1. Based on Results and Results Now by Mike Schmoker
TEAM ACTION PLANNING (TAP) Six-Week Action Plans for Continuous School Improvement
Based on Results and Results Now by Mike Schmoker

2. Key Components Collaborative and Effective Teamwork
Setting and Attaining SPECIFIC Measurable Goals
Performance Data (pre-post testing)
Collegial Accountability to Public Results
Making the invisible visible
Celebrating success
Revealing where improvement is needed

3. ACTION PLANNER
Teamwork: An Action Planner is simply a form to assist effective teamwork.
In creating your action planner, consider components of backwards planning; a tool to organize effective TAP meetings; a measure for group accountability.

4. Goal Setting
Give as much autonomy to teachers to choose goals and data they believe will give the most leverage. Must be aligned to school-wide goals/focus.
Goals provide a basis for decision making and guidance to instructional decision making.
Goals enable teachers to gauge their success.
Goals promote collegial dialogue.

5. Performance Data
On-going collection of data clarifies priorities and determines results focused actions Combined with collaboration, goals and data create conditions that enable if not compel teachers to request and offer advice and support to their colleagues.

6. Collegial Accountability to Public Results
Six Week Action Cycle
Pre-Post Assessment
At 3 weeks, collect monitoring data
At 6 weeks, share and display data by teams