NETWORK

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Community

We host an online exchange of ideas, resources, and pedagogical goodness in our virtual community forum, Circle.

Click on the link below to join a vibrant community of thoughtful and fierce educators who are hell-bent on remaking their schools. Come see what’s happening!

Resources

We design and share a host of tools, protocols, and other resources to improve instruction and leadership practices. Feel free use, adapt, and improve them. Click on the picture to download the resource.

Daily Work Review (DWR) template for teachers including sections: purpose, prep, analysis, and root learning needs. Focuses on assessing student mastery levels and identifying misconceptions or areas for reteaching. Features tables for objectives, criteria for success, and student assessment categories: Mastered, Approaching, Not Yet.

Daily Work Review

Purpose

The Daily Work Review helps teachers consciously analyze and respond to daily formative assessments and student work.

Audience

Teachers and campus leaders

Diagram of the Instructional Coaching Cycle with steps: Orient, Investigate, Debrief, Practice, Reinforce, and arrows indicating a circular process, from The Conscious Schools Project.

Coaching Cycle

Purpose

The Instructional Coaching Cycle describes a research-based, one-on-one approach to developing teachers.

Audience

Campus and district leaders

Document titled 'Yes/No Lesson Tuning' outlining a protocol for improving lesson plans with various questions and activities, including lesson framing, assessment effectiveness, and differentiation for learners. Includes reflection and action steps. From The Conscious Schools Project.

Lesson Tuning Protocol

Purpose

The Lesson Tuning protocol helps a teacher or group of teachers improve a created lesson.

Audience

Teachers and campus leaders

Image of a workbook page with the title 'Implementing Change Workbook'. The page outlines the '10 Principles of Change Leadership', including grounding in identity, identifying catalysts, focusing on critical moves, starting from the ground up, thinking small and fast, appealing to emotions and logic, measuring outcomes, collecting feedback, maintaining action bias, embracing failure, and celebrating success. Footer includes text 'The Conscious Schools Project'. Purpose box states the aim is to describe principles for systemic change.

Implementing Change Workbook

Purpose

The Implementing Change Workbook is designed for leaders who are leading a complex, long-term change effort.

Audience

Campus, district, and network leaders