Five Essential Practices That Empower Students and Teachers
This book presents an instructional framework that provides readers with a systematic means to ensure that both teacher and student clarity is present.
Passing the Principal TExES Examination: Keys to Certification and School Leadership, 3rd edition is a valued asset for current administrators seeking to refine, refocus, and develop their learner-centered leadership skills as well as helping aspiring administrators pass the TExES examination. With a proven record of success, the book will not only provide a solid theoretical framework for school leadership, it will make learning fun and inspire greatness. Readers will enjoy the book, be ready to pass the TExES exam, and then to change the world-one school at a time
This books shows readers how to: Set up the physical classroom, prioritize materials, and launch activities Instill curiosity and a self-starting attitude toward vocabulary development Devise routines that highlight phonemic awareness, phonics, meaning, spelling, and high-frequency word work Differentiate and personalize word study activities Embed word study into all content areas for transfer of learning
Understand and Assess What Really Matters for Deeper Learning
What does it really take to know who students are, what they are truly learning, and why? Measuring Human Return solves this dilemma with a comprehensive, systematic process for measuring deeper learning outcomes.
Stirring and informative, The Astonishing Power of Storytelling captures the science and the magic of stories as essential tools for leading and guides you to become an expert storyteller, helping you to shift perceptions, invite learning, inspire action, and reach hearts and minds to spark human transformation. Robert J. Garmston shows you how to leverage the power of storytelling to engage and persuade students, colleagues, and all other audiences.
A Framework to Improve the Conversation Around Data
Written to help data teams navigate the confusing world of data analysis for on-going school improvement, this book offers a framework that is rigorous yet easy to follow.
Drawing from their coaching and facilitation experience and expertise, the authors of this book offer educators strategies for meaningful conversation in an ever-changing landscape.
Culled from over two decades of classroom expertise, this essential guide shows readers how to Create learning targets that are scalable and transferable within and across units Develop instructional scales for each learning target that define the increasing complexity of the skill progression Design non-scored practice activities, intentional formative assessments, and summative assessments to provide reliable, individual evidence of achievement toward learning targets Introduce and model skills that will be assessed and design tasks that allow students to use these skills to practice with the content Maintain a gradebook that tracks summative achievement of learning targets, and score assessments accordingly Communicate clearly and efficiently with all students and families about progress and learning
