This book covers "academic press", the effective management of the core technology of schooling, the three parts of the instructional program: instruction, curriculum, and assessment. This book is about building instructional capacity in the role of leadership to improve school culture.
Creating a math classroom filled with confident problem solvers starts by introducing challenges discovered in the real world, not by presenting a sequence of prescribed problems, says Gerald Aungst. In this groundbreaking book, Aungst offers a thoughtful approach for instilling a culture of learning in your classroom through five powerful, yet straightforward principles: Conjecture, Collaboration, Communication, Chaos, and Celebration.
Using examples from real classrooms, the book shows teachers how to connect inquiry to required content while still moving students toward more control of their own learning. Teachers can learn to help all students, including those with special needs, to reform their initial playful, tangential, or shallow questions to deeper questions about content that will help them develop the thinking skills that they will continue to use throughout school and into adulthood.
Secure the resources needed to support educator professional growth! Learning Forward is a leader in understanding and advancing professional learning that leads to student success. This series explores Learning Forward's seven Standards for Professional Learning, which outline the characteristics of effective professional learning that, collectively, advance teaching and learning. In this volume, you will learn creative strategies for prioritizing, monitoring, and coordinating the resources required for educator learning and student success. This book includes: An original essay by Karen Hawley Miles and Anna Sommers on how school systems can reconfigure people, time, technology, and money to improve and sustain educator growth Implementation strategies, practical tools, and specific examples for maximizing resources-especially time-for teacher learning A case study of how Dearborn Public Schools, Michigan, shifted existing resources to drive professional learning despite tough economic times Learn how wise management of professional learning resources can help achieve stronger outcomes for your educators and students!
Coaching Ourselves and Each Other to Be More Credible, Caring, and Connected
This book will help you communicate clearly, help you learn, help you connect, help you be better. At the heart of its innovation is the belief that we can "self-coach" ourselves to become better communicators.
This book details how the brain creates meaning from print, and how educators can leverage the latest neurocognitive research to help students struggling with reading.
How Education Leaders Are Improving Student Outcomes
Develop a delivery "skillset" with expert Michael Barber's proven insights into the essential elements of results-driven policy implementations. Includes practical solutions for reviving stalled efforts.
This guide for instructional leaders (including principals, coaches, mentors, teacher leaders, and district administrators) offers structures and tools for using transformational feedback to strengthen teachers professionally. It also shows the benefits of transformative feedback within three major categories of teacher: novice; struggling, and good teacher who can be guided to greatness.
Shift to a data-driven school counselling model with visual guides and checklists, examples of successful counselling program evolution, guidance on RAMP applications, and online resources.
