Use school-wide instructional goals to focus teacher-team collaboration on common instructional issues¶

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Description¶

The case-study schools used school-wide instructional goals—such as literacy integration across disciplines, assessments, or improving differentiation—to give collaborative teacher-team work concrete focus and content. One leader explained, "We make a priority of what our professional development goals are for the year," and school-level goals filtered down to department and grade-level meetings, countering the tendency for bureaucratic issues to dominate meeting agendas.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• School leaders articulate school-wide instructional priorities for the year and communicate them into department and grade-level team agendas

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

• high school teachers and instructional leaders

Target Learning Goals¶

• sustained, coherent instructional improvement across teams

Related Strategies¶

• Professional Learning Communities

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• David Stevens, Sue Sporte, Sara Ray Stoelinga, Alissa Bolz. (2008). Lessons from High Performing Small High Schools in Chicago. Consortium on Chicago School Research, University of Chicago. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/lessons-high-performing-small-high-schools-chicago