A multi-classroom leader (MCL) leads a small team of teachers, paraprofessionals, and teacher residents in the same grade or subject to meet the MCL’s standards of excellence. MCLs establish each team member’s roles and goals at least annually, determine how students spend time, and organize teaching roles to fit each teacher’s strengths, content knowledge, and professional development goals. The team uses the MCL’s methods and tools. The MCL:

• co-plans, co-teaches, models, coaches, and gives feedback.
• teaches students part of the time.
• organizes the team to analyze student learning data and change instruction to ensure high-growth learning for every child.
• collaborates with the team, using the team’s ideas and innovations that the MCL agrees may improve learning.
• is fully accountable for the learning and development of all students taught by the team members.
• helps choose team members and leads their development, and monitors, assesses, and shares their progress with the principal.

A Team Reach Teacher (TRT) serves on a multi-classroom leader’s (MCL’s) team, directly teaching more students than usual for higher pay. They reach significantly more students and may also coach one or more other teachers on the team. 

Like all teachers on an MCL team, TRTs receive the MCL’s powerful, ongoing, on-the-job support and guidance, and they have the support of advanced paraprofessionals in the role of Team Reach Associates or teacher residents. In collaboration with their MCL team, they support the building of a tutoring culture with increased small-group tutoring and teaching time.

 The TRT:

• is responsible for co-planning, co-preparing, and delivering instruction, and co-monitoring student progress to determine instructional needs.
• is responsible for monitoring the effectiveness of instruction supervised by the Team Reach Associate(s) and making or recommending changes.
• collaborates with others working with the same students or subjects, including other members of the multi-classroom leader’s team as well as Team Reach Associates, to review student progress and change instruction to ensure high-progress and enriched learning for every student.

A team teacher serves on a multi-classroom leader’s (MCL’s) team. Each team teacher plays roles to fit their strengths, content knowledge, and professional development goals. A team teacher:

• may take on various assigned instructional process and content roles (such as lesson planning, large-group instruction, small-group instruction, individual interventions, and data analysis).
• uses the MCL’s instructional methods and tools; develops expertise in various areas of instruction; contributes ideas for ongoing improvement; and works collaboratively with the team and the MCL to review student progress and change instruction to ensure high-progress learning for every child.
• is accountable to the MCL for contributions to learning outcomes of students, with specific goals and measures.

A team reach associate is an advanced paraprofessional who provides release time and support for multi-classroom leaders and team reach teachers. Team reach associates, or TRAs, provide that release time by instructing students in small groups or individually, supporting students while they work on projects, skills practice, and digital learning, and supporting the team on other non-instructional tasks.

• Everything the TRA does is directed by the multi-classroom leader or TRTs.