The JFTK Best Practice Framework features three primary components: Organizing Themes, Organizational Levels, and School System Practices. The Framework rests on the state standards as a basis for teaching and learning.
Five Organizing Themes provide the primary structure for studying the practices of Consistently Higher Performing Schools. The themes represent the broad topics that connect the identified practices across different organizational levels. Together, these themes capture the primary instructional activities undertaken by school systems and represent the major content areas in which practices of higher performing school systems differ from their average-performing counterparts.