CONTENT VERTICALTEAM
PLANNING PROTOCOL
Date: _____________ Time of Meeting: ____________
Essential Questions
Sample Activities and
Resources
Notes
1) What are the essential content,
skills, and vocabulary that the
students must acquire to be
successful during this unit?
Study curriculum maps
Study lesson plans
Review problem standards
Word walls
2) What instructional strategies
work best for this unit of study?
What do they look like? What
are the students doing? What is
the teacher doing?
Share lesson plans
Peer observation
Analyze student work samples
Review data from CREC common
Model strategies
3) What are our daily tasks for the
next unit? Analyze the level of
demand of each task.
Share plans
Discuss
Student work
4) What evidence of learning will
we collect to see if the students
met the daily objectives? What
does good work look like?
Daily work samples
Do-Now samples
Exit tickets
Embedded assessments
HW assignments
5) How will we support the
students who need initial help
and assistance mastering the
essential skills and knowledge?
Review EIP plans
Review lesson plans
Discuss instructional strategies
Analyze team minutes forms from
CREC commons
6) How will we extend and enrich
the learning for students goal or
higher?
Discuss enrichment activities
Create menu of enrichment
activities
Research
Subject:
In Attendance:
Meeting Norms:
We will be on time
We will be prepared
We will respect each other
We will be engaged
We will listen to each other
We will welcome conflict
We will follow the agenda
Form J
Science
7) Discuss progressions from one
grade to the next.
Unit maps
Lesson plans
8) Team Discussion, sharing of work, or celebrations
Notes:
Next Meeting: __________________ Focus of Meeting: ___________________