The purpose of this bridge to practice is to collect artifacts that will help us take stock of teaching and learning at your school at the beginning of the next school year.  We are asking you to collect artifacts now because you have more evidence of your instructional practices and student achievement at this point in the year than you will during the first weeks of school.

This bridge to practice will provide a snapshot of the cognitive work that students are being asked to do and the collected artifacts will be used to help us better understand how tasks are driving instructional change.

To complete this bridge to practice, we are asking you to collect instructional resources that have been used with students.  Each school should collect several examples of the following:

1. Task sheets that have been used with students.

2. Texts that students have been asked to engage with. These should be texts that students were asked to do comprehension work with.

3. Sample quick writes from students. You don’t need to collect a full class set but try to get samples from a range of students including your language learning  students and your special education students. 

4. Observation notes (your own) - take note of talk. How much time are students talking about content? How much time are you talking about content? What questions are you asking during instruction?

5. One or two essays that students wrote that made you say, “Wow, I wish all of my students wrote this way by the end of the school year!”

Please upload your artifacts using to the link for your school below before August. We’ll be using these at the beginning of the 2023-2024 school year to think about the work we’d like to do to continue to grow as teachers and provide high-quality teaching and learning to students.

Bedford Dade Garcia Kennedy Curry Marsh Spence Zan Holmes

If you have questions about this work, please feel free to reach out to Sara or Glenn.