An SAIS Tool for Choosing Where to Grow Your Teaching & Learning This Year
Most school leaders have no shortage of priorities. The challenge is picking just one. The SAIS Teaching & Learning Framework names five elements, plus two guiding frames, that define future-ready teaching and learning, and it’s tempting to try to work on all of them at once.
To go further, faster, schools should focus work on one core competency, since these represent the highest-leverage shifts in practice. Progress isn’t expected to be linear or uniform. A school can be strong in one element and still emerging in another, and that unevenness isn’t a problem to solve, it’s the starting point for an impactful plan.
The Focus Wheel gives leaders and leadership teams a fast, visual way to see their school’s future-readiness in teaching and learning, then decide intentionally which element to focus on to improve.
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