Collaborative Teams consistently focus on Learning, Assessment, Tier 1 Support, and Enrichment. These teams work to first identify specific learning standards to focus upon, highlighting specific concepts and skills intended to be mastered within the specific interval of instruction, which leads to the creation of learning intentions and success criteria. Ideally, teams should be working together to select formative assessments to be used to monitor student progress along the way while also allowing time for collaborative scoring of student work. Instructional strategies, both for Tier 1 Instruction and Enrichment are noted as a means to ensure all students are receiving the instructional support/challenges they need.
Teams that become better versed in these practices are then able to create common formative assessments for student learning, consistently deconstruct learning standards, calibrate expectations for rigor and proficient student work, and become better consumers of learning resources better aligned to expected student learning outcomes aligned within grade-level/content-level learning standards.
