THE BEST OF THE MARSHALL MEMO
Carefully chosen summaries to energize leadership, teaching, and learning
Results-Focused Teacher Teams
Research Insights on Teamwork
- Does a paradigm shift in medicine apply to schools?
- What Google learned about its most successful teams
- Byproducts of effective teacher teamwork
- Key characteristics of highly effective schools
Collaboratively Analyzing Assessments
- A teacher learns how to work with his colleagues
- Teacher leaders supporting interim data analysis
- Three layers of interim assessment data analysis
- Third-grade teachers use math interim assessments
Overcoming What Can Go Wrong
- Five phases of teacher reactions to interim assessments
- How some PLCs are going off the rails
- The missing piece in many PLCs
- How principals can orchestrate effective teamwork
Singletons and Scheduling
- Addressing the challenge of "lonely singleton" teachers
- A small school figures out PLCs
- Ideas for carving out time for teacher team meetings
