The NCLB Act puts a special emphasis on determining what educational programs and practices have been clearly demonstrated to be effective through rigorous scientific research and districts are required to give teachers access to high quality, research-based professional development.

The Curriculum Group will provide this service by planning and facilitating Collaborative Inquiry Groups for your staff. Our consultants will lead productive sessions that are built upon collaboration, reflection, and action.

Our formula for successful collaboration includes:

• Training teachers to participate in site-based decision making and goal-setting;
• Providing an efficient structure for collecting and analyzing student data;
• Supporting ongoing reflection and analysis of student performance;
• Allowing schools to combine state and federal requirements with district specific goals.

In addition to our support in facilitating collaborative inquiry groups, Mass Networks consultants will prepare discussion questions, worksheets, data analysis, and supplemental resources that will be valuable to the group's course of action. To learn more about Collaborative Inquiry Groups, click here.

To find out how The Curriculum Group can support your district in creating and sustaining Collaborative Inquiry Groups, please contact

Laura Christian, Curriculum Group Director
lchristian@massnetworks.org
617.783.9988 X121