Reeves proposes a "Leading and Learning" matrix describing the effectiveness of school districts and their level of understanding why they are (or are not) successful.
As a district administrator, I'm thinking about adapting this framework for classifying teachers and/or learning teams. This could evolve into a potential staff development conversation starter.
For the first four years of my teaching career, I believe I bounced back and forth between quadrants I and III. Looking back, that's pretty scary because I believed that, at times, I was successful at helping high school students learn math, but I had no real understanding why. I wish I could say I instead spent most of my time in quadrant II, but the students I inherited were the difference. If several external factors changed, I could have easily been stuck in quadrant I. During years five and six, I danced between quadrants II, III and IV.
Which quadrant do you most identify with and why?