Research shows coaching is the best way to bring about instructional change. Evocative Coaching is a unique, person-centered, no-fault, strengths-based model, grounded in adult learning theory and positive psychology.
Coaching to Bring Out the Best in Educational Leaders
This book seeks to equip those who coach educational leaders at the building and central office levels to host meaningful and productive coaching conversations. Readers will be introduced to the evocative coaching model, reframed for a leadership orientation using the acronym LEAD: Listen, Empathize, Appreciate, and Design. This model will help guide their coaching conversations to be engaging, inspiring, and productive.
Shifting From Professional Development to Professional Learning From Kids, Peers, and the World
A framework focusing on three sources of learning-kids, peers, world-is shifting traditional PD to professional learning, where thinking is made visible for teachers and students.
Foreword Review's 2015 Indiefab Book of the Year Award Winner! Motivation is to learning as oxygen is to breathing Most experts agree that student motivation and engagement are critical components of teaching and learning. Yet both are vulnerable to distraction. Effective instructional planning is also motivational planning! Excited to Learn: Motivation and Culturally Responsive Teaching helps teachers leverage students' natural curiosity and academic potential, featuring: Over 50 strategies to enhance students' emotional safety, value for learning, engagement, and competence A field-tested and research-validated model to make instructional planning also motivational planning Abundant tools, templates, and protocols to strengthen student motivation and learning A clear rationale for intrinsic motivation, especially in culturally diverse classrooms Essential information for teaching linguistically diverse students and students who have been historically underserved Excited to Learn begins with background on intrinsic motivation. Next, it introduces the motivational framework for culturally responsive teaching, the foundation of award-winning schools throughout the United States and abroad. Then it provides specific strategies that can be adapted to different subject areas and developmental levels. The epilogue provides guidelines for adult learning and includes an activity to introduce the book to teachers. Support students' curiosity, engagement, and success as life-long learners! "How can you work with classroom dynamics to increase your culturally diverse students' investment in learning? In this theoretically sound and immensely practical guide, Margery Ginsberg offers teachers a clear framework loaded with wonderful hands-on activities that have the power to change how teachers and students relate to each other and to academic learning. This book is designed to enable teachers to unlock their students' inner motivation and reach the students teachers find most challenging." - Christine Sleeter, Professor Emerita California State University Monterey Bay
Creating Safe and Predictable Learning Environments
"In this book, the author will share the simple rhythms and routines that teachers can use, regardless of content area in grades 3-12, to model executive functioning skills within the context of a safe and predictable learning environment, so that students are empowered to become independent learners and teachers are free to do what they love"--
The experiences of an educational organization that went through significant reform over a 13-year period are described in this book. The Kenmore-Tonawonda school district in the United States underwent changes in size, structure, leadership and skills to eventually become a nationally recognized school district of excellence.
The experiences of an educational organization that went through significant reform over a 13-year period are described in this book. The Kenmore-Tonawonda school district in the United States underwent changes in size, structure, leadership and skills to eventually become a nationally recognized school district of excellence.
One of the most immediate challenges in K-12 schools lies in implementing powerful pedagogy which emotionally, intellectually, and behaviorally engages students. The challenge is compounded in urban schools where higher proportions of underprepared minority students are in classrooms with teachers who find it difficult to not only create bonds but also in packaging pedagogy in relevant, interesting, and meaningful ways. Though many teachers can temporarily tap students' interests or episodically engage students in a portion of a lesson, the ability to create and sustain an engaging educational practice remains largely elusive. This book supplies the missing threads through establishing a framework for student engagement, which has been cited as the number one factor impacting achievement. It is an easy read, written a highly conversational tone with a strong research basis. You will explore a 7 step process for emotionally, intellectually, and behaviorally engaging students with a wealth of specific strategies, techniques, and tools which create an engaging educational experience. Utilizing cornerstones of professional learning communities, suggestions are offered for utilizing action research, collaborative inquiry, journal study, and shared practice to integrate ideas into practice.
Plenty of resources speak to the benefits of inquiry, the research behind it, and even subject-specific processes to follow. But that's not enough. Implementing inquiry is the tricky part, and involves changing beliefs about the teacher and student roles in the classroom. The strategies and experiences in this book improve your relationships with students and colleagues, reduce your workload by asking more of students, and breathe joyful curiosity back into your classroom.
