5. IDENTIFY
MOVING TOWARD ACTION
Now that you’ve considered the areas of strength, opportunities for improvement, and district improvement efforts already under way, your team will develop plans for initiating actions to improve a working condition within your district. This plan is intended for use by your team, NOT to be handed over to schools to implement. Consider the role you and your team play in creating and supporting working conditions for teachers. School teams can use the school-level toolkit to extend and deepen the work within their own buildings in alignment with the district’s efforts.
Identify a Priority of Practice
Using the information gathered from the data analysis thus far, your team has selected an area on which to focus improvement efforts. As your team identifies a priority of practice for the focus area, be sure to take into consideration the continuous improvement efforts already in progress in your district. While there may be more than one condition that your team would like to address, we strongly encourage you to start with a small, very focused area that aligns with the criteria listed below. This may include focusing on specific areas or items within a condition rather than all aspects of a condition.
Make sure that the area of focus meets these criteria:
- lives within your locus of control;
- focuses on practice for which the adults in the district are responsible;
- addresses an underlying challenge that, if improved, has the potential to improve a number of circumstances; and
- is actionable through inquiry.
Use Worksheet 10 to check alignment with the criteria above.
WORKSHEET 10: IDENTIFYING A PRIORITY OF PRACTICE
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