Challenges for which the solution is not apparent; challenges that cause us to experiment, discover, adjust, and adapt.
What are adaptive challenges?
100
Measurable milestones that can be used to assess progress in advancing toward a vision.
What are goals?
100
The ability of a small close-knit group of people to champion an idea or proposal until it reaches a tipping point and spreads like an epidemic throughout an organization.
What is law of a few?
100
The assumptions, beliefs, values, and habits that constitute the norm for the school and guide the work of the educators within it.
What is school culture?
200
The quality that defines knowledge, skills, and dispositions students are expected to retain over time as opposed to those they merely learn for a test.
What is endurance?
200
The third pillar of the PLC foundation. Collective commitments (or values) represent the promises made among and between stakeholers that answer the question, what must we do to become the organization we have agreed we hope to become.
What are collective commitments?
200
The ongoing cycle of planning, doing, checking, and acting designed to improve results-constantly.
What is continuous improvment process?
200
The ability to organize and execute one's time around priorities.
What is time-management?
300
An assessment that requires students to demonstrate learning through demonstration or completion of a task.
What is performance-based assessment?
300
An assessment of learning designed to provide a final measure to determine if learning goals have been met.