Implementation New School Staff Handbook

New School Staff Handbook

Working with the founding principal and other stakeholders, I facilitated the process of turning an emerging school model into a staff handbook that made values, routines, roles, and expectations concrete. Because many operating decisions were still being formed, building the handbook became part of the school-design process itself — not just documentation after the fact.

Context: Central Brooklyn Literacy Academy, 2025–2026
Scope: Full staff handbook
My role: Facilitator and author

ProcessWeekly meetings the summer before the school opened, deciding operating models and making instructional expectations explicit enough to become official practice.

Selected Handbook Pages

Selected pages show how beliefs about literacy, culture, data, feedback, and daily operations were translated into structures staff could use day to day.

CBLA Staff Handbook table of contents, page 2

CBLA Staff Handbook table of contents, page 3

CBLA Staff Handbook table of contents, page 4

CBLA Staff Handbook table of contents, page 5

CBLA Staff Handbook page 32, math data and data meetings

CBLA Staff Handbook page 33, data at meetings and W.O.L.F. student-data framework

CBLA Staff Handbook page 36, PBIS and trauma-informed teaching

CBLA Staff Handbook page 51, classroom visits and feedback process