Co-Teaching: Co Planning, Co-Instructing, Co-Assessing
This video provides insight and ideas on how to effectively implement co-planning, co-instructing, and co-assessing with co-teaching partners who are both invested.
Author: Katie Mosley
Publication Date: May 2024
Publisher: IEP Technical Assistance Center
Empowering Education: The Impact of Teaming at Mesa Public Schools
This webpage shares the ongoing results of Mesa Public Schools implementing a team-based teaching approach, moving away from the isolated, single-teacher model, in partnership with the Arizona State University (ASU) Next Education Workforce initiative. This effort enhances student learning and supports teachers’ professional development by fostering collaborative and integrated practices.
Publication Date: November 2024
Publisher: Mesa Public School
Encircle Families
Collaboration between families and professionals results in the best possible outcomes for children with disabilities. Encircle Families is an Arizona nonprofit organization that provides free training and information to parents to help them understand their rights, roles, and responsibilities in their child’s health care and education. Training for pre-service and in-service professionals in education is available to improve collaboration between families and providers and achieve better results for children.
Publication Date: 2025
Publisher: Encircle Families
Envisioning Educator Roles for Transformation
This paper presents the eight future educator roles in order from those closest to the learner to those most oriented to the school district as a whole. With the role descriptions, consider the future roles as a set that could contribute to whole system redesign with a comprehensive staffing structure rather than simply as roles that would exist individually.
Author: Maria Crabtree, Katherine Prince, and Jeremiah-Anthony Righteous-Rogers
Publication Date: August 2024
Publisher: KnowledgeWorks Foundation
High-Leverage Practices in Special Education Collaboration: Research Syntheses
This high leverage practice describes a clear set of principles that define effective partnerships have emerged from research which emphasize creating trusting partnerships through communication, professional competence, respect, commitment, and advocacy.
Publication Date: October 2020
Publisher: CEEDAR Center
Leading the Way: Fostering Collaboration Between General and Special Education
Students receiving special education services are general education students first. That’s why it is so important for general and special education leaders and educators to collaborate to provide high-quality educational programming for students with disabilities. This session will focus on the importance of the partnership between general and special education and the role of leaders in that collaboration.
Authors: Timara Davis, Tammie Knights, and Steven Prater
Publication Date: August 2024
Publisher: The PROGRESS Center
Seminar-style Teaching
This guide offers a step-by-step collaborative planning process designed to promote deeper and more personalized learning. Explore how Westwood High School educators implement different roles, team-based support and flexible schedules to bring their vision of seminar learning to life.
Publisher: Arizona State University
Sharing Good Practice: Strategies to Encourage Teacher Collaboration
This article provides information for what teachers stand to gain through collaboration, sharing good practice in teaching and learning, joint practice development, professional learning communities for teachers, and building teacher collaboration school-wide.
Author: Andy Newell
Publication Date: Updated September 2025
Publisher: IRIS Connect
Team Teaching: A Boost to Teacher Retention
This brief details early outcomes for educators in one specific strategic school staffing initiative, Next Education Workforce (NEW) team-based models. It contributes timely early-stage findings of implementation in Mesa, Arizona schools. These models promote increased collaboration between and support for teachers at all levels and is valuable for early-career educators.
Author: Mary Laski
Publication Date: May 2024
Publisher: Center on Reinventing Public Education and Arizona State University
Publisher: Arizona State University
The Importance of Teacher Collaboration in EdTech
This article discusses the success of technology in the classroom hinges on how well it complements educators’ expertise, guidance, and hands-on engagement. In this context, teacher collaboration becomes valuable and indispensable in maximizing the potential of EdTech.
Publication Date: November 2024
Publisher: Northwest Council for Computer Education
The Transformative Power of Teacher Collaboration for Professional Growth
Teacher collaboration is an indispensable tool in modern education, offering a multitude of benefits for educators and students alike. This article explores what teacher collaboration is and why it should be a vital part of an educator’s journey, focusing on how effective collaboration can transform the experience of teaching and learning for teachers and students.
Publication Date: January 2024
Publisher: Acacia University Arizona