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NBCT Support for Take One!
School Improvement Resources
Collaborative groups of teachers in a school may go beyond the "workshop approach" to their own learning. Engaging in school-wide conversations on the aspects of teaching through the NBPTS Architecture of Accomplished Teaching and studying high and rigorous teaching standards builds a learning community focused on students' learning. Using the Take One! program school-wide enables teachers and principals to make connections among school improvement actions to meet school learning goals.
The NBRC offers resources to school leaders and NBCTs to design and implement ongoing, effective professional development experiences through the Take One! process.
- Recruiting Take One! Participants
- 2011 White Paper Take One! (pdf)
- This Take One! White Paper "Tying Actions and Knowledge to Evaluation for Ongoing Necessary Efficacy!" explains the Take One! process, research, highlights of Take One! schools, and how to design a program at a school.
- Readiness Inventory (Word) This document helps administrators and teacher leaders to self-evaluate the school site’s readiness for school-wide Take One! professional development under the categories of principal/administration, teachers, and school culture/structures. This activity will help school leaders as they design the support system.
- Logistics Questions and Organizer (Word) This document includes multiple questions about participant support, NBCT support providers, content of support, budgets, and funding sources.
- Budget Worksheet (Excel) This editable EXCEL worksheet allows users to input data to determine budgets that includes: number of participants, number of sessions, cost for teacher time, cost for facilitator, number of readers, cost of readers, number of mentors, cost of mentors, application fee, equipment costs, materials costs, total costs, funding source, and cost to district.
- Administrator Calendar (Word) This document lists specific support strategies for participants identified by administrators.
- Heritage Elementary School Powerpoint (pdf) This document was created by the staff at Heritage Elementary School (District u-46) in Streamwood, Illinois to show what they did and the benefits from the Take One! school-wide program.
