A powerful routine where improvement teams reflect on their data and learning, share a dilemma, and receive feedback from experts who can provide a fresh perspective and push. Join this fishbowl type session to experience this routine, learn more about a team’s work, and glean insights to inform your own improvement efforts.
Teaching Matters works with 23 school teams across New York City, with a focus on increasing 6-8th grade ontrack for post-high school success. A core tenet that undergirds our work is ensuring student belonging and engagement, while increasing math and ELA proficiency. Come learn more about this work, grapple with a dilemma together, and glean insights to inform your own improvement efforts.
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Alicia Grunow is an educational improvement expert, specializing in how to apply the science of improvement to help teams, organizations and networks reach their improvement goals. Alicia started her career as a bilingual teacher in Denver Public School and then in New York City... Read More →
Experience the Bilingual Bicultural Mini School’s multi-year improvement story as a window to the power of highly effective instructional leadership teams (ILTs) to increase student outcomes. This systems-thinking approach leverages ILTs as engines for school-wide and district-wide change. In this workshop, participants will be introduced to two mental models that were instrumental in quickly building ILT capacity to shift literacy outcomes for all students at this site, and will work through how to apply these generalizable models to high quality Tier 1 instruction.
