Culturally Responsive Instruction in Deeper Learning Classrooms
Build every student's ability and opportunity to achieve! We've all heard the stories of extraordinary teachers that reach struggling students and set them on a new path. Now in its third edition, this powerful book features timely new content from innovative schools and teachers, showing how to raise student achievement by upholding high expectations, while teaching with cultural responsiveness. The authors are guided by one fundamental principle: Every child has a birthright to an equitable education, one that prepares him or her for 21st century career and college readiness. This guide illuminates how to Lead all students to deeper learning, grounded in critical thinking, creative problem solving, communication, collaboration-and the "5th C," cultural awareness Support the latest standards for college and career readiness and English Language Proficiency/Development Incorporate technology into teaching and learning in innovative ways, adaptable to varying resource levels. Use today's current brain research to help students' reach their full cognitive potential Implement lesson plans designed for elementary, middle, and secondary levels that support individualized, project-based learning, developed through a lens of cultural responsiveness Turn to the resource that has helped thousands of educators teach successfully in today's diverse K-12 classrooms, and discover new strategies that will empower you and your students. "The authors are passionate advocates for all learners and the latest edition of this book provides a thoughtful, practical, and engaging exploration of how to ensure every learner's experience is one that thrives on the 5Cs and makes 21st century learning come alive." Tatyana Warrick, Communications Manager, P21, The Partnership for 21st Century Learning
Part of a groundbreaking 7-book series, co-developed by Learning Forward and Corwin, this book closes the "knowing-doing" gap by guiding educational leaders through the process for implementing the Learning Forward Standard for Professional Learning: Leadership. Tackling the Leadership standard, it provides: Original essays written by leading experts in the field to promote deeper understandings of the meaning of the Leadership standard An array of templates, tools, and protocols to help you design and delivery quality professional learning in your own district or school Case studies of districts "getting it right" and educators who have realized the promise of effective professional learning.
Assessing Students' Social, Emotional, and Character Development
Integrate social-emotional learning and character development into your grading system with guided exercises for analyzing existing report cards, suggested new designs, case studies, and testimonials.
Developing the Needed Dispositions, Knowledge, and Skills for Teacher Leadership
This book instructs teacher leaders on the skills they need to learn and practice to be successful. Each chapter includes well-tested content and activities, reflective writing prompts, and cases for discussion that explicitly address the knowledge skills, and dispositions needed for developing teachers as leaders. This includes how to teach adults, lead productive meetings, conduct needs assessments, use protocols, resolve conflicts and engage in advocacy and outreach.
Peer through the eyes of students. See school their way. When we act on what students show us, valued outcomes follow. Students know best what engages and bores them and can offer dynamic insight into how to pique their best. When we know how to listen, we learn to increase interest, motivation, and overall achievement through academic press and a supportive culture. This book shows readers how to tap into student insight and adjust thinking to see education and learning through their eyes. Experience new levels of engagement and growth as you learn to: Build a culture of support, safety, and membership through academic excellence Nurture the growth of engaged teaching See things their way and transform your learning environment into a challenging, cohesive, and satisfying model for growth and outcome. "Missing far too long from the school improvement literature is the students' perspective. Joe Murphy demands that leaders learn to look through students' eyes to better understand the gaps and opportunities for school improvement and creating positive relationships in which students can flourish. This book lays out the theory and research that undergirds developing a student perspective, and provides strategies and approaches for leaders that should become essential to their preparation and practice." Terry Orr, Director of Future School Leaders Academy Bank Street College of Education "For 40 years educators have sought answers to the question: how do school leaders 'make a difference'? This quest has taken us in many directions, but few scholars thought to look through the 'eyes of students'. In this book Murphy provides a missing piece to this important puzzle." Philip Hallinger, Professor Chulalongkorn University
A Collaborative Care Framework for Student Success
This book is a step-by-step approach to connecting with families, including how-to's for creating a family engagement plan, building strong relationships, beginning effective dialogues, and monitoring progress. Suitable for schools of any type, this book offers strategies that will transform the experience for your students and their families, and lead to sustainable success.
Meet challenging standards by promoting students' authentic intellectual work Educators have long called for more rigor and engagement in classroom work, alongside calls for enhancing equity. Yet classroom practices and student outcomes have been slow to change. A promising solution is the research-backed, real world-tested potential of the Authentic Intellectual Work (AIW) framework to meet intellectually challenging standards including Common Core. This book provides Richly detailed case studies of successful AIW implementation at the statewide, districtwide, and individual school levels Illustrations of collaborative teaming to advance higher-order thinking, disciplined inquiry, and value beyond school Exemplars of how AIW transforms professional development and evaluations and increases coherence and alignment of initiatives There is no such thing as a simple formula for school improvement, but the AIW approaches presented in this book will help school- and district-based teams improve the quality of instruction, assessment, and curriculum for more rigorous and more equitable student learning "It is inspiring to read these educators' testaments to the profound personal and professional impact of their efforts to promote students' authentic intellectual work." -Fred M. Newmann, Emeritus Professor University of Wisconsin-Madison "AIW is an instructional game changer. It has brought coherence across our district's schools as we help our teachers help students become 21st-century learners." -Michael Duncan, Superintendent Pike County Schools, GA
The Teaching Framework for ANY Text and EVERY Reader
Teachers can access 30 lessons organized by text complexity, reproducible forms, assessments, and a bank of engagement tools. These lessons can be used across the year as a warm up to a whole-class novel, to augment a core reading program, to challenge capable readers and bring striving readers in to rich yet accessible reading experiences.
Get there faster: Your road map to smart, sustainable change! Taking Action is a hands-on guide to the groundbreaking book, Coherence: The Right Drivers in Action for Schools, Districts and Systems, providing step-by-step protocols to help foster deep coherence for maximum student learning--all within a reasonably short time frame. You'll ......
