| Core Function | Effective Practice | Code | Success Indicator | Wise Ways® | Action | Resource |
| CSI and/or ATSI School Indicators | Provide supports (personnel, programmatic, financial, etc.) for instructional priorities | | The LEA/School has aligned resource allocation (money, time, human resources) within each school's instructional priorities. | View | | |
| Domain 1: Turnaround Leadership | Practice 1A: Prioritize improvement and communicate its urgency | B1.01 | The LEA has an LEA Support & Improvement Team. | View | | |
| | B1.03 | A Leadership Team consisting of the principal, teachers who lead the Instructional Teams, and other professional staff meets regularly (at least twice a month) to review implementation of effective practices. | View | Video | Tool |
| | B2.03 | The school has established a team structure among teachers with specific duties and time for instructional planning. | View | Video | Tool |
| Practice 1B: Monitor short-and long-term goals | B3.03 | The principal monitors curriculum and classroom instruction regularly and provides timely, clear, constructive feedback to teachers. | View | Video | Tool |
| | B3.05 | The Leadership Team implements, monitors, and analyzes results from an early warning system at the school level using indicators (e.g., attendance, academic, behavior monitoring) to identify students at risk for dropping out. | View | | Tool |
| | D1.02 | The LEA/School has aligned resource allocation (money, time, human resources) within each school's instructional priorities. | View | | |
| Domain 2: Talent Development | Practice 2A: Recruit, develop, retain, and sustain talent | C3.04 | The LEA/School has established a system of procedures and protocols for recruiting, evaluating, rewarding, and replacing staff. | View | | |
| Practice 2B: Target professional learning opportunities | C2.01 | The LEA/School regularly looks at school performance data and aggregated classroom observation data and uses that data to make decisions about school improvement and professional development needs. | View | Video | Tool |
| Domain 3: Instructional Transformation | Practice 3A: Diagnose and respond to student learning needs | A4.01 | The school implements a tiered instructional system that allows teachers to deliver evidence-based instruction aligned with the individual needs of students across all tiers. | View | | |
| Practice 3B: Provide rigorous evidence-based instruction | A1.07 | ALL teachers employ effective classroom management and reinforce classroom rules and procedures by positively teaching them. | View | Video | |
| | A2.04 | Instructional Teams develop standards-aligned units of instruction for each subject and grade level. | View | Video | |
| Practice 3C: Remove barriers and provide opportunities | A4.16 | The school develops and implements consistent, intentional, and on-going plans to support student transitions for grade-to-grade and level-to-level. | View | | |
| Domain 4: Culture Shift | Practice 4A: Build a strong community intensely focused on student learning | | The LEA has an LEA Support & Improvement Team. | View | | |
| | A4.06 | ALL teachers are attentive to students' emotional states, guide students in managing their emotions, and arrange for supports and interventions when necessary. | View | | |
| Practice 4C: Engage students and families in pursuing education goals | E1.06 | The school regularly communicates with parents/guardians about its expectations of them and the importance of the curriculum of the home (what parents can do at home to support their children's learning). | View | Video | |
| NC SBE Goal 1: | Eliminate opportunity gaps by 2027 | | The school implements a tiered instructional system that allows teachers to deliver evidence-based instruction aligned with the individual needs of students across all tiers. | View | | |
| NC SBE Goal 2: | Improve school and district performance by 2027 | | The school regularly communicates with parents/guardians about its expectations of them and the importance of the curriculum of the home (what parents can do at home to support their children's learning). | View | Video | |
| NC SBE Goal 3: | Increase Educator preparedness to meet the needs of every student by 2027 | | The LEA/School regularly looks at school performance data and aggregated classroom observation data and uses that data to make decisions about school improvement and professional development needs. | View | Video | Tool |