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District Leadership That Works

Striking the Right Balance

Bridge the great divide between distanced administrative duties and daily classroom impact. This book introduces a top-down power mechanism called defined autonomy, a concept that focuses on district-defined, nonnegotiable, common goals and a system of accountability supported by assessment tools. Defined autonomy creates an effective balance of centralized direction and individualized empowerment that allows building-level staff the stylistic freedom to respond quickly and effectively to student failure.

This book introduces a top-down power mechanism called defined autonomy, a concept that focuses on district-defined, nonnegotiable, common goals and a system of accountability supported by assessment tools.

Managing the Inner World of Teaching

Emotions, Interpretations, and Actions

Cultivate a positive mindset, and choose productive actions by examining your emotions and interpretations in the classroom. By investigating three management phases—awareness, analysis, and choice—teachers can become mindful of factors that influence their interactions with students and learn a process for ensuring positive outcomes. You’ll gain concrete strategies and activities that enhance classroom practice and impact student learning.

Cultivate a positive mindset, and choose productive actions by examining your emotions and interpretations in the classroom.

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School Leadership for Results

Shifting the Focus of Leader Evaluation

What defines an effective school leader and how do you measure effectiveness? School leaders have a direct and significant impact on student achievement. They drive the effectiveness of teachers who, in turn, influence the performance of students. Without the right kind of support, training, vision, and tools, however, school leaders are often unable to perform at the highest levels of effectiveness. Based on historical and contemporary research, School Leadership for Results: Shifting the Focus of Leader Evaluation explores the importance of evaluating school leaders based on something far more powerful than measurement alone: evaluating based on growth. Education authorities Beverly G. Carbaugh, Robert J. Marzano, and Michael D. Toth describe ways to transform evaluation into a model that: Measurably improves the performance of school leaders Aligns the vision, mission, and goals of school leaders Connects goals with practices that impact teachers and students Is designed with domains, scales, and evidences to address key questions Provides a clear course to help school leaders prepare for evaluations Ensures that district leaders offer fair, unbiased school leader evaluations Effective school leader evaluation is a collaborative, shared process of focused improvement. Learn how to make it an integral part of your schools.

Based on historical and contemporary research this book explores the importance of evaluating school leaders based on something far more powerful than measurement alone: evaluating based on growth"--Back cover.

Examining Similarities and Differences

Classroom Techniques to Help Students Deepen Their Understanding

Academic standards call for increased rigor, but simply raising complexity is not enough. Students must also be able to examine similarities and differences within the critical content they are learning. They need to know how to use comparisons, classifications, metaphors, and analogies to generalize, draw conclusions, and refine schema, ultimately deepening their understanding of the content. Based on the earlier work of Dr. Robert J. Marzano, Examining Similarities & Differences: Classroom Strategies to Help Students Deepen Their Understanding explores explicit techniques for mastering a crucial strategy of instructional practice: teaching students to examine similarities and differences. It includes: Explicit steps for implementation Recommendations for monitoring if students are able to autonomously examine similarities and differences Adaptations for students who struggle, have special needs, or excel in learning Examples and non-examples from classroom practice Common mistakes and ways to avoid them The Essentials for Achieving Rigor series of instructional guides helps educators become highly skilled at implementing, monitoring, and adapting instruction. Put it to practical use immediately, adopting day-to-day examples as models for application in your own classroom.

Based on the earlier work of Dr. Robert J. Marzano, Examining Similarities & Differences: Classroom Techniques to Help Students Deepen Their Understanding explores explicit techniques for mastering a crucial strategy of instructional ...

The Essentials for Standards-Driven Classrooms

A Practical Instructional Model for Every Student to Achieve Rigor

As a supplement to the Essentials for Achieving Rigor book series, this guide gives teachers a big-picture view of the Essentials model and its research-based strategies. Its valuable tips and guidance empower educators and leaders to increase classroom rigor and transform their schools into thriving, sustainable communities of practice.

As a supplement to the Essentials for Achieving Rigor book series, this guide gives teachers a big-picture view of the Essentials model and its research-based strategies.

Beyond Reform

Systemic Shifts Toward Personalized Learning Shift from a Traditional Time-Based Education System to a Learner-Centered Performance-Based System

Like many school districts, Lindsay Unified School District faced difficulty meeting the needs of increasingly diverse student populations. Through this detailed resource, you will learn how Lindsay Unified took action to improve student learning by shifting from a traditional time-based education system to a learner-centered performance-based system. By adopting and tailoring Lindsay Unified s instructional model, you and your team can embark on your own district s transformation toward establishing a revised education system that empowers and motivates all students to succeed. Benefits Consider Lindsay Unified s core values and visions for leadership, curriculum, assessment, learning, and technology. Meet Lindsay Unified students and see how the district s performance-based system transformed their learning. Explore core value rubrics that school staff can use to reflect on personal leadership growth, frame important conversations, and provide feedback. Study Lindsay Unified s instructional model, which helps align the district s instructional decisions with its unified instructional vision. Download a free reproducible checklist for shifting to a performance-based system and lists of recommended strategies for ensuring a successful district transformation. Contents Chapter 1: Preparing for Change Chapter 2: Creating a New Culture Chapter 3: Transforming Leadership Chapter 4: Transforming Personnel Chapter 5: Transforming Curriculum and Assessment Chapter 6: Transforming Teaching and Learning Chapter 7: The Lindsay Community Epilogue Appendix "

Beyond Reform: Systemic Shifts Toward Personalized Learning details Lindsay Unified's subsequent shift from a traditional time-based education system to a learner-centered performance-based system.

Identifying Critical Content

Classroom Techniques to Help Students Know What Is Important

Do your students know which content is most important to learn? Academic standards call for increased rigor, but simply raising complexity is not enough. Students must also take responsibility for their own learning. They need to be able to determine which content is critical, why it is important, how it connects to their existing knowledge, and when it will inform their future learning.Based on the earlier work of Dr. Robert J. Marzano, Identifying Critical Content: Classroom Strategies to Help Students Know What is Important explores explicit techniques for mastering a crucial strategy of instructional practice: teaching students the skill of identifying critical content. It includes: ·Explicit steps for implementation ·Recommendations for monitoring if students are able to identify critical content ·Adaptations for students who struggle, have special needs, or excel in learning ·Examples and non-examples from classroom practice ·Common mistakes and ways to avoid them The Essentials for Achieving Rigor series of instructional guides helps educators become highly skilled at implementing, monitoring, and adapting instruction. Put it to practical use immediately, adopting day-to-day examples as models for application in your own classroom.

They need to be able to determine which content is critical, why it is important, how it connects to their existing knowledge, and when it will inform their future learning.Based on the earlier work of Dr. Robert J. Marzano, Identifying ...

Revising Knowledge

Classroom Techniques to Help Students Examine Their Deeper Understanding

Academic standards call for increased rigor, but simply raising complexity is not enough. Students must also be able to deliberately revise their own knowledge. They need to know how to use visual tools, written work, and academic notebooks to make revisions that help to deepen their understanding of the content. Based on the earlier work of Dr. Robert J. Marzano, Revising Knowledge: Classroom Techniques to Help Students Examine Their Deeper Understanding explores explicit techniques for mastering a crucial strategy of instructional practice: teaching students to revise their knowledge. It includes: Explicit steps for implementation Recommendations for monitoring if students are able to revise their knowledge Adaptations for students who struggle, have special needs, or excel in learning Examples and non-examples from classroom practice Common mistakes and ways to avoid them The Essentials for Achieving Rigor series of instructional guides helps educators become highly skilled at implementing, monitoring, and adapting instruction. Put it to practical use immediately, adopting day-to-day examples as models for application in your own classroom.

Do your students know how to effectively revise their knowledge?

Dimensiones del aprendizaje

Existen habilidades que ayudan a aprender y corresponde a los maestros enseñarlas, de una manera explícita y deliberada, en el aula. Esa premisa guía este manual, que ha demostrado ser una herramienta poderosa para asegurar que el centro de la labor de los educadores sea el aprendizaje, entendido como un sistema complejo de procesos interactivos. (ITESO)

Existen habilidades que ayudan a aprender y corresponde a los maestros enseñarlas, de una manera explícita y deliberada, en el aula.