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Ratification by the Board of Education of a Services Agreement 2024-2025 by and between the District and Hadar Institute (Pedagogy of Partnership), New York, NY, for the latter to provide professional training to teachers in the Pedagogy of Partnership (PoP) approach to lesson planning and instruction. Trainers will meet regularly via video conference with 3-5 classroom teachers and one school administrator to share foundational concepts and to provide individualized mentoring to support strong implementation of the PoP methods. The focus of PoP methodology is to create highly engaging partner-based discussion lessons that build strong critical thinking, reading comprehension and communication skills for students of any age and across all subject areas. Teachers learn to select appropriate texts, problems or prompts, to create meaningful guiding questions and also learn how to teach the foundational partner-based conversation skills and to build in student reflection into lessons via Strategic Resource Planning Department for the period of February 17, 2025 through April 17, 2025 in an amount not to exceed $10,995.59.