How can you make your vision for improvement specific and actionable?

The most direct way is to turn your instructional vision into an instructional framework.

What's an instructional framework?

I've been thinking about it all morning as I and my co-author work on our new book.

It's essentially a rubric for practice, but we've decided not to use the term rubric, because the purpose is different.

You might use a rubric to score student work, like a term paper or an oral presentation.

But an instructional framework isn't about what practice looks like to an observer…

…so we don't want to load it up with checklist items or “look-fors.”

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