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.
Coaching Ourselves and Each Other to Be More Credible, Caring, and Connected
Effective communication is an essential skill for a fulfilled life, and we can't teach it to students if we don't know how to do it ourselves. In this reflection guide, the author delivers a framework for improving professional dialogue that is so clearly signposted, you might as well call it a day planner.
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 ......
This resource presents innovative ways to sustain ongoing communication with families and ideas for welcoming parents as vital members of the school community. It also provides strategies for including parents in school governance and techniques for developing parent volunteer programs. The new edition includes current research on the impact of parent involvement in the school community.
