Transformational Learning: DVD

Education & Teaching

Cassandra Erkens

Schools & Teaching

Solution Tree

By focusing on what students learn rather than what they are taught, schools can redefine their mission and begin the transition to a professional learning community. After interviewing and observing principals, administrators, and teachers, the authors identify seven leadership practices that effective PLC leaders share, along with the techniques that have led them to sustainable success. Benefits: 
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<li>Examine the seven leadership practices of highly effective PLC leaders. </li> <li>Build a clear and effective leadership framework. </li> <li>Gain insight from teachers, principals, and administrators. </li> <li>Face the challenges of unhealthy and unproductive collaborative teams. </li> <li>Pinpoint the specific strengths and strategies of successful leaders and teams. </li> <li>Learn not only how to develop your own leadership, but also how to promote a culture of leadership. </li>
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Contents: Chapter 1: Leading to Learn and Learning to Lead Chapter 2: Creating and Sustaining Collaborative Relationships Chapter 3: Aligning Systems Chapter 4: Facilitating Shared Responsibility Chapter 5: Building Coherence and Clarity Chapter 6: Modeling Practices and Expectations Chapter 7: Reflecting on Leadership Effectiveness of Self and Others Chapter 8: Developing Leadership Capacity in Self and Others Epilogue

Leading by Design: An Action Framework for PLC at Work Leaders

Eric Twadell

This book assists teaching teams in developing data protocols to examine assessment data in the service of student learning.Reignite the passion and energy assessment practices bring as tools to guide teaching and learning. Strengthen instructional agility in professional learning communities with collaborative common assessments that collect vital information and consider all levels of the organization. Explore the practical steps teacher teams must take to establish clear, comprehensive assessment systems, and discover how to continually improve results. Benefits: <ul>
<li>Read case studies of schools that have effectively implemented collaborative common assessment systems.</li> <li>Learn the phases in the collaborative common assessment process and the benefits of engaging in this process.</li> <li>Evaluate criteria vital to prioritizing standards.</li> <li>Consider crucial questions to guide data conversations.</li> <li>Access tools for prioritizing standards and designing assessments.</li> </ul>
Contents: Foreword by Richard DuFour Introduction: Doing Assessment Right . . . All the Time Chapter 1: Doing Extraordinary Things Chapter 2: Embedding Collaborative Common Assessments in a Balanced Assessment System Chapter 3: Working Together for a Common Purpose Chapter 4: Preparing the Foundation for Collaborative Common Assessments Chapter 5: Designing Collaborative Common Assessments Chapter 6: Delivering New Approaches to Assessment Chapter 7: Examining Data to Improve Learning Chapter 8: Responding With Instructional Agility

Collaborative Common Assessments: Teamwork. Instruction. Results. (Practical Steps for Teacher Teams to Examine Assessment Data)

When educators participate fully in the consistent and systematic collaborative common assessment process, teachers, learners, and schools all thrive. A companion to the assessment book Collaborative Common Assessments by Cassandra Erkens, this practical handbook presents measures teams can take to improve their collaborative common assessments. Each chapter features reflection questions as well as tools and protocols for implementing each phase of the process. Use this practical assessment book to improve your collaborative common assessment process: 
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<li>Gain a deeper understanding of the collaborative assessment process.</li> <li>Discover how to ensure the accuracy and reliability of collaborative common assessments in analyzing student assessment data.</li> <li>Identify student misconceptions in the classroom to better plan educational interventions and collaborative instruction.</li> <li>Answer reflection questions to ensure collaborative teams are concentrating on the right work.</li>
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Contents: Introduction: Teamwork. Instruction. Results. Chapter 1: Foundational Concepts of Collaborative Common Assessment Chapter 2: Evidence and Research Supporting the Collaborative Common Assessment Process Chapter 3: The Preparation Phase Chapter 4: The Design Phase Chapter 5: The Delivery Phase Chapter 6: The Data Phase Chapter 7: The Re-Engagement Phase Epilogue References and Resources

The Handbook for Collaborative Common Assessments: Tools for Design, Delivery, and Data Analysis (Practical Measures for Improving Your Collaborative Common Assessment Process)

Solution Tree Press

While much research has revealed which assessment practices have the most positive impact on student achievement and instruction, out-of-date, unproductive practices, which students find disengaging and disheartening, still persist. Discover how to use the power of assessment to instill hope, efficacy, and achievement in your students. With this research-based resource, you'll explore six essential tenets of assessment--assessment purpose, communication of assessment results, accurate interpretation, assessment architecture, instructional agility, and student investment--that will help deepen your understanding of assessment to not only meet standards but also enhance students' academic success and self-fulfillment. Benefits: 
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<li>Interpret the research-based tenets of assessment that are necessary to maximize all students' learning.</li> <li>Gain advice and strategies for immediately acting on the six essential assessment tenets, including how to communicate assessment results to give feedback that produces constructive responses.</li> <li>Discover why it is vital that assessment practices build students' and teachers' hope, efficacy, and achievement.</li> <li>Consider scenarios that illustrate traditional, outmoded assessment practices and revised scenarios that feature practices that better reflect modern assessment needs.</li> <li>Reflect on questions related to the content of each chapter and study next steps that teaching teams can take.</li> </ul>
Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Hope, Efficacy, and Achievement Chapter 2: Assessment Purpose Chapter 3: Communication of Assessment Results Chapter 4: Accurate Interpretation Chapter 5: Assessment Architecture Chapter 6: Instructional Agility Chapter 7: Student Investment References Index

Essential Assessment: Six Tenets for Bringing Hope, Efficacy, and Achievement to the Classroom (Deepen Teachers Understanding of Assessment to Meet Standards and Generate a Culture of Learning)

Nicole Dimich Vagle

Tom Schimmer

The true power of assessment comes when emerging results determine what comes next in student learning. This practical book empowers educators and their teams, schools, or districts to move seamlessly between instruction, formative assessment, and feedback, improving school culture more effectively than traditional methods. Instructional agility enhances ownership of learning, proficiency, and motivation for students, and promotes a positive school culture. Each chapter concludes with reflection questions that assist readers in determining next steps for supporting the whole child and the whole learning process. Learn how to promote an agile culture of learning in school to increase student ownership of learning: 
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<li>Discover how instructional agility fits within the six tenets of the essential assessment framework.</li> <li>Learn how to foster and maintain a culture of learning in schools.</li> <li>Gain strategies and tools to enhance instructional agility and assessment practices.</li> <li>Examine examples of instructional agility in action.</li> <li>Consider questions that help individual teachers and learning teams contemplate what they learned and their next steps for implementing for instructional agility strategies.</li>
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Contents: Chapter 1: Establishing a Culture of Learning Chapter 2: Engineering Engaging Conversations Chapter 3: Questioning Chapter 4: Observing Chapter 5: Mobilizing Chapter 6: Practicing Chapter 7: Fostering a Culture of Instructional Agility References and Resources

Instructional Agility: Responding to Assessment with Real-Time Decisions (Learn to Quickly Improve School Culture and Student Ownership of Learning)

Rapid innovation is transforming the way people think, work, and connect. For students to succeed today, they must acquire the knowledge and 21st century skills required for college and career readiness. Practical and research-based, this resource will help you design meaningful, relevant skill assessment and instruction that promotes student mastery of critical competencies, including collaboration, problem-solving and critical thinking skills, creative thinking skills, communication skills, digital citizenship, self-regulation, and more. Use the most effective practices for teaching soft skills to increase college and career readiness: 
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<li>Explore the seven critical competencies necessary for success in the 21st century.</li> <li>Become familiar with good habits of mind, and pass those habits on to students to support their soft skill development.</li> <li>Learn how to teach critical thinking and other 21st century skills by facilitating learning that will develop the critical competencies in students.</li> <li>Develop powerful and effective soft skill assessment methods, such as student self-assessments, that will test student levels of competency in the seven critical areas.</li> <li>Access free reproducibles to supplement your understanding of the text and facilitate the book's content in the classroom.</li>
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Contents: About the Authors Introduction Chapter 1: Cultivating Habits of the Mind Chapter 2: Self-Regulation Chapter 3: Critical Thinking Chapter 4: Collaboration Chapter 5: Creative Thinking Chapter 6: Communication Chapter 7: Digital Citizenship Chapter 8: Social Competence References and Resources Index

Growing Tomorrow's Citizens in Today's Classrooms: Assessing Seven Critical Competencies (Teaching Strategies for Soft Skills and 21st-Century-Skills Assessment Methods)

An age-old question universal to all teachers is, “How do we get our students to care about their learning?” Jackpot! delivers actionable strategies to achieve that most important outcome of assessment―student investment. Not only does the book offer tools you can use, but it also addresses the mindset shift necessary for teachers to set students up for success as partners in their own learning. 
Classroom teachers will: Explore case studies covering a wide range of classroom experiences Gain access to many different tools to successfully orient a growth mindset toward assessment Understand the ideas behind successful assessment and how to put it into practice Utilize sample charts to better direct the course of learning improvements Reflect on personal classroom experiences and ways to improve 
Contents: 
Acknowledgments 
Table of Contents 
About the Authors 
Introduction 
Chapter 1: Hope, Efficacy, and Achievement in a Learning Culture 
Chapter 2: Assessment Purpose 
Chapter 3: Assessment Architecture 
Chapter 4: Interpretation of Results 
Chapter 5: Communication 
Chapter 6: Instructional Agility 
Epilogue 
References and Resources 
Index

Jackpot! Nurturing Student Investment Through Assessment (An actionable plan for increasing student engagement)

Nicole Dimich

Get answers to your most challenging questions about implementing effective assessment and grading practices. How do we use assessments to increase hope, efficacy, and achievement? Is reassessment important? Can we change grading practices when stakeholders don’t want us to? All of these questions, and dozens more, are answered concisely, making it easy to build strong assessment and grading practices quickly. 
K–12 teachers and administrators will: Understand the six tenets of assessment and grading. Gain confidence in effective assessment and grading practices. Access concise answers to common questions about assessment and grading. Help implement schoolwide best practices through effective collaboration. 
Contents: 
Introduction 
Chapter 1: Hope, Efficacy, and Achievement 
Chapter 2: A Culture of Learning 
Chapter 3: Assessment Purpose 
Chapter 4: Communication 
Chapter 5: Accurate Interpretation 
Chapter 6: Assessment Architecture 
Chapter 7: Instructional Agility 
Chapter 8: Student Investment 
Table of Contents by Topic 
Glossary of Terms 
A Comprehensive Resource List From STAC 
References and Resources 
Index

Concise Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Assessment and Grading (Your Guide to Solving the Most Challenging Questions About How to Effectively Implement Assessment and Grading)

Katie White

Jadi Miller

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