- Do you notice students aren’t being prepared to think, problem solve, and create?
- Are teachers focused solely on the students’ current grade level or course without focusing on what was learned in earlier grades or preparing for future grades?
- Have you seen that assignments are not challenging enough and don’t line up with grade-level expectations?
- Are you struggling through a lack of collaboration between teachers when it comes to curricular, assessment, and instructional improvements?
- Do assessments primarily focus on basic knowledge and skills?
- Are instructional activities disconnected from the bigger purpose?
- Are teachers focusing on whole classroom instruction at the expense of individual student needs?
- Are students bored, unexcited, or just going through the motions?
- Do students struggle on challenging tasks and need a lot of help?
- Are students failing to see the reason the assignment, concept, or skill is important?
- Are students unclear on how they will be graded and how they can improve their work on an assignment?
- Do your students struggle to see how they’ve grown over time because they aren’t collecting examples of their work throughout the year(s)?
- Is the report card failing to provide a complete picture of student performance? Are achievement grades woven into progress and work ethic marks?
- Is the scoring of student work inconsistent among teachers because they have different ideas of what quality looks like?
- Do students and their families feel grades are simply “decided” by the teacher because they have such little clarity on what scores are based on and how to improve?