Support beyond the Classroom

Services

Teachers 

• Implement instructional practice shifts, in particular those required by the Common Core State Standards.

• Deepen subject-matter content knowledge and develop effective classroom practices.

• Align district frameworks, content standards, grade-level expectations and instructional practices.

• Enhance the facilitation and coaching skills of teacher leaders, curriculum specialists, and those working directly with teachers to improve instructional practice.

• Observe classroom instruction to identify leverage points for coaching work.

• Consider a range of coaching practices in relation to an identified purpose.

• Craft coaching schedules for maximum effect.

• Design powerful professional development experiences focused on student learning.

• Develop the principal-coach relationship and the skills needed for effective collaboration

Administrators are:

• Clear the decks for the important business at hand: student achievement.

• Target and align resources around excellent, equitable learning.

• Build the capacity of district office and school staff.

• Develop a common language and common vision around the idea of high-quality instruction.

• Lead and guide professional development.

• Identify the systems-level policies, practices, and structures that must change in order for instruction to improve.

• Implement instructional practice shifts, in particular those required by the Common Core State Standards.

• Deepen subject-matter content knowledge and develop effective classroom practices.

• Align district frameworks, content standards, grade-level expectations and instructional practices.