Resources we have found to be useful in working with teams: DuFour & DuFour (eds). (2005) On common ground: The power of professional learning communities. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree. Dufour, R. & Eaker, R. (1998). Professional learning communities at work: Best practices for enhancing student achievement. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree. Harvard Business School Press (2004). [...]
Article: Teams
The unit we have selected to work with is the team. Why teams? Anyone who has spent time in and around schools over the past 10 years has heard administrators, teachers, and yes students complain that, “this is just not doable by one person!” A least not the way we are defining “this” and given the number of hours allotted and the resources available. We couldn’t agree more!
Article: The Givens
We thought we would begin by making explicit our under lying assumptions: the ideas we have chosen to accept as true. They constitute the “givens” in our SAM experiment and as such we do not, as a matter of course, interrogate them — this, by the way, takes a certain amount of vigilance and discipline!
SAM Standards
In this section you will find standards that guide our work: SAM Leadership Standards SAM Facilitator Standards SAM Team Standards
SAM Results
In this section you will find a range of information about the results of our work, from formal program evaluations to classroom-based findings: SAM Evaluation Paper
Welcome to the SAM blog
The Scaffolded Apprenticeship Model a.k.a. SAM, is an approach to school reform that integrates improvement in student achievement with instructional and leadership capacity building and succession planning. It has been developed with the generous support of the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
