Professional+Practice+(Topics+-+Ideas)

Descriptions, outlines, etc. of ideas for Professional Practice

Work with Guidance to look at how students are placed in American Studies - trends in what type of student takes Am Studs.
 * __Student Services__**

Look at ACT data and see if there any trends with Am Studs students - such as improvement from their Explore to their PLAN scores, or, using those testing measures, determine if there is any correlation between their success in American Studies, or, any correlation as to why a particular student, if there is such, takes American Studies.

Track the American Studies students from Junior year to Senior, and even to college, to determine the effect, if any, of American Studies to their growth/progress as a student.

__**Ideas from Vicky Morgan, phd.**__ working with the curriculum director (or whomever) in your district to develop a specialized curriculum for an interdisciplinary team-taught class,

or adding something new and cutting edge to what you already do,

or developing some type of professional development for other teachers who might want to do the co-teaching thing but don't know how to start, or developing a "unit"