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The Participants Roles

Guidelines for RSW include the organization of teams and selection of student work samples, guidelines for discussion and how to document reviews.


Note-taking form is used by individual teachers prior to a review


Documentation form helps teams track the evolution of the review process as well as the content of discussions over time.


Team planning guide is used by interdisciplinary teams of teachers to plan the focus and schedule of reviews.

Activity for setting review goals involves the entire school, or groups of faculty, to determine priorities for student learning.


Sample review Understand the process of reviewing student work by reading student work and excerpts from a review.


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The Participants Roles
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Teacher Facilitators
Convene reviews and coordinate their facilitation and documentation.
Help teams make connections between reviews and classroom practice.
Principals
Organizationally assure and protect time for reviews.
Attend reviews whenever possible.
Collaborate with teacher leaders in synthesizing reviews as a means of assessing progress toward meeting school and district goals or standards.
District Staff
Participate in reviews and provide feedback to facilitators.
Convene district-level meetings with facilitators.
Provide constructive feedback to facilitators to support their work through constructive feedback.
Maintain momentum of the reviews as means to improve instruction
Faculty Members
Select student work to be reviewed.
Provide constructive feedback to colleagues using agreed upon guidelines.
Develop new questions for reviews.
Test out new approaches to instruction in the classrooms and discuss results with other staff.
Faculty members
Provide student work to be reviewed. Follow accepted review guidelines. Provide constructive feedback to colleagues.