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Monte Vista has an infrastructure that supports professional and student learning.
Purposeful, ongoing collaboration is vital and a central priority in the schedule (i.e. when students are attending library, physical education, technology, and literacy/numeracy support).
Because of the culture of collaboration, teachers see time working together as desirable and essential as professionals sharing their practices.
Teachers develop grade-level team lesson plans together, and all teachers in a grade level teach using the same lesson plans with the same content standards and student learning objectives on a daily basis. Teams submit one weekly lesson plan together. What they all teach is the same, but how they teach it varies based on individual teacher strengths and styles. However, if one teacher has outstanding results in student learning or high levels of success with a particular style or using a certain resource, this is shared with colleagues because — regardless of personal preferences or styles — everything is based on student learning results.
The principal, learning coach, and teachers monitor progress toward shared commitments and academic goals.
Professional learning uses a variety of data to understand student thinking and then determine next steps.
Educators are accountable to students and to each other as teachers.
Studying and sharing practices through a professional learning and teaching cycle connects the learning community to the classroom and provides a process to improve teaching and learning.
Learning Forward. (2011). Standards for Professional Learning. Oxford, OH: Author.
Learning Forward is the only professional association devoted exclusively to those who work in educator professional development. We help our members plan, implement, and measure high-quality professional learning so they can achieve success with their systems, schools, and students.
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