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

Element 2.1 Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating

Models and Models fair and respectful Reinforces positive, Develops shared Facilitates student self-
communicates behavior. Demonstrates responsible, and responsibility with reflection and ongoing
expectations for fair and commitment to fairness respectful student students for resolving improvement of the
respectful behavior to and respect in interactions. Assists conflict and creating and caring community based
support social communications with students to resolve maintaining a caring on respect, fairness, and
development. students about language conflicts. classroom community.   the value of all members.
and behavior. Incorporates cultural Supports students in
Promoting social Seeks to understand awareness to develop a taking leadership in
Development and cultural perceptions of positive classroom developing a caring
responsibility within caring community. climate. community that is Students take leadership
a caring community responsive to the diverse in resolving conflict and
where each student Some students share in Students participate in Students demonstrate cultural norms of creating a fair and
is treated fairly and responsibility for the occasional community efforts to be positive, identities of all students. respectful classroom
respectfully classroom community. building activities, accepting, and respectful community where
designed to promote of differences. Students take student’s home culture is
caring, fairness, and responsibility resolving included and valued.
respect. conflicts and maintaining Students communicate
a caring classroom with empathy and
community. Students understanding in
promote respect and interactions with one
appreciation for another.
differences.
Evidence The class is setup to have We do a classroom
a social contract that
social contract
every student contributes
and has ownership over. activity at the
We build positive norms beginning of the
in the classroom where I year and have
model and promote and updated for students
students participate in.
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to collaborate and
share ideas.  Student
At the beginning of class I led and teacher
often go over class facilitated we create
“norms” which show class
a classroom contract
expectations that focus on
respect and for classroom norms
communication. 5/2/22 for the year
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Students will often use a
collaboration board in
lessons that they share I continue to
when given certain compete social
Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning
prompts. These contracts and class
collaboration boards can
expectation
be voted on and students
can reply to other discussions for
students in a positive students to
way. 5/2/22 complete contract.
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Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning
Element 2.2 Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating
Is aware of the Experiments with and/or Develops physical Maintains physical Adapts physical and/or
importance of the virtual learning environments that reflect environments that reflect environments flexibly to
physical and/or virtual environments that student diversity and student diversity and facilitate access to a wide
learning environments support student learning. provide a range of provides a broad range of range of resources that
that support student resources for learning. resources, displays, and engage students in
learning. artifacts that are current learning. Ensures that
Structures for interaction Utilizes a variety of and integral to environments enhance
Is aware that structured are taught in single structures for interaction instruction. learning and reflect
interaction between lessons or sequence of during learning activities diversity within and
Creating physical or
students can support lessons to support that ensures a focus on Integrates a variety of beyond the classroom.
virtual learning
learning. student learning. and completion of structures for interaction
environments that
learning tasks. that engage students Selects from a repertoire
promote student
constructively and of structures for
learning, reflect
productively in learning. interaction to ensure
diversity, and
accelerated learning for
encourage
the full range of students.
constructive and
Some students use Students use resources Students use a variety of Students routinely use a
productive
available resources in provided in learning resources in learning range of resources in Students participate in
interactions among
learning environments environments and environments and learning environments monitoring and changing
students
during instruction. interact with each other interact in ways that that relate to and enhance the design of learning
to understand and deepen their instruction and reflect environments and
complete learning tasks in understanding of the their diversity. structures for
single lessons or content and develop Students share in interactions.
sequence of lessons. constructive social and monitoring and
academic interactions. assessment of
interactions to improve
effectiveness and develop
a positive culture for
learning.
Evidence I teach promoting I create different I create lessons in the
positive culture and activities where virtual environment
use a variety and students will interact where students use
diverse amount of with their peers such breakout rooms to
analogies that as pair/share work together share
students can identify activities, group chats out and collaborate
with. 9/26/21 and breakout rooms. using their
Students engage in differences and
those activities and strengths to solve
participate. Students problems. 4/23/23
are always
Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning
encouraged to
participate and I
create a positive
learning environment
where students feel
heard and safe.
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 I often use
breakout rooms
for students to
interact with
other classmates
and collaborate
to deepen their
understanding of
the material.
Here is a link to a
lesson plan that
utilizes breakout
rooms 10/20/22
Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning
Element 2.3 Emerging Exploring
Adheres to policies and Recognizes and addresses
laws regarding safety that safety issues regarding
are required by the site, materials, student
district, and state. interactions, and the
Responds to behaviors organization of the
that impact student safety learning environments.
as they arise.
Establishing and
Explores strategies to
maintaining learning
establish intellectual and
environments that
emotional safety in the
are physically,
classroom.
intellectually, and
emotionally safe
Students are aware of
required safety Students follow teacher
procedures and the guidance regarding
school and classroom potential safety issues for
rational for maintaining self or others.
safety.
Evidence In the classroom I
promote student
discourse in a
positive way and
model that. Students
feel heard and are
encouraged to share
and provide
feedback. Students
feel safe to ask
questions and
because of the
positive
environment.
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Applying Integrating Innovating
Anticipates and reduces Integrates support for Shares responsibility with
risks to physical, students to take risks and the students for the
intellectual, and offer respectful opinions establishment and
emotional safety using about divergent maintenance of a safe
multiple strategies that viewpoints. physical, intellectual, and
include examining biases emotional environment
in the learning focused on high quality
environment and and rigorous learning.
curriculum. Engages in reflection on
their own language and
Models and provides behavior that contributes
instruction on skills that to intellectual and
develop resiliency and emotional safety in the
support intellectual and classroom.
emotional safety. Students demonstrate
resiliency in
Students develop and perseverance for
Students take risks, offer practice resiliency skills academic achievement.
opinions, and share and strategies to strive Students maintain
alternative perspectives for academic intellectual and emotional
achievement, and safety for themselves and
establish intellectual and others in the classroom.
emotional safety in the
classroom.
I model skills on During class we have
asking questions and class discussions in
encourage students which I model
to ask questions agreeing and how to
highlighting the disagree by using
importance. appropriate language
Students are always prompts. 4/23/23
heard and are
positively praised for
participating and
asking questions.
5/2/22
I also create breakout
rooms where
Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning
students are
encouraged to solve
problems and to
discuss with their
peers ways to solve
different types of
problems and create
solutions. 5/2/22

 Office Hour
enrichment and
comprehension.  After
each lesson I open up
the virtual classroom
for office hour
enrichment sessions
with students. 
Students check their
work, analyze problem,
work through
calculations, and
collaborate to deepen
their understanding
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Element 2.4 Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating

Creating a rigorous Focuses the rigor of the Strives for a rigorous Develops a rigorous Integrates rigor Facilitates a rigorous
learning learning environment on learning environment learning environment throughout the learning learning environment in
environment with accuracy of answers and that includes accuracy, that includes accuracy, environment that values which students take
high expectations completion of learning understanding, and the analysis, problem solving, accuracy, analysis, and leadership in learning.
and appropriate tasks. importance of meeting and appropriate levels of critical reading, writing Fosters extended studies,
support for all Is aware of the targeted learning goals. challenge. and thinking. research, analysis and
students importance of Works to maintain high Holds high expectations Integrates strategic purposeful use of
maintaining high expectations for students for students. Has an scaffolds and learning.
expectations for students. while becoming aware of understanding of technologies throughout Supports students to
achievement patterns for achievement patterns, instruction that support utilize an extensive
individuals and groups of and uses scaffolds to the full range of learners repertoire of
students. address achievement in meeting high differentiated strategies
gaps. expectations for to meet high
Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning
achievement. expectations.
Some students ask for Some individuals and Students engage in a
teacher support to groups of students work variety of differentiated Students actively use Students take
understand or complete with the teacher to supports and challenges supports and challenges responsibility to fully
learning tasks. support accuracy and in ways that promote to complete critical utilize teacher and peer
comprehension in their their accuracy, analysis, reading, writing, higher support, to achieve
learning. and problem solving in order thinking, and consistently high levels of
learning. problem solving across factual and analytical
subject matter. learning.

Evidence In addition to For lessons I create I continue to create

lessons, students scaffolded content to assignments that
attend office hours meet the achieved have high
help where they goal for the end of expectations such as
participate in the lesson. I have stoichiometry
additional content several check for lessons in which they
exploration. Study understanding stops are scaffolded with
guides use various during the each step to meet all
levels of content scaffolding to make students needs to
mastery strategies sure all students meet learning
that students use for understand the expectation.
self-assessment and content. I also create 4/23/23
reflection. 9/26/21 rubrics for labs and
inquiry based
activities where
students understand
the high expectation
of their completed
school work. 5/2/22

I create lessons in
which challenge all
students. These are
often scaffolded and
have options to go
beyond the learning
goals for enrichment
and provide students
with rigorous
Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning
problems and
content related
material. 10/20/22

Element 2.5 Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating

Establishes expectations, Develops expectations Uses multiple strategies Integrates equitable Facilitates a positive
rules, and consequences with some student including culturally expectations, positive environment using
for individual and group involvement. responsive instruction to supports, and systems that ensure
behavior. Communicates, models develop and maintain consequences for students take an active
and explains expectations high standards for individual and group role in monitoring and
for individual and group individual and group behavior within and maintaining high
behavior. behavior. across learning activities. standards for individual
Developing, and group behaviors.
communicating, and Refers to standards for Reviews standards for Utilizes routine Guides and supports
maintaining behavior and applies behavior with students in references to standards students to self-assess,
high standards for consequences as needed. single lessons or for behavior prior and monitor, and set goals for
individual and group sequence of lessons in during individual and individual and group
behavior anticipation of need for group work. behavior and
reinforcement. participation.

Students are aware of Students know Students follow behavior Students respond to Students demonstrate
classroom rules and expectations for behavior expectations, accept individual and group positive behavior,
consequences. and consequences and consequences and behaviors and encourage consistent participation
respond to guidance in increase positive and support each other to and are valued for their
following them. behaviors. make improvements. unique identities.

I model and go over Class expectations for I quickly and

classroom the student behavior consistently respond
expectation and have been well to student behavior
norms as well as use established at this that is not meeting
the student contract point in the semester. the classroom norms
to enforse Students receive or expectations. Or
expectations. interventions and also group behavior
Evidence
Classroom those interventions that is not meeting
expectations are are clear where I expectations. I fair,
placed in clear view explain how the clear and follow
on the online behavior caused the intervention steps
learning classroom. intervention to take consistently so
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behavior are more behavior caused
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expectations.5/2/22
During breakout
I frequently go over room strategies used
class norms and I post learning goals
procedures for each and group
type of activity in the expectations in which
class, which include they can clearly see
break out rooms, pair goals and behavior
shares, group expectations.
discussions and 4/23/23
classroom sharing.
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Element 2.6 Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating

Employing classroom Establishes procedures, Develops routines, Maintains regular use of Engages students in Facilitates student
routines, procedures, routines or norms for procedures, and norms in routines and procedures monitoring and reflecting participating in
norms, and supports single lessons to support single lessons or that are culturally on routines, procedures, developing, monitoring,
for positive behavior student learning. sequence of lessons with responsive and engage and norms in ways that and adjusting routines
to ensure a climate in some student students in the are culturally responsive. and procedures focuses
which all students involvement. development and Maintains a quality on maximizing learning.
can learn monitoring of norms. learning climate that Classroom climate
builds on student integrates school
strengths. standards and culturally
Seeks to promote positive Provides positive relevant norms.
Responds to disruptive behaviors and responds behavior supports. Promotes positive
behavior. to disruptive behavior. Responds appropriately behaviors and Promotes positive
to behaviors in ways that consistently prevents or behaviors and establishes
lessen disruptions to the refocuses behaviors preventions and a
learning climate. disruptive to the learning positive classroom
Students participate in climate. climate that eliminate
Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning
routines, procedures, and most disruptive behavior.
norms and receive
reinforcement for
Students are aware of Students receive positive behaviors.
procedures, routines, and correction for behavior Students are involved in Students share
classroom norms. that interferes with Students receive timely assessment and responsibility with
learning, and positive and effective feedback monitoring of routines, teacher for managing and
reinforcement in and consequences for procedures, and norms in maintaining a positive
following routines, behaviors that interfere ways that improve the classroom climate that
procedures, and norms. with learning. learning climate. promotes learning.
Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning
Evidence Students understand I post class
classroom norms and procedures in the
expectations. I syllabus and class
positively reinforce norms in the virtual
positive expectations classroom. I also
and praise students monitor student
for their positive behavior and make
behaviors especially quick clear
during the first intervention steps to
weeks of class. When monitor behavior
students behaviors issues. 4/23/23
don’t align with the
class expectations I
quickly, clearly, and
calmly give feedback
to explain what
behaviors are not
aligning and what
behaviors are
expected. 9/26/21

When I notice a
behavior not aligning
to the class norm and
expectation, I quickly
give feedback to the
student by messaging
them in the
classroom and
explain interventions
that result in
behaviors. 5/2/22

I continue to use
feedback and manage
classroom
expectations
Standard 2 CSTP: Creating and Maintaining Effective Environments for Student Learning
consistently.
Because of the online
classroom format, the
class routines and
expectations are
always posted on the
virtual classroom.
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Element 2.7 Emerging Exploring Applying Integrating Innovating

Paces instruction based
on curriculum guidelines.
Develops awareness of
how transitions and
classroom management
impact pacing and
Using instructional lessons.
time to optimize
learning Some students complete
learning activities in time
allotted.
Paces instruction with
some consideration of
lesson type, adjustments
for sufficient student
work time and transitions
to optimize learning.
Students complete
learning activities and, as
needed, may receive
some adjustments of time
allotted for tasks or
expectations for
completion.
Paces instruction with Paces instruction to
students to provide include ongoing
adequate time for assessment of student
instruction, checking for learning. Supports
understanding, students in the
completion of learning monitoring of
activities and closure. instructional time.
Students participate in Students use their
and complete a variety of instructional time to
learning activities in the engage in and complete
time allotted with options learning activities and are
for extension and review. prepared for the next
sequence of instruction.
Paces, adjusts, and fluidly
facilitates instruction and
daily activities.
Students monitor their
own time, are engaged in
accomplishing learning
goals, and participate in
reflection, self-
assessment, and goal
setting.
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Provide instructional I create lessons that I create timelines on
time and adjust align to classroom long term portfolio
timeframes based on times and creat projects in which
students learning. enrichment activities students know
Also provide for students who weekly their learning
additional office hour want further support goals and targets and
time for extension or enrichment. After monitor their
and further each class I have a progress throughout
exploration of dedicated time of the timeline with
content. 9/26/21 office hours that is assessments.
student guided and 10/20/22
they can ask
questions, seek help Students use the
and support from me virtual livelesson
Evidence or their peers. times and office
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engage and complete
When I create lessons assignments.
I write time frames 4/23/23
next to each activity
to ensure time
frames and goals are
met within the time
allowed. I also plan
learning checks to
ensure students meet
learning goals within
a specified time
frame. 5/2/22