Importance Of Expectations, Effective 3-5 Wheatley Teachers

Good morning,

I am sending you an email to provide a written recap, reminders, and next steps.

Keep in mind that the purpose of our internalization meeting is for teachers to practice key parts of the lesson and receive actionable feedback prior to lesson execution.

Throughout the year, I have communicated very clear expectations to ensure that teachers our meetings efficiently sets teachers up to execute daily lessons. To be specific regarding expectations, effective 3-5 Wheatley teachers:
- thoroughly internalize the lesson by completing the student work first (i.e. independent practice and exit ticket)
- intentionally create a standards-aligned Criteria For Success that describes the qualities of a successful product & and allows

scholars to receive precise feedback during guided and independent practice
-identify the most important key points and ideas in the content for the day that needs to be lifted up
-add time stamps to ensure that scholars have enough time for independent practice along with daily opportunities to receive explicit direct instruction

With that in mind, please remember your next steps:
1) Complete your FWT #2 Exemplar by EOD (4/30)
2) Upload the completed student handout for Tuesday's lesson by 5:00 PM (4/30)
3) Upload the completed student handout for Wednesday and Thursday's lesson by EOD (5/1)

Moving forward, I will not be meeting with you unless I am confident that we will be able to engage in a full teach-back within the time block allocated for your meeting. If I am unable to gather evidence that would compel me to believe that the lesson was internalized and intentionally planned, then I will end the meeting. I am taking this very hard stance on intellectual prep to ensure that I am making the most of my coaching time with the 3-5 team and to hold you professionally accountable for aggressively growing our scholars.

Should you have any further questions about this email, please let me know.