What is Learnership?
Learnership combines the words and meanings of the words “learner” and “ownership.” Together, they embody the elevation of learning to learner ownership. Someone who has true learnership is one who self-directs, self-evaluates, self-reflects, and self-controls their own learning. We are posting new articles every week so make it your routine to check-in frequently. Or, subscribe to The Learnership Review and receive monthly emails so you never miss a thing.
The Five Steps to Mastering a Skill
In this article you will learn...
- The benefits of proactive planning.
- The five stages of the Mastery Sequence.
- How to leverage the stages of the Mastery Sequence when planning and teaching to empower students to own their learning.
How Principals Can Support Their Teachers in Monitoring Learning Recovery
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.
Why an Academic Climate Review Is the Tool You Need to Elevate Student Achievement
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.
The Benefit for Students when Teachers Collaborate
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.
How to Ensure Student Success with an Integrated Literacy Unit
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 Build Integrated Literacy Units that Develop 21st Century Learners
In this article you will learn…
- That to be college and career ready, students need to be able to gather, comprehend, evaluate, synthesize, and report on information and ideas, to conduct original research in order to answer questions or solve problems, and to analyze and create a high volume and extensive range of print and nonprint texts in media forms old and new.
- It is incumbent on teachers to provide instruction that builds students’ receptive skills through reading and listening, their thinking skills through analyzing the information they are receiving, and their productive skills through writing and speaking about their thinking.
- The standards design supports teachers to integrate the standards into literacy units so students can:
- Access information by reading and researching a variety of sources.
- Analyze information by critiquing, clarifying, examining, and discussing it.
- Apply their new learning by communicating it to others through written and spoken language.
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