Gradual Release: A model where facilitators strategically transfer the responsibility in the learning process to the participants

• VBCPS Gradual Release Document

• Overview of Gradual Release

Collaborative Learning Structures: Protocols and strategies that facilitate group and team members to learn and work together

• Button

• 12 Structures

• The Final Word

Lesson Study: A model of teacher-led research in which teachers work together to target an identified area for development in their students learning

• Lesson Study

Action Research: Seven-step inquiry process that improves and refines actions of individuals and/or teams

• Action Research

Protocols to Explore Understanding and Generate Ideas: Protocols to guide processing, sense-making and developing group understanding

• Wagon Wheels

• Three Levels of Text

• Elevator Pitch

Group Decision Making: Protocols to prioritize collective work tasks

• Forced Ranking

• Fist to Five