Clustering Standards in Integrated Units presents frameworks and other instruments to aid both seasoned and novice teacher professionals in designing interdisciplinary instruction by: Developing learning activities that are aligned with instructional goals and standards Selecting appropriate instructional materials and resources that spark interest and facilitate individual connections to promote meaning and understanding Evaluating student performance using an instrument that recognizes students' varied approaches to learning, knowledge bases, and cultural and language backgrounds while maintaining high expectations for all. The book offers sample rubrics, templates, strategies for organizing a unit, and blackline masters for each of the planning instruments discussed. Educators will learn to: Plan and implement units that integrate content across multiple curriculum areas Make instruction meaningful through the use of new information learned about the brain Develop interdisciplinary lesson plans
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.
Coaching is one of the hottest topics in education today. Yet many educators are confused about the roles and responsibilities of coaches. This handbook will gather together the leading experts in coaching and provide a snapshot of the current coaching landscape. Key features: Includes chapters on the different types of coaches--literacy coach, math coach, data coach, etc. The contributors represent some of the biggest names in coaching, including Joellen Killion, Cathy Toll, Jane Ellison, Lucy West, and Nancy Love
This easy-to-read resource describes several popular approaches to coaching, including literacy coaching, cognitive coaching, instructional coaching, content-focused coaching, and classroom-management coaching, and features contributions from leaders in each field.
Transforming Your School One Conversation at a Time
This bestselling handbook for school leaders will provide them with effective coaching conversational techniques that will engage and motivate the members of their school communities to work collaboratively toward total school transformation.
Strategies for Vocabulary, Reading, and Writing Across Disciplines
Be the instructional coach multilingual students and their teachers need. As the population of multilingual learners (MLs) in K-12 schools continues to grow, instructional coaches must support content teachers to recognize these students' assets and address their linguistic, cultural, academic, and social-emotional needs. Leveraging her decades of facilitating and coaching experience in the fields of language, literacy, and professional learning, Margarita Calderon meets this urgent need with practical, evidence-based strategies to leverage the power of coaching in support of ML excellence. Through the individual chapters dedicated to academic language, reading, and writing instruction and strategies to promote student discourse and social-emotional learning embedded throughout, this book will give coaches what they need to guide all teachers toward ML excellence. Additional features include A step-by-step framework designed to help coaches promote teacher efficacy with MLs regardless of program setting or instructional approach Clear guidance for how to structure coaching sessions with teachers, driven by research-based approaches and observation and feedback protocols for accelerating student comprehension Myth-busting facts about the do's and don'ts of effective coaching for ML success Spotlights on the experiences of veteran coaches focusing on successes, challenges, and tips to remain resilient Individual and group reflection questions and tools at the close of each chapter Offering solutions to the challenges faced by MLs that content area teachers must be prepared to address, this book is a powerful tool coaches can use to move multilingual instruction beyond compliance to excellence.
How to Increase Student Learning in Today's Diverse Schools
"An all-in-one book-a lighthearted and well grounded introduction to collaboration, how it can improve education for all children, and its role in effectively educating students with special needs. Murawski and Spencer tell it like it is, and they do so with humor and straight talk." -Lynne Cook, Professor, School of Education California State University, Dominguez Hills "As a kid who struggled in school, this is the book that I wish every one of my teachers had read. It is a stunning achievement and huge step forward to making all schools inclusive of all learners!" -Johnathan Mooney, Author, The Short Bus: A Journey Beyond Normal Collaboration 101 for teachers, parents, and school communities Teachers in both general and special education classrooms are being asked to collaborate to give all students access to the general education curriculum. The challenge is that teachers receive very little training in how to work together to educate students successfully. Do you wonder how to get started, how much time it will take, and what the results will be? Collaborate, Communicate, and Differentiate! addresses those issues and more, taking collaboration out of the abstract and supplying easy-to-use strategies that apply to daily tasks such as Planning and differentiating instruction Communicating with families Using Universal Design for Learning to form instruction Assessing students with diverse backgrounds and abilities Co-teaching Coordinating with all staff members This reader-friendly text ties each strategy to the goal of improving student outcomes. Included are vignettes, In a Nutshell and Eye on the Research quick-reference guides, reproducible forms, Principal Points to share with administrators, and a companion website. Educators who have wondered how to make collaboration reasonable, feasible, and time-efficient will find the answers in this book!
When EL-specialists and general educators work in partnership, rather than in separate silos (the traditional approach to educating ELs), the likelihood of promoting both language development and content mastery increases exponentially. Although this premise may seem like common sense, implementing this approach typically requires high-quality professional development, opportunities for sustained practice, and leadership support across schools and districts.
