Professional Learning Communities
How do you empower teacher teams to develop collaborative expertise?
Cultivate a culture of collaborative inquiry for asset-based, continuous improvement.
Advance learner ownership and agency by ensuring clarity for all.
Develop an equitable-viable-coherent curriculum that describes what and how people learn.
Empower absolutely every learner to make decisions about their learning.
What are your Professional Learning Community goals?
Build a culture of efficacy through asset-based continuous improvement cycles.
View PD OptionsStrengthen culturally responsive-sustaining core instruction and refine personalized tiers of support
View PD OptionsQuality, Customized Professional Learning That Works
Our professional learning pathways all have the same goal, to advance learner ownership, efficacy, and agency. We partner with your system to assess your needs and co-construct an action plan anchored in implementation science. We are ready to help and support you at any stage of your learning journey.
Our Learning Progression
Foundational Learning
Build a shared language of learning anchored in co-constructed goals and success criteria aligned to your mission and vision.
Job-Embedded Coaching
Empower educators using the gradual release of responsibility to model, coach, monitor, and analyze progress towards shared goals.
Sustainable Systems
Advance teacher agency to ensure risk-taking, innovation, and collective efficacy through quality implementation.
Impact Teams-PLCs
How do you ensure that your teams are making a collective impact? The Impact Team model provides teams of educators with the structures and practices needed to solve puzzles of practice through asset-based continuous improvement cycles.
Launching Impact Teams with instructional leadership teams (ILTs)
How does your school advance collaborative leadership?
- Define ILT team role to create a culture of collaborative inquiry
- Explore conditions for building a culture of belonging and efficacy
- Leverage shared decision making for continuous improvement
- Co-construct criteria for a quality communication plan
- Establish a plan to create a guiding coalition
- Design an asset-based continuous improvement plan
Leading Impact Teams: Building a Culture of Efficacy
Dr. Paul Bloomberg and Barb Pitchford
Impact Team Foundations
How do your teams develop collaborative expertise?
- Develop a formative mindset to grow self-efficacy
- Cultivate collaborative inquiry to strengthen collective efficacy
- Design a blueprint for collaborative inquiry to advance agency
Leading Impact Teams Coaching Handbook
Paul J. Bloomberg Ed.D. and Barb Pitchford
Building Capacity with the “Model Team” Approach
How do you ensure quality PLCs?
- Engage in inquiry to expand student ownership of learning
- Model and practice protocols to support collaborative inquiry
- Implement core formative practices to advance learner agency
Leading Impact Teams Coaching Handbook
Paul J. Bloomberg Ed.D. and Barb Pitchford
Advancing Impact Teams for Sustainability
How do you ensure the efficacy of your PLCs?
- Refine collaborative inquiry cycles and formative practices
- Ensure quality implementation
- Expand the IT framework throughout the school community (counseling, SEL, parent engagement, etc.)
- Plan and engage in student-led evidence walks
Amplify Learner Voice Through Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Assessment
Paul J. Bloomberg, Ed.D., Kara Vandas, Ingrid Twyman, Vivett Dukes, Rachel Carrillo Fairchild, Connie Hamilton and Isaac Wells
Impact Teams Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS)
The Impact Team MTSS model is the only MTSS framework that empowers learners to make decisions about the learning support they need. Strengthen culturally responsive-sustaining core instruction and refine personalized tiers of support to build academic, social and emotional capacity in our learners.
MTSS Comprehensive Needs Assessment
- Determine strengths across the system
- Determine needs across MTSS 5-core components
- Prioritize components that will have the most impact
- Articulate next steps, resources needed, and timelines
Impact Teams MTSS Framework
Paul J. Bloomberg, EdD
Advancing Impact Teams Core Components for Continuous Improvement
Based on the comprehensive needs assessment, Impact Teams advance the critical components necessary for quality core instruction and refine evidence-based tiers of support through:
- Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Teaching
- Balanced Assessment Framework
- Personalized High-Impact Instruction
- Restorative Practices and Relational Literacy
- Community-Based Partnerships
Impact Teams MTSS Framework
Paul J. Bloomberg, EdD
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