring, fairness, and 10.17.21 resolving conflicts and communicate with
respect. 09.19.20 maintaining a caring empathy and
classroom understanding in
community. interactions with
Students promote one another.
respect and
appreciation for
differences.
 Evidence 09.19.20 09.19.20 11.30.21
We have community Within the classroom, For our Outsider's unit,
building activities we discuss historical we've been working on
that the school itself events which connect how we think about
puts on, but I do not with
stereotypes. This has
often assign current day attitudes
community building and issues. I also helped create a caring
activities within my create group projects climate by discussing a
classroom. for students to practice difficult topic in an
working appropriate manner.
effectively with others.

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This is something each
class had to work on
this year because they
had to remain in their
cohorts and with the
same people the entire
time. My 6th graders
especially had to work
on understanding how
and which words they
use matter greatly.

Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning
Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning
Element 2.2 Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating
Creating physical Is aware of the Experiments with Develops physical Maintains physical Adapts physical
or virtual importance of the and/or virtual environments that environments that and/or environments
learning physical and/or learning reflect student reflect student flexibly to facilitate
environments virtual learning environments that diversity and diversity and provides access to a wide range
that promote environments that support student learning. provide a range of a broad range of of resources that
student support student resources for resources, displays, engage students in
learning, reflect learning. learning. 09.19.20 and artifacts that are learning. Ensures
diversity, and Structures for 04.30.21 current and integral to that environments
encourage Is aware that interaction are taught instruction. enhance learning
constructive structured in single Utilizes a variety of and reflect
and interaction between lessons or sequence structures for Integrates a variety of diversity within and
productive students can of lessons to interaction during structures for beyond the classroom.
interactions support learning. support learning activities that interaction that
among students student learning. ensures a focus on and engage students Selects from a
completion of constructively and repertoire of
learning tasks. productively in learning. structures for
09.19.20 04.30.21 interaction to ensure
accelerated learning
Some students use Students routinely for the full range of
available resources Students use use a range of students.
in learning resources provided resources in
environments in learning Students use a variety learning environments Students participate in
during instruction. environments and of resources in that relate to and monitoring and
interact with each learning enhance instruction changing the design of
other to understand environments and and reflect their learning
and interact in ways that diversity. environments and
complete learning deepen their Students share in structures for
tasks in single understanding of the monitoring and interactions.
lessons or content and develop assessment of
sequence of lessons. constructive social interactions to improve
and academic effectiveness and
interactions. develop a positive
09.19.20 culture for
learning. 04.30.21
 Evidence 09.19.20 04.30.21
I provide Because we were both
books/materials/etc. on Zoom and in the
that reflect student physical classroom, I
diversity. They learn had to
how to use different develop and use a
resources range of resources
effectively for the that would work
21st century. both online and in
person. Because of
04.30.21 this,
I felt like I was students had to take
stagnant with this more responsibility
CSTP because I didn’t over
have my own monitoring themselves
because I was not
always physically in
the room with them. It
was also a

Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning
physical location at challenge to create safe
school. Due to group work spaces and
moving from so I felt that the
classroom to students lost that
classroom, I felt like I interaction
lost the magic of during the first part of
creating a cool, the year.
educational
classroom this year. 11.30.21
My walls are beginning
to be covered by
student work! I'm
actively having the
students plan out
spaces on the walls that
they are in charge of
decorating with their
best work.
Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning
Element 2.3 Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating
Establishing and Adheres to policies Recognizes and Anticipates and Integrates support for Shares responsibility
maintaining and laws regarding addresses safety reduces risks to students to take risks with the students for
learning safety that are issues regarding physical, and offer respectful the establishment
environments that required by the site, materials, intellectual, and opinions about and
are physically, district, and state. student interactions, emotional safety using divergent maintenance of a safe
intellectually, Responds to and the organization multiple strategies viewpoints. 09.19.20 physical, intellectual,
and behaviors that of the learning that include 04.30.21 and emotional
emotionally impact student environments. examining biases in environment focused
safe safety as they arise. the learning on high quality and
environment and rigorous learning.
curriculum. Engages in reflection
Explores strategies to on their own language
establish intellectual Models and provides and behavior that
and emotional safety instruction on skills contributes to
in the classroom. that develop intellectual and
09.19.20 resiliency and emotional safety in
support intellectual the classroom. Students
Students are aware and emotional safety. demonstrate
of required safety 04.30.21 resiliency in
procedures and the Students follow Students develop and perseverance for
school and classroom teacher guidance practice resiliency academic
rational for regarding Students take risks, skills and strategies achievement.
maintaining safety. potential safety issues offer opinions, and to strive for Students maintain
for self or others. share academic intellectual and
09.19.20 alternative achievement, and emotional safety for
perspectives establish intellectual themselves and others
04.30.21 and emotional safety in the classroom.
in the classroom.
 Evidence 09.19.20 04.30.21 09.19.20
I would like to add I feel like I’ve been We often discuss
more tools for more specific and controversial topics
establishing careful with my and it is important
intellectual and words this year to that
emotional safety in ensure that I am students do not feel
the classroom. I do making each student attacked while
my best to foster a feel safe in the sharing their
safe learning classroom. opinions. This
environment. Students includes strategies
do well at listening to on how to
most teacher respectfully
instruction disagree and agree.
regarding safety.
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The students are much
less likely to shout
during arguments
through the rules put
in place on
Debate.

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My 7th grade students
have come up with their
own behavior
expectations and how
they will be graded on
their participation and
behavior.

Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning
Element 2.4 Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating
Creating a Focuses the rigor of Strives for a rigorous Develops a rigorous Integrates rigor Facilitates a rigorous
rigorous the learning learning environment learning environment throughout the learning environment
learning environment on that includes accuracy, that includes accuracy, learning environment in which students
environment accuracy of answers understanding, and the analysis, problem that values accuracy, take
with high and completion of importance of meeting solving, and analysis, and critical leadership in learning.
expectations learning tasks. targeted learning appropriate levels of reading, writing and Fosters extended
and Is aware of the goals. Works to challenge. thinking. studies, research,
appropriate importance of maintain high Holds high Integrates strategic analysis and
support for all maintaining high expectations for expectations for scaffolds and purposeful use of
students expectations for students. students while students. Has an technologies learning.
becoming aware of understanding of throughout Supports students to
achievement patterns achievement instruction that utilize an extensive
for individuals and patterns, and uses support the full range repertoire of
groups of students. scaffolds to of learners in meeting differentiated
09.19.20 address achievement high strategies to meet
Some students ask 04.30.21 gaps. expectations for high
for teacher support achievement. expectations.
to Students engage in a
understand or Some individuals and variety of Students actively use Students take
complete learning groups of students differentiated supports and responsibility to fully
tasks. 09.19.20 work with the supports and challenges to utilize teacher and
teacher to challenges in ways complete critical peer support, to
support accuracy that promote their reading, writing, achieve
and comprehension accuracy, analysis, higher order consistently high levels
in their learning. and problem solving thinking, and of factual and
04.30.21 in learning. problem solving analytical learning.
across subject
matter.
 Evidence 09.19.20 09.19.20 11.30.21
Students are used to I have high As students learn new
being “spoon fed” expectations of the information and skills, I
the answers and kids, but recognize make sure to first
requirements and that they are not used
demonstrate how to do
told exactly what to to
do. I being responsible the skill, then have us all
would love to work for their own do it together as a class,
on having students learning. I then have
actively taking would like to be better groups/partners and
control of their at having students then have students
learning. understanding the attempt it on their own.
learning goals of This scaffolds the
each activities.
students who need the
extra support and allow
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those students who
I have gotten better
at explaining the understand to show their
learning goal of the understanding and teach
assignment and their peers. The 6th
creating more graders have been
concrete ways to share working on their first
my expectations with DBQ with me in this way.
the

Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning
 students. Students
have become better
at
regulating their own
learning versus just
wanting to grade.

Element 2.5 Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating

Developing, Establishes Develops Uses multiple Integrates equitable Facilitates a positive
communicating, expectations, rules, expectations with strategies including expectations, environment using
and maintaining and consequences for some student culturally positive supports, systems that ensure
high standards for individual and group involvement. responsive instruction and students take an
individual and behavior. Communicates, models to develop and consequences for active role in
group behavior and explains maintain high individual and group monitoring and
expectations for standards for behavior within and maintaining high
individual and group individual and group across learning standards for
behavior. behavior. 09.19.20 activities. 04.30.21 individual and group
Refers to standards behaviors.
for behavior and Reviews standards for Utilizes routine Guides and supports
applies behavior with students references to students to self-assess,
consequences as needed. in single lessons or standards for monitor, and set goals
sequence of lessons behavior prior and for individual and
in anticipation of during individual and group
need for group work. 09.19.20 behavior and
reinforcement. participation. 04.30.21
Students are aware Students
of classroom rules Students know Students follow Students respond to demonstrate
and expectations for behavior individual and group positive behavior,
consequences. behavior and expectations, accept behaviors and consistent
consequences and consequences and encourage and support participation and are
 respond to guidance in increase positive each other to make valued for their
following them. behaviors. 09.19.20 improvements. unique identities.
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Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning
Evidence 09.19.20 04.30.21 11.30.21
I believe that the I have become better at During group work and at
routines and giving instructions and the end of trimesters, we
procedures that we expectations which
have set up for the create goals and
helps lead to less
classroom have allowed expectations for
confusion and more
the students to trust the focus on the assignments and group
process and focus on behavior.
learning goal.
their learning versus
Students have grown
worrying about what
they will be expected
as a class to be more
to do next. supportive
towards their peers.

Element 2.6 Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating

 Employing Establishes Develops routines, Maintains regular use Engages students in Facilitates student
classroom procedures, routines procedures, and norms of routines and monitoring and participating in
routines, or norms for single in single lessons or procedures that are reflecting on routines, developing,
procedures, lessons to support sequence of lessons culturally procedures, and monitoring, and
norms, and student learning. with some student responsive and norms in ways that are adjusting routines
supports for involvement. 09.19.20 engage students in culturally responsive. and procedures
positive behavior the Maintains a quality focuses on
to ensure a development and learning climate that maximizing learning.
climate in which monitoring of norms. builds on student Classroom climate
all students can Seeks to promote 04.30.21 strengths. integrates school
learn positive behaviors and standards and
Responds to responds to disruptive Promotes positive culturally relevant
disruptive behavior. behavior. 09.19.20 behaviors and norms.
Provides positive consistently prevents
behavior supports. or refocuses Promotes positive
Responds behaviors behaviors and
appropriately to disruptive to the establishes
behaviors in ways that learning climate. preventions and a
lessen disruptions to positive classroom
the learning climate. climate that eliminate
Students are aware of Students receive most disruptive
Students participate in
procedures, routines, correction for behavior behavior.
routines, procedures,
and classroom norms. Students are involved
and norms and receive
reinforcement for in assessment and
positive behaviors.
Students share
responsibility with

Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning
that interferes with 04.30.21 monitoring of routines, teacher for managing
learning, and procedures, and norms and maintaining a
positive in ways that improve positive classroom
reinforcement in Students receive the learning climate. climate that promotes
following routines, timely and effective learning.
procedures, and norms. feedback and
consequences for
behaviors that
interfere with
learning. 04.30.21
 Evidence 09.19.20 04.30.21 11.30.21
We have created some With the pandemic, it For positive behaviors, I
routines and has been very send out Positive Praise
procedures for important to create emails to parents!
certain types of classroom routines and
activities and seek procedures to
to promote support student
positive learning. This climate
behaviors. I’d like to keeps
look more into students learning
restorative justice consistently
where students don’t throughout the
feel like they’re classroom.
“getting in trouble” but
learning something.

Element 2.7 Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating

Using Paces instruction Paces instruction with Paces instruction Paces instruction to Paces, adjusts, and
instructional based on curriculum some consideration of with students to include ongoing fluidly facilitates
time to optimize guidelines. Develops lesson type, provide assessment of instruction and daily
learning awareness of how adjustments for adequate time for student learning. activities.
transitions and sufficient student instruction, checking Supports
classroom work time and for understanding, students in the
management impact transitions to completion of monitoring of
pacing and optimize learning. learning activities instructional time.
lessons. 09.19.20 and closure.
Students use their Students monitor their
Some students Students participate in instructional time to own time, are engaged
complete learning Students complete and complete a variety engage in and in accomplishing
activities in time learning activities and, of learning activities in complete learning learning goals, and
allotted. as needed, may the time allotted with activities and are participate in
receive options for extension prepared for the next reflection, self
some adjustments of and review. 09.19.20 sequence of assessment, and
time allotted for tasks 04.30.21 instruction. goal setting.
or
expectations for

Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning
 completion.

Evidence 09.19.20 09.19.20 11.30.21

I often don’t finish the I have additional My daily agendas prepare
closure that I would resources posted students for the day's
like to do. I’d like to online for student activities so that they
create more exit extension and review.
know what to expect and
tickets versus just
running out of time what materials should
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and stopping. bring. It also includes
I feel that I have much
better pacing this year upcoming due dates. This
in regards to student is all online, which helps
learning. I always students to be able to
have the “next access it at any time.
activity” ready for
those students who
finish early in class.