Element A of the professional growth cycle asks that: 

Principals and professional leaders will facilitate a common understanding of the Standards or Paerewa in their own context and what meeting and using them in their practice looks like (Not annually but once in place revisit from time to time and with new teachers to the setting). 

Once you have facilitated a common understanding of the Standards or Paerewa, it is then up to your setting to decide how you use it. We talked to our leaders about what they saw the purpose of Element A to be. We hope it is useful for leadership teams as they are thinking about how they can use the common understanding of the Standards with staff, either for growth or other Elements of the PGC. You can read what the leaders said about the purpose of Element A here.

If you would like to run any of the activities that we ran with our leaders, with your teachers you can find them here. We have uploaded them as a powerpoint file so that you can edit it to use with your teachers as needed.