Protocols

This protocol helps an individual or team think more expansively and problem solve about a specific dilemma.  

Teams engage in a silent way to reflect, generate ideas, check on learning, develop projects, or solve problems. 

Team members each have an equal voice and quickly gather feedback to plan next steps.

When faced with an impactful event, individuals and teams can benefit from expressing their hopes and fears related to the event.  

Participants engage in this protocol to close the “knowing and doing” gap. 

During this protocol, team members will have the opportunity to share personal thoughts/ideas, based on a specific points of view, as well as actively consider different points of view on a given topic.

This is a structured method for soliciting participants position on a decision, question, or prompt.

Teams analyze and learn from the success of teacher or team and consider how it can be replicated or applied in other settings. 

Teams identify and share exceptional work to reinforce and replicate effective practices among a team.

This simple, but impactful, protocol allows team members to stay low on the ladder of inference (i.e. avoid jumping to conclusions) when analyzing data.

Teams analyze data and identify strengths, weaknesses, outliers, and trends in a given data set. 

Teams analyze common short-term data and identify common misconceptions in student work and determine next instructional steps.

Teams analyze either a student performance data set or implementation data set and determines next steps to take based upon critical issues they identified through the process