Intensive Inquiry Phase

This phase is designed to develop teachers’ capacity to engage in effective adult learning teams and their ability to use data to understand student thinking.

Intensive Inquiry: Outcomes

  • Establishment of a safe and meaningful adult learning environment that lays the foundation for effective grade-level and vertical learning teams
  • Routine use of classroom data (student work data, video, audio) to gain clarity on students’ thinking
  • Enhanced understanding of what constitutes evidence of success in meeting learning objectives for students at different grade levels and in different content areas
  • Identification of instructional alignment needs as a result of sharing classroom video and student work data openly across grade levels
  • Improved standards-aligned instructional practices in response to what teachers learn through studying classroom data with cross-grade colleagues

Intensive Inquiry: Services

  • Plan and facilitate 9 monthly inquiry sessions
  • Deliver quarterly site-based or on-line individual coaching to teacher scholars
  • Introduce and utilize digital tools to support student data sharing and document inquiry
  • Provide quarterly data collection support for teacher scholars (includes video data and student work)
  • Meet monthly with teacher-leaders to collaborate on design of inquiry sessions and plan for supporting colleagues between sessions
  • Meet quarterly with principal to analyze results of collaboration
  • Engage teacher scholar leaders in three, four-hour Teacher Leader Network sessions to develop adult coaching skills
  • Synthesize teachers’ key understandings of students’ learning needs and teachers’ instructional shifts to improve practice in Summary of Progress in January and May

To learn more about how Mills Teacher Scholars can support your school or district to build a strong adult learning culture, please contact us at Info-LeadByLearning@northeastern.edu