For school and district leaders
Build the conditions that make strong co-teaching possible.
Co-teaching improves when leaders align expectations, planning time, professional learning, evidence, and follow-up around a shared framework.
A sustainable system includes
- Clear partnership and instructional expectations
- Protected co-planning time with useful protocols
- Strategy-focused professional learning and feedback
- Evidence connected to student and implementation outcomes
Four leadership priorities
Move from enthusiastic launch to supported practice.
Clarify
Define what effective co-teaching should look like and accomplish.
Enable
Protect planning, create role clarity, and remove predictable barriers.
Develop
Sequence learning around partnership, planning, strategy choice, and instruction.
Learn
Use meaningful evidence and feedback to identify the next system priority.
Leader toolkit
Begin with tools that make the work visible.
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Data Sheet for Co-Teaching SMART Goals
Track inclusion, academic outcomes, social-emotional impact, implementation, and achievement gaps.
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Develop a Co-Teaching Action Plan
Define an overarching goal, measurable goals, intended outcomes, and individual actions for building co-teaching culture.
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Division of Labor and Responsibilities
Assign and describe how lesson planning, content, feedback, strategy selection, and family communication will happen.
Prepare for district support: Bring the current co-teaching roles, planning schedule, priority goals, schools or teams involved, and the decision the team needs to make. The District Co-Teaching Systems pathway can produce a readiness review, leadership alignment, professional-learning sequence, evidence plan, or sustainability roadmap.
