Are your students taking ownership of their learning? Advance teacher and learner agency by building a culture of collaborative inquiry. When teams have the power and influence to make evidence-based decisions aligned with school-wide goals, conditions are created for them to take ownership of their learning. This foundation day ensures that members of your PLCs have the shared understanding and skills necessary to plan and launch collaborative inquiry aimed at increasing student ownership of learning.

• Evaluate your PLCs and develop effective structures, protocols, and practices
• Learn the role of a peer facilitator in implementing and sustaining change
• Explore the role of learner identity in supporting learners to reach their goals through learning strategies
• Learn how to use collaborative inquiry to advance culturally responsive formative assessment
• Cultivate a formative mindset by creating a sustainable model for high-quality feedback

The Instructional Leadership Team (ILT) is responsible for ensuring that the vision and goals for the school are well-established, practical, and actionable through collaborative leadership. Impact Teams provide schools with the PLC structures, processes, and practices needed to solve puzzles of practice through collaborative inquiry. Learn how ILTs create a culture of continuous improvement using the Impact Team framework.

• Define ILT team roles (peer facilitation) to create a culture of collaborative inquiry via shared decision-making to advance learner agency
• Learn the conditions of fostering self- and collective efficacy and how they relate to cultivating a culture of belonging
• Assess the system for Impact Team readiness and determine the next steps to ensure quality “assessment for learning” and effective teaming.
• Analyze and triangulate big data sets to determine strengths and school-wide goals to determine school priorities and how they align with MTSS.

The most successful people have coaches and PLCs are no different. The research is clear (Gallimore, Ermeling, Saunders, & Goldenberg, 2009), Peer Facilitators are necessary to ensure effective PLC meetings are actionable, realized in the classroom setting, and aligned to school wide goals. We employ side-by-side coaching as a way for peer facilitators to realize their goals.

• Lead effective meetings using a variety of purposeful protocols
• Ensure students are clear about curricular goals and involved in their learning
• Engage students in culturally responsive formative assessment
• Support your least experienced learners via MTSS
• Analyze and triangulate evidence of student learning for impact
• Strengthen differentiated instructional strategies anchored in root causes

Impact Teams-PLCs and ILTs transform evidence of learning into rigorous collective actions!  Focusing on collaborative inquiry, anchored in shared goals, teams can turn insights into practical, actionable steps that engage students at all three levels of rigor (surface-deep-transfer). Together, we can create a culture of continuous improvement where evidence fuels strategies that lead to observable impact! 

• Use evidence to guide collective actions anchored in all three levels of rigor 
• Unpack PLC instructional strategies with concrete practical steps 
• Understand impact connected to PLC collective actions