External accountability pressures force school leaders to examine how they support effective teacher practice. Providing collaborative work time to evaluate student performance and plan for future teaching has been a common strategy to support teacher practice. We assess how teachers from two districts with differently-structured curricular…

Early career teachers (ECTs) face unprecedented pressure to fulfill expectations of 'highly effective' teachers within their first few years of teaching. Lesson planning is an important precursor to effective instruction, yet little is known about how the social and institutional contexts where ECTs work influences their planning. In this paper,…