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If your RTI triangle feels upside down, it’s not a sign of failure—it’s a call to rethink the system.

This post lays out six concrete steps for moving from overload to ownership, with a clear focus on mastery and meaningful learning.

Well worth the read.

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Help! My RTI Triangle Is Upside Down… Now What? - The Core Collaborative Job-embedded, learner-centered, professional learning for schools and systems

Is your RTI triangle upside down? You're not alone! 🔽 🔼

By focusing on a mastery-based system designed for deep, transferable learning, we utilize six steps for transformation.

Read more in Paul Bloomberg's blog:
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What if PD was practice?

Micro-teaching is where strategy meets reflection—and where real growth begins.

If you’re serious about building collective efficacy, don’t skip this.

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Making Impact with Micro-Teaching - The Core Collaborative Job-embedded, learner-centered, professional learning for schools and systems

Micro-teaching is about PRACTICE. Teachers record short clips modeling learning strategies like goal-setting and self-reflection, then collaborate to refine their approach.

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Impact Team Peer Coaching in Action - The Core Collaborative Job-embedded, learner-centered, professional learning for schools and systems

When we wrote #ImpactTeams we wanted to create a collaborative model that advanced learner agency for teachers and students!

Check out our Peer Coaching protocol!

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Listen in as @drpaulbloomberg.bsky.social and Gina discuss accountable talk and the power of evidence, analysis, and action.

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When we say Impact Teams are anchored in evidence, what do we mean?
Watch as Paul Bloomberg and consultant Gina Ferguson discuss evidence for accountable talk!
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Impact Teams differs from traditional PLCs by partnering WITH students to amplify their voices in the process.

Check out this middle school student-led Evidence Walk in NYC and see Impact Teams in action!
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Looking for meaningful ways to wrap up the year? These grade-level reflections go beyond “favorite memory.” 🎓✨

Tap in to see what learning really stuck. #ImpactTeams

Celebrating Learning: End-of-Year Reflection Activities - The Core Collaborative Job-embedded, learner-centered, professional learning for schools and systems

It's almost the end of the school year! Here are some reflection activities organized by grade-level bands, designed to focus on the learning that happened; what was absorbed, applied, and transformed.

Let us know which ones you try!
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What keeps students coming back to school isn’t just grades—it’s connection, meaning, and voice. When schools shift from compliance to engagement, amazing things happen.

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A white background with the Impact Teams logo and a square graphic that reads: 15% reduction in dropout rates. Schools that implement student-centered practices experienced a 15% reduction in dropout rates (Levin, 2012). Citation: Levin, H.M. (2012). More than just test scores. Prospects, 42, 269-284

Students are more than test scores; they are looking for school to be relevant and empowering. By implementing student-centered practices, like #ImpactTeams, schools saw a 15% reduction in dropout rates!

Want to know how this can work for your students? Visit us at www.LeadingImpactTeams.com!

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Real strategies.
Real growth.

Ready to lead with evidence? Pick up your copy today!

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Leading Impact Teams 2.0 works! Anchored in evidence, learn how to:
✅ Co-create success criteria WITH students
✅ Implement powerful protocols
✅ See real growth!

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🎳 When the fabulous first graders at PS 9 teach you how to be a "real bowling person" 🤩 🤩 🤩
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Want to see first graders do this at your school? Reach out at our Competency-Based Learning Resource Hub!
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Love how excited these children are to talk about writing.

You can hear them developing their clarity about what makes a narrative work for their readers.

#ImpactTeams #Clarity #SelfAssessment #PeerAssessment #Literacy

Can't wait to get these camps going!

Find out more below about these personalized professional learning opportunities.

#ProfessionalDevelopment #EducationalLeadership #TheCoreCollaborative #CampElevate #TeacherLeadership #ImpactTeams

Get started or take the next steps with self- and peer assessment today using the TAG feedback protocol shared in the post below.

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Love hearing these high school World History students develop #clarity with their teacher!

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Tip 5.7: TAG Peer Assessment Protocol.docx I am working on: T A G Talk about strengths: What were your strengths? What lead to your success? I like how you _____ I was impressed with _________ _______ was a strength because _______ Ask ...

This protocol from Leading Impact Teams is a powerful way to get your students talking. Use success criteria to:
💪 Talk about strengths
❓ Ask questions
🗣️ Give advice
Download the TAG Protocol:
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From Equity Traps to Treasure Maps - The Core Collaborative Job-embedded, learner-centered, professional learning for schools and systems

What if we saw each student as carrying their own treasure map of cultural wealth, experiences, and potential?

Our new blog explores how to shift from deficit thinking to asset-based pedagogy that honors what students already bring.

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The impact teams model is designed to make any team high-performing.

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Impact Teams innovate solutions for ALL students using:
✅ Evidence from student work
✅ Analysis of bright spots and root causes of obstacles
✅ Action steps: high-impact and grounded in research to reach EVERY learner

Learn more at LeadingImpactTeams.com!
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Let the students lead! 📣

Using success criteria and question stems, these 7th graders in Staten Island lead their own small group discussion about a math pre-assessment.
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Impact Teams Resource Hub
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Shared decision-making and making use of your voice are learned skills.

#ImpactTeams demand and support both!

Advancing Democracy Through Assessment Capability - The Core Collaborative Job-embedded, learner-centered, professional learning for schools and systems

💡Reimagining rigor in education as student empowerment with Impact Teams! 💡

When students co-create learning goals, assess their progress, and drive their inquiry, we build truly democratic classrooms where rigor means student agency!

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Rigor Reimagined: A Pathway to Learner Agency - The Core Collaborative Job-embedded, learner-centered, professional learning for schools and systems

🎓 Rigor is about deeper learning! Transform education by empowering students to assess, adapt, and apply knowledge independently. From surface learning to real-world impact, education is about learner agency! 🧠✨ #Lead4Rigor #ImpactTeams
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Democratically Run Schools - The Core Collaborative Democratically run schools place students in the driver's seat and foster a culture of shared responsibility, equity, and learner agency.

"Imagine a school where students aren’t just passive recipients of knowledge but active participants in shaping their education and school community. Democratically run schools embody this vision... "

Read more from our TCC team here 👇🏼

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Advancing Critical Literacy - The Core Collaborative Critical literacy prepares students not only to succeed academically but also to contribute to a more just and equitable world.

"Critical literacy invites students to question whose voices are represented and left out, and how they can contribute to shaping a more equitable and inclusive society....

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