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The School Transformation Team's purpose is to create the vision for transformation in the school and has the primary responsibility to drive the school towards academic success.
You can find all materials from professional learning sessions on this page. We have compiled resources related to the project objectives of Collaboration, Data-Use, and Evidence-Based Instruction below.
Underneath the project objective buttons, you will find the buttons to take you to the chronological list of sessions for STT members.
Click the button above to access previous professional learning sessions that reference collaborative practices and resources, including information on Effective Meeting Practices, facilitator moves, and Change Management
Click the button above to access previous professional learning sessions that pertain to Data Use and protocols for data analysis.
Click the button above to access previous professional learning sessions that provide resources and examples of evidence-based instructional practices.
Learning Session Objectives:
Participants will...
Reflect on summative student performance data and implementation data, and determine a schoolwide Common Learning Challenge for the coming year
Revisit data-use practices by assessing their culture of data use and refining their data calendar, ensuring a comprehensive approach to progress monitoring both implementation and student performance data in the coming school year
Engage in a data workshop to consider best practices for short-, medium-, and long-term data use throughout the school year
Learning Session Objectives:
Participants will...
Expand their understanding of using questioning strategies by planning opportunities for questions that add rigor and high expectations for students
Establish structures and tools for teachers to regularly reflect on instruction in collaborative settings
Create an action plan with short-term goals and action steps that are aligned within the team’s year-long goals and Theory of Change
Learning Session Objectives:
Participants will...
Expand their understanding of using questioning strategies by planning crafting increasingly complex questions to add rigor in instruction
Establish structures and tools for teachers to regularly reflect on instruction in collaborative settings
Create an action plan with short-term goals and action steps that are aligned within the team’s year-long goals and Theory of Change
Learning Session Objectives:
Participants will...
Reflect on implementation data from the beginning of the school year
Explore questioning as a way to strengthen Teacher Clarity
Participate in learning led by their ATTs about change management and the Switch Framework, primarily to drive the team's work forward
Learning Session Objectives:
Participants will...
Explore student performance data and determine a Common Learning Challenge to guide their work throughout the 2024-2025 school year
Reflect on implementation of teacher clarity and how to effectively monitor implementation of instructional strategies
Revisit short-term assessment and determine best practices for monitoring student learning
Participate in learning led by their ATTs about change management and the Switch Framework, primarily to drive the team's work forward
Learning Session Objectives:
Participants will...
Analyze implementation data to reflect on Year 1 objectives and success criteria
Consider the connection between teacher clarity and short-term assessment, specifically designing high-leverage success criteria
Explore strategies for actively engaging students in teacher clarity
Create actionable and goal-driven implementation plans for the next two months of school and will determine how to utilize implementation data and site visit coaching to support implementation of their priorities
Learning Session Objectives:
Participants will...
Develop actionable plans to monitor progress of student learning related to the Common Learning Challenge as well as progress of implementation related to Theory of Change priorities
Learn to plan for instruction with Teacher Clarity in mind and will leverage their existing curricular resources to engage in a unit internalization process as they develop a clear learning progression
Understand resistance to change and create plans to address it
Create actionable and goal-driven implementation plans for the next two months of school and will determine how to utilize implementation data and site visit coaching to support implementation of their priorities
Learning Session Objectives:
Participants will...
Explore the four-year outcomes of the Assessment to Achievement project through our A2A Project Success Criteria
Learn about and practice teacher clarity, our new evidence-based instructional strategy of focus this year, by unpacking standards, developing learning progressions, and aligning learning intentions and success criteria
Analyze school-level baseline data from the beginning of the year and first site visits
Articulate a theory of change that will guide their work, as well as identify tasks to prioritize in the upcoming months of the school year
Learning Session Objectives:
Participants will...
Ground themselves in the roles of the Administrative Transformation Team (ATT), School Transformation Team (STT), and Collaborative Teacher Teams (CTT) in the A2A school improvement structure
Explore the values that drive them in their work as educators and develop team guiding practices to shape their engagement together
Analyze 2022-2023 Summative Student Performance Data and discuss trends, opportunities, and strengths for student learning.
Establish a Common Learning Challenge, which will focus on improving a high-leverage skill or standard for student learning, and build a Theory of Action to center goals and action plans related to achieving audacious student learning outcomes.
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