What is your vision for teaching and learning?

What is the role of the teacher in your school?

How do the deeper learning competencies intersect with the vision for your school?

What does deeper learning “sound, feel and look like” at its best? What exemplars stand out?

How can a school’s design support deeper learning? How can it get in the way?

What conditions must exist in schools to make deeper learning possible?

What is your vision for an equitable classroom? For an equitable school?

How will you provide access and challenge to all learners?

​Write your instructional vision for the school

Compose a teacher job description

Collaborate with a teacher or student design team  to co-design a project

Describe elements of the school design that will support deeper learning. Describe elements that would get in the way that you plan to keep out?

Craft a vision for how students will develop the DL competencies through your instructional model.

Design school structures that immerse students in authentic learning experiences in the community (i.e. fieldwork, internships, community service, etc.)

Design a master schedule and calendar that supports deeper learning for all students and faculty

Plan for inclusion

Plan for emerging bilinguals

Designing culturally responsive, critical pedagogy

College access & persistence

Plan for providing access/challenge for all (RTI)