Core elements:

Engage in continuous improvement.

Develop collective responsibility.

Create alignment and accountability.

Focuses on “our” students instead of “my” students.

Adjusts and improves practice, holding all participants accountable for their work.

Core elements:

Develop capacity for learning and leading.

Advocate for professional learning.

Create support systems and structures.

Defines the role of facilitator; requires the skills of a teacher leader.

Develops a culture in which teachers are willing to make their practice public and transparent.

Creates collaborative structures for work with peers to support mutual learning through rounds.

Core elements:

Prioritize human, fiscal, material, technology, and time resources.

Monitor resources.

Coordinate resources.

Experiments with and monitors new teaching strategies in classroom teaching.

Achieves the highest levels of return for teachers and students through a low-cost, high-impact professional learning initiative.

Core elements:

Analyze student, educator, and system data.

Assess progress.

Evaluate professional learning.

Develops teachers’ capacity to assess instruction and analyze results.

Evaluates professional learning by using records of practice as a focus tool for teacher learning.

Uses data from student and teacher classroom practice.

Core elements:

Apply learning theories, research, and models.

Select learning designs.

Promote active engagement.

Encourages teachers to voice their concerns about their teaching; teachers are receptive to learning from one another.

Offers group-developed online resources in Google Docs; includes videos and records of practice.

Implements facilitator coaching.

Specifies professional reading.

Core elements:

Apply change research.

Sustain implementation.

Provide constructive feedback.

Provides ongoing professional learning for teachers regardless of years in the field; recognizes the importance of continuous improvement for all teachers.

Extends, refines, and sustains learning through specific feedback.

Core elements:

Meet performance standards.

Address learning outcomes.

Build coherence.

Reinforces teachers’ observation and analysis skills; coordinates these to adjust practice and assess growth.

Links professional learning to student learning with a focus on student content standards.

Students show a visual cue when they are ready with a solution, and students signal if they have found more than one way to solve the problem.

This form allows students to think, while the process continues to challenge those that already have an answer.

I collect answers correct/incorrect and record answers. Students share their strategies and thinking with their peers.