Topic: Team Effectiveness

Explore some of the ways an educator team grouped and regrouped 100 students over the course of a single day.

Explore how 100 ninth grade students are supported by a core educator team that includes a Spanish teacher, biology teacher and a dual-certified English and world history teacher.

Explore some of the ways an educator team grouped and regrouped 100 students over the course of a single day.

How Paulo Freire’s team of educators grouped and regrouped 68 middle school students over the course of a day.

At Kyrene de las Manitas, teams of educators incorporate dynamic student groupings into a shared roster of students.

Explore some of the ways an educator team grouped and regrouped 100 students over the course of a single day.

Explore how educator teams use cloud-based spreadsheets to fluidly and transparently group students by interest and skill.

Leverage special educators’ knowledge and skills to increase the effectiveness of educator teams.

Learn to implement self-organized learning environments, an instructional approach in which students explore complex questions in self-organized peer groups.

This protocol helps educators make strategic decisions around how to best leverage the distributed expertise of team members. Additionally, it can help to identify other educators who may need to join the team and in what capacities.

This resource, created in collaboration with MLFTC’s Principled Innovation Team, proposes a quarterly, one-hour protocol intended to help teams reflect together and build the “muscles” of empathy, awareness and resiliency. The protocol guides the team through sharing quarterly wins, reflecting on an intentional set of questions, debriefing and identifying next steps.

Elementary instructional blueprints suggest ways teams of educators with distributed expertise might deploy themselves to better deepen and personalize student learning.

Elementary instructional blueprints suggest ways teams of educators with distributed expertise might deploy themselves to better deepen and personalize student learning.

Educator teams meet for many reasons, and many of those meetings have moved online. The tips in this document are intended to help educator teams ensure meetings contribute positively to

As we begin to adopt Next Education Workforce models, we inevitably find that some of the routines and procedures that worked in a one-teacher, one-classroom setting need to be adjusted. In this resource, you’ll find a list of some of the routines and procedures our partners redesigned as they’ve worked to implement Next Education Workforce models.

Mountain View School kindergarten lead teacher Danielle Ashenbrener shares how her team, which includes MLFTC teacher candidates, built common planning times into their schedule and describes how they use this

Clinical Assistant Professor and Senior Program Strategist Will Butler shares recommendations for creating healthy, stable and sustainable teams.