Beyond Co-Teaching Basics: A Data-Driven, No-Fail Model for Continuous Improvement

Collaborative teaching, or co-teaching, is a powerful way to support the learning of students with diverse learning needs. But how do you know when you're doing it right? And if you're not, what can you do about that? Authors Wendy W. Murawski and Wendy W. Lochner introduce the Collaborative Teaching Improvement Model of Excellence (CTIME), a continuous improvement model that embraces personalized professional learning to ensure that teachers meet the core competencies for co-teaching without burning out along the way. Incorporating a systematic application of collaborative groups, data analysis, microteaching, feedback, and collegial support, CTIME is the culmination of the best research in the field.

As Murawski and Lochner walk you through their data-driven, no-fail model of co-teaching, you’ll learn about

• The CTIME process and how it works.
• Co-teaching core competencies measured schoolwide and at the classroom level.
• Assessment of progress toward mastery.
• Co-teaching action plans.
• Professional learning communities and schoolwide improvement.
• Co-teaching communities of practice and microteaching.
• Co-teaching facilitation, feedback, and reflection.

Offering a practical approach to achieving mastery of the co-teaching core competencies, this book provides dozens of strategies, resources, and templates that can be used by district-level administrators, principals, and co-teaching teams. If you're ready to examine your co-teaching practices to make sure you're achieving the best possible outcomes for your students, then Beyond Co-Teaching Basics is for you.

Wendy Weichel Murawski is the Michael D. Eisner Endowed Chair and Executive Director for the Center for Teaching and Learning at California State University, Northridge (CSUN). She is a tenured full professor in the department of Special Education, a past president of the Teacher Education Division (TED) for the Council for Exceptional Children, a former Teacher Educator of the Year for the state of California, a Division of Learning Disabilities (DLD) research award winner, and the recipient of the outstanding faculty award for CSUN.

Wendy Whitehair Lochner is a school Improvement and federal programs coordinator for the West Virginia Department of Education, where she leads districts and schools in the school turnaround process. She specializes in needs assessments, data analysis, and strategic planning and provides daily technical assistance to districts, superintendents, administrators, and teachers. She designed, developed, and published several software systems for co-teaching observation, lesson planning, Response to Intervention (RTI) and Intervention Tracking, online student assessment, and data and outcomes management that are used statewide and nationally.