Nashville Impact Teams & Teacher Clarity Institutes

Student Success Starts with Teacher Clarity and Collaboration

Your teachers know the standards inside and out, but how comfortable are they creating curriculum that aligns to them? How well do they understand what they need to teach, how to teach it, and how they’re going to measure success?

Teacher Clarity is a research-based process for narrowing and focusing activities, cutting away aspects of instruction that don’t help learning by identifying the most critical parts of instruction: learning intentions, success criteria, and learning progressions. With an effect size of .75, Teacher Clarity can double the rate of student learning. It supports the goal of creating Assessment-Capable Learners who are three times more likely to achieve in school resulting in improved attendance, engagement, retention, progress, and success for all learners. 

At this institute, join expert, Dave Nagel as he gives you the tools to purposely pursue collective teacher efficacy with focus, rigor and clarity. Participants will explore how the process for developing Learning Intentions and Success Criteria (LISC) ensures teachers can clearly articulate the what, why and how behind student learning, providing clarity around learning goals and a focus for instruction and assessment.

Attend this one day institute:

• Learn each step of the process, including understanding the “what” and the “why”
• Break into teams, take their existing curriculum and standards, and work every single step of the process
• Complete two entire units of learning intentions, success criteria, and learning progressions 

When teachers share a deep understanding of what students need to learn and know how to effectively share their expertise to make change happen, student success soars!