Our Original Protocols list
Our original protocols can be accessed as downloadable PDF files through the list below. It is a long list – Keep scrolling!
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ORIGINAL PROTOCOLS
Appreciative Inquiry: A Protocol to Support Professional Visitation
ATLAS — Learning From Student Work
Attributes of a Learning Community
Barriers or Bridges: A Matter of Perspective and Attitude
Choosing CFG Tools and Strategies
Classroom Equity Writing Prompt
Classroom Slice “Day in the Life” Student Journal
Classroom Slice “Day In the Life” Teacher Journal
Classroom Slice of Student Work Checklist
Collaborative Assessment Conference
Columbus Slice Multi-age Groups
Considerations for Responsive Facilitation
Constructivist Learning Groups
Constructivist Listening Dyad – “The Dyad”
Consultancy — Adapted for Examining Student Work
Courageous Conversations Compass
Critical Friends Groups Purpose & Work
Cycle of Inquiry for Professional Learning Community Activities
Describing Student Work: A Slice of Writing
Equity Perspectives: Creating Space for Making Meaning on Equity Issues
Examining Student Work: A Constructivist Protocol
Examples of Debriefing Questions at the End of a Looking at Student Work Session
Examples of Focusing Questions for Looking at Student Work Sessions
Facilitating Learning, Logistics and Longevity
Facilitation Scenarios Activity
Facilitator Critical Friend Feedback Form
First Ask, Then Listen: How to Get Your Students To Help You Teach Them Better: A Teachers’ Guide
Focus/Framing Question Exercise
Framing Consultancy Dilemmas and Consultancy Questions
Further Thoughts About Learning from Student Work
Goal Setting in CFG communities
Guide for Bringing Student Work
Guide to Using 7 of the Student Work/Problem Solvings
Individual Monthly Action Plan
Individual Monthly Action Plan for Groups
Inquiry Circles: A Protocol for Professional Inquiry
Learning From Student Work Form – Context
Learning From Student Work Form – Documentation
Learning From Student Work Form – Feedback
Learning From Student Work Form – Reflection
Longfellow “Day in the Life” Special Area Teachers Journal
Longfellow Slice Grade Level Session
Longfellow Slice Information Sheet
Longfellow Slice School Wide Session
Looking at Patterns in Student Work
Looking at Student Work Team Report
Looking at Student Work: Building in the Habit of Looking at Equity
Making Meaning: The Storytelling Version
Methods for Learning From Student Work
Microlabs on CFG Purpose and Coach’s Role
Missed Cues: A Reflective Activity
Mississippi Hot Chocolate Swamp
Modeling the Consultancy Using an Interactive Fishbowl
Notes on the Collaborative Assessment Conference
Observation #3: Interesting Moments
Observation #5: Observer As Learner
Observation #6: Person Observed as Coach
Observation #7: Silent Debriefing
Observation #8: Self Observation
Pair Communication: Active-Listening Exercise
Peeling the Onion: Developing a Problem
Peer Coaching: Observer as Coach
Ping Pong: a Consultancy for Groups
Pocket Guide to Probing Questions
Principles for Looking at Student Work
Proactive Behavior Change Interventions
Process of Developing Success a for Reflection and Analysis ATLAS Learning Communities
Process of Developing Understanding: a for Reflection and Analysis
Professional Learning Communities Survey
Professional Learning Communities Survey Exercise
Profile of a Student Activity small group
Profile of a Student Activity: Alternative Students
ProMISE: using the Courageous Conversation Compass with a Text
Protocol for “Columbus Family Academy Slice”
Protocol for “Day in the Life”
Protocol for “Longfellow Slice”
Provocative Prompts for Equity
Qualities of Educational Leadership Exercise
Questions and Assumptions World Cafe Style
Realms of Concern and Influence
Reflections on Adapting/Creating Protocols
Sample Sets of Questions for School/Grade Level Slice
SMP Guide to Good Probing Questions
SMP Probing Questions Exercise
Some Guidelines for Learning From Student Work
Standards in Practice: Standards and Looking at Student Work
Student Observation: Focus Point
Student Observation: Interesting Moments
Student Observation: Just My Kids
Student Observation: Observer Learner
Student Profiles for Profile of a Student Activity
Success Analysis for Administrative Teams
Success Analysis for Creative Learning Communities
Success Analysis for Individuals
Success Analysis for Leadership Teams
Success Analysis for Reflection and Analysis
Success Analysis with Reflective Questions
Suggestions for Bringing a Dilemma
Suggestions for Bringing Student Work
Tea Party – See Block Party: A Pre-Reading Text-Based Activity
Together We Can Make a Difference – Classroom Design for Beginning Teambuilding