Class Decor
This New York City borough shares its name with our 6th-grade homeroom.
What is Queens
Taking the time to truly know your students, earn their trust, and create meaningful connections is how educators demonstrate this essential practice.
What is Invest?
Throughout the school year, instructional planning will zoom in and out, from examining student results, to preparing individual lessons, to mapping the bigger picture of upcoming content. Name the three types of IP meetings that support this work.
What are Unit, Lesson and Data Meetings?
Completed during the lesson, this type of assignment gives students an opportunity to practice, apply, and demonstrate their understanding of the day’s learning.
What is classwork?
This first topic in the Teacher Coaching Playbook that focuses on the intellectual preparation process, from understanding the big ideas of a unit to internalizing lessons and anticipating student thinking.
What is Content?
This board puts the spotlight on students and celebrates their achievements, growth, and standout moments.
What is the student highlight board
Showing up for your team means following through on shared expectations and responsibilities—from grade-team commitments to arrival, lunch, and dismissal duties.
What is Work?
Two educators share responsibility for the same classroom. They need dedicated time to align on upcoming lessons, divide instructional roles, discuss student needs, and ensure they enter the classroom ready to operate as one team.
What is a coteacher meeting?
A teacher wants evidence of whether students have mastered several weeks of connected learning before moving into the next major sequence of content. The results will help determine what needs reteaching before the class moves forward.
What is a unit assessment?
When giving instructions, this teacher move calls for you to stop moving, strike a formal pose, and make eye contact with students showing through your body language that it’s time to listen.
What is confident stance?
When emotions are running high, this classroom space gives students a place to reset, refocus, and find their calm.
What is the Zen Zone or Calm Corner?
When a task becomes challenging, asking for help instead of struggling in silence which helps you move forward, learn, and get the job done.
What is Navigate?
Recent assessment results reveal a pattern that requires closer examination and an instructional response. This meeting structure would provide the appropriate space to analyze the results and determine next steps.
What is a data meeting?
Given only three times during the school year, this comprehensive assessment measures student mastery across a broad range of standards they have already been taught and are expected to have mastered.
What is an interim assessment?
When more than three students miss a direction the first time, this Culture move has the class repeat the action with a challenge, positive narration, eye contact, and proximity to achieve stronger follow-through.
What is Do It Again?
Posted every single day, this classroom essential lets students know exactly what they are expected to learn or accomplish during the lesson.
The Learner Target
From academic breakthroughs to personal growth, intentionally recognizing and uplifting student progress is one way educators make students feel seen and valued.
What is Invest?
After several classroom observations, a teacher and their coach need dedicated time to reflect on instructional practice, discuss feedback, identify an area for growth, and determine concrete next steps.
What is a 1:1 Coaching Meeting?
The performance level given to a student that scores a 75% on an assignment
What is a 2?
Students begin independent work. Instead of wandering randomly from desk to desk, the teacher names what they are looking for, follows a planned pathway, carries an exemplar and data tracker, and records trends in student thinking
What is Active Monitoring?
Posted for students to see, this classroom essential lays out the plan and activities for the day’s lesson.
Strong instruction starts before students enter the room. This practice requires teachers to deeply understand the lesson, anticipate student thinking, and meet deadlines for submitting their plans.
What is Work?
Teachers who share the same content area need time to align on instructional priorities, discuss subject-specific expectations, share best practices, and address trends across their courses.
What is a department meeting?
The grade entered into the grade book when a student scores a performance level of a 3 on an assignment?
What is B?
During a class discussion, one student gives an incomplete answer, another has stronger reasoning, and a third has the complete idea. Rather than calling on students randomly, you intentionally sequence these voices so the class can build from partial thinking toward a stronger conclusion—and then circle back to stamp the correct thinking. What facilitation move are you using?