Impact Teams will drive student success by refining teaching methods through ongoing examination of instructional practices and strategic use of evidence. This ensures that every child thrives academically, socially, and emotionally.
Collective Teacher Efficacy is a goal that we will embark on that will enhance our overall work to accomplish great things that are vital for the health of our school as we work together to blend our collective knowledge and skills to positively impact student outcomes.
Impact Teams are an enhancement from the PLC Model, whereby we bring far greater specificity and purpose to our team discussions centered on instruction, bringing in student work, through a continual Teach-Measure-Learn Cycle.
Collective Efficacy has been strongly and positively correlated with student achievement. It has one of the highest impacts on student achievement achievement according to John Hattie.
Impact Teams meet twice a week for fifty minutes. Once meetings is based on the Teach-Measure-Learn Cycle. Grade levels, along with a Learning Behavioral Specialist in that grade decide on a teaching standard that they want to improve on, discuss the best ways in which to teach said standard, decide on how they will measure student learning based on their instruction, then analyze or measure the impact their instruction had on their students. Based on their findings, a new cycle begins.
We are developing a common definition of Collective Efficacy, staff are taking surveys throughout the year on their growth of knowledge in this area, and we will develop a rubric for which we will guide and measure our efforts throughout the year.
