Standards provide learning targets for students and the result of assessments help make data-driven instructional decisions. In this anthology education experts address the following topics in the context of impacting student learning • performance assessments • frequent assessments in mathematics • connecting science standards and assessments • common formative assessments for English language learners • standards and assessments contexts and applications • assessments for literacy learning • disciplinary literacy and deep understanding • effective grading practices • assessing the 21st century learner.

Standards and Assessment: The Core of Qualtiy Instruction

Education & Teaching

Almeida, Lisa

Doubek, Brandon

Schools & Teaching

Lead And Learn Press

Coaching is a powerful method for developing leaders and organizations. Leadership Performance Coaching introduces administrators and teachers to the power of coaching and to what it takes to create an organization that supports coaching. Leadership Performance Coaching includes the following topics: • the coaching conversation • tools coaches use • listening and deepening understanding • asking mediating questions • methods for setting-up coaching projects • coaching relationships • guidance for leaders called to coaching.

Leadership Performance Coaching

Allison, Elle

Taking into account the challenges and demands being made on school leaders now, the authors offer personal success stories, compelling research, and interesting comparisons to empower the teacher or administrator to embrace change and successfully lead change in their organizations. In three main sections the authors focus on developing people, implementing a few but effective practices and consistently monitoring processes that will lead to the desired results of change leaders.

ACTIVATE: A Leader's Guide to People, Practices, and Processes

HATTIE, JOHN

Reeves, Douglas

Performance assessment is a form of testing that requires students to perform a task rather than select an answer from a ready-made list, e.g., a student may be asked to explain historical events, generate scientific hypotheses, or solve math problems. Engaging Students Through Performance Assessment is a "how-to" for teachers create performance assessments, score performance assessments, and use performance assessments to improve student instruction

Engaging Students Through Performance Assessment: Creating Performance Tasks to Monitor Student Learning

Flach, Tracey

Common Core State Standards (CCSS) bring state curricula into alignment with each other by following the principles of standards-based education reform. The big idea behind CCSS is to, "provide a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn, so teachers and parents know what they need to do to help them." Navigating Implementation of the Common Core State Standards, the first of a four book series, provides background on CCSS and helps create a plan to implement the standards

Navigating Implementation of the Common Core State Standards: Getting Ready for the Common Core Handbook Series

Reeves, Douglas, B.

Wiggs, Maryann D.

Most states have adopted the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) as the basis for evaluating their students. This handbook will help teachers and administrators sort through the English Language Arts standards and focus on the key components of the CCSS. This is the second of a four-book series that started with Navigating Implementation of CCSS. The third handbook is Navigating Mathematics CCSS and the fourth is Navigating Assessment and Collaboration with the CCSS.

Navigating the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards: Navigating Implementation of the Common Core State Standards (Getting Ready for the Common Core Handbook Series)

Peery EdD national consultant and author, Angela

Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for mathematics are rigorous. Now that most states have accepted the CCSS, they need to first understand the CCSS and then design a way to implement the CCSS in mathematics. This third title in series discusses the rigor of the standards; reviews learning progressions; defines practice standards, and focuses on developing mathematical problems to create higher math development. Volume one is Navigating Implementation, volume two is English Language Arts and volume four is Assessment and Collaboration.

Navigating the Mathematics Common Core State Standards: Getting Ready for the Common Core Handbook Series

Science & Math

Christinson, Jan

Mathematics

Navigating Assessment and Collaboration with the Common Core State Standards is the final volume in the Getting Ready for the Common Core Handbook Series. It focuses on strategies to ensure the preparedness of students for large-scale assessments of the new Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Included: practical instructions for developing common formative assessment processes, implementing the technique of "unwrapping" the CCSS, and aligning Professional Learning Communities and Data Team practices with the CCSS.

Navigating Assessment and Collaboration with the Common Core State Standards (Getting Ready for the Common Core Handbook Series)

Ainsworth, Larry

Briggs, Derek

Besser, Laura

The consensus among educators nationwide is that in-depth instruction paired with focused assessment of essential concepts and skills are far more effective than superficially covering every concept and skill in the standards. Educators are faced with the task of teaching all standards while meeting the extraordinary range of student learning needs. Prioritizing the Common Core offers common sense solutions to the dilemmas teachers face today in implementing the new, more rigorous national standards. Chapters present a rationale for prioritizing the Common Core, a step-by-step process for prioritizing standards in language arts and mathematics, strategies for soliciting feedback and input from everyone in the district or school prior to the final determination of the Priority Standards, and detailed summaries of the process schools in six different districts used to identify their Priority Standards, with accompanying commentary by those who directed the work.

Prioritizing the Common Core: Identifying Specific Standards to Emphasize the Most

Artful questioning may be the most powerful tool a teacher has in her instructional toolkit to manage the class, engage students with the subject matter, encourage dialogue, and deepen understanding. Educators are encouraged to break the pattern of low-level daily procedural questioning and instead focus powerful questions that increase student engagement and insure their mastery of content and skills. Powerful questioning may engender deep, diverse, creative, and metacognitive thinking. The authors, all with extensive teaching experience, describe powerful questioning in English Language Arts, Mathematics, History and Social Studies, and Science through both exposition and narration and using vignettes of teacher practice. Their focus is on those moments when teachers and students are engaged in classroom questioning tasks that involve face-to-face interactions and oral discourse, which comprise the great majority of time spent in schools.

Ask, Don't Tell: Powerful Questioning in the Classroom

Patrick, Polly

Moore, Deb

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