Learning Focused

Today I spent the day at a faculty mini-retreat focused on Learning Focused Schools. The day was long but good. So what is a Learning Focused School?

The LEARNING-FOCUSED SCHOOLS MODEL is a comprehensive school improvement model that provides schools with consistent vernacular for learning, exemplary strategies for learning and instruction, higher level thinking, and extending and refining skills all organized in a framework designed explicitly for raising student achievement through embedded research-based exemplary strategies.