At Horace Mann Elementary, students benefit from a consistent set of educational practices designed to promote the success of every child.  The principal explained, “We’re not fancy. We’re just meat and potatoes.”  Horace Mann educators emphasize a few powerful strategies that help ensure that every classroom will provide what each child needs to understand and master challenging academic content.  In their Symposium session, Horace Mann leaders will emphasize how teacher collaboration has influenced the consistent implementation of a few key practices throughout the school.   They will explain how educators at Horace Mann organize instruction and support student learning so that all students are likely to understand and master whatever content is being taught.  Teacher collaboration at Mann is much more than a routine: it is an engine of energy and enthusiasm for improving instruction so that all students achieve mastery.