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	Staff Selection, Leadership, & Capacity Building
	School Level
	Provide support to take on leadership roles by participating in projects, committees, and teams

In higher-performing schools, teachers are provided with a variety of opportunities to participate in meetings, projects, and committees centered on curriculum and instruction. In middle schools, team meeting time is built into the schedule. These meetings focus on how to improve student learning; they emphasize successes and brainstorming solutions and draw on support from guidance counselors, parents, and special education teachers.

Committee work and special projects offer opportunities to engage in decision making around important curriculum, instruction, and program adoption changes. Teachers and administrators are encouraged to share their work in professional development workshops and attend conferences.

At Niagara Middle School, Niagara Falls City School District (NY), the Literacy Coach meets daily with teachers in small groups and individually.

At Niagara Middle School, Niagara Falls City School District (NY), the principal completes student visitation logs during classroom observations to provide deeper implementation of the workshop model by teachers.