Jenny Jorgensen - Principle 2 & 3

What experiences have you had in engaging teacher teams in the collaborative development and implementation of instructional strategies needed to support every learner?  Have you been able to facilitate teacher growth in their content knowledge or implementation of best practices?  What works, and what’s challenging?  As you read this section, was there a particular Stage 2 or 3 Indicator strategy that resonated with you … why did that have meaning for you?
I have participated and facilitated a book group discussion as we were learning about Differentiation Strategies for the math classroom.  During the discussions we shared our thoughts about what we'd read and set goals to try a strategy in our classrooms and be ready to share our experiences at our next meeting.  We set the stage for our work by agreeing that we would all try something and look to each other for help and feedback about the work. 
This work can be linked in the Framework to Teaching and Learning Indicator 1 and 2. As teachers, we were learning about differentiation for the purpose of increasing our ability to differentiate our math instruction.  Teachers worked collaboratively to learn about differentiation through a book study and then worked together to implement some of the strategies we'd tried.
As the Math Lead Teacher in the building, I provided support to teachers and helped develop resources, based on our reading, for teachers to use in their math classes. 
It was challenging for teachers to take the first step and try a strategy from what we'd been reading.  This work seems to target, Teaching and Learning Indicator 2, Stage 2: "Engage teachers in collaborative dialogue about research-informed instructional practices and planning for effective student learning of mathematics."  The work that we've done as a staff during the book groups was the beginning. We are still trying new strategies with the goal of differentiating our instruction in order to meet the needs of our students in heterogeneous math classes.