Teacher Collaboration on Four Fundamental Questions

On account of the tremendous support from the Armstrong School Community Council (SCC) and the current LAND Trust plan, Armstrong teachers have three 45-minute blocks each week to sit down with their grade-level team and collaborate on four critical questions. These are:

1. What do we want want our students to learn?
2. How will we know when each student has learned it?
3. How will we respond when some students don’t learn?
4. How can we extend and enrich the learning for students who have demonstrated proficiency?

The extra time to address these questions and to analyze the answers on a by-the-student-and-by-the-standard basis has increased the shift at Armstrong from a focus on teaching to a focus on learning.