![]() ![]() Data teams, professional learning communities, or whatever one chooses to call them, are proven techniques that allow teachers to collaborate and act on what they’re seeing with their students. Daily exit tickets and teacher quizzes, student work, common assessments, and standardized growth measures are all leading indicators of student learning that can be used to adjust instruction. Leaders need to schedule teachers to regularly review student data and act accordingly. Given the significant challenges many children face, it’s essential to know the true issue students may be facing prior to interceding so that school personnel or community partners can provide the appropriate intervention. ![]() Off-the-shelf programs can be purchased, but the best intervention practice is when educators can sense an emerging challenge and act early to change course. These behaviors may include absenteeism, failing grades, or behavioral issues. And, yes, teachers will have to be compensated for this work.Įvery school needs a series of interventions-academic and social-emotional-to address the needs of children when they first present a problematic behavior. They can ask the best teachers in every school to work with district curriculum leaders to assure that there are clear learning outcomes with matching assessments, engaging and relevant learning experiences, and high-effect-size instructional strategies. Leaders should organize expert teachers to go through a curriculum-alignment process to ensure that only the most essential material is taught. But too often, curriculum is a compendium of assignments and content that isn’t thoughtfully aligned to what students must know and be able to do. System and school leaders must ensure that every school has a rich curriculum aligned to standards. Having spent years as a superintendent of schools in both Montgomery County, Md., and Stamford, Conn., and now working to help school and system leaders improve teaching, learning, and engagement, I believe there are some necessary leadership moves that educators can make as they prepare to welcome students back to school. ![]()
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