Five Easy Steps to a Balanced Math Program is a method for educators to use the texts and tools that they currently have to create a math instruction program that will create powerfully math literate students.

Five Easy Steps to a Balanced Math Program for Secondary Grades: Middle School and High School

Education & Teaching

Larry Ainsworth

Jan Christinson

Schools & Teaching

Lead + Learn Press

Education, and particularly educational leadership, is in a state of flux. To systematically assist with program evaluation and change, Leadership Maps presents a new paradigm for educational leaders, from superintendents to teacher leaders. Leadership Maps focuses on antecedent adult actions to drive student achievement, instead of the old paradigm that focused on student test scores to drive strategies. Leadership Maps will provide a comprehensive array of measurable indicators of best practices to drive improvement.

Leadership Maps

White, Stephen H. Ed.D

One of a series of three titles (Primary, Middle School and Secondary) that are standards-based materials and methods books for teaching science. Using The Five Easy Steps to a Balanced Science Program, a primary teacher can help students to: become confident in their knowledge of science, understand the content, solve problems, communicate their knowledge, and perform well on standardized tests. A key idea behind the book is, Science is fun, says the author.

Five Easy Steps to a Balanced Science Program for Primary Grades

Howard, Lynn

One of a series of three titles (Primary, Middle School and Secondary) that are standards-based materials and methods books for teaching science. Using The Five Easy Steps to a Balanced Science Program, a middle school teacher can help students to: become confident in their knowledge of science, understand the content, solve problems, communicate their knowledge, and perform well on standardized tests. A key idea behind the book is, Science is fun, says the author.

Five Easy Steps to a Balanced Science Program for Upper Elementary and Middle School Grades

One of a series of three titles (Primary, Middle School and Secondary) that are standards-based materials and methods books for teaching science. Using The Five Easy Steps to a Balanced Science Program, a secondary grades teacher can help students to: become confident in their knowledge of science, understand the content, solve problems, communicate their knowledge, and perform well on standardized tests. A key idea behind the book is, Science is fun, says the author.

Five Easy Steps to a Balanced Science Program for Secondary Grades

A Data Team is an organized group of teachers and administrators that monitors data, analyzes strengths and obstacles, establishes goals, selects instructional strategies, and evaluates results for individual students. Data Teams are the polar opposite of the old system that was euphemistically called, Wait to Fail where teachers took little or no action until the student failed. This is an anthology covering the major subsets of Data Team functions written by experts in those subsets.

Data Teams: The Big Picture: Looking at Data Teams through a Collaborative Lens

Editors of Lead and Learn

Leaders Make It Happen! is a targeted how-to for school administrators (department heads, vice-principals, principals, etc.) who have been assigned to run a Data Team in their school. A Data Team monitors data, analyzes strengths and obstacles, establishes goals, selects instructional strategies, and determines results indicators for individual students. In short, Data Teams are collaborative, structured, scheduled meetings that focus on the effectiveness of teaching and learning.

Leaders Make it Happen!: An Administrator's Guide to Data Teams

McNulty, Brian

Besser, Laura

An anthology of case studies of eight different schools and school systems that have implemented successful Data Teams. A Data Team is a group of teachers who collects and charts data from assessments of students, analyzes both strengths of and obstacles facing a student, establishes goals, selects instructional strategies and determines result indicators for individual students. These case studies review the school's plan, their mid-course corrections and their successes.

Data Teams Success Stories

Anderson, Kristin

An instructional Data Team is a small group based on grade, department, or course that examines student's test. These tests are focus on prioritized standards or learning goals that are aligned with Common Core State Standards. The student's work is analyzed to gain a picture of how the student is doing. Then the Data Team selects instructional strategies to address the student's learning challenges. This is a how-to for those meetings.

The Data Teams Experience: A Guide for Effective Meetings

Peery EdD national consultant and author, Angela

Overview of Book This book is divided into four parts. Here is a brief overview of each part: Part 1, Seeing the Big Picture Connections First, defines curriculum in terms of rigor, provides the background of this model, connects curriculum design to the “big picture” of standards, assessments, instruction, and data practices, previews the step-by-step design sequence, and introduces end-of-chapter reader assignments. Part 2, Building the Foundation for Designing Curricular Units, explains the five steps that must first be taken to lay the foundation upon which to build the curricular units of study, and provides explicit guidelines for applying each step. Part 3, Designing the Curricular Unit of Study—From Start to Finish, gives the “nuts and bolts” directions for designing a rigorous curricular unit of study, from beginning to end, and concludes with an overview of how to implement the unit in the classroom or instructional program. Formatively assessing students along the way, educators analyze resulting student data to diagnose student learning needs and then adjust ongoing instruction accordingly. Part 4, Organizing, Monitoring, and Sustaining Implementation Efforts, addresses the role of administrators in beginning and continuing the work of implementation. These final three chapters provide first-person narra - tives and advice to administrators from administrators who have personally led the implementation and sustainability efforts of curriculum redesign and related practices within their own school systems. I have endeavored to pull together all of the elements necessary for designing a rigorous curriculum, to position these elements in a sequential order, and to provide a step-by-step approach for constructing each one. My hope is that this road map will not only “show you the way” to design your own curriculum, but also allow you the flexibility of customizing it to fit your own purpose and needs. As with the realization of any lofty vision, it will take a great deal of time, thought, energy, and collaboration to create and revise a single curriculum, let alone multiple curricula. The best advice I can offer is to regard whatever you produce as a continual “work in progress,” to be accomplished over one, two, or three years, or even longer. As my friend and colleague Robert Kuklis points out, curriculum designers “shape and modify the process as they move through it. It is important that they know this is not a rigid, prescriptive procedure, but rather an opportunity for learning, adapting, and improving. This preserves fidelity to the process, encourages flexibility, and promotes local ownership.” Whenever people’s spirits need lifting because the work seems so demanding, remind everyone that it is a process, not a one-time event. You are creating something truly significant—a comprehensive body of work that is going to serve your educators, students, and parents for years to come!

Rigorous Curriculum Design: How to Create Curricular Units of Study that Align Standards, Instruction, and Assessment

Ainsworth, Larry

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