Mission The Center for Educational Leadership (CEL) is dedicated to eliminating the achievement gap that continues to divide our nation’s children along the lines of race, class, language and disability.

CEL Foundational Ideas Applied to Instructional Frameworks If students are not learning, they are not being afforded powerful learning opportunities. Teaching is a highly complex and sophisticated endeavor. Practice of sophisticated endeavors only improves when it is open for public scrutiny. Improving practice in a culture of public scrutiny requires reciprocal accountability. Reciprocal accountability implies a particular kind of leadership to improve teaching and learning. Leaders cannot lead what they don’t know. Foundational Ideas – 5 min debrief as a whole group Important ideas to touch on: If students are not learning… research is clear about the role of instruction and teaching in student learning. Teaching is a highly complex … teachers don’t become teachers because they couldn’t become doctors and lawyers and couldn’t do anything else. Teaching is a complex endeavor: an art and a science. Practice of sophisticated endeavors … unlike most professions education is characterized by privacy – i.e. the day after a college or professional sports game, the medical profession Improving practice …if we are going to ask our teachers to be accountable for what students are learning, we must be accountable for what teachers are learning Reciprocal accountability implies ... Instructional leadership to build the capacity of teachers to continuously reflect on and improve their practice has its own skill set. Leaders cannot lead … this addresses the anatomy of teaching and learning. We have learned much about this in the last 20 years and continue to learn how to build teacher’s capacity. These ideas also reflect and underscore the importance of an instructional framework - without a framework... how does a school, district and community come to agree and implement what powerful learning opportunities look and sound like? how does a teacher or principal articulate their strong instructional practices in a way that others can understand and emulate?

An Instructional Framework is: a set of descriptions of teaching behaviors. linked to improved student learning. based on research and the work of practitioners. P10P1000026.JPG0002P1000026.JPP1000026.JPGG P 3 min What is an instructional framework? Research is clear about the importance of the teacher in student achievement. As a result, we need a common language that describes: what powerful instruction looks and sounds like in the classroom the focus of the collaboration and planning that goes into bringing powerful learning to fruition Encourages teacher’s to continually improve their instructional practice It is the beginning of professional standards for our work – other professions have standards, if we are a profession we need them too

The 5D instructional framework as the foundation and support for: Observation and analysis of teaching and learning. Evidence-based conversations. Collaborative, inquiry stance. Implementing an evaluation system that is truly about teachers’ growth requires big shifts in what teachers and leaders know and what they do as well as big shifts in our educational culture. TEACHER EVAL AN EXTENSION OF OUR WORK Our work ties nicely with the shift in teacher evaluation that puts new emphasis on the role of observation, evidence and co-inquiry with teachers. The work of teacher evaluation is an extension of CEL’s work over the last decade. We know how complex and sophisticated high quality teaching really is and so we work educators to support their observation and analysis of teaching and learning, helping educators understand what good teaching looks like. We have worked with leaders to hone their ability to have evidence-based conversations about their classroom observation—specific AND generalizable We have worked with leaders on how to support teachers’ growth and how to work collaboratively with teachers so that capacity building for instructional improvement is a shared process among teachers and administrators.

The 5D instructional framework as a tool: A “lens” for classroom observations. A guide for teachers. A reference during lesson planning and staff meetings about instructional practices. The entry point into the teacher evaluation rubric.

The 5 Dimensions of Teaching and Learning Instructional Framework Purpose Student Engagement Curriculum & Pedagogy Assessment for Student Learning Classroom Environment & Culture 6

The 5D Instructional Framework The format: Dimension Subdimension The Vision Guiding Questions 7

The 5D+ Teacher Evaluation Rubric Inquiry-based growth model, not a check list Joins instructional leaders and teachers in co-learning Shared and common vision of high quality teaching Accessible and actionable Classroom observations, teacher and student artifacts, continuous conversation Equity is embedded in each dimension 1 min Philosophy behind the work… The 5 D isn’t a checklist. Good teaching is too complex to be reduced to a single set of behaviors that are constantly observable. Leaders are learners - principals and teachers model learning for students by using an inquiry process. The framework was created for leaders to lead around instructional practice, using growth and inquiry It is both accessible and actionable for teachers and principals – worked hard to get the framework onto 1 page using language The guiding questions support inquiry and growth The “snapshot” of teacher practice is turned into a movie as a result of the data that is brought in to the process. Guided by a Theory of Action: Improvement of the instructional core is the key variable in student achievement. Collaborative adult learning is the vehicle. This is done with and though people. The work is about the practice, not the person This is a leadership and system responsibility and imperative. (we are responsible and accountable to each other and for student achievement)  

Preparing for 5D+ Evaluation Training Read Chapters 1-3 of Leading for Instructional Improvement by Fink and Markholt. Consider how the work in your district reflects the research described in these chapters.