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- Stop Teacher Turnover! Practical Tips Within a School Principal’s Control and the Research Behind Retaining Good Teachers
- How to Build Radically Different PLCs That Empower Teachers with Ownership and Raise Student Achievement
- LSI’s Academic Teaming Featured in Carol Ann Tomlinson’s Book
- Active Listening in the Classroom: Strategies for Creating Powerful Student Listeners
- “We Feel Like We Hit the Lottery” – Florida Elementary School Earns Its First-Ever “B” After Partnering With LSI
- School Improvement Leader Earns High Grades from UNLV
- School Turnaround Experts Tout 100% Success in Improving Achievement and Exceeding Standards
- 11 School Improvement Secrets for Radically Different Results from the Nation’s Top School Turnaround Provider
- How Florida’s Lowest Performing School Improved from an “F” to an “A” After Partnering with LSI
- 6 Steps to Developing a Professional GROWTH Mindset for Educators
- The Ultimate Guide to Academic Rigor
- Why ESSER Funding is Your Greatest Opportunity and Your Greatest Risk
- Lakewood Elementary School Partners with LSI, Goes from “F” to “A”
- From an ‘F’ to an ‘A’: Lakewood Elementary’s renaissance (Part 2)
- From an ‘F’ to an ‘A’: Lakewood Elementary’s renaissance
- Escambia School District Ready for New Year Amid COVID
- St. Petersburg’s Lakewood Elementary, once an F school, now has an A
- Warrington Middle School turnaround plan is approved by the state. What the plan says
- Is parent involvement the key to saving Warrington Middle School?
- WMS Renaissance
- Warrington Middle Getting Needed Boost
- Differentiated Delegation: How to Ensure Individual Success for Each and Every Teacher
- 3 Summer School Best Practices to Re-Engage Reluctant Learners in a Post-Pandemic World
- 6 Steps for Accelerating Learning After the Pandemic
- Question-Driven Feedback: How to Ensure Teacher Metacognition
- Envisioning Equity for Our New Normal Going Forward
- Why You Need More Than School Improvement Plan Goals: 5 Critical Strategies Missing from Most Plans and How a Systems Approach Increases Ownership Beyond the Principal
- 3 Ways Education Leaders Can Reduce Teacher Stress Using the Mirror-Window Effect
- Developing Instructional Leadership: 10 Questions with Experts Robert Crowe and Jane Kennedy
- Why Student Engagement is Important in a Post-COVID World – and 5 Strategies to Improve It
- What is an Equitable Learning Environment?
- SEL on the Mind: February 2021
- Strong Core Instruction: What it is and How it Can Address Inequity and Achievement Gaps
- How to Build Your Dream School: An Article for School Administrators and Aspiring Leaders
- Emotional Self-Management: 8 Tips for Educators to Self-Regulate and Co-Regulate Emotions and Behaviors
- Student-Led Formative Assessment: Why Does it Work and How Can it Solve the Urgent Issues of the Hybrid Classroom?
- Why Tracking Student Progress Is Critical to Solving the Achievement Gap: 6 Questions for District Leaders
- How to Plan for 3 Types of Interaction in the Hybrid Classroom
- Self-Care Within Education: 9 Science-Backed Tips for Thriving During and After Trauma
- Effective virtual instruction using the 4Rs: Strategies to improve RELATIONSHIPS, classroom ROUTINES and procedures, student ROLES, and academic RIGOR
- What You Don’t Know About Academic Interventions May Be Hurting Your Students: 7 Instructional Strategies for Accelerating Student Learning
- Strengthening Instructional Leadership: 6 strategies to promote a culture of continuous improvement, close COVID gaps, and increase principal retention
- How to Use Virtual Classroom Walkthrough Tools: 7 Best Practices for K-12 School and District Leaders
- Can the Brain Teach and Learn Curriculum During a Pandemic?
- 4 Nebraska Schools Earn National Awards as State’s First Demonstration Schools for Rigor
- National Expert Education Panel Publishes Tenets to Improve Grading Paper Targets Balanced Assessments, Includes Pandemic Principles for Districts
- 2 New, Free On-Demand Resources to Empower Student Equity
- Achievement Gaps and the Lost COVID-19 Generation
- 2020 Florida Principal of the Year – Sarajean McDaniel (PART 1)
- Ready, Set, Grow: The Benefits of Student Readiness at Morris Elementary School, Des Moines, IA
- Ritual Engagement Strategies that Help Assess Learning and Increase Rigor
- Effective Student Surveys and How They Inform Instruction
- How to Unpack a Standard
- Tech Tools for Deliberate Practice
- Book Preview – Engaging the Rewired Brain
- Book Preview: Formative Assessment in a Brain-Compatible Classroom
- Reaching Various Exceptionalities: Dyslexia
- What if All Educators Adopted a “Coaching Mindset” This Year?
- Best Practices for Professional Learning Communities
- Coaching During the Initial Month of the School Year
- Coaching in September and Beyond
- The Role Mindfulness Can Play in the Classroom
- Making Long-Lasting Impressions on Teachers and Students
- Time of Wonder
- Teaching Strategies for New Content: Collaborative Strategies
- Writing with Voice
- Conducting an Annual Reflection
- The Power of Play
- Spelling in English
- Accountability Requires Support
- How to Make Education Data Desirable
- 5 Tips for Engaging Students in a Close Reading of Text
- Wheels of Fortune: How and Why Learning Target Focus Wheels Should Be Part of Your Instructional Design
- Hey, Teachers! Take the Training Wheels Off
- Learning Target Deconstruction
- When a New Student Has Language Barriers: 7 Tips for Teachers
- Reflecting on a Vision of Instruction at Des Moines Public Schools
- To Exist or Not Exist? How Student Autonomy Changes the Classroom: Part 1
- To Exist or Not Exist? How Student Autonomy Changes the Classroom: Part 2
- Success Criteria: A Five-Star Recipe for Students
- Is Technology Shortening Students’ Attention Spans?
- Taking It for Granted, Part 1: What Are Grants, Anyway?
- 5 Statements That Guide a Team Toward Its Vision
- Taking It for Granted, Part 2: First Things First
- Integrating 3D Printers Into Your Curriculum
- Taking It For Granted, Part 3: Finding Funders
- Taking It For Granted, Part 4: State and Federal Grants
- Taking It for Granted Series Finale: Private Foundation and Corporate Grants
- 6 Classroom Activities to Help Students Express Gratitude
- Increase Instructional Rigor with the Six Pictures Activity
- 5 Practical Techniques for Embedding Formative Assessment
- 5 Monitoring Techniques That Deepen Student Learning
- Schools for Rigor: Spotlight On Bear Creek Elementary School
- What Is Truly On Your Plate: Transformative Principal Interview With Amy Dujon
- Student Teams: Collaboration That Makes A Difference
- Success Criteria: On the Road to Increasing Student Autonomy
- Lockerman Middle School: The Vision, the Work, the Legacy
- #RiseGI: Igniting Student Ownership in Grand Island, Nebraska
- Student-Centered Learning Starts Here: Grand Island Public Schools
- Exorcising the Ghosts of Classrooms Past
- Building a Student-Centered School
- Coaching Teachers Through Implementing LSI Standards-Driven Units
- No, It Is Not the “The End of Grades”
- Building Rigor and Engagement Into Academic Vocabulary
- The School Climate Continuum: 4 Habits That Can Quickly Improve School Culture
- Beware of the Test Prep Trap
- Verifying Learning: Who Learned the Lesson in These Scenarios?
- Opening the Doors to Hope
- Positive Reinforcement Doesn’t Exist in the Real World… Does It?
- Getting Parents Involved and Engaged at School
- The Difference Between Assessment and Testing
- What Would YOU Put Into an Assessment Smoothie?
- Helping Parents Understand Why Math Instruction Has Changed
- The Three Weights on Hispanic and Latino Students: Balancing School, Family, and Community
- Important Reminder: “Wrong” Answers Are the Ones That Deepen Learning
- How Should Principals Spend Their Time?
- Productive Assessment Systems Are in Balance
- There Is No Such Thing as a Valid Test
- Protecting Student Data in the Age of Cambridge Analytica
- Turning Around School Performance Requires Bold Steps: How Bear Creek Elementary Went From a “D” to “A”
- The Need for Speed (and Space)
- Coaches and Principals Need Time to Reflect: 4 Reflection Questions for Summer
- Teaching Writing: It’s as Easy as ABC!
- How Every Teacher Can Teach Writing
- Reflecting on a Year of Growth at Des Moines Public Schools
- Exploring Literacy Leadership Goals for the Coming School Year: A Summer Conversation for Coaches and Principals
- “I Choose C” Is Not the Answer: Moving Beyond Old-World Testing
- Using Bloom’s Taxonomy in the Classroom: Tips for Teachers
- Student Teaming: 3 Strategies for Turning Students into Teachers
- 8 Listening Strategies Students Can Use for Better Communication
- Modeling With Mathematics: What it Is and How it Aligns With the Standards-Driven Classroom
- “We HOPE to See a Productive Struggle” Sara Croll on Omaha Public Radio
- Growth Mindsets: Techniques to Help Students See What They Can Achieve
- What’s in a Question? More Than You Might Think
- Strategies, Activities, and Techniques to Teach Students Who Are Learning English as an Additional Language
- The Power of We: An Interview with Ron Nash
- Classroom Strategies: 3 Solutions to Common Behavior Problems
- Math Tricks? Just Say No!
- Jaime Castellano: Approaching Race and Racism in the Classroom
- Dylan Wiliam: High-Stakes K12 Testing
- Hearing Crickets During Classroom Discussion? Try Speed Debating
- Amy Dujon’s Gritty Truth of School Transformation: An Interview with Principal Center Radio
- 6 Fun Strategies to Transform Your Learners into Leaders
- 2 Simple Changes to Create the Schools our Children Need
- Strategies for Using Writing ‘Frames’ and ‘Structures’
- Developing Student Ownership – New Book for Supporting Your Students to Own Their Learning
- Growth Mindsets: 5 Strategies for Creating a Culture of Rigor
- Dylan Wiliam: Teacher Learning is Every Leader’s Priority
- Nic Weatherly gives a sneak peak into his new book “Deliberate Coaching”
- Deliberate Coaching in Public School Settings: A Conversation with Paul Gavoni
- “Owning” Learning: A Step Above “Doing” and “Understanding”
- Top 10: Most Popular Articles of 2018
- Your Curriculum May Not Be Aligned, and You Might not Know It
- 3 Steps to Develop Reflective, thus Effective Teachers
- Find Your Space; Own your space!
- How I Wish I’d Taught Maths: Lessons Learned from 12 Years of Mistakes
- The Future of Teachers: AI or Human?
- How to Prepare for the Unknown
- STEM – Alphabet Soup for Everyone!
- New Podcast: Dr Paulie “Gloves” talks about his new book “Deliberate Coaches”
- 10 Reasons to Love Teaching
- How Do You Show Evidence That Your Strategies Impact Student Learning?
- The Great Demotivator: What NOT To Do in Your Classroom
- How Brain Research Supports Student Academic Teaming
- 10 Teaching Techniques to Practice – Deliberately
- What Dylan Wiliam Says About Grading Student Work
- Bringing Happiness Back to the Classroom
- The Learning Rainforest: A model for great teaching and learning
- Start with the End User in Mind: Student-Centered Curriculum Design
- The Great Demotivator
- 10 Teaching Pitfalls
- 10 low impact activities to do less of – or stop altogether
- 10 Teaching Essentials
- Planning Professional Learning for Disciplinary Literacy
- What To Do When I Don’t Know What To Do: New Arrivals
- Behaviour Management: A Bill Rogers Top 10
- Principles of Effective Teaching
- 12 steps to a ‘Great Teacher’ reputation
- 10 Silver Arrows: Ideas to Penetrate the Armour of Ingrained Practice
- Mattie Whyte Woodridge and the History of Teacher Appreciation Week
- The Trademark of a Teacher
- Grading Performance Assessment
- Champions
- Top 10 “Aha” Moments From the 2019 Formative Assessment National Conference
- Starting and Running a Productive Book Study for Teachers
- A Monday Night Tailgate at Bowlesburg Elementary: Celebrating a Semester of Growth
- Empowered Students Lead and Learn
- Using Classroom Technology as a Tool, Not a Crutch
- What Does Family Engagement Have to Do with Equity and Student Achievement?
- Fifth-Grade Students Lead Food Campaign for Multicultural Lunch Options in Urban School
- Federal, State Education Officials Visit Lakewood Elementary
- Lessons Learned: Reaching Families for Equity and Student Achievement
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- Webinar: ESSER Funding – The Risk Behind the Opportunity
- 6 Steps for Accelerating Learning After the Pandemic
- Webinar: Differentiated Delegation – How Instructional Leaders Ensure Individual Success
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Research & Resources
- Inclusion & CCSS Supports for Students & Staff – Learner Profile Template
- 20 Disciplinary Strategies for Working With Challenging Students – Additional Sample Morning Meeting Agendas
- Disciplinary Literacy Inquiry and Instruction – Table 7.2 Questions to Ask about the Timing of and Need for Disciplinary literacy Work
- Inclusion & CCSS Supports for Students & Staff – Math Journal Prompts
- 20 Disciplinary Strategies for Working With Challenging Students – An Example of a PBL Project
- Disciplinary Literacy Inquiry and Instruction – Table 7.3 Situating DL Change Work within the Context of Larger Initiatives
- ESSER Funding – The Risk Behind the Opportunity
- Inclusion & CCSS Supports for Students & Staff – Mathematics Practices
- 20 Disciplinary Strategies for Working With Challenging Students – Appropriate Technology / Internet Usage Student Pledge
- The Power of Student Teams – The Power of Student Teams: Achieving Social, Emotional, and Cognitive Learning in Every Classroom Through Academic Teaming
- Inclusion & CCSS Supports for Students & Staff – Our Classroom Scenario
- 20 Disciplinary Strategies for Working With Challenging Students – Appropriate Technology|Internet Usage Student Pledge
- The Learning Rainforest – The Learning Rainforest: Great Teaching In Real Classrooms
- Implementing and Sustaining Peer to Peer Instructional Rounds
- Inclusion & CCSS Supports for Students & Staff – Reading Anchor Standards
- 20 Disciplinary Strategies for Working With Challenging Students – Assessing Students’ Comfort in the Class
- In Praise Of Foibles – In Praise of Foibles: The Impact of Mistakes, Failure, and Fear on Continuous Improvement in Schools
- Inclusion & CCSS Supports for Students & Staff – Sample A-Qu-A Chart
- 20 Disciplinary Strategies for Working With Challenging Students – Case Study: A Restorative Circle Report
- iObservation: Powerful Evaluation Insights for Sustainable Improvement
- How I Wish I’d Taught Maths – How I Wish I’d Taught Maths Study Guide
- Inclusion & CCSS Supports for Students & Staff – Self-Regulation for | Grades K-2
- 20 Disciplinary Strategies for Working With Challenging Students – Check Your Feelings! Poster
- Developing Student Ownership – Developing Student Ownership: Supporting Students to Own Their Learning through the Use of Strategic Learning Practices Study Guide
- Inclusion & CCSS Supports for Students & Staff – Self-Regulation for Grades 3-5
- The Language Lens for Content Classrooms – Check Yourself!: How Language Input and Wait Time Can Make or Break Instruction for English Learners
- 20 Disciplinary Strategies for Working With Challenging Students – Four Pillars of Flipped Learning: FLIP
- The Language Lens for Content Classrooms – Compliance 101
- Inclusion & CCSS Supports for Students & Staff – Self-Regulation for High School
- Optimizing Talent
- The Language Lens for Content Classrooms – Cooperative Grouping Strategies
- 20 Disciplinary Strategies for Working With Challenging Students – Group Contingency Interventions
- The Language Lens for Content Classrooms – Developing Empathy for Your English Language Learners
- Inclusion & CCSS Supports for Students & Staff – Self-Regulation for Middle School
- The Language Lens for Content Classrooms – Dual Language Series: Part I-Who Are Our Learners?
- 20 Disciplinary Strategies for Working With Challenging Students – Parent Questionnaire on Class Climate
- Pinellas County Public Schools 2013-2014 Pilot Project Executive Summary
- The Language Lens for Content Classrooms – Ensuring Rigor for ELLs using Depth of Knowledge
- Inclusion & CCSS Supports for Students & Staff – Side-by-Side Standards
- The Language Lens for Content Classrooms – Essential Elements for a Powerful Language Plan
- The Language Lens for Content Classrooms – Going Beyond “Turn and Talk”: Academic Conversations for ELLs
- Inclusion & CCSS Supports for Students & Staff – Speaking and Listening Anchor Standards
- 20 Disciplinary Strategies for Working With Challenging Students – Peer Mediation Questionnaire
- Positive Behavior Management: Strategies and Technique
- The Language Lens for Content Classrooms – Honoring Students’ Stories: Identity Texts to Write and Diverse Texts to Read
- The Language Lens for Content Classrooms – If Word Walls Could Talk, They Would Ask for More Student Interaction
- Inclusion & CCSS Supports for Students & Staff – Student Word Box
- SB 7070 – What You Need to Know if You Have Schools in Turnaround
- The Language Lens for Content Classrooms – Integrating Writing into All Content Areas
- 20 Disciplinary Strategies for Working With Challenging Students – Peer Mediation Resolution Contract
- The Language Lens for Content Classrooms – Language and Culture: They Go Hand in Hand
- Inclusion & CCSS Supports for Students & Staff – Template for Inclusion and CCSS Realities, Strategies, and Roles
- The Language Lens for Content Classrooms – Long-Term EL Series: Part 1: Understanding the Issue
- The Language Lens for Content Classrooms – Reading Groups Across the Curriculum
- Inclusion & CCSS Supports for Students & Staff – The ADMIRE Model Template
- 20 Disciplinary Strategies for Working With Challenging Students – Responsibility Strategy Agreement 1
- The Language Lens for Content Classrooms – Shh . . . Quit Telling Your Students to Be Quiet!
- The Language Lens for Content Classrooms – Strong Connections between Home and School for English Learners
- Inclusion & CCSS Supports for Students & Staff – The Admire Numbers
- The Language Lens for Content Classrooms – Support ELLs with Project-Based Learning
- 20 Disciplinary Strategies for Working With Challenging Students – Responsibility Strategy Agreement 2
- Sustaining Formative Assessment with Teacher Learning Communities
- The Language Lens for Content Classrooms – Teaching Language through Content: The Need for Language Objectives
- Inclusion & CCSS Supports for Students & Staff – Visual Organizer for Kindergarten Reading
- The Language Lens for Content Classrooms – The Language Lens for Content Classrooms
- 20 Disciplinary Strategies for Working With Challenging Students – Safe Place Intervention to Reduce Class Altercations
- Inclusion & CCSS Supports for Students & Staff – Writing Anchor Standards
- Teaching for Rigor: A Call for a Critical Instructional Shift
- The Language Lens for Content Classrooms – We Are Academic Language Learners (ALLs)
- 20 Disciplinary Strategies for Working With Challenging Students – Skill Set for Conflict Resolution
- The Language Lens for Content Classrooms – What to Do When I Don’t Know What to Do: New Arrivals
- Performance Assessment – Checklist for Following Assignment Directions
- The Language Lens for Content Classrooms – Your Students Have Assets, Not Deficiencies: Differentiating Instruction for English Learners Based on Strengths and Interests
- 20 Disciplinary Strategies for Working With Challenging Students – Student Redirections in a Flipped Class
- Teaching for Rigor: Three Challenges for Curriculum Directors
- Student Teaming: You Got This! – Student Teaming: You Got This! A Teacher’s Survival Guide Study Guide
- Performance Assessment – Collaborative Work Skills Rubric
- 20 Disciplinary Strategies for Working With Challenging Students – The Anger Thermometer
- Deliberate Coaching – Deliberate Coaching: A Toolbox for Accelerating Teacher Performance
- Performance Assessment – Depth of Knowledge, ELA
- Teaching for Rigor: Three Challenges for School Leaders
- Great Teaching Made Easy: How to Use Questioning in the Classroom – How to Use Questioning in the Classroom Study Guide
- Performance Assessment – Depth of Knowledge, Mathematics
- 20 Disciplinary Strategies for Working With Challenging Students – The RTI Pyramid Model
- Teaching for Rigor: Three Challenges for Title 1 Directors
- Great Teaching Made Easy: How to Use Discussion in the Classroom – How to Use Discussion in the Classroom Study Guide
- Performance Assessment – Depth of Knowledge, Science
- 20 Disciplinary Strategies for Working With Challenging Students – The ZIPPER Strategy
- Great Teaching Made Easy: How to Use Bloom’s Taxonomy in the Classroom – How to Use Bloom’s Taxonomy in the Classroom Study Guide
- Performance Assessment – Depth of Knowledge, Social Studies
- Leadership for Teacher Learning – Leadership for Teacher Learning Study Guide
- The Art and Science of Teaching the Common Core State Standards
- LSI Comprehensive Catalog
- Great Teaching Made Easy: How to Teach EAL Students in the Classroom – How to Teach EAL Students in the Classroom Study Guide
- Performance Assessment – Example: Analytic Rubric for a Paragraph or Essay
- Embedding Formative Assessment – Bar Chart of Effect Sizes Found by Kluger and DeNisi
- The Future of Assessment Practices: Comprehensive and Balanced Assessment Systems
- LSI Book Catalog
- Great Teaching Made Easy: How to Manage Behaviour in the Classroom – How to Manage Behavior in the Classroom Study Guide
- Performance Assessment – Example: Basketball Skills Assessment, Grades 6-8
- Embedding Formative Assessment – Common Errors in Questioning
- Great Teaching Made Easy: How to Develop Growth Mindsets in the Classroom – How to Develop Growth Mindsets in the Classroom Study Guide
- Performance Assessment – Example: Calculating Final Grades from a Mixture of Tests and Performance Assessments
- Embedding Formative Assessment – Confused and Clarified Learning Intentions and Success Criteria
- Creating the Schools Our Children Need – Creating the Schools Our Children Need Study Guide
- Performance Assessment – Example: Checklist; Example: Rating Scale
- Embedding Formative Assessment – Correlation of Self-Assessment with Teacher Assessment in Sixty Studies of Second Language Learners
- Performance Assessment – Example: Collaborative Work Skills Rubric
- Embedding Formative Assessment – Embedding Formative Assessment Study Guide
- The Power of We – The Power of We Study Guide
- Performance Assessment – Example: Easy and Difficult Questions at Different Cognitive Levels
- Embedding Formative Assessment – Example Letter From Class Teacher To Parents
- The Gritty Truth of School Transformation – How to Coach an Instructional Coach
- Performance Assessment – Example: Holistic Rubric for a Paragraph or Essay
- Embedding Formative Assessment – Examples of Comments in Science Requiring Definite Responses from Students
- The Gritty Truth of School Transformation – Intentional Planning Map 2017
- Performance Assessment – Example: Job Application Letter Rubric
- Embedding Formative Assessment – Five Key Strategies of Formative Assessment
- Performance Assessment – Example: Poor Rubric for a Poem Poster
- Embedding Formative Assessment – Kinds of Extrinsic Motivation
- The Gritty Truth of School Transformation – Performance Assessment: Showing What Students Know and Can Do
- Performance Assessment – Example: Rating Scale for Some Learning Skills
- Embedding Formative Assessment – Lesson Planning Sheet | Peer Observation Sheet
- The Gritty Truth of School Transformation – Sample Coaching Schedule
- Performance Assessment – Example: Reading Literature Standards for Eleventh-Grade, Goal and Assessment
- Embedding Formative Assessment – My Learning Log | Student Reflections on Learning
- The Gritty Truth of School Transformation – Students talk about their perceptions of the new strategies and techniques
- Performance Assessment – Example: Reading Standards for a First-Grade First Semester, with Assessment Types Identified
- Embedding Formative Assessment – Personalization, Stability, and Specificity of Attributions of Success and Failure
- The Gritty Truth of School Transformation – The Five Whysto get to root causes
- Unpacking Coaching Mindsets: A Conversation with Principals and Coaches
- The Gritty Truth of School Transformation – The Gritty Truth of School Transformation Study Guide
- Performance Assessment – Example: Rubric
- Embedding Formative Assessment – Praise Statements and Their Hidden Implications
- The Gritty Truth of School Transformation – Video of Lisa Roman Teaching Her Class
- Performance Assessment – Example: Rubric for a “What is Tragedy” Paper
- Embedding Formative Assessment – Reactions to Feedback, After Kluger and DeNisi
- The Gritty Truth of School Transformation – Video of Students Working
- The Gritty Truth of School Transformation – What Do We Selectively Abandon?
- Performance Assessment – Example: Rubric for a Percussion Composition
- Embedding Formative Assessment – Reflection Checklist For Strategy 1
- Educating Hispanic and Latino Students – Educating Hispanic and Latino Students Study Guide
- Performance Assessment – Example: Science Standards for a Sixth-Grade First Quarter, with Assessment Types Identified
- Embedding Formative Assessment – Reflection Checklist for Strategy 2
- 20 Strategies for Increasing Student Engagement – 20 Strategies for Increasing Student Engagement Study Guide
- Transforming Student Behavior
- Performance Assessment – Example: Scientific Drawing Rubric
- Embedding Formative Assessment – Reflection Checklist for Strategy 3
- From an “F” School to a Place Where All Students Thrive
- A Midwestern District Moves the Needle
- Performance Assessment – Example: Simple Math Problem-Solving Rubric
- Embedding Formative Assessment – Reflection Checklist for Strategy 4
- How Two Michigan Administrators Closed the Achievement Gap
- From Great to Exemplary
- Performance Assessment – Example: Task and Task-Specific Rubric
- Embedding Formative Assessment – Reflection Checklist for Strategy 5
- An “A” School in Danger Takes Action
- Tremendous Results in a Single Year
- Performance Assessment – Exemplary Example: Revision of the Poor Example
- Embedding Formative Assessment – Reviews of Research on Feedback and Other Aspects of Formative Assessment
- Creating an Environment for Academic Excellence and Social Acceptance
- Performance Assessment – Features of Student Work Commonly Included in Scoring Rubrics
- Embedding Formative Assessment – Self-Assessment Prompts That Address Your Feelings About The Work – Page 217
- How a Great City School District is Improving Student Achievement, Increasing Equity and Closing Achievement Gaps
- LSI’s School Instructional Maturity Model (SIMM) is shifting to the students
- Performance Assessment – Learning in Schools and Learning Out of Schools
- Embedding Formative Assessment – Self-Assessment Prompts That Address Your Feelings About The Work – Page 218
- I’m A Better Instructional Leader Now.
- On Our Way to An A!
- Performance Assessment – Performance Assessment Study Guide
- Embedding Formative Assessment – Self-Assessment Prompts That Address Your Feelings About The Work – Page 219
- Students Take Ownership of Their Learning
- 20 Strategies for STEM Instruction – 20 Strategies for STEM Instruction Study Guide
- Performance Assessment – Poor Example: One of Several Criteria for a Primary Story Writing Rubric
- Embedding Formative Assessment – Student Survey | Student Feedback To Teacher
- How McLaughlin Middle School Partnered with LSI During COVID-19 to Exit Turnaround Status, Earn its Best School Grade in 7 years and Outperform its Polk County Public Schools District Learning Rates
- The FIVES Strategy for Reading Comprehension – ABBC for Writing a Constructed Response
- Performance Assessment – Rating Scale for Learning Skills
- Embedding Formative Assessment – Suggestions for Big Ideas
- The FIVES Strategy for Reading Comprehension – Anchor Chart for ATripleBC
- Performance Assessment – Rubric Template for Assessing Complex Performance Relative to a Standard
- Embedding Formative Assessment – Use of a Rubric Summary to Provide Rapid Feedback
- The FIVES Strategy for Reading Comprehension – Anchor Chart for Discussion
- Performance Assessment – Rubric Template for Assessing Simple Performance Relative to a Standard
- The FIVES Strategy for Reading Comprehension – Anchor Chart for Making Inferences
- Performance Assessment – SCBDA Solo and Ensemble Wind Assessment
- The FIVES Strategy for Reading Comprehension – Anchor Chart Rubric for Assessing FIVES Responses
- Performance Assessment – The Algebra Problem of the Week Scoring Rubric for Students
- The FIVES Strategy for Reading Comprehension – Anecdotal Notes on Students’ Contributions During Discussion
- Performance Assessment – The Knowledge Dimension
- The FIVES Strategy for Reading Comprehension – Chart of Connections with Texts
- Performance Assessment – The Taxonomy Table
- The FIVES Strategy for Reading Comprehension – Class List for FIVES Score on a Single Assignment
- Cultivating Coaching Mindsets – Action-Planning Guide
- The FIVES Strategy for Reading Comprehension – Completed Fact and Inference Prompt Worksheet
- Cultivating Coaching Mindsets – Adopting a Coaching Mindset – Self-Assessment of Coaching Skills, Knowledge, and Dispositions
- The FIVES Strategy for Reading Comprehension – Completed FIVE Worksheet
- Cultivating Coaching Mindsets – Assessment Cycle
- The FIVES Strategy for Reading Comprehension – Completed FIVES Worksheet for Facts with Prompt Plus Response
- Cultivating Coaching Mindsets – Coaching Activities of Specialized Literacy Professionals
- The FIVES Strategy for Reading Comprehension – Completed Note Sheet Form for Facts
- 20 Strategies for Student Engagement – Book Excerpt
- Cultivating Coaching Mindsets – Cultivating Coaching Mindsets Study Guide
- The FIVES Strategy for Reading Comprehension – Daily Quote Sheet
- Cultivating Coaching Mindsets – Developing a Comprehensive Assessment Style
- The FIVES Strategy for Reading Comprehension – FIVES Tire Worksheet
- Cultivating Coaching Mindsets – Dos and Don’ts of Effective Communication
- The FIVES Strategy for Reading Comprehension – FIVES Worksheet for Active Engagement While Reading
- How Lakewood (FL) Elementary School Partnered with LSI Pre and Post COVID-19 to Substantially Outperform its District Learning Rates
- Cultivating Coaching Mindsets – Framework for Thinking and Working Like a Coach
- The FIVES Strategy for Reading Comprehension – FIVES Worksheet for Facts and Inferences
- Cultivating Coaching Mindsets – Lesson Analysis for the Post-Observation Conversation
- The FIVES Strategy for Reading Comprehension – From Constructed Response to Integrated Response Essay (IRE)
- Cultivating Coaching Mindsets – Note-Taking Organizer When Coach is Modeling Instruction
- The FIVES Strategy for Reading Comprehension – Graphic Organizer for Notes on Narrative Text
- Cultivating Coaching Mindsets – Observation Protocol for Content-Area Instruction
- The FIVES Strategy for Reading Comprehension – Graphic Organizers Matched to Text Structures
- Cultivating Coaching Mindsets – Protocol for a Thirty-Minute Data Meeting
- The 4 Actions of Instructional Leadership That Will Turn Your Dream School into a Reality
- The FIVES Strategy for Reading Comprehension – Identifying words from clues
- Cultivating Coaching Mindsets – Questions for an Initial Conversation with Teachers
- The FIVES Strategy for Reading Comprehension – Individual FIVES Scoring Rubric
- Cultivating Coaching Mindsets – Questions for Discussion
- The FIVES Strategy for Reading Comprehension – Inference Intervention Collection
- Cultivating Coaching Mindsets – Roadblocks and Solutions
- The FIVES Strategy for Reading Comprehension – List-Group-Label
- Cultivating Coaching Mindsets – Seven Domains of Literacy Leadership Knowledge and Skill
- The FIVES Strategy for Reading Comprehension – Say It, Show It, Share It
- Cultivating Coaching Mindsets – Sources of Data
- The FIVES Strategy for Reading Comprehension – T-Chart for Opinion and Evidence
- Cultivating Coaching Mindsets – Steps in Initiating Learning Walks
- The FIVES Strategy for Reading Comprehension – The FIVES Strategy for Reading Comprehension Study Guide
- Cultivating Coaching Mindsets – The Observation Cycle
- The FIVES Strategy for Reading Comprehension – Types of Context Clues
- Cultivating Coaching Mindsets – Thinking and Working Like A…
- The FIVES Strategy for Reading Comprehension – Vocabulary Knowledge Rating Scale
- Cultivating Coaching Mindsets – Tips for Creating PowerPoint Slides
- The FIVES Strategy for Reading Comprehension – Writing Checklist
- Cultivating Coaching Mindsets – Using Data for Decision Making
- The FIVES Strategy for Reading Comprehension – Writing Planning Sheet
- Engaging the Rewired Brain – Age Children Should Get Smartphones
- iPads in the Classroom – 5th grade Animated Counting poem
- iPads in the Classroom – Accessibility
- Engaging the Rewired Brain – Classroom Components for the Rewired Brain
- iPads in the Classroom – All about the Tundra Biome
- iPads in the Classroom – App Recommendations
- Engaging the Rewired Brain – Convergent Thinking Diagram
- iPads in the Classroom – Best History Sites
- iPads in the Classroom – Bioinformatics course
- Engaging the Rewired Brain – Differences Between a Traditional Classroom and a Flipped Classroom
- iPads in the Classroom – Bloom’s Revised Framework
- Engaging the Rewired Brain – Divergent Thinking Diagram
- iPads in the Classroom – CRCD Framework
- Engaging the Rewired Brain – Effect Sizes of Teacher Initiatives
- Achieving a ‘C’ After One Year of External Operations
- iPads in the Classroom – Dancing with Robots: Human Skills for Computerized Work
- iPads in the Classroom – Explain Everything example
- Engaging the Rewired Brain – Engaging the Rewired Brain Study Guide
- Creating an Environment for Academic Excellence and Social Acceptance
- iPads in the Classroom – Explain Everything Puppet Pals example
- Efficacy and Student Engagement: Empowering Students to Make Their M.A.R.C.
- iPads in the Classroom – Global Community eBook Project
- Engaging the Rewired Brain – Language Processing Areas of the Brain Diagram
- iPads in the Classroom – iMovie on food production
- Rapid Success by Owning the Outcomes: Grades Surge 12% in Just One Year
- iPads in the Classroom – Industrial Revolution Song from Shawn McCusker
- Engaging the Rewired Brain – Major Components of Human Memory Diagram
- A Look Inside Kenly Elementary School’s First B and State-Leading Math Gains During Interrupted Learning
- iPads in the Classroom – Inkling
- iPads in the Classroom – iPads in the Classroom Study Guide
- Engaging the Rewired Brain – Mirror Neurons Diagram
- What You Don’t Know About Academic Interventions May Be Hurting Your Students: 7 Instructional Strategies for Accelerating Student Learning
- iPads in the Classroom – IT professional skills course
- Engaging the Rewired Brain – Percent of Students Saying Technology…
- iPads in the Classroom – Journalism: How to Make a Basic News Video for Web
- iPads in the Classroom – Kindergarten classroom using BookCreator
- Engaging the Rewired Brain – Percentage and Frequency of Internet Use
- iPads in the Classroom – Plant biology teaching resources
- iPads in the Classroom – Subtext Examples
- Engaging the Rewired Brain – Retention During a Learning Episode
- iPads in the Classroom – Syllabus Constructed in Storify
- Address Learning Loss: Formative Assessment Tools Aid in Remote Learning
- iPads in the Classroom – The SAMR Model
- Engaging the Rewired Brain – Students Perceptions of Amount of Technology in Use in Their Schoo
- iPads in the Classroom – Tom describing the potential of the iPad as a creation device
- Engaging the Rewired Brain – Three Categories of Curriculum Content
- iPads in the Classroom – Tom’s History Class examples
- Leading School Improvement – Caring Leadership: Antecedent and Action Phases
- Engaging the Rewired Brain – Three Main Attention Systems Diagram
- 5 Tips for Ensuring Equity for Language Learners
- Leading School Improvement – Caring Leadership: Overall Model
- Engaging the Rewired Brain – Three Types of Assessments Diagram
- Secrets to School Improvement | Webcast Series
- Leading School Improvement – Elements of Student Sense of Self
- Engaging the Rewired Brain – Two Types of Practice Diagram
- A Tale of Two Teachers
- Leading School Improvement – Elements of the Norm of Care
- Engaging the Rewired Brain – Types of Authentic Student Engagement
- SEL: Creating a Culture of Continuous Improvement | 4-Part Webcast Series
- Leading School Improvement – Leading School Improvement Study Guide
- Engaging the Rewired Brain – Von Economo Neurons Diagram
- Activating Growth Mindsets in the Classroom: Theory, Research and Practice
- Aligning Standards with Instruction
- Leading School Improvement – Learning-Centered Leadership Framework
- Brain-Friendly Assessments – Beware the Working Memory Gambit
- Leading School Improvement – Learning-Centered Leadership: Leading School Culture and Community
- Brain-Friendly Assessments – Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy
- Leading School Improvement – The 5E Model of Leadership
- Brain-Friendly Assessments – Brain Friendly Assessments Study Guide
- Leading School Improvement – The Architecture of School Improvement
- Brain-Friendly Assessments – Brain-Friendly Grading Should… Diagram
- 6 Strategies for Strengthening Instructional Leadership
- Leading School Improvement – The Building Material of School Improvement 1
- Brain-Friendly Assessments – Checklist to Help Design Formative Assessment
- 7 Instructional Strategies for Accelerating Student Learning
- Leading School Improvement – The Building Material of School Improvement 2
- Brain-Friendly Assessments – Components of an English Language Assessment System
- 3 Strategies for Formative Assessment in Any Learning Environment
- Leading School Improvement – The Five Intelligences of Leadership
- Brain-Friendly Assessments – Criteria for Effective Formative Assessment
- Formative Assessment in a Brain-Compatible Classroom – A Brain Compatible Lesson Plan
- Brain-Friendly Assessments – Criteria for Long-Term Storage
- Formative Assessment in a Brain-Compatible Classroom – A K-W-L Graphic Organizer
- Brain-Friendly Assessments – Degree of Focus vs. Time of Day Graph
- The Research Base Supporting the Rigor Diagnostic Observation Instrument
- Formative Assessment in a Brain-Compatible Classroom – A Product/Performance Checklist Template that Teachers Can Use for an Individual Student
- Brain-Friendly Assessments – Effect Sizes of Some Common Influences on Student Achievement Chart
- Using Assessment to Accelerate Student Learning Post-COVID-19
- Formative Assessment in a Brain-Compatible Classroom – A Sample Analytic Rubric Template
- Brain-Friendly Assessments – Example 1 of Matrix Responses to Preassessment
- Formative Assessment in a Brain-Compatible Classroom – Alphabet Book
- Brain-Friendly Assessments – Example 2 of Matrix Responses to Preassessment
- Formative Assessment in a Brain-Compatible Classroom – An Observation Checklist Template that Teachers Can Use for an Entire Classroom of Students
- Brain-Friendly Assessments – Examples of Graphic Organizers
- Formative Assessment in a Brain-Compatible Classroom – Comparison of Brain-Compatible Instructional Strategies to Learning Theory
- Brain-Friendly Assessments – Expected vs. Actual Sleep Hours of Adolescents Graph
- Formative Assessment in a Brain-Compatible Classroom – Formative Assessment in a Brain-Compatible Classroom Study Guide
- Brain-Friendly Assessments – How Well High School Prepared You to Be Successful in Your First Full-Time Job
- Formative Assessment in a Brain-Compatible Classroom – Group Social Skills Checklist
- Brain-Friendly Assessments – Impact of Old Learning on New Learning Diagram
- Formative Assessment in a Brain-Compatible Classroom – Individual Social Skills Checklist
- Brain-Friendly Assessments – K-12 School Testing Diagram
- Are you ready for Rigor?
- Formative Assessment in a Brain-Compatible Classroom – The Frayer Model
- Brain-Friendly Assessments – Major Purposes of Assessment Diagram
- Formative Assessment in a Brain-Compatible Classroom – Types of Assessment
- Brain-Friendly Assessments – Major Uses of Different Kinds of Assessments Diagram
- Comprehensive and Balanced Assessment Systems
- Inclusion & CCSS Supports for Students & Staff – A-Qu-A Template
- Brain-Friendly Assessments – Memory Systems Diagram
- Creating an Aligned System
- Unreached – Unreached: What Every Educator Wants to Know About Engaging Families for Equity and Student Achievement
- Inclusion & CCSS Supports for Students & Staff – A-Z Mesopotamia Planner
- Brain-Friendly Assessments – Normal Sleep Cycle
- Know Better, Do Better – Know Better, Do Better: Teaching the Foundations So That Every Child Can Read
- Inclusion & CCSS Supports for Students & Staff – Acronyms and Their Meanings
- Brain-Friendly Assessments – Percentage of High School Dropouts for 2005 and 2013
- Rosenshine’s Principles in Practice – Rosenshine’s Principles in Practice Study Guide
- Inclusion & CCSS Supports for Students & Staff – CCSS Vocabulary Crossword
- Brain-Friendly Assessments – Percentage of Student Engagement in School Graph
- Deliberate Practice for Deliberate Growth
- Inclusion & CCSS Supports for Students & Staff – Data Collection Sheet
- Brain-Friendly Assessments – Recalling Information Brain Scan
- Disciplinary Literacy Inquiry and Instruction – Appendix A
- Achievement Gaps and the Lost COVID-19 Generation Webinar Replay
- Inclusion & CCSS Supports for Students & Staff – Eighth-Grade Mathematics
- Brain-Friendly Assessments – Rubric For Report on Science Topic
- Develop Student Ownership through Strategic Learning Practices
- Disciplinary Literacy Inquiry and Instruction – Appendix B
- Instructional Leadership Institute: Theoretical and Empirical Findings from Research
- Inclusion & CCSS Supports for Students & Staff – Graphic Organizer for Dance
- Brain-Friendly Assessments – Teacher Attitudes
- Did You Know: Your School’s PLCs Have an Outsized Impact?
- Disciplinary Literacy Inquiry and Instruction – Disciplinary Literacy Inquiry and Instruction Study Guide
- Inclusion & CCSS Supports for Students & Staff – Graphic Organizer for Place, Human, and Physical
- Brain-Friendly Assessments – Test Anxiety Cycle
- Disciplinary Literacy Inquiry and Instruction – Table 1 Common Definitions and Characterization of Disciplinary Literacy
- Examining the Role of Teacher Evaluation in Student Achievement
- Inclusion & CCSS Supports for Students & Staff – Graphic Organizer for Weather
- Brain-Friendly Assessments – Three Basic Types of Assessments
- Disciplinary Literacy Inquiry and Instruction – Table 1.2 Comparing Content-Area Literacy with Disciplinary Literacy
- Inclusion & CCSS Supports for Students & Staff – Hierarchy of Inclusion Classroom Participation
- Brain-Friendly Assessments – Types of Mindsets
- Disciplinary Literacy Inquiry and Instruction – Table 2.2 Inquiry and Instruction Organizer
- Inclusion & CCSS Supports for Students & Staff – Inclusion & CCSS Supports for Students & Staff Study Guide
- 20 Disciplinary Strategies for Working With Challenging Students – 20 Disciplinary Strategies Study Guide
- Disciplinary Literacy Inquiry and Instruction – Table 3.1 Topics Explored by Groups When Inquiring about Text
- Teacher Evaluation: Looking Back to Move Forward
- Inclusion & CCSS Supports for Students & Staff – Language Anchor Standards
- 20 Disciplinary Strategies for Working With Challenging Students – A Repeated Instructions Intervention
- Disciplinary Literacy Inquiry and Instruction – Table 7.1 Questions to Ask When Starting Disciplinary Literacy Work
- Hierarchical Evaluation System: Common Language Common Goals
Team Bios
- Mtetwa Ramdoo
- Theresa Staley, M.Ed.
- Dodi Davenport, Ed. D.
- Dr. Maura Hobson
- Bindu Sunil, Ed.S.
- Shakira B. Fetherolf, M. Ed.
- Meagan Velez
- James Payne, Ed.S
- Zenani Fogg
- Jennifer Ward
- Christal Bloomer, M.Ed.
- Sue O’Rear, Ed.D.
- Mario Andrade, Ed.D.
- Michelle Fitzgerald, Ed.D.
- Jacqueline Gonzalez, Ed.D.
- Rhonda M. Brown, M.Ed.
- Janis Andrews, Ed.D.
- Gary Hess
- Hasina Romney, M.Ed.
- Jody Honaker
- Kirstie Lickliter, M.Ed.
- Lindsay Elliott, Ed.D.
- Mindy Province, M.Ed.
- Rebeccah Potavin, M.Ed.
- Teresa Wright, Ed.D.
- Elizabeth Buzzanca, M.Ed.
- Christine Patton
- Lindsey Devers Basileo, Ph.D.
- Marguerite “Meg” Bowen, M.Ed.
- Penny Sell, M.Ed.
- Tracy Duval, Ed.S.
- Leslie Frick
- Lorah Neville, M.Ed.
- Lorie Spadafora
- Peggy Voigt, M.Ed.
- Deana Senn
- Phil Carr, M.Ed.
- Stephanie Miles Terrell, Ed.S.
- Tammy Quist, M.Ed.
- Tracy Bollinger
- Gwen Bryant, M.Ed.
- Jaime Bailey, M.Ed.
- Joan Pinkerton, M.Ed.
- Julie Bettis, M.Ed.
- Kara Bentley
- Karen Doty, Ed.D.
- Kathleen Einhorn, Ed.D.
- Kathleen Marx, M.Ed.
- Kimberly Harris, M.Ed.
- Melissa Gdowik, B.S.
- Gregory Middleton, Ph.D.
- Gail Charles-Walters, M.Ed.
- Amy Mattingly, M.Ed.
- Melanie Fox, Ed.D.
- Diane Stultz, M.Ed.
- Debra Friedman, M.Ed.
- Deborah Terry, M.Ed.
- Camile Earle-Dennis
- April Grace, Ed.D.
- Andrea Johnson
- Amy Spicher, M.Ed.