Today, the majority of the Winooski School District's staff are members of such teaching teams. Any adult or student can be a member of a teaching team. Team members agree to coordinate their work to achieve common, publicly agreed upon goals. Winooski educators consistently identify collaboration and teaming practices as the cornerstones of their success. But in the Winooski School District, we've expanded the group of educational collaborators to include students.
Students determine instructional accommodations for a classmate with intensive challenges.
Students coach their teachers, offering feedback regarding the effectiveness and consistency of their instructional procedures. The Future Winooski has only begun its journey in restructuring for diversity. The district still maintains a number of traditional practices and relationships that can inhibit quality heterogeneous educational experiences for children. But improvement plans for the immediate future include the extension of teaming models to the high school, and secondary level teachers are reorganizing the master schedule so they have more team teaching and planning opportunities. The peer tutoring program will be expanded in the middle and high schools.