RBT acts as a critical friend and partner with district leaders, school leaders, and teachers to coordinate a long-term change process that produces results: changes in culture, leadership, and classroom practice that have a direct and lasting impact on student achievement and motivation. Our staff and consultants work in concert with the team throughout the process.
Plan for Sustainable Improvement
- Assessing strengths and needs
- Determining the highest-leverage entry point
- Establishing shared goals and expectations
- Engaging stakeholders
- Aligning RBT’s work with other initiatives
- Maintaining a focus on improving classroom teaching and learning
Implement Professional Development, Coaching, and Consulting
- Tailoring professional learning experiences to participants’ needs
- Using ongoing formative assessment to adjust programs
- Blending face-to-face professional development with technology-based delivery
- Combining workshops with classroom and leadership coaching
- Customizing consulting
Monitor Implementation
- Debriefing on a regular basis with the team
- Using formative data to make mid-course corrections
- Building the capacity of leaders to manage complex change initiatives
- Identifying and addressing needs as they arise
- Anticipating and solving problems
Sustain Improvement
- Using implementation and impact data to plan for the next high-leverage intervention
- Assisting in creating structures to institutionalize changes, e.g., instructional coaches, Data Coaches, Data Teams, growth-oriented teacher evaluation systems, and Teaching, Learning, and Leading Academie
What our District partners are saying:
Sarasota County Schools, Sarasota, Florida
Lane Education Service District, Eugene, Oregon