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Standard 7 Reflection

Seattle Pacific University's Standards for Teacher Leadership Standard 7 states that teacher leaders "utilize instructional frameworks for teaching to improve practice".  This work has been a central theme both in our teacher leadership classes and in my own work in becoming a stronger teacher.  We have looked at our own district's instructional frameworks such as the Danielson Framework and the "State 8" (OSPI, 2018).  We have also used many texts to learn about and work with instructional frameworks within the classroom such as instructional strategies (Hattie, 2012).  Finally, we have gained experience with frameworks for coaching other teachers, such as instructional coaching models and paraphrasing/coaching frames (Knight, 2018). One of the first classes that we took, Accomplished Teaching, allowed us to look at our district's instructional framework to goal set and improve our practice.  Linked here is my reflection from that work.  When learnin...