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IMPLEMENTATION BENCHMARKS
DESIGN ELEMENT 3

ONGOING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT THAT RESULTS IN AN INCLUSIVE AND POWERFUL LEARNING COMMUNITY

Phase One

Phase Two

Phase Three

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Phase One
The school establishes a School Leadership Team that will complete the Creating Tomorrow curriculum, gather data to assess the current status of the school, and share learnings with the faculty.

The school establishes Faculty Inquiry Teams and AIM begins training teams on how to examine teaching and learning by looking at student work, studying professional literature, creating shared curricula, and gathering data to evaluate classroom impact.

Faculty Inquiry Teams identify professional learning needs that inform future plans for development around curriculum, instruction, and assessment.

Phase Two
Faculty Inquiry Teams discuss important issues around curriculum, instruction, and assessment.

Faculty Inquiry Teams identify ways to improve student performance and use protocols to look at student work to inform those conversations. The quality of conversation on the teams becomes more substantial.

Faculty Inquiry Teams share inquiries, learnings, and/or dilemmas regularly at full-faculty meetings. De-privatization of practice begins as teachers examine each other's work.

The school devotes resources to content-rich professional development connected to learning goals.

There is a school plan for focused professional development.

Phase Three
The school is a community of practice in which learning, experimentation, and reflection are the norm.

Expectations of continuous improvement permeate the school.

The school devotes additional resources, as needed, to ensure that teachers have time and opportunity to learn and reflect on their practice together.

Professional development is intensive, of high quality, and ongoing.

The school draws upon teacher networks and community partnerships that benefit student and adult learning.

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