Milestone Three Guidelines and Rubric Overview: It is important to discover best practices and strategies for the demographic group that you identified in the achievement gap. Once these strategies and best practices are implemented it is important to provide activities for a school and community to promote diversity. When collaboration between educators, a school, the community, and families is achieved, the achievement gap will lessen. This assignment will give you experience with researching instructional practices to meet the needs of the demographic group you chose, and experience in providing recommendations to a school and community to promote diversity. Prompt: In Critical Task: Recommendations, you will make recommendations to various audiences for how they could contribute to closing the achievement gap for the specific demographic group. Make recommendations explaining how a school could contribute to closing the achievement gap for students in the specific demographic group. Also make recommendations as to how communities can contribute to closing the achievement gap for students in the specific demographic group. In Developmental Capture: Instructional Practices, you will explore your ideas about instructional practices to meet the needs of diverse student populations, inclusive curricula, and varied assessments to meet the needs of all students. Address how you would you meet the needs of diverse student populations in your everyday teaching practices. How can curricula be developed to remain inclusive for diverse student populations? This assignment will cover Critical Task: Section III, Parts A and B, and Developmental Capture: Section II, Parts A and B. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed: III. Recommendations: A. Make recommendations for how a school could contribute to closing the achievement gap for students in the specific demographic group. B. Make recommendations for how communities could contribute to closing the achievement gap for students in the specific demographic group. II. Instructional Practices: A. How would you meet the needs of diverse student populations in your everyday teaching practices? Be sure to provide specific examples in your response. B. How can curricula be developed to remain inclusive for diverse student populations? Be sure to provide specific examples in your response. Guidelines for Submission: Your paper must be submitted as a 2- to 3-page Microsoft Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and at least three sources cited in APA format. Instructor Feedback: This activity uses an integrated rubric in Blackboard. Students can view instructor feedback in the Grade Center. For more information, review these instructions. Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (80%) Not Evident (0%) Value Recommendations: School Provides recommendations for how a school could contribute to closing the achievement gap for students in the specific demographic group Provides recommendations for how a school could contribute to closing the achievement gap for students in the specific demographic group, but the submission is not accurate and/or requires additional investigation into the data Does not provide recommendations for how a school could contribute to closing the achievement gap for students in the specific demographic group 23 Recommendations: Communities Provides recommendations for how communities could contribute to closing the achievement gap for students in the specific demographic group Provides recommendations for how communities could contribute to closing the achievement gap for students in the specific demographic group, but the submission is not accurate and/or requires additional investigation into the data Does not provide recommendations for how communities could contribute to closing the achievement gap for students in the specific demographic group 23 Instructional Practices: Everyday Teaching Practices Explains how the needs of diverse student populations can be met through everyday teaching practices, providing specific examples Explains how the needs of diverse student populations can be met through everyday teaching practices, but the explanation is inaccurate and/or does not include examples Does not explain how the needs of diverse student populations can be met through everyday teaching practices 23 Instructional Practices: Curricula Qualifies how curricula can be developed to remain inclusive for diverse student populations, providing specific examples Qualifies how curricula can be developed to remain inclusive for diverse student populations, but the explanation is inaccurate and/or does not include examples Does not qualify how curricula can be developed to remain inclusive for diverse student populations 23 Articulation of Response Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas 8 Total 100%