Looking at Student Work
Collaborative Teams Focus on
Teaching and Learning
School Leadership Team Meeting
Waterfront Place Hotel
October 22 – 24, 2012
Presented by:
Linda Bragg, Coordinator
Office of School Improvement
John Ford, Coordinator
Office of School Improvement
The Right Work of Teams
•Collaborating about Next Steps by Looking at Results
•Making a Commitment to the Agreed Process
Teams Increase Student
Learning by Collaborating about
Next Steps Based on Results
Successful schools are places where teams of
teachers meet regularly to focus on student work
and assessment then change their instructional
practice accordingly to get better results.
Michael Fullan, 2000
It’s not about which teacher got better
results; it’s about identifying and sharing
the practice or strategy that resulted in the
greatest number of students reaching
proficiency in the learning targets taught !
Guiding Question
How does looking at student work help
our collaborative teams focus on
results and address the critical
questions of teaching and learning?
Does looking at student work provide a
common picture of what success looks
like for this unit of study?
Critical Questions
of Teaching and Learning
1. What do all students need to know, understand and
be able to do in this lesson or unit of study?
1.5 -- What CORE instruction will best facilitate the learning?
2. How will we know if they have learned it?
3. How will we respond if students do not learn?
3.5 -- What TARGETED or INTENSIVE instruction will likely have the
most impact, given the evidence of student learning?
4. How will we respond when they already know it?
4.5 -- What projects or collaborative studies will likely have
the most impact for enrichment or acceleration, given the
evidence of student learning?
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Teams Analyzing Results by
Looking at Student Work
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Here’s What: (5 minutes) analyze what
happened on the assignment
–Which targets were mastered?
–Any trends, observations or outcomes?
•So What?: (10 minutes) interpret what was
discovered
–What led to the results and why?
•Now What?: (15 minutes) promote datadriven decision making by challenging the
team to apply what has been learned to
instructional practice
Guiding Question
How would using a protocol
make a difference in the team’s
becoming more efficient and
more effective in analyzing
student work?
Protocols
• What are protocols?
• Why use a protocol?
• What does a typical protocol look like?
Goldie Hawn in Protocol
www.lasw.org
Tuning Protocol
So named because teachers are
“fine tuning” their instructional practice.
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Introduction
Presentation
Clarifying questions
Examination of student work
Warm/Cool feedback
Reflection
Debrief
Introducing the Protocol
Introduction
5 min
Norms
Overview of protocol
•Presentation
•Clarifying question / Probing question
•Examine student work
•Discuss student work
•Presenter’s response
•Group debrief of the process
Teachers Looking At Student
Work
Looking out the Window
Imagine you are
watching teams
in your school
look at student
work. Describe
what you
are seeing.
¿QUESTIONS?
Contact Information
Linda Bragg
lnbragg@access.k12.wv.us
John Ford
jford@access.k12.wv.us
Office of School Improvement
304.558.3199