Collaborative Partnerships Module 2: Cohort 12, Arkansas Lead Pathway Designation FY26 by

Directions

AR_Lead — 2025-06-21 19:28:59 UTC

Click on the plus icon in the bottom right hand corner of the screen.
- On the pop-up, add your name, then record a key takeaway from the video, then click publish
- On a second pop-up, add your name, then record a lingering question around student ownership and success criteria.

Criteria for Professional Development

AR_Lead — 2025-06-21 19:28:59 UTC

Facilitated by an empowered teacher leader
Linked to a continuum of learning
Data driven and aligned student needs and student learning.
Aligned to a proven structure
Structured to meet needs/levels of learning of the participants
Grounded in student work/artifacts
Designed and facilitated with the characteristics of powerful professional development in mind

Madison Cantrell

2026-01-26 17:29:55 UTC

To have good professional development it needs to be concise, data-driven, and goal oriented. Using the five step model helps structure our PLCs to achieve this. As I used the five step model to help plan a training in Activity 4, it really helped me target the main reason for the training and ways to be successful in that goal. My school's main focus right now is creating specific and obtainable goals so that we can move forward and grow. Even small steps are steps!

Haley Favell

2026-01-26 17:41:11 UTC

The five steps support collective efficacy because they give teachers a shared process to learn, try, and reflect together. Starting with a real student need and using real student data/student work helps everyone stay focused on the same goal. Learning and applying strategies together builds confidence, and seeing the impact on students reinforces the belief that what we are doing does work.

Kylande Stewart

2026-01-26 17:44:39 UTC

The Five Steps provide structures for teachers. Just like with any problem we want to "fix" we have to first identify what the problem or need is. The Five Steps gives you an easy broken down way to work through the need so that we can have higher student success. Start with a small need first and that will help you get through the more challenging ones!

Kylande Stewart

2026-01-26 17:47:55 UTC

How do we help, elementary students specifically, understand and value the importance of student success and ownership?

Amanda Snow

2026-01-26 17:47:55 UTC

The Five Steps provide an outline and cycle for professional development teachers should follow. This is an ongoing process that always goes back to student learning.

Amanda Snow

2026-01-26 17:49:41 UTC

A question or problem I have with student success and ownership is how do I help my primary students see the importance of their learning and consequences of not learning?

Sarah Hagler

2026-01-26 17:51:46 UTC

The five steps is a circle, we as teachers are always learning and have to keep an open mind. Our students change from year to year so we need to be willing to change with it.

Sarah Hagler

2026-01-26 17:52:53 UTC

How can we make students care about their "ownership" of learning?

Gloria Ward

gward49 — 2026-01-26 17:56:14 UTC

The Five Steps for Effective Learning protocol builds collective efficacy by giving teachers a shared structure focused on student needs and evidence. As teachers collaborate and see the impact of their instruction through student work, their confidence in improving student learning together increases.

Holly Harding-Smith

2026-01-26 17:56:44 UTC

5 steps + PD:

Having teacher lead professional development creates "buy in" from other teachers. It builds connections between professionals while meeting the needs of students at their individualized instruction pace. It incorporates using student artifacts into best practices and observations for peer support and applicable professional development instead of needless, useless PD.

Katie Leopard

2026-01-26 17:57:11 UTC

The Five Steps provide an outline or rubric for professional learning time for teachers to follow. It is based upon the needs of the teachers and students at the time of the PLC. It gives teachers the support to learn collaboratively with fellow colleagues and reflect on the impact of the learning time.

Melissa Pratt

2026-01-26 17:59:15 UTC

The five steps provide structure and organization to a meeting. They allow teachers to work together collaboratively by examining student data and determining how to address student needs. It is an ongoing cycle.

Melissa Pratt

2026-01-26 18:01:03 UTC

How do we motivate students to take ownership of their learning and want to be successful?

Kristin Rudick

2026-01-26 18:01:28 UTC

The Five Steps gives teachers structure! It gives us clear steps on how to identify the problems and the steps to correct them. Once that problem is corrected, you will cycle back around with identifying a new problem. This is an ongoing process.

Kristin Rudick

2026-01-26 18:03:57 UTC

How do we motivate students to care about their learning goals and hold them accountable for their goals?

Gloria Ward

gward49 — 2026-01-26 18:03:58 UTC

How can I help my junior high students care about their work and see its importance when there is no reinforcement at home to support them? So they can have success beyond sports.

Wanda Eskridge

2026-01-26 18:04:42 UTC

The Five Steps for Effective Learning protocol aligns closely with how high-quality professional development strengthens student achievement and learning. It also helps teachers with collaboration examining work works and what didn't work. We are able to use intervention strategies when we find that a strategy does not work for our group of students.

Wanda Eskridge

2026-01-26 18:06:20 UTC

Key takeaway from video is the process is a continuous cycle. When we evaluate there may be a need to continue or a different need based on what the data shows.

Jenna Furman

2026-01-26 18:09:52 UTC

The five steps gives us a structure to be able to refine our teaching when we find a need in the classroom. This can be as a teacher leader showing up for PD development as well as just in our own personal classroom. Having a process allows us to be able to be more effective in the classroom.

Jenna Furman

2026-01-26 18:11:34 UTC

How do I help my students truly see the importance in their work and more importantly their work ethic. By the time they get to me in 7thgrade, so many have had their hand held every step of the way that it is hard to get good, true insightful work out of them.

Stacia Petty

2026-01-26 18:11:34 UTC

My key takeaway from the video is to have someone leading the professional development that is trusted. For a teacher to effectively collaborate the teacher leader needs to be one that can lead, model and give feedback in a productive way that leads to enhanced student achievement and teacher empowerment. Not in a condescending or critical way.

Pamela Walls

2026-01-26 18:11:53 UTC

Keytake away--The 5 steps provide structure and clear steps to take in students' performance. Helps target the main reason for training and it's meaningful to educators. It also gives teachers a voice in what and where they think students needs are and to learn new ways to become more successful.

Katie McGoogn

2026-01-26 18:13:25 UTC

The Five Steps provides a structured outline and rubric for PLC time to make our time more effective. These steps are based on assessing the need and providing effective steps to address the need. It also gives the teachers support while working collaboratively to achieve goals and have a greater impact on student growth.

Stacia Petty

2026-01-26 18:14:34 UTC

When starting something completely new ( I.e. playing recorders in music class) how do I make the skill relevant to create student ownership to every students regardless of interests and background?

Shannon Turley

2026-01-26 18:17:06 UTC

It is an effective teaching/ learning model which begins with evidence and ends with new evidence. Full circle.

Pamela Walls

2026-01-26 18:17:14 UTC

How can you get all students to ask questions and participate in classroom activities? How can you get students to do more self regulation in middle school instead of not wanting everything spoon fed to them? (think for themselves)...taking ownership

And more importantly...Increase motivation and understand the value in every piece taught? Instead of, ...is this for a grade?

Tara Barrett

2026-01-26 18:18:05 UTC

My key takeaway is that the Five Steps of Effective Learning is a continuous cycle. It is a great outline for professional learning time. As educators, we are continually reflecting on what worked and didn't and how to improve student learning.

Kelsey Rawls

2026-01-26 18:19:26 UTC

They align because they both share understanding, share practice, and share belief in impact. They both provide structure.

Tara White

2026-01-26 18:20:53 UTC

Teachers want to be doing something that is relevant and doable during PLC's. A PLC agenda set up with the Five Steps for Effective Learning protocol helps to make sure this is happening. The focus stays on student learning and what teachers can do to ensure they are all learning. I also like how the 5 steps are always ongoing and cause us to reflect on our teaching practices.

Gwendolyn Lane

2026-01-26 18:21:32 UTC

By following the 5 steps, there is created a clear pathway to improvement for all teachers and students. All stakeholders are empowered to develop and be supported as they learn. The steps should be cyclical in nature as to continue to learning in a clear manner. It is predictable and non threatening. It also lets everyone know that you don't have to fix all problems or meet all needs at the same time. This structure helps keep issues in a doable mindset and should not become overwhelming.

Krystle Teague

teaguek4 — 2026-01-26 18:22:44 UTC

I believe that the professional development needs to be a collaborative meeting where the teachers work together to help set common goals based on the effective learning. For instance, in the effective PD they need to model what needs to be done for the students. They need to practice doing it before they attempt to teach it to the students.

Tessa Campbell

2026-01-26 18:25:00 UTC

The Five Steps provides a structure where you are using the data to develop your need and going through the steps to make sure that everyone is given the opportunity to fully understand and contribute to the success of every student. The teachers are supported and given the resources to feel confident in their abilities and to improve where they need to. This leads to more success and confidence in the students and their work in the long run. It's a win win for everyone involved :)

Samantha Rodgers

2026-01-26 18:33:04 UTC

That the Five Steps for Effective Learning is a continuous cycle/circle that guides lead educators through effective learning.

Kristin Ashli Smiley

ksmiley17 — 2026-01-26 18:34:40 UTC

Kristin Ashli Smiley

When teachers are provided with structure, routine, high growth, and deep conversations by their leadership, this facilitates a positive relationship which contributes to confidence in their teaching practice. In turn, students will also have structure, routines, high growth, and deep conversations inside their classrooms which will facilitate a positive learning impact and student growth, which will boost their confidence. Lead teachers and teachers will be focused on relevant needs and have evidence of positive student achievement. This means students and teachers will continuously be receiving the support they need in a timely manner and their learning will reflect that. Teachers will receive support and coaching before, during, and after learning, which means that students and teachers will day to day benefit more and more from the improved practice and modeling of strategies. All of these align with the characteristics of effective professional development.

Samantha Rodgers

2026-01-26 18:37:46 UTC

Success criteria - this always stumps on how certain things are truly measured. And maybe this is the black/white, no grey part of my thinking - but how can we truly measure success criteria. Yes, on student achievement via assessments - pre and post - but there are always students that don't care/try that skew data - so I wish there was more clarity or direction in this.

Jennifer Walker

2026-01-26 18:40:47 UTC

Key Takeaway from the video - The Five Steps of Effective Learning aid teachers in collectively evaluating the needs of their own students. Collaboration is essential, using all of the strong points of each teacher to develop instruction that matters (makes an impact).

Shalisha Thomas

2026-01-26 18:43:36 UTC

Key Takeaway: The Five Steps of Effective Learning are a guide to help teachers collaborate and intentionally support student learning. This model is data-driven. It helps teachers reflect and implement strategies to help improve student growth.

Jennifer Walker

2026-01-26 18:43:40 UTC

Lingering question - How do I get students engaged in evaluating their own achievement without primarily focusing on test data?

Shalisha Thomas

2026-01-26 18:46:22 UTC

Lingering Question: How do you get students to buy into their own success in the classroom?

Stephanie Hill

2026-01-26 18:49:22 UTC

Key takeaway - I really like the idea of the teacher lead PD options. So often there are PD's that do not pertain to the classroom and using it in the classroom. With peers leading the PD they know what we are going throught just like them. We were able to have a teacher lead PD in the spring and fall and I do believe it was one of the more effective days since it was something we could use in our classrooms.

Stephanie Hill

2026-01-26 18:51:23 UTC

Lingering question - When there is very little accountability for students up until the reach the high school level, how are they then supposed to change there mindset of I will pass anyway to I need to retain this information and work hard to be successful in life.

Bailey Money

2026-01-26 18:54:32 UTC

These five steps provide a clear, organized meeting structure that supports teacher collaboration. Teachers can use them to examine student data and develop plans to address learning needs, with the process repeating over time.

Bailey Money

2026-01-26 18:55:23 UTC

What evidence shows students truly “own” their learning vs. simply completing tasks?

Madasyn Lassetter

2026-01-26 18:59:06 UTC

The Five Steps for Effective Learning gives an outline of how effective Professional Developments should work. Professional Developments should encourage collaborative efforts among teachers who are working toward a common goal. The Protocol gives an outline on how to do that effectively.

Teresa Loveless

2026-01-26 19:05:27 UTC

This is Professional development designed specifically for teachers in "our" building to improve learning for "our" kids. It is not an abstract, data driven, opinion by an author. By using our data and then working together to find solutions, we are given ownership as a group. We also have the ability to see the results and analyze them without the pressure of outside opinion. We build that collective efficacy when we swim or sink together. We then have the opportunity to address lingering problems or find another solution.

Ashley Gwynne

2026-01-26 19:14:33 UTC

The five steps for effective learning protocol help you to identify the best professional development to best meet your needs.

Clarissa Brizo

2026-01-26 19:23:02 UTC

Key takeaway from video:

An aligned, proven structure is used with the Five Steps to aid in student learning and teacher reflection.

Clarissa Brizo

2026-01-26 19:29:18 UTC

Question: How to motivate High School students to use /care for their own reflection to improve understanding/learning?

Haley Favell

2026-01-26 20:59:16 UTC

How can we better support each other in the application and reflection steps to strengthen our impact?

Tiffany Llewellyn

2026-01-26 21:15:28 UTC

The Five Steps impact collective efficacy because they are a clear process for monitoring learning. They keep the discussion focused on learning while making room for improving instructional practice.

Lynn West

2026-01-27 04:42:41 UTC

The Five Steps for Effective Learning increases collective efficacy by promoting a common belief among teachers that as a team we can increase student achievement one skill at a time. It's a continuous, never-ending cycle that will drive student success. Together we fascilitate a plan by establishing goals and creating strategies to meet the individual needs of students.

Lynn West

2026-01-27 04:58:21 UTC

Question: I have the same concerns as many others have stated. I teach in the middle school and the students have no motivation to do well. When I try to use chromebooks with them, they use google lens or other AI platforms to get their answers. I tell them that they won't have access to that when I give them a test, but they still continue to "cheat". This is my first year to teach Algebra I and I had to fail a student for the first semester who had a 43 average. On the ATLAS summative assessments he scores a 3 consistantly. The other students know that failure is not an option when you're taking a class for a high school credit. I gave a quiz Friday and I might of had 2 or 3 students who barely passed it out of the remaining 12 in the class. I also teach after school 2 days a week and they know I am there if they'd just stay for extra help. This is causing me to lose sleep!!! Any advice will be appreciated.

Stephanie Butler

2026-02-18 17:09:31 UTC

These five steps give a time of reflection and evaluation to our teaching routine. That can sometimes be the hardest part, but it the most important part of any learning cycle.

Tiffany Nolen

2026-02-18 18:28:04 UTC

The 5 step of effective learning protocol connects closely with strong professional development because each supports and strengthens the other. Both are grounded in meeting the needs of teachers and studnets and focus on achieving meaningful academic growth by analyzing student data. Effective professional development should include collaboration and meaningful opportunities to build skills that directly apply to the classroom. Through ongoing implementation and reflection as outlined int he protocol, professional learning should remain continuous and flexable to meet evolving needs.

Ashley Sheffield

2026-02-18 18:42:44 UTC

The Five Steps for Effective Learning provides teachers and leaders with a clear outline to focus on student needs, learning in the classroom, modeling / support, application of new learning, and evaluation of student performance. It is a way to collaborate together with student success being at the forefront.

Stacey Holley

2026-02-18 18:48:25 UTC

The Five Steps for Effective Learning protocol directly strengthens Collective Efficacy by creating shared understanding, shared practice, and shared evidence of impact—the conditions that help educators believe together that they can positively affect student learning.

Natasha Rowe

2026-02-18 19:00:10 UTC

The five steps are critical to the strong creation of professional development and PLC meetings that are meaningful. Teacher confidence grows as they understand the process and the power behind aligning the goals and what we are trying to accomplish in the classroom. There is direct alignment in the understanding, common language, preparation and execution of the steps. The entire five step process aligns and provides a simplistic template that will allow teachers to take ownership as they are working. collaboratively.

Jewell Worthington

2026-02-18 19:25:16 UTC

The five steps for effective learning is a cycle that should guide teachers to support one another, as well as students throughout the year. This should begin with clear evidence on what "needs" need to be met, how to meet them, and then how to do it over and over again.

Lyndi Greenwich

2026-02-18 20:12:01 UTC

“How does the Five Steps for Effective Learning protocol align with how Professional Development impacts Collective Efficacy?”

When it is consistently implemented, the Five Steps help reduce instructional isolation, increases alignment across grade levels, creates shared language around standards, builds a culture of collective responsibility, and a strengthen belief that educators can overcome student learning challenges together.

Nikki Stancil

2026-02-18 21:02:59 UTC

Key takeaway from the video is that how we coach teachers connects with how we coach/teach students.

Nikki Stancil

2026-02-18 21:05:07 UTC

The questions always is... How do you get a student that isn't engaging in their own learning to engage in their learning.

Lauren Marty

2026-02-19 20:51:22 UTC

Having a clear measurement of what is expected allows teachers to dig deeper into the needs of their students. When the guess work is taken out it makes working toward your goals a lot easier!