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As each school or department has its own culture, I am reluctant to say what you should do or how you should use Your Literacy Standards Companion. Still, a few ideas suggest themselves, which you should adapt, adopt, or avoid as you see fit:

 Provide all teachers in a department or school with a copy to establish a common text to work from and refer to throughout your planning and instructional design work.

 Bring your Companion to all meetings for quick reference or planning with colleagues in the school or your department or grade-level team.

 Use your Companion to aid in the transition from what you were doing to what you will be doing, treating the planning pages that accompany each standard as a place to note what you do.

 Begin or end meetings with a brief but carefully planned sample lesson or instructional connection, asking one or more colleagues in the school or department to present and lead a discussion of how it might apply to other classes, grade levels, or subject areas.

 Use the Companion in conjunction with your professional learning community (PLC) to add further cohesion and consistency between all your ideas and plans.

 Begin slowly, proceed incrementally, giving it first to key instructional leaders—department chairs, instructional coaches, PLC, or other team leaders—to figure out how best to roll it out to the larger faculty or integrate into teams examining student work or creating new standards-aligned units.