The time of exclusive top-down leadership is over! Only teachers can transform education from inside the classroom, and this book defines best practices of collaborative teacher leadership. Specific techniques, supporting research, expert insight, and real classroom stories illustrate how to work together for student learning, create a guaranteed and viable curriculum, and use data to inform instruction. Benefits: 
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<li>Define and implement best practices for collaborative teacher leadership in a PLC. </li> <li>Discover how to work together for student learning and how to create a guaranteed and viable curriculum. </li> <li>Explore the many ways data can be utilized to inform instruction. </li> <li>Use common assessments to bridge the gap between teaching and learning. </li>
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Contents: Foreword by Rebecca DuFour Introduction by Richard DuFour Part One: Working Together for Student Learning Chapter 1: The New Teacher Leader: Transforming Education From Inside the Classroom Chapter 2: Creating Intentional Collaboration Chapter 3: Teacher Talk: How Collaboration Gets to the Heart of Great Schools Part Two: Creating a Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum Chapter 4: Too Much to Teach: How to Identify What Matters Most Chapter 5: Instructional Improvement From the Inside Out: Lesson Study at Work Chapter 6: Connecting Curriculum Mapping to Assessment for Learning Part Three: Using Data to Reach All Students Chapter 7: Teaching in the Dark Chapter 8: Common Assessments: Bridging the Gap Between Teaching and Learning Chapter 9: An Integrated Response to Learning: Eight Strategies That Work Epilogue: A New Era of Spectacular Teachers

The Collaborative Teacher: Working Together as a Professional Learning Community

Education & Teaching

Thomas W. Many

Susan K. Sparks

Sharon V. Kramer

Erkens, Cassandra

Jakicic, Chris

Jessie, Lillie

Dennis King

Mary Ann Ranells

Ainsley B. Rose

Eric Twadell

Schools & Teaching

Solution Tree

The Collaborative Administrator: Working Together as a Professional Learning Community explores the nature of leadership in a PLC. Using insights from a variety of experts who have implemented and sustained collaborative cultures of continuous improvement in schools around the nation, this anthology offers answers to the most important questions surrounding PLCs.

The Collaborative Administrator: Working Together As a Professional Learning Community

Anthony Muhammad

Mike Mattos

Kenneth C. Williams

Buffum, Austin

Hinman, Charles

Susan Huff

Lillie G. Jessie

Terri L. Martin

Peter Noonan

Geri Parscale

Jay Westover

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

Cassandra Erkens

Confront traditional, ineffective grading practices. With this user-friendly resource, K-12 teachers will discover how to close the gaps between assessment, curriculum, and instruction by replacing outmoded assessment methods with proficiency-based assessments. Learn the essentials of proficiency-based assessment, investigate why this kind of assessment has a key relationship with teaching and learning, and explore evidence-based strategies for successful implementation. Benefits: 
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<li>Follow a curriculum team's journey through the process of learning about and implementing proficiency-based assessment. </li> <li>Discover how the phases in the proficiency-based assessment implementation process relate to each other and how each is important. </li> <li>Build new, informed classroom outlooks by understanding the causes of learning gaps. </li> <li>Study the commitments, unexpected combinations, insights, decisions, and assertions related to proficiency-based assessment. </li> <li>Examine the types of assessment that teachers need to use and fully grasp in order to reach goals for student achievement and create harmonious assessment environments. </li>
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Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Beyond the Formative and Summative Divide Chapter 2: Preparation Chapter 3: Incubation Chapter 4: Insight Chapter 5: Evaluation Chapter 6: Elaboration Epilogue: Professional Learning as a Creative Process

Proficiency-Based Assessment: Process, Not Product (Foundations of quality K-12 curriculum, instruction, and assessment and vocabulary relating to them) (Solutions)

Mark Onuscheck

Anthony R. Reibel

Troy Gobble

Challenge traditional grading practices and adopt a new, more effective grading model for students, which will close the gaps in student achievement and content mastery. This book provides the pathway for implementing evidence-based grading practices in schools through a straightforward, five-phase creative model: (1) preparation, (2) incubation, (3) insight, (4) evaluation, and (5) elaboration. Readers will follow a hypothetical curriculum team's journey through each phase of this process. 
 Benefits 
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<li>Confront ineffective grading practices and then overcome traditional biases to apply better grading practices.</li> <li>Reflect on the effectiveness of revisions and improve newly revised grading methods.</li> <li>Give students meaningful information about their progress toward learning targets and expectations.</li> <li>Identify the concepts and perspectives to which curriculum team members must commit, to successfully adopt evidence-based grading practices.</li> <li>Discover the important relationships between learning targets and grading, feedback and instruction, assessment and grading, and gradebooks and learning.</li>
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 Contents About the Author Introduction 1. Preparation 2. Incubation 3. Insight 4. Evaluation 5. Elaboration Epilogue References and Resources Index

Pathways to Proficiency: Implementing Evidence-Based Grading - clarify student expectations and collect visible evidence of student learning

Only by shifting away from a one-size-fits-all approach to teaching and learning can every student achieve self-efficacy and true success in the classroom. In this resource, authors Eric Twadell, Mark Onuscheck, Anthony R. Reibel, and Troy Gobble provide educators with a comprehensive strategy implementation process for proficiency-based instruction. Readers will gain a clear five-step change management process for seamlessly transitioning to a new, improved model of instruction and curriculum planning in which individual student self-efficacy and growth come first. Use this implementation strategy to transition to a proficiency-based instruction model for student self-efficacy: Learn the benefits of switching from traditional instruction to proficiency-based instruction (also known as evidence-based grading). Explore the process, concepts, and supporting pedagogy of proficiency-based instruction and curriculum planning. Acquire a five-step implementation strategy: (1) preparation, (2) incubation, (3) insight, (4) evaluation, and (5) elaboration. Gain change-management tools for carrying out each of the five steps as a collaborative team and onboarding all stakeholders in curriculum implementation. Discover how one collaborative team successfully worked together to implement proficiency-based instruction and plan lessons. Access free online reproducibles that will support your shift to proficiency-based instruction and lesson planning. Contents: About the Authors Introduction Chapter 1: Implementing Proficiency-Based Instruction: Five Stages of the Creative Process Chapter 2: Preparation Chapter 3: Incubation Chapter 4: Insight Chapter 5: Evaluation Chapter 6: Elaboration Chapter 7: Proficiency-Based Lessons in the Classroom Chapter 8: Discipline-Specific Examples of Proficiency-Based Instruction References and Resources Index

Proficiency-Based Instruction: Rethinking Lesson Design and Delivery (Your Implementation Strategy for Proficiency-Based Instruction)

Solution Tree Press

Becoming a PLC is no small feat--it requires years of collaboration and commitment. In this powerful guide, discover ten evidence-based actions to help move your school teams beyond "PLC Lite," and center student agency and efficacy in curriculum, assessment, instruction, and intervention practices. Access sample rubrics, protocols, and templates designed to build a culture of continuous improvement. This book will help K-12 educators: <ul> <li>Learn the ten essential actions to elevate their PLC to the next level</li> <li>Encourage meaningful student participation through the gradual release of responsibility model</li> <li>Understand how to evaluate diverse student feedback</li> <li>Design curriculum and assessments centered on student agency and well-being</li> <li>Work with the four critical questions of intervention</li> <li>Explore how the three big ideas of a PLC intersect at the teacher, student, and school levels</li> </ul> Contents:

Beyond PLC Lite: Evidence-Based Teaching and Learning in a Professional Learning Community at Work® (Move beyond PLC Lite with a focus on student and teacher agency and efficacy)

Dramatically improve schooling by harnessing the collective power of the High Reliability SchoolsTM (HRS) model and the PLC at Work® process. Featuring some of America's best educators, this anthology includes information, insights, and practical suggestions for both PLCs and HRS. The overarching purpose is to demonstrate how these two approaches, taken together, complement each other and support educators in their efforts to create a culture of continuous improvement. Use this resource to ensure a guaranteed and viable curriculum: 
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<li>Study the HRS and PLC practices with guidance from numerous practitioners and experts, developing good teachers into great teachers through a culture of accountability.</li> <li>Learn how to keep your school focused on the right work in order to achieve learning for all through a continuous improvement process.</li> <li>Understand how the HRS model can improve success with the PLC process and how the PLC at Work process is the cornerstone of a high reliability school.</li> <li>Explore the ways in which strong leaders can model and improve the why and how of PLC at Work through a collaborative culture.</li> <li>Explore the five levels of the HRS model, and then learn how to relate each level to PLC at Work process to improve education in your school or district.</li>
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Professional Learning Communities at Work® and High Reliability SchoolsTM: Cultures of Continuous Learning (Ensure a viable and guaranteed curriculum) (Leading Edge) (Leading Edge, 11)

Robert J. Marzano

Cameron L. Rains

Philip B. Warrick

Mike Ruyle

Jan K. Hoegh

Robert Eaker

Timothy D. Kanold

Heather Friziellie

Julie A. Schmidt

Tammy Heflebower

William M. Ferriter

Mario Acosta

Toby Boss

Marc Johnson

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