After co-teaching with students, teachers gather again to reflect on student learning together. Reminders about the teacher inquiry question for the day focus the debrief. To ground their thinking, teachers take a moment to reflect on and write notes about their impressions and thoughts about the experience they have just had. Then, to create common points of reference, teachers review artifacts (e.g., observation notes they took, photos or originals of students’ written work, or a video recording of a segment of class), and reflect together on how students made sense of and thought about the content. Grounding reflections in student thinking and sensemaking becomes a foundation for considering different decisions that could be made for future iterations, and takeaways teachers have for working with their own students. 

When possible, teachers will have an opportunity to return to a classroom to co-teach the lesson once more with a new group of students or co-teach a new lesson that will build on the previous one if working with the same group of students on the same day.