A Districtwide Path To Acceleration Starts With Teacher Teams

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A districtwide path to acceleration starts with teacher teams

By Isobel Stevenson

Categories: Collaboration, Implementation, Learning systems/planning, Standards for Professional Learning

Friday, March 13, 2020, was a professional learning day for many school districts in Connecticut. The timing was fortuitous because it gave educators a chance to make plans for the coming weeks. In the previous few days, we had learned that schools were going to be closed for a couple of weeks due to the rising threat from the pandemic that would come to be named COVID-19. When it became clear that, in fact, schools were going to be closed for a lot longer, my colleagues and I at Partners for Educational Leadership went into overdrive figuring out how to support districts in their planning for online learning, and later, for the return in the fall. When we realized remote learning was going to be

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