Ryan Kachold, EdD Money matters for student outcomes. I help K-12 education leaders understand how. ​​​​

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Happy Labor Day everyone!

I hope you all enjoyed your long weekend and are ready to get back at it tomorrow, whatever that looks like for you in the field of education. This edition is a vulnerable one for me. I have been writing about and creating content online for this brand, company, idea, or whatever, called "Finance for Instructional Leaders," now for the last 15 months.

Rather than writing about it, I decided to create a YouTube video summarizing my journey over the last 15 months building this idea online. If you've been with me since the beginning, thank you. I am grateful! Please take a minute to check out the video below.

A protocol that keeps your collaborative teacher teams on track:

The leader of the collaborative teacher team This is an image from a real worksheet that each of the collaborative teacher team leads use once a month with an assigned instructional coach.

Every single box you see that is available for the leaders of our teacher teams to check has some sort of time, people, or money investment associated with it. Take, for example, this lead. He put an "X" on "Team Power Day." Here are all of the resources that go into the execution of that:

• Full day release day for the lead and all of the team members (full day substitute for 3-8 team members, depending on team size)
• Availability of our instructional coaches and extra duty compensation needed to potentially plan and prepare the content of the Team Power Day
• Lunch (have to give them lunch; should obviously come from a discretionary budget)

For a team of five teachers to take full advantage of the Team Power Day, it costs anywhere from $500 to $1,500 just for the day. More importantly though, is not just the time, people, and money, but all of the instructional alignment and coherence required. This Team Power Day requires approval and facilitation of a plan created by the team lead and our team of coaches. Here are some of the alignment prerequisites for a team to get one of these Power Days approved:

• Goal most be aligned with the school's model of instruction
• The day must include a portion of learning walks, or time spent in classrooms
• The team must commit to a subsequent job-embedded coaching period that involves observation data they choose

This worksheet might seem like just a worksheet, and it is, but the time, people, and money that go into all of these options for a lead don't exist in all schools. The main driving force behind this team lead protocol is a robust, sustainable investment in teacher leadership infrastructure in the school.

If you want more on how this actually gets implemented in a school with your resources, just reply and let's start a conversation.

Thanks for reading!

Ryan

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