This book is an essential tool for facilitators of groups using protocols, or structured conversations, to collaboratively review student and teacher work. A follow-up to Looking Together at Student Work and Assessing Student Learning, this resource considers the purposes for engaging in collaborative review and provides some of the most effective strategies for using protocols to support successful group work. The text includes activities that facilitators can use to apply the frameworks and resources provided in this book.

“In reading this book, facilitators will expand their repertoire and walk away with ideas and tips for responding to the wide range of facilitation issues that invariably come up in protocols.”

—From the Foreword by Gene Thompson-Grove

“Insightful and immediately useful, Allen and Blythe’s book is a must read for teachers and administrators committed to professional collaboration.”

—Katherine Simon, Coalition of Essential Schools

“A deep and artful book for educators of all kinds.”

—David Perkins, Harvard Graduate School of Education

“I plan to use this book to guide our faculty in having the kind of conversations about teaching and learning that will ultimately benefit student achievement.”

—Judi Aronson, School Principal, Brooklyn, New York