Unleash the power of curiosity and the joy of learning! Curiosity is hardwired in all of us, but the longer students stay in school, the less curious they become.&nbsp; Why is that? Grounded in research, this engaging book uncovers the ways in which formal education seems to hinder our natural curiosity and shows educators how to intentionally cultivate inquisitiveness and wonder in schools. It includes&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; ·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Activities, ideas, and tips to encourage curiosity ·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Compelling examples of curiosity at work in schools, businesses, and communities ·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Tools for supporting curiosity in ways that spark meaningful conversations and promote empathy, equity, and social-emotional learning

Building a Curious School: Restore the Joy That Brought You to School

Education & Teaching

Goodwin, Bryan

Schools & Teaching

Corwin

We already know what works in schools; we just need to focus on getting it right. This is the premise of Simply Better: Doing What Matters Most to Change the Odds for Student Success, which offers a practical, research-based framework for improving student achievement. According to author Bryan Goodwin, decades of research have shown time and again that focusing on the following five essential practices can vastly increase students' chances of doing well in school: * Guaranteeing that instruction is challenging, engaging, and intentional * Ensuring curricular pathways to success * Providing whole-child student supports * Creating high-performance school cultures * Developing data-driven, high-reliability district systems Whether at the district-, school-, or classroom-level, educators don't need to reinvent the wheel or pursue the latest trends to ensure that students succeed. This powerful book reveals what research clearly shows works best in schools, and provides a valuable blueprint for turning that knowledge into visible results.

Simply Better: Doing What Matters Most to Change the Odds for Student Success

ASCD

Checklists help us work better. They help us manage complex tasks more effectively and ensure we apply what we know correctly and consistently. They've become indispensable for airline pilots and doctors, but can this low-tech approach to planning and problem solving demand a place in the teacher's toolkit? Teaching is complicated, with challenging decisions and important consequences, but it's in the most complex situations that a straightforward checklist can be the most useful. Goodwin and Hubbell present 12 daily touchstones simple and specific things any teacher can do every day to keep classroom practice focused on the hallmarks of effective instruction and in line with three essential imperatives for teaching: * Be demanding: Align teaching with high expectations for learning. * Be supportive: Provide a nurturing learning environment. * Be intentional: Know why you're doing what you're doing. If there were one thing you could do each day to help one student succeed, you'd do it, wouldn t you? What about three things to help three students? What if there were 12 things you could do every day to help all of your students succeed? There are, and you'll find them here.

The 12 Touchstones of Good Teaching: A Checklist for Staying Focused Every Day

Hubbell, Elizabeth Ross

Self-Help

What makes a great school leader? Contrary to what many believe, the answer is not tied to a certain kind of personality but to specific behaviors and actions that have positive effects on student achievement behaviors and actions that any school leader can learn and put into practice. Over the last decade, thousands of school principals have done that, by implementing balanced leadership, an approach that recognizes the need to both maintain and challenge the status quo in order to move schools forward. Building on the analysis that was first reported in School Leadership That Works, the authors of Balanced Leadership identify the 21 responsibilities associated with effective leadership and show how they relate to three overarching responsibilities: * Establishing a clear focus keeping the work and the conversations targeted on the issues that matter most; * Managing change understanding how to skillfully steer through the challenges associated with making improvements, both large and small; and * Developing a purposeful community creating a sense among all teachers and staff that they are invested in student outcomes and that they can make a difference. For each of these areas, key points and specific practices are described in detail and illustrated with stories from school principals who have successfully learned how to become great leaders. Step-by-step tools provide clear guidance for readers who are ready to make the same kind of journey one with the potential to transform them and the schools they serve.

Balanced Leadership for Powerful Learning

Cameron, Greg

Hein, Heather

Good ideas, the best intentions, and a stirring vision aren't enough to effect change in schools. Unstuck offers a road map to help schools change from the inside out instead of the top down. Inside-out approaches are designed to encourage schools to become more innovative and entrepreneurial, finding better ways to help students learn and pursue their own intellectual passions and talents while also maintaining a healthy skepticism and reliance on data to make sure new approaches and ideas are working. This process involves seven steps: starting with moral purpose, unleashing curiosity, building on bright spots, peer coaching toward precision, leading from the inside out, and moving the goal posts. This book's tips, real-life examples, and next steps will help leaders get from where they are now to where they want to be.

Unstuck: How Curiosity, Peer Coaching, and Teaming Can Change Your School

Gibson, Tonia

Lewis, Dale

Rouleau, Kris

In far too many classrooms, the emphasis is on instructional strategies that teachers employ rather than on what students should be doing or thinking about as part of their learning. What's more, students' minds are something of a mysterious "black box" for most teachers, so when learning breaks down, they're not sure what went wrong or what to do differently to help students learn.It doesn't have to be this way.Learning That Sticks helps you look inside that black box. Bryan Goodwin and his coauthors unpack the cognitive science underlying research-supported learning strategies so you can sequence them into experiences that challenge, inspire, and engage your students. As a result, you'll learn to teach with more intentionality-understanding not just what to do but also when and why to do it.By way of an easy-to-use six-phase model of learning, this book* Analyzes how the brain reacts to, stores, and retrieves new information.* Helps you "zoom out" to understand the process of learning from beginning to end.* Helps you "zoom in" to see what's going on in students' minds during each phase.Learning may be complicated, but learning about learning doesn't have to be. And to that end, Learning That Sticks helps shine a light into all the black boxes in your classroom and make your practice the most powerful it can be.

Learning That Sticks: A Brain-Based Model for K-12 Instructional Design and Delivery

Science & Math

Rouleau, Kristin

Behavioral Sciences

The science of learning can give some rich insights into how teachers can design and deliver lessons that accelerate and deepen student learning. In this quick reference guide, Bryan Goodwin and Tonia Gibson use three tools to explain their six-phase model:* Insights from brain science* Implications for the classroom* Tips to help students engage in deep learningUsing Brain Science to Make Learning Stick provides classroom activities that are based in scientific research to help K-12 teachers plan learning experiences that mirror how students turn new information into memory and to make the entire process of learning more effective, engaging, and rewarding for all.8.5" x 11" 3-panel foldout guide (6 pages), laminated for extra durability and 3-hole-punched for binder storage.

Using Brain Science to Make Learning Stick (Quick Reference Guide)

The book that inspired millions of educators to refine their approach to teaching returns for an all-new third edition. Built on a more rigorous research base and updated to emphasize student diversity, equity, and inclusion, The New Classroom Instruction That Works offers a streamlined focus on the 14 instructional strategies proven to promote deep, meaningful, and lasting learning: * Cognitive interest cues * Student goal setting and monitoring * Vocabulary instruction * Strategy instruction and modeling * Visualizations and concrete examples * High-level questions and student explanations * Guided initial application with formative feedback *Peer-assisted consolidation of learning * Retrieval practice * Spaced and mixed independent practice * Targeted support * Cognitive writing * Guided investigations * Structured problem solvingThese strategies--all of which are effective and complementary--are presented within a framework geared toward instructional planning and aligned with how the brain learns. For each strategy, you'll get the key research findings, the important principles of classroom practice, and recommended approaches for using the strategy with today's learners.Both new and veteran teachers will finish this book with a better understanding of how effective teaching boosts student achievement and a clearer idea of what to do, when to do it, and why.

The New Classroom Instruction That Works: The Best Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement

Abla, Cheryl

Baptiste, Karen

Kimball, Michele

Learn the what, why, and how of 14 learning strategies that can dramatically improve student performance and close achievement gaps. Learning experts Bryan Goodwin and Kristin Rouleau have compiled data from decades of research in neuroscience, diverse classrooms, and teachers working directly in the classroom to find the common denominators in the most successful learning methods for students today. 
Research-Based Instructional Strategies That Work distills some key pieces of the book The New Classroom Instruction That Works, walking you through each strategy and describing how the strategies can help students 
* Become interested in learning. 
* Commit to learning. 
* Focus on new learning. 
* Make sense of learning. 
* Practice and reflect on learning. 
* Extend and apply their knowledge. 
You'll have at your fingertips a concise guide to the research supporting each instructional strategy and, most important, tips on how to easily apply those strategies in the classroom. Let this guide help you better support every student's path to learning with intentionality, care, and positive results. 
8.5" x 11" 3-panel foldout guide (6 pages), laminated for extra durability and 3-hole-punched for binder storage. This quick reference guide is a copublication of ASCD and McREL International.

Research-Based Instructional Strategies That Work (Quick Reference Guide)

The Future of Schooling: Educating America in 2020

Although much about the future is uncertain, trends reveal patterns of behavior that help to resolve some of that uncertainty. McREL has thoroughly researched and tracked these trends to provide readers with a glimpse into the future world of education. The Future of Schooling presents four scenarios of education in 2020. Scenarios are carefully researched stories, full of detail about current and emerging trends that adds credibility and brings forth new understandings. Scenarios are not predictions of the future. They are plausible representations of what could happen. McREL has researched not only those factors that relate specifically to education but also the political environment, the economy, security issues, technological innovations, and social values all of which will impact and contribute to the unfolding of the future of education. The scenarios in The Future of Schooling were built upon questions such as:  - What if the current, multibillion-dollar federal investment in education succeeds in identifying and scaling up numerous innovations that transform schooling as we know it? - What if, on the other hand, investing billions of new dollars fails to create dramatic improvements in education? Will the public continue to support public schools as we know them? - What if online learning becomes as commonplace in the schools of tomorrow as chalkboards were in the schools of yesterday? - What if technology allows students to proceed at their own pace along individualized pathways, measuring their progress in real time at each step of the way? - What if the world s best teachers are able to broadcast their lessons to thousands of students each day?  By analyzing their content and discussing their implications, the scenarios offered in The Future of Schooling can help educators identify the actions they should take today to maximize their chances of success tomorrow.

Politics & Social Sciences

Hubbell, Elizabeth

Lefkowits, Laura

Woempner, Carolyn

Social Sciences

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