High-Impact Teacher Teams

This is a 18 hour/3-Day program for:

• Coaches, Teacher Leaders, and Facilitators of Teacher Teams 
• Professional Developers and the Administrators who supervise them 

High-impact teacher teams build their collective expertise in the practices that matter most for increasing student achievement:

1. They clarify learning goals
2. They plan for and infuse formative assessment practices throughout their instruction
3. They analyze results based on pre-established success criteria, and
4. They take timely, targeted action to provide feedback, re-teach, and extend learning. In short, they use data frequently and in-depth to make sure that each student succeeds.

For decades, Research for Better Teaching (RBT) has been studying and learning about high-impact teacher teams, teams that improve student achievement – one meeting at a time. We know that building such teams is not easy. Team time is short; agendas are full. Coaches or teacher leaders don’t often have the time they need to research and plan team meetings. And the demand to meet the needs of diverse learners is pressing every day. But it is possible. And it is vital to our students’ success. When teachers gain collective confidence and skill in how to improve student achievement, they can quadruple the speed of learning, literally obliterating achievement gaps, according to John Hattie’s most recent research (www.corwin.com/visible learning, 2016).