A multi-classroom leader (MCL) leads a small team of teachers, paraprofessionals, and teacher residents in the same grade or subject to meet the MCL’s standards of excellence. MCLs establish each team member’s roles and goals at least annually, determine how students spend time, and organize teaching roles to fit each teacher’s strengths, content knowledge, and professional development goals. The team uses the MCL’s methods and tools. The MCL:

• co-plans, co-teaches, models, coaches, and gives feedback.
• teaches students part of the time.
• organizes the team to analyze student learning data and change instruction to ensure high-growth learning for every child.
• collaborates with the team, using the team’s ideas and innovations that the MCL agrees may improve learning.
• is fully accountable for the learning and development of all students taught by the team members.
• helps choose team members and leads their development, and monitors, assesses, and shares their progress with the principal.

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A Team Reach Teacher (TRT) serves on a multi-classroom leader’s (MCL’s) team, directly teaching more students than usual, but typically without raising instructional group sizes. With guidance from the team’s MCL, the TRT plans and delivers instruction for multiple classes in a school where students rotate between face-to-face learning with the teacher and digital or offline learning supervised by a paraprofessional known as a reach associate or by a teacher resident. While one class or group of students is with a reach associate, the TRT teaches other students, focusing on delivering personalized and enriched instruction. The TRT:

• is responsible for co-planning, co-preparing, and delivering instruction, and co-monitoring student progress to determine instructional needs.
• is responsible for monitoring the effectiveness of instruction supervised by the reach associate(s) and making or recommending changes.
• collaborates with others working with the same students or subjects, including other members of the multi-classroom leader’s team as well as reach associates, to review student progress and change instruction to ensure high-progress, enriched learning for every student.
• may specialize by subject in elementary schools.

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A reach associate is an advanced paraprofessional who provides release time and support for multi-classroom leaders and team reach tutor. Reach associates, or RAs,  provide that release time by instructing students in small groups or individually, supporting students while they work on projects, skills practice, and digital learning, and supporting the team on other noninstructional tasks. 

• Everything the RA does is directed by the multi-classroom leader or TRTs.
• Likewise, a team may include a teacher resident, who can serve some of the functions of an RA, supporting the team while getting on-the-job training from the MCL.

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