Recommended Strategies

• Schedule common planning time for collaborative development of curriculum and instruction, assessment of student work, and analysis of student performance data
• Build educators' capacity to use data and research to inform instructional practice and to guide professional learning priorities and needs
• Empower instructional staff with authority to define professional development needs and to make decisions about curriculum, teaching methods, and classroom environment
• Differentiate instruction and provide supports to meet the learning needs of multiple student populations
• Utilize communities of practice as a mechanism for transforming the way educators are prepared, inducted, and retained