section 3: The Change plan
The Denver Public Schools is embarking on a new distributive leadership model. Over the course of the next 3-5 years, all schools will move teachers into small 5-6 person teams aligned by content or grade level. The team will work with a Senior Team Lead, also a classroom practitioner, who will coach, mentor, and evaluate all team members. At Thomas Jefferson High School, the plan is to begin with just three Senior Team Leads working with small groups of 3 as a pilot and then scale out to other departments over the next three to five years until the building is re-organized in this way.