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Shifting From Neutral to

Zoom-ing Ahead: How One

Instructional Team Raced

COVID to September

By Jeannine Lanphear, North Brunswick Schools Gr. 5-8 Math Supervisor

and Susan Gilbert, NJPSA/FEA Coach and Coordinator

The North Brunswick Hours before starting, schools were analysis is the requisite lever that
Fifth Grade Math Con- COVID-closed, and collaboration leads to change and, as such, a
paused for several months. The district careful examination in the way we
nected Action Roadmap supervisor and grant coach used CAR, were going about the business of
“Strengthening Teaching, PLC conversations, and the NJDOE- educating our students. Key to this
analysis was the superintendent’s
CAR instructional units to restart
Leading and Learning” building a new PLC and a culture position that academic restructuring
Grant was poised to bridge of shared teacher leadership while at the middle level could be the driver
of middle school student achievement
working remotely.
an academic restructuring improvement. Actualizing the vision
initiative and build a brand Academic Restructuring - led to fifth grade departmentalization.
This second order change promoted
Departmentalization Vision -
new Professional Learning New School evidence-based, contemporary
Community. Analysis of student performance pedagogy delivered by centralized
teams of content specialists for
data is not a new concept. Data

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