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The secret to giving better feedback isn't what we say — it's what others hear. Too often, people hear about a past they can't control, not a future they can. That changes with "feedforward" — a radical approach to sharing feedback that unleashes the performance and potential of everyone around us.
From managers and coaches trying to energize their teams, to teachers hoping to motivate their students, to parents looking to empower their children,...
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At a time when globalization and technology are dramatically altering the world we live in, is education reform in the United States headed down the right path? Are schools emphasizing the knowledge and skills that students need in a global society--or are they actually undermining their strengths by overemphasizing high-stakes testing and standardization? Are education systems in China and other countries really as superior as some people claim?...
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What is the purpose of education? What kind of people do we want our children to grow up to be? How can we design schools so that students will acquire the skills they'll need to live fulfilled and productive lives? These are just a few of the questions that renowned educator Dennis Littky explores in The Big Picture: Education Is Everyone's Business. The schools Littky has created and led over the past 35 years are models for reformers everywhere:...
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Scholarly literature describes academic supervision as a relational-based task involving a student and supervisors. It is not controlled cooperation with a technical formula for it to function, but relational and requires interpersonal skills. Such collaboration in supervision resembles other human relations where partners may encounter diverse challenges.
Therefore, for supervision partners (students and supervisors) to cooperate effectively, they...
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Accessible, hands-on RTI guidance and strategies for educators at all grade levels
This practical, ready-to-use resource gives teachers and administrators the tools to successfully implement RTI or strengthen an existing program to target students' specific needs. Response to Intervention allows educators to assess and meet the needs of struggling students before they have fallen too far behind. Three expert authors explore this multi-tiered system...
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THIS TEXTBOOK PROVIDES ALL THE INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE YOU NEED TO PASS THE COURSE, COMMUNICATED IN A USER-FRIENDLY AND PRACTICAL MANNER The Award in Education and Training is the entry qualification for teaching in a range of learning contexts across the further education and skills sector. It comprises three units, which are fully covered by this textbook. These are as follows: Understanding Roles, Responsibilities and Relationships in Education...
7) Understanding and Using the Naglieri General Ability Tests: A Call for Equity in Gifted Education
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An accessible guide to identifying gifted students and creating equity and inclusion within gifted programs.
The Naglieri tests (the NNAT series) have long been a standard in the field of ability testing. Amid the calls for equity and inclusion within gifted education, the new Naglieri General Ability Tests aim to meet that need. This companion, Understanding and Using the Naglieri General Ability Tests, offers educators administering the tests or...
8) Understanding and Using the Naglieri General Ability Tests: A Call for Equity in Gifted Education
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This book is written for all who are involved in gifted education, including teachers, administrators, and university faculty. For many years, we have known that there are disproportionate numbers of Black, Hispanic, and Native American students; English language learners; and students living in poverty in gifted education programs. Understanding and Using the Naglieri General Ability Tests: A Call for Equity in Gifted Education addresses these issues...
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This textbook is a comprehensive introduction to the assessment of students in K-12 schools who use two or more languages in their daily life: English Language Learners (ELLs), or Emergent Bilinguals. The book includes a thorough examination of the policy, history and assessment/measurement issues that educators should understand in order to best advocate for their students. The author presents a decision-making framework called PUMI (Purpose, Use,...
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Esta obra trata del diseño e implementación de un proyecto de política educativa cuyo objetivo estratégico es la mejora de los aprendizajes y del papel que juegan los actores de la estructura intermedia en la consecución de tal propósito. Es una experiencia de trabajo conjunto entre gobierno federal, gobiernos estatales, academia y equipos de supervisión escolar, denominada.
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L'utilisation régulière de la rétroaction et du débriefing dans les pratiques de formation souligne une nouvelle orientation pédagogique et didactique. Pour en comprendre le sens et la contribution dans la professionnalisation et le développement professionnel, cet ouvrage analyse leur place dans le triptyque « accompagner, former, professionnaliser ».
Au fil des chapitres, les 18 auteurs élaborent un panorama donnant une vision étendue...
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Transform your district with thriving professional learning communities. Implementing high-performing PLCs can enhance educators' outlooks and dramatically improve learning for all students. With this user-friendly guide, your team will discover practical, research-based strategies for committing to districtwide PLC implementation, navigating challenges along the way, and ensuring sustainable practices are in place for far-reaching, lasting results....
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Discover how to guide and enhance the job performance of teachers in your school or district. The authors share highly practical strategies for providing teachers meaningful feedback and encouraging their improvement. You'll discover how to evaluate teacher effectiveness, use multiple forms of data for evaluation, and communicate evaluation findings to teachers in a way that fosters their professional growth.
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It's time to move our assessment practices from the 1950s to the century we're living in. It's time to invest in our teachers and local school leaders instead of in more tests. It's time to help all students understand how to unleash their strengths and gain a sense of themselves as learners capable of choosing their own paths to success. In The Perfect Assessment System, Rick Stiggins calls for the ground-up redevelopment of assessment in U.S. education....
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Encourage a culture of innovation and creativity. Innovation and creativity are imperative to educational success and require the contributions of teachers, students, administrators, and policymakers. Explore the four essentials for developing a creative, mistake-tolerant culture; investigate teaching and leadership beliefs and practices that undermine creativity; and discover strategies for successfully navigating challenges that your team may face...
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Formative assessment is one of the best ways to increase student learning and enhance teacher quality. But effective formative assessment is not part of most classrooms, largely because teachers misunderstand what it is and don't have the necessary skills to implement it.
In the updated 2nd edition of this practical guide for school leaders, authors Connie M. Moss and Susan M. Brookhart define formative assessment as an active, continual process in...
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This practitioner's guide to building quality collaborative relationships through critical conversations explores three co-teaching models and how co-teaching fits within school-improvement initiatives. In Critical Conversations in Co-Teaching, the authors describe four sets of proven protocols that foster dramatic improvements in the way educators communicate with their colleagues for the benefit of student learning. These protocols fit into three...
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Are you picking up all your students' work is trying to tell you? In this book, assessment expert Susan M. Brookhart and instructional coach Alice Oakley walk teachers through a better and more illuminating way to approach student work across grade levels and content areas. You'll learn to view students' assignments not as a verdict on right or wrong but as a window into what students "got" and how they are thinking about it. The insight you'll gain...
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Grading is one of the most hotly debated topics in education, and grading practices themselves are largely based on tradition, instinct, or personal history or philosophy. But to be effective, grading policies and practices must be based on trustworthy research evidence.
Enter this book: a review of 100-plus years of grading research that presents the broadest and most comprehensive summary of research on grading and reporting available to date, with...
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