School Transformation Teams 

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

• Deepen prior learning related to short term assessment and consider new structures for analyzing student work within CTTs

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.