How to Make Decisions That Stay Made

Offers advice to school administrators on how to improve decision making skills.

Education & Teaching

Saphier, Jon

Bigda-Peyton, Tom

Pierson, Geoff

Schools & Teaching

Assn for Supervision & Curriculum

The teachers aren’t the problem―it’s the system that needs fixing. 
The missing element in 70 years of school reform is a surround-sound focus on High-Expertise Teaching. We could have it in any district, regardless of zip code, if we reengineered the twelve processes that impact teachers’ knowledge and skill. A handbook for action and a persuasive case for making every school a reliable engine of constant learning, this book outlines the actions necessary to ensure High-Expertise Teaching reaches more children, more of the time. 
Informed by a substantial research base and decades of implementation, scholar-practitioner Jon Saphier presents the foundational elements of High-Expertise Teaching in this capstone work, along with A comprehensive plan for effective implementation to scale An assets-based approach to high expectations, culturally responsive teaching, and rigor Templates for re-engineering school- and district-based processes Guidance for leaders on honing their own skills to implement change 
Excellent teaching is complex and demanding, with challenges beyond what any teacher-preparation program can cover. That’s why we must create a workplace environment that enables and prioritizes continuous professional learning about High-Expertise Teaching.

Disrupting the Teacher Opportunity Gap: Aligning 12 Processes for High-Expertise Teaching

Corwin

The myth of fixed intelligence debunked For all the productive conversation around "mindsets," what’s missing are the details of how to convince our discouraged and underperforming students that "smart is something you can get." Until now. With the publication of High-Expectations Teaching, Jon Saphier reveals once and for all evidence that the bell curve of ability is plain wrong―that ability is something that can be grown significantly if we can first help students to believe in themselves. In drill-down detail, Saphier provides an instructional playbook for increasing student confidence and agency in the daily flow of classroom life: <ul>
<li>Powerful strategies for attribution retraining, organized around 50 Ways to Get Students to Believe in Themselves </li> <li>Concrete examples, scripts, and classroom structures and routines for empowering student agency and choice</li> <li>Dozens of accompanying videos showing high-expectations strategies in action</li> </ul>
All children in all schools, regardless of income or social class, will benefit from the strategies in this book. But for children of poverty and children of color, our proficiency with these skills is essential . . . in many ways life saving. Jon Saphier challenges us all―educators, students, and parents―to get started today. About Jon Saphier The author of nine books, including The Skillful Teacher, Jon Saphier is founder and president of Research for Better Teaching, Inc. (RBT), a professional development organization dedicated since 1979 to improving classroom teaching and school leadership throughout the United States and internationally.

High Expectations Teaching: How We Persuade Students to Believe and Act on "Smart Is Something You Can Get"

This book offers school leaders a carefully integrated approach for transforming often divisive supervision and evaluation systems into a positive force for strengthening school culture. Specific guidelines lead to meaningful, multifaceted teacher evaluation systems.

How to Make Supervision and Evaluation Really Work: Supervision and Evaluation in the Context of Strengthening School Culture

Research for Better Teaching

This book is a collection of classroom-tested, practical activity structures for getting students' minds active and engaged prior to introducing new content or skills. Each structure is designed to elicit what students already know about a topic, to surface misconceptions, and to create cognitive hooks when new material is presented.

Activators: Activity Structures to Engage Student's Thinking Before Instruction

This book is a collection of classroom-tested, practical activity structures for getting students cognitively active during and after periods of instruction. Each structure provides a framework for guiding students to summarize for themselves what was important, what they have learned, how it is important, and/or how it fits with what they already know.

Summarizers

Haley, Mary Ann

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How to Make Decisions That Stay Made

Disrupting the Teacher Opportunity Gap: Aligning 12 Processes for High-Expertise Teaching

High Expectations Teaching: How We Persuade Students to Believe and Act on "Smart Is Something You Can Get"

How to Make Supervision and Evaluation Really Work: Supervision and Evaluation in the Context of Strengthening School Culture

How to Make Decisions That Stay Made

Activators: Activity Structures to Engage Student's Thinking Before Instruction

Summarizers