Culled from over two decades of classroom expertise, this essential guide shows readers how to Create learning targets that are scalable and transferable within and across units Develop instructional scales for each learning target that define the increasing complexity of the skill progression Design non-scored practice activities, intentional formative assessments, and summative assessments to provide reliable, individual evidence of achievement toward learning targets Introduce and model skills that will be assessed and design tasks that allow students to use these skills to practice with the content Maintain a gradebook that tracks summative achievement of learning targets, and score assessments accordingly Communicate clearly and efficiently with all students and families about progress and learning
How Authentic Teaching Transforms Our Students and Ourselves
In this, her fifth and most personal book, Gravity uses her gifts for developing teacher agency to take on five powerful practices: Knowing your core beliefs Viewing teaching as a practice Building balanced relationships Driving professional growth Taking care of your whole self
20 Lessons to Guide Young Learners Through the Learning Pit
The Learning Challenge Lessons have been created to accompany The Learning Challenge and provide teachers with everything they need to run thoughtful, dialogue-driven Challenges. The Learning Challenge Lessons, Primary, book includes 20 developmentally-appropriate lesson plans that will help young learners: * Learn new vocabulary in the ......
Why We Must Reimagine "Classroom Management" for Equity
This is a practical, research based guide to rethinking classroom management that effectively serves the needs of diverse learners including children of color, English learners, and children from low-income households. It focuses on promising alternatives to traditional disciplinary practices including restorative justice.
Using the Art of Coaching to Improve School Leadership
This book provides thoughtful insights and practical suggestions for improving the quality of leadership coaching in practice. It is a must-read for school leaders and leadership coaches. It is full of research, tips, and examples to help improve readers' efficacy as a leader.
This book transcends all mathematical content areas with a variety of activities for teachers that include Solving and discussing high-level mathematical tasks Analyzing narrative cases that make the relationship between teaching and learning salient Examining and interpreting student work Modifying curriculum materials and evaluating learning environments to better support students to reason-and-prove
The authors' overlay of high impact strategies with the seven strategies of assessment for learning acts as a guide for teachers and leaders to maintain focus for professional development and high impact classroom practices. The book also provides an updated set of examples that explain the seven strategies: clear learning targets and models of strong and weak student work (where am I going?); descriptive feedback and self-assessment and goal setting (where am I now?); and diagnosing learning needs and matching with high impact strategies, focused practice with feedback, and self-reflection and tracking progress (what are my next steps?). Finally, the book presents organizing structures based on the most recent aggregations of empirical evidence (Hattie, 2009; 2012) so that teachers and leaders can make informed choices for areas of emphasis and focus.
"Carefully researched and updated, yet filled with practical and immediately usable strategies, this is a must-read book for anyone seeking to understand and influence human behavior." -Pat Wolfe, Educational Consultant "The most important book I have ever had the pleasure of learning from and using. It gives leaders what they need to effectively meet the learning needs of individuals and positively affect organizational adaptability and capacity." -Delise Neely, Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership Cardinal Stritch University Unleash the power of the leadership-brain connection! This updated edition of the groundbreaking book Connecting Leadership to the Brain provides school leaders with a visionary framework for understanding how mindful leadership significantly impacts growth and achievement in educational communities. Offering an approach compatible with the ways individuals naturally process information and learn, this resource links knowledge about the physiological, social, emotional, constructive, reflective, and dispositional nature of the brain to compatible leadership practice. Leaders will find specific examples and reflection exercises focused on how to: Support the mind-body connection Promote social relationships Harness the power of emotion Expedite the construction of knowledge Build a culture of reflection Cultivate productive dispositions Mindful Leadership is an essential companion for helping readers become mindful leaders who consciously attend to the nature of intelligence in the process of influencing the achievement of goals.
