Support for Teachers

Resources to Grow Your Teaching Practice

Below are some helpful resources that can be used to support your growth throughout the year.

LEAP Handbook

Learn about the Multiple Measures

Find strategies for analyzing your SPS results

Find Student Growth supports

LEAP Framework - Spanish

LEAP Fairness Guide The LEAP Fairness Guide was developed in consultation with the Denver Classroom Teachers Association (DCTA) to ensure that LEAP is administered fairly and consistently for all teachers.

Playbook for Early Career Teacher Success The Playbook offers clear guidance on the Gateway Skills that early career teachers should focus on first, and a clear outline of DPS’ Coaching Steps and Coaching Moves to help teachers make quick, measurable improvement toward our expectations for effective teaching and student learning.

Peer Observation

Peer Observers provide expertise around LEAP, CRE, and content-specific best practices aligned to the Framework, including targeted coaching and calibration in service of equitable outcomes for all students, teachers, and leaders across DPS.

We can provide support in a variety of ways:

Co-observations to practice aligning evidence & scoring indicators in the LEAP Framework

Support in writing an effective Classroom Observation Form (COF), including writing rationale statements & reflective questions

Planning for feedback conversations, including action steps grounded in the LEAP Framework

Discussing & clarifying LEAP indicator behaviors

Practice using the appendices for specialized areas

Facilitate calibration sessions to ensure that ILTs are calibrated on LEAP Framework & scoring

2024-25 Peer Observation Opt-in Request (for Teacher Support) *Closing April 1, 2025

Student Perception Resources
The Student Perception Survey (SPS) provides teachers and school leaders with a unique perspective on teachers’ educational practice as experienced by students. Teachers and school leaders can utilize the SPS data to understand students’ experiences better and then reflect on strengths and growth areas aligned to the SPS constructs, LEAP framework, and professionalism framework to improve practice and help every child succeed.
- How to Use Your SPS Results: This infographic includes information for teachers on effectively using SPS results.
- Student Perception Survey Items
- Student Perception Survey Point Allocation for LEAP Professional Practice
- Student Perception Survey Overview: This document can be shared with your students before the SPS administration window. The document provides a brief overview of the SPS, including what type of information is included in the SPS and what students can expect when they take the survey.
- Reflecting on SPS Results with your Students: This resource outlines an activity you can use to share and reflect on SPS results with your students. Includes all the information needed to conduct the activity.
See SPS Strategies and Tools in the LEAP Handbook
Learn How to Create Effective CLOs

This Content Language Objective site provides example CLO's, functions & forms, as well as resources to help write a CLO.

CONTACT

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720-423-2600 or LEAP@dpsk12.org

Lisa Garcia Simms, Senior Manager of Frameworks (LEAP and SSP GPS)

Stacey Sheehan-Block, Site Manager