Tying It All Together

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Tying It All Together

Defining the roles and responsibilities that contribute to coherence from Becoming a Learning Team

By Tracy Crow and Stephanie Hirsh

October 2017

Vol. 38 No 5

The learning team cycle as described in Becoming a Learning Team by Stephanie Hirsh and Tracy Crow was created to support teams of teachers working on particular lessons and instructional challenges within classrooms. Even as the day-to-day work of classroom teaching continues, educators are also responsible for addressing improvement goals at the school and system levels. What do educators need to do to ensure that professional learning and support is coherent across grade levels, subject areas, school buildings, and school systems? WHAT IS COHERENCE? In a coherent system, all initiatives that make a direct impact on teachers are aligned and reinforce one another’s effectiveness; from the teachers’ perspectives, coherent initiatives are neither redundant nor contradictory. At the same time, to be coherent, all professional learning

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About The Book

Becoming a Learning Team offers teachers step-by-step guidance in using collaborative learning time to solve specific student learning challenges.

Teacher teams can use the tools and strategies to:

Understand the value and importance of collaborative learning to improve teaching and learning;

Launch a learning team cycle with five key stages;

Implement each of the five stages with specific strategies and supporting protocols;

Adapt the cycle to fit specific school and district calendars and initiatives; and

Engage external support in sustaining learning teams.

This book builds on the ideas explored in companion publications Becoming a Learning System and Becoming a Learning School. Each chapter includes additional tools and vignettes of actual school-based learning teams to help teachers facilitate or lead learning team cycles as part of their daily routines.

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Tracy Crow

Chief Strategy Officer (Retired) | + posts

Tracy Crow served as chief strategy officer for Learning Forward.

Stephanie Hirsh

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Stephanie Hirsh retired in June 2019 after 31 years with Learning Forward, an international association of more than 13,000 educators committed to increasing student achievement through effective professional learning. Hirsh led the organization as its executive director for the last 13 years where she presented, published, and consulted on Learning Forward’s behalf across North America.