In our current educational climate, advances in
technology around instruction, assessment, and data analysis reign king and changing demands for both teachers and students abound.
District policies and
practices around instruction are sufficiently powerful that they can be felt, indirectly, by teachers as stronger and more directed leadership behaviors by principals.
Colonial Acres teacher leaders are supporting their colleagues to use inquiry to strengthen cross-grade collaboration, deepen their understanding of Balanced Literacy and build collective teacher
efficacy around instruction in reading and writing.
In their third year of inquiry partnership, Colonial Acres» teacher leaders are supporting their colleagues to use inquiry to strengthen cross-grade collaboration, deepen their understanding of Balanced Literacy, and build collective teacher efficacy
around instruction in reading and writing.
I also love that there are color coded guides inside with the Velcro so you don't need to memorize where to place the tabs for different baby stages and carry options and no need to
lug around the instruction booklet or have to constantly look it up online.
With Milk, a programmer inserts a couple additional lines of
code around any instruction that iterates through a large data collection looking for a comparatively small number of items.
The purpose of this paper was to test the relationship between principals ‟ instructional leadership and teacher
collaboration around instruction to determine whether these measures were statistically
Leithwood has written that good leadership tends to follow three basic steps: first, setting a direction; second, developing people so that they can head in that direction; and, third, redesigning the
institution around instruction.
The SOAR frames give us a common language for engaging in meaningful
conversation around instruction, and the rubrics are a useful tool that will help teachers plan instruction as well as reflect on their practice.
It's important to strike a balance between creating opportunities for professional learning — such as developing skills and
practices around instruction and school culture — and providing information on compliance issues, like state and federal guidelines.