What an LT School Looks Like In Learning Teams schools, teachers come together in job-alike teams 2-3 times per month to define and then address specific student needs through collaborative planning, lesson implementation and the analysis of student work. Each work-group is guided by a teacher facilitator who is also a member of the school leadership team which meets monthly to discuss the school-wide and work-group specific instructional goals. With ongoing support and training provided by a dedicated learning teams Advisor, teachers and administrators systematically study instruction and student achievement within a cycle of continuous improvement.
Teachers working together on a regular basis to study and improve instruction
Distributed leadership and instructional decision-making
Improved student achievement
Principal leadership that supports and pressures
More effective grade level or department meetings
Improved teacher retention
More sophisticated conversation about instruction
Better identification of student needs and differentiated instruction
Systematic use of data for identifying student needs and targeting instruction
Teachers seeing the results of their improved instruction on student learning
23 Learning Teams school districts around the country
175 Learning Teams schools across 5 states
1,246 teacher workgroups and growing
6200+ participating teachers
“I can’t imagine going back to the old way of professional development… This is the best resource we have ever had that enables our best resources—the teachers—to improve instruction that results in increased student achievement.”