In Effective Supervision, Robert J. Marzano, Tony Frontier, and David Livingston show school and district-level administrators how to set the priorities and support the practices that will help all teachers become expert teachers. Their five-part framework is based on what research tells us about how expertise develops.

Effective Supervision: Supporting the Art and Science of Teaching

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Marzano, Robert J.

Frontier, Tony

Livingston, David

English as a Second Language

ASCD

Why have decades of school reform had so little measurable effect on student achievement? Why have billions of dollars spent on technology, small-school initiatives, and school-choice options failed to improve our schools? Too often, educators are simply pulling the wrong levers, say Tony Frontier and James Rickabaugh. They explain that the various components of schooling fall into five categories: structure, sample, standards, strategy, and self. Understanding how these five levers work-- and their relative power--can help unlock the potential for lasting improvements in teaching and learning. The authors show readers that changes to structure and sample (how schools are organized and how students are grouped) will not be effective without changes to standards (expectations for student learning), strategy (instructional strategies to engage students in meaningful learning), and self (the set of beliefs teachers and students have about their capacity to be effective). At the heart of this book is a simple message for teachers, administrators, board members, and education policymakers at all levels: the key to success is not doing more work and making more changes, but doing the right work, and making the right changes.

Five Levers to Improve Learning: How to Prioritize for Powerful Results in Your School

Education & Teaching

Rickabaugh, James

Schools & Teaching

In too many districts, evaluation of teachers ensures competence but does little or nothing to encourage and support expertise. In this thought-provoking and groundbreaking book, Tony Frontier and Paul Mielke address this issue head-on, combining the conceptual and the practical by offering a compelling vision of teacher growth, along with nearly three dozen step-by-step protocols for working with teachers. They present a powerful rationale for reconceptualizing teacher evaluation by creating a balanced system of three equally important components: 
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Reliable and valid evaluation.</li>
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Empoweringand focused supervision.</li>
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Meaningful and purposeful reflection.</li>
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Each component is discussed in terms of its purpose, premise, processes, practices, and payoffs. Revealing examples based on the authors' experiences in classrooms across the country show what evaluation, supervision, and reflection look like when they're not done well—and what they could look like if done more effectively.
Providing insight and inspiration, Making Teachers Better, Not Bitter paves a clear path to better teaching and helps you acknowledge and support the hard work that teachers do every day to make learning come alive for their students.

Making Teachers Better, Not Bitter: Balancing Evaluation, Supervision, and Reflection for Professional Growth

Mielke, Paul

"Schools need to stop adding programs, strategies, activities, resources, projects, assessments, and meetings. Teachers need more clarity, which emerges when we prioritize our efforts to do less with greater focus. The enemy of focus is clutter, which is anything that inhibits our ability to help students prioritize their strategic efforts to learn"--

Teaching with Clarity: How to Prioritize and Do Less So Students Understand More

Science & Math

Behavioral Sciences

Increase student engagement and decrease dropouts. Student engagement is a defining factor for student success. However, a lack of consensus on the definition of "engagement" makes this difficult. But it can be made easier with a common engagement literacy – a simple understanding of how to maximize engagement in any school. This book offers the first comprehensive system for defining engagement and optimizing it in any student cohort. Content includes: <ul>
<li>How to optimize teacher feedback methods for maximum engagement</li> <li>The power of mindset (for both educators and students). </li> <li>Key vocabulary terms for furthering the engagement process.</li> </ul>

The Clarity Series: Creating Passionate Learners: Engaging Today′s Students for Tomorrow′s World

Brown, Kim M.

Viegut, Donald J.

Corwin

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