A program that provides opportunity for aspiring principals to be involved in a training process designed to focus on leading the school community in the improvement of instructional practices.

The East Bay Educational Collaborative's (EBEC) Laboratory Classrooms project develops and supports teacher-leaders by assigning them to be lab classroom teachers with increased responsibilities. In addition, the Laboratory Classrooms open their doors to the aspiring principals participating in EBEC's Masters Degree in Educational Leadership, a program offered in partnership with The School for Continuing Education at Rhode Island College in order to provide their classes in a geographical location more accessible to East Bay educators.

The Laboratory Classrooms provide job-embedded professional development for educators as a lab team of a teacher and literacy coach lead them in a pre-brief, observation and debrief of a classroom lesson developed using three best practices: the workshop format; gradual release of responsibility model; and, thinking strategies for readers, writers and thinkers.

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