Protocols

Tools from the School Reform Initiative (now CLEE) include protocols that offer structured processes to support focused and productive conversations, build collective understanding, and drive school improvement. Thoughtful use of these protocols is an integral part of building resilient professional learning communities. 

A reflective exercise during which educators reflect on their own experience as students — and how that experience has influenced their practice. Participants also build community through storytelling, share teaching strategies, and reveal disparities between the current teaching population and the current student population.

Thinking Routines invite learners of any age to be close observers, organize their ideas, to reason carefully, and to reflect on how they are making sense of things.