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The Lab Classroom
Teacher Leadership in the NYC Department of Education is driven by ongoing collaboration. This collection includes a video highlighting an inspirational teacher leadership team focused on implementing “lab classrooms” throughout their school community, followed by resources and artifacts to help you implement practices in your own classroom.
A "lab classroom" is an experiential professional development opportunity. As host teacher, the teacher leader communicates with colleagues to identify a data-backed instructional practice to experiment with during an authentic classroom visit.
Following evidence gathering, all participants collaboratively debrief and share insights before experimenting with this learning in their respective classrooms.
Educators at MS363 in the Bronx, NY are highlighted in this video; sharing their unique take on the lab classroom process, as well as their school community’s teacher leadership journey at large.
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Teacher Leadership in the NYC Department of Education is driven by ongoing collaboration. This video highlights an inspirational teacher leadership team focused on implementing “lab classrooms” throughout their school community.
A ”lab classroom” is an experiential professional development opportunity. As host teacher, the teacher leader communicates with colleagues to identify a data-backed instructional practice to experiment with during an authentic classroom visit.
Following evidence gathering, all participants collaboratively debrief and share insights before experimenting with this learning in their respective classrooms.
Educators at MS363 in the Bronx, NY are highlighted in this video; sharing their unique take on the lab classroom process, as well as their school community’s teacher leadership journey at large.
This tool is utilized by teachers visiting a lab classroom at MS363. Visiting teachers record low-inference notes related to the lens of “Discussion and Questioning.” Following the classroom visit and note-taking, host teacher leaders and visiting teachers anchor their debrief discussion and next steps in these notes.
This artifact demonstrates the strategically designed rolling agenda utilized by MS363’s Instructional Support Team. The focus of this meeting is around supporting all teachers in expanding their pedagogical practices around “Discussion and Questioning” through the use of an anonymous survey. This agenda model is based on templates developed by the Harvard educational researchers behind the Data Wise and Meeting Wise book series.
This artifact demonstrates MS363’s Teacher Leader team analysis of colleague survey results. Colleagues anonymously shared thoughts on various “Discussion and Questioning” instructional practices. Teacher leaders then reviewed the results while surfacing noticings and wonderings, upon which they collectively determined potential next steps to support and expand instructional practice.
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