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Participate in Professional Learning

If you are a teacher using Skyline, we invite you to participate in the year-long curriculum-based professional learning series specifically designed for your Skyline course.

Each course-specific series is research-based and designed to ensure that all teachers are empowered to implement Skyline so all students access Skyline’s rich culturally relevant and engaging grade-level content. All details about Skyline Professional Learning can be found on Sched.

 

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Year 1 New Skyline Adopters
Teacher Support

Skyline 101
Starting June 16
Day long, standalone in-person

Build foundational understanding of Skyline's instructional design, experience a lesson with instructional shifts as a student, and collaboratively plan with colleagues

Unit Internalizations
Starting Week 0, 1st semester
Day long, standalone in-person

Strengthen the quality of planning and instruction through deep engagement with upcoming Skyline units, and prepare to enact key instructional practice shifts

Leader Support

Leading Skyline Implementation
May 27 - August
Day long, standalone in-person

Learn how utilize high-leverage actions to support and create school conditions for strong implementation and build capacity around the Skyline Implementation Framework.

Skyline for Leaders PLC
Fall 2025, 1st & 2nd semester
4-part PLC
Requires at least 1 admin at adopting schools

Build capacity to support curriculum implementation using the Skyline Implementation Framework.

Year 2+ Skyline Implementers

PK-12 Skyline Effective Instruction Cohorts
Two Windows: Semester 1 and Semester 2
4x during school day, cohort-based series, pairs in-person workshops & in-classroom support

Utilize collaborative planning practices found in the High Quality Curriculum Implementation Framework to advance Effective Instruction and strengthen Skyline curriculum implementation. Unit internalization, lesson preparation, and student work analysis practices will be discussed.

SCHOOL LEADERS REGISTER TEACHERS BY JULY 25TH.

Participating schools must register at least 3 teachers & a lead to sit on the ILT who can support this work; Networks review registration and identify ISLs to support specific cohorts with follow-up coaching

Learning Cycles

Learning Cycles support school-based educators to work together to identify and solve problems of practice aligned to the CPS Instructional Core Vision. This process is intended to help teams set goals, identify ways to improve, innovate, and evaluate change together. Resources are available to support school teams with ongoing learning around curriculum and rigorous instruction.

Learning Cycles

Instructional Practice Video Library

We are pleased to celebrate teachers across the district who have brought Skyline to life in their classrooms in impactful ways. Our Video Library showcases strong instructional practices across content and grade bands to help educators develop their understanding of effective implementation. These videos can be powerful resources to leverage inside of learning cycles and other professional learning spaces.

  Video Library (REQUIRES LOGIN)

Skyline Essentials Badges

The Skyline Essentials Pathway prepares you to plan, teach, and assess with Skyline using asynchronous training modules that can be found within SAFARI Montage. Upon completion of each training module, CPS educators can earn a badge - a microcredential housed within the district’s badging platform Canvas Credentials (formerly Badgr). Digital badges are representative of professional learning achievements. Skyline-adopting teachers who complete the training modules will earn the associated badge and receive 1 ISBE credit per badge. The badges are accompanied by the Skyline Instructional Technology Reference which answers many frequently asked questions about the digital learning environment of Skyline.

Essentials Skyline Badge

Teacher leading a class full of students

Research-Based Best Practices

Skyline professional learning rests on the design elements that research shows have the most impact on teacher practice, as detailed in the Carnegie Corporation report The Elements: Transforming Teaching through Curriculum-Based Professional Learning. As aligned to this research, Skyline curriculum-based professional learning:

  1. Is rooted in the high quality materials teachers use in their classrooms, with their students in mind
  2. Combines centralized supports from content experts with school-based collaborative inquiry by teams of teachers

Need Help?

If you or a member of your team encounter challenges using Skyline, please visit the Service Now website and open a support ticket, or simply call 773-553-3925 and a support ticket will be opened for you.

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