Resources

A content team is a group of educators who share an instructional course or academic discipline and meet on a weekly basis. This document offers strategies on how to lead content teams in order to drive effective instructional practice and increase student achievement.

A tool to help school leaders evaluate how well they're implementing their content team strategy, and whether it's aligned with the rest of their school and/or region.

A tool to help leaders spot-check the implementation of the content teams they lead once per month.

A tool to guide leaders through the steps required to lead a teachback session. A teachback is a training exercise where participants practice a targeted segment of a lesson.

A tool to help individual teachers or groups of teachers effectively process and implement lesson plans using the same curriculum.

This document explains the four core functions of an effective content team leader.

An introduction to one-on-one meetings and guidance on implementing these check-in's as part of a performance management strategy.

A protocol to help teachers and leaders improve an existing lesson plan.

A protocol to help teachers and leaders evaluate and respond to the progress students are making in the classroom.

This Excel document shows how each component of KIPP's recommended K-8 literacy and math instructional design can fit into a school day.