Collaborative Practices

Implementing instructional strategies that provide students with frequent opportunities to collaborate and converse with their peers.

• Complex Think-Pair-Share
• Think-Pair-Square
• Numbered Head

Cognitive Rigor

Ensuring ALL students have the opportunity to engage in cognitively complex tasks aligned to grade-level standards.

Academic Discourse

Elevating student conversations to include appropriate academic vocabulary, building stronger and clearer ideas, and increasing content or skills related to the lesson objective.