Next-Level Leadership/TIL is a one-year cohort model for district and campus leadership teams. Cohort members engage in an intentional coaching model that provides the Principal Supervisors and campus leadership teams with research-based practices used to increase student achievement. An ESC coach will support cohort teams throughout the year with professional learning, implementation support, and one-on-one coaching for the selected suite. Cohorts choices are:

• Data-Driven Instruction
• Action Coaching
• Lesson Planning
• Formative Assessments, or
• Student Culture and Routines

Cohort teams will learn:

Data-Driven Instruction

• Facilitate and coach data meetings.
• Break down the knowledge and skills required to
  master the TEKS.
• Analyze student work samples and identify student misconceptions.
• Support teachers in making and executing reteach
  plans to quickly and effectively close learning gaps.

Action Coaching

• Establish strong systems and routines for regular support of teachers through short-cycle observation and feedback.
• Develop teachers by utilizing feedback meetings to practice new skills.
• Utilize tools that enable consistent follow-through.
• Lesson Planning and Formative Assessment
• Utilize steps to unpack standards to create rigorous, measurable, distinct, manageable, and data-driven daily lesson objectives.
• Evaluate an exit ticket and name key criteria that make it successful.

Lesson Planning and Formative Assessment

• Utilize steps to unpack standards to create rigorous, measurable, distinct, manageable, and data-driven daily lesson objectives.
• Evaluate an exit ticket and name key criteria that make it successful.

Student Culture

• Create student culture routines.
• Establish a positive student culture.
• Create monitoring systems to ensure a consistent and supportive learning environment for all.