Los Angeles Unified School District

Local District 4

Administrator’s Professional Development

Byron Maltez
Superintendent

Jim Kodani
Deputy Superintendent

October 2009
The Instructional Core
• “It is impossible to teach
without the courage to love,
without the courage to try a
thousand times before giving
up. In short, it is impossible to
teach without a forged,
invented, and well-thought-out
capacity to love.”
• Paolo Freire
• Pedagogy of The Oppressed
 Local District 4
Core Values

 Learner centered (Pre-K to 12 plus)

 Collaboration
 Transformation
 Accountability
 Safety
 Fun
 Local District 4 Vision

• We believe that students deserve to have

full access to the best learning
opportunities in order to pursue lives of
individual and communal meaning.
• Therefore, we in LD4 will continue our
transformational work of constantly
improving pre-K through 12-plus
teaching and learning.
 Response to
Instruction and Intervention

• Multi-tiered framework to
instruction and intervention
• Universal access
• Problem-solving process
• Data-based decision-making
• Academic engaged time
• Professional development
 Response to
Instruction and Intervention

• Key Access Methodologies

• Cooperative and Communal
Learning Environments
• Instructional Conversations
• Academic Language
Development (ALD)
• Advanced Graphic Organizers
 Local District 4
Core Values

 Learner centered (Pre-K to 12

plus)
 Collaboration
 Transformation
 Accountability
 Safety
 Fun
 Learner Centered
 Standard based
 Constructivism
 rigor
 Effort based
 rigor
 Inclusive
 Personalization
 Reciprocity
 Diversity
 Access/ Equity
 RTI2

• LD 4: how we do our work:

• Focus on good first teaching
 Multiple Pathways
• The multiple pathway effort is supported by
the California Department of Education and
the State Superintendent of Schools. It is
being resourced by ConnectEd and the Irvine
Foundation with significant amounts of
money.
 Multiple Pathways

• The goal of multiple pathways is to

improve student achievement by
preparing students for both
college/university/trade school and
careers.
 Multiple Pathways
• The goal is to help all students gain
the necessary 21st century skills that
are used in colleges and in the work
place. Therefore, the career themes
already established become the basis
for improving academic achievement
for all students.
 School Report Cards

• A tool for discussion among staff

and community.