Use a collaborative approach to literacy instruction and assessment to meet student needs

Instruction and assessment practices are based on curriculum outcomes and learners' strengths/needs

Educators of all grade levels use impactful, high-leverage instruction and assessment practices, such as:

1. Small group instruction (which incorporates guided reading and writing)

2. Conferring

3. Co-constructing learning environments to support literacy learning (i.e. learning environments are varied and flexible)

4. Explicit instruction

5. Attending to multiple literacies

6. Reading/Writing Workshop model

Instruction and classroom activities are creative, innovative and consider global competencies, such as communication, technological fluency, citizenship and critical thinking

Feedback is provided in a timely and meaningful manner

Educators will be able to identify learners who need additional support provided using a collaborative team approach

Educators know where each learner is and plans/creates responsive instruction to address student needs

Through a culturally responsive and social justice lens, educators develop lessons using the three part lesson framework (preparing for, engaging in and reflecting on the learning)

Educators understand and implement the eight effective teaching practices from Principles to

Actions: Ensuring Mathematical Success For All as developed by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics:

1. Establish mathematics goals to focus learning.

2. Implement tasks that promote reasoning and problem solving.

3. Use and connect mathematical representations.

4. Facilitate meaningful mathematical discourse.

5. Pose purposeful questions.

6. Build procedural fluency from conceptual understanding.

7. Support productive struggle in learning mathematics.

8. Elicit and use evidence of student thinking.