PASL Task 3 + Video Requirements

PASL Task 3 is the main event. It is weighted twice in your cumulative score and it carries the requirement that scares candidates most: a 15-minute video of you facilitating a collaborative team. The good news is that the video is the most controllable part of the whole assessment once you know the rules. Here is the full build.

What does PASL Task 3 require?

Task 3, Creating a Collaborative Team, requires written commentary across four steps plus artifacts: a spreadsheet describing your team members (certifications, experience, qualifications), a page from your data-collecting tool, pages from the professional development plan, a page of feedback from your target audience, a page of evidence of student learning, and the 15-minute video.

You form a team of three to five colleagues, use data to pick a research-based instructional practice to improve, build and implement a plan together, and reflect on the process and its impact on school culture.

How do I choose the collaborative team?

Choose three to five colleagues with varied experience and complementary expertise, and write a rationale for each: a district coordinator for standards alignment, a veteran teacher as model and mentor, teachers with specific strengths like supporting English learners or designing PD. Variety is scored, so a team of five identical role-alikes is a missed opportunity.

Then document how you recruited each one individually: a face-to-face meeting for one, an email connecting the work to another's passion, a call for a third. Tailored recruitment shows facilitation skill before the first meeting even happens.

What team structure does the rater want to see?

Specifics: a regular meeting schedule with documented agendas and minutes in a shared folder, defined roles so each member owns something, and co-constructed norms like active listening and constructive feedback. Add how you kept campus and district leaders informed. Structure is what sustains a team after the initial enthusiasm fades, and the prompts ask about it directly.

What are the PASL Task 3 video requirements?

The video is 15 minutes total, typically about five minutes showing planning or implementation and about ten minutes showing reflection and feedback. Practical rules that protect your submission:

Get signed permission forms from every adult who appears on camera before you record anything. Record more footage than you need across two or three meetings, then select the strongest segments. Do a test recording first, because bad audio is the most common video failure and the easiest to prevent. Position the camera to catch you facilitating: eliciting quieter voices, building consensus, working through a disagreement. The reflection segment should show the team honestly assessing what worked, what did not, and what changes next, because honest beats polished.

You do not need to be smooth on camera. You need to be visibly facilitating.

What does a scoring Task 3 answer sound like?

Selection with rationale per person. Structure with specifics. A data-chosen focus with an intended impact and a measurement plan. Facilitation strategies that guarantee every voice, including how you resolved a real challenge and reached consensus. And a closing argument connecting the team's work to school culture: shared ownership of data, collective efficacy, and collaboration becoming how the campus operates rather than a project that happened once.

Task 3 mistakes that cost points

A team with no variety and no rationale. A video that is a meeting recording instead of selected segments showing facilitation and reflection. Missing permission forms. Audio the rater cannot hear. Commentary that describes the plan but never mentions culture, when culture is the point of the task. And forgetting that Task 3 is double-weighted when budgeting your effort.

Task 3 FAQ

Can my Task 3 team be the same team from Tasks 1 and 2? Yes, and that is the strategy. Your collaborative team runs the project that generates Task 1's problem-solving evidence and Task 2's PD. See the one-project strategy in the PASL 368 Complete Guide.

Do students appear in the video? The required video shows you facilitating your collaborative team of colleagues. Follow your district's media policies for anyone who appears, and use signed permission forms for all adults on camera.

What if my video runs long or short? Edit to the required length by selecting segments. Recording multiple meetings gives you the raw material to hit the time split cleanly.

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The PASL Playbook includes the Task 3 planner, the video plan, artifact checklists, and the 16-week timeline. Start with the free 268 Cheat Sheet.