The purpose of this bridge to practice is for you to continue to use a high-level comprehension task as a Test of Change.

To complete this bridge to practice, do the following:

• Continue to work with your improvement team to draft a high-level task in response to the next text that you'll be working with in the curriculum. If you need support working as a team to plan the task, this document might serve as a useful resource.

• Then, work with your school improvement team to decide how you’ll study the enactment of the task (will you look at student work? Will you use exit slips?).

• Finally, use your task with students and then come back together with your improvement team to decide next steps (Adapt, Adopt, Abandon!).

Please be prepared to share how this work went when we meet together in March. Please note that there is a shift in schedule for March: 7th grade teachers will attend the March 11th meeting. 6th grade teachers will attend the March 25th meeting.

Team Coordinators

We will be checking in together on February 18th. Before that time, please work with your school team to reflect on the work that you began today. Please be surebe sure to add in the thinking of your 8th grade teachers in response to the questions:

1. What do you need from your principals to continue to move the improvement work forward?

2. What do you need from the district to continue to move the improvement work forward?

3. What do you need from the IFL to continue to move the improvement work forward?

We will discuss these questions in Februrary, so please make sure you have a change to get input and feedback from your school team memebers before we meet. If you have questions about this work, please feel free to reach out to Sara or your cluster lead.