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	Staff Selection, Leadership, & Capacity Building
	Classroom Level
	Use strategies learned in grade-level teams, district department meetings, and professional development

In higher-performing schools, teachers’ collaboration is not limited to catching another teacher’s ear in the hallway. Rather, teachers participate in regularly scheduled meetings not only at their grade level but across grade levels. Discussions in these meetings center around improving student learning. Teachers use the strategies they learn in grade-level, team meetings, district department meetings, and professional development workshops.

Teachers in these schools report being on the "same page" when it comes to instructional strategies. They see the relationship of what they teach with other teachers within their grade and across grades. They use interdisciplinary and differentiated approaches toward the teaching of their content to meet all students’ learning needs.

At Port Chester Middle School, Port Chester-Rye Union Free School District (NY), the school schedule reflects daily team planning time in addition to individual teacher planning time.