15 12, 2021

How Principals Can Support Their Teachers in Monitoring Learning Recovery

2024-05-24T15:53:01+00:00

In this article you will learn…

  • Teachers need a reflective data analysis protocol, and it is a principal’s job, to ensure that they not only have it, but they also understand its value and how to fully utilize it.
  • There are two main things a principal must do to ensure their teachers recognize the value of a reflective data analysis protocol: set the context and provide ample time for reflection.
  • What setting the context and providing ample time looks like with teachers using a reflective data analysis protocol for the first time.
How Principals Can Support Their Teachers in Monitoring Learning Recovery2024-05-24T15:53:01+00:00
7 12, 2021

Why an Academic Climate Review Is the Tool You Need to Elevate Student Achievement

2024-07-22T16:46:47+00:00

In this article you will learn…

  • What an Academic Climate Review is and how it supports student ownership of learning.
  • How an Academic Climate Review is conducted, compiled, and reported.
  • How a school has utilized multiple years of Academic Climate Reviews to drive student achievement and stop learning loss caused by the pandemic.
Why an Academic Climate Review Is the Tool You Need to Elevate Student Achievement2024-07-22T16:46:47+00:00
1 12, 2021

The Benefit for Students when Teachers Collaborate

2023-08-22T21:53:36+00:00

In this article you will learn…

  • That when teachers engage in a collaborative experience that includes designing a lesson together, observing lesson delivery, and debriefing with affirming and constructive reflection, then insights are gained, skills are refined, and students benefit.
  • The purpose of collaborative planning and reflection is to support each teacher in designing a student-centered lesson, assessing the success of that lesson, and articulating their own decision-making before, during, and after the lesson.
  • Questions to drive collaborative planning and reflection. 
The Benefit for Students when Teachers Collaborate2023-08-22T21:53:36+00:00
16 11, 2021

How to Ensure Student Success with an Integrated Literacy Unit

2023-09-12T23:35:14+00:00

In this article you will learn…

  • It is critical that students have a clear roadmap for what they will be learning, how they will learn it, and how they will demonstrate their new learning. In an integrated literacy unit that roadmap is a standards-based writing prompt and scoring guide.
  • Students will be more confident when they understand what they are expected to produce—the prompt—and what high quality looks like—the scoring guide.
  • What makes an effective writing prompt, what makes an effective scoring guide, and the sequence of an integrated literacy unit.
How to Ensure Student Success with an Integrated Literacy Unit2023-09-12T23:35:14+00:00