Product Description
Learn how to promote teacher, student, and collective efficacy
Teachers are a school’s greatest resource. Excellent teachers make excellent schools. Leading Impact Teams taps into the scheduled team planning time every school already has, and repurposes it in a model that provides the processes needed to build teacher expertise and increase student learning. The model combines two existing practices, formative assessment and collaborative inquiry, and promotes a school culture in which teachers and students are partners in learning. Readers will learn how to:
- Build a culture of efficacy
- Take collective action
- Embed student-centered assessment in the classroom culture
- Clarify learning goals and criteria for success
- Leverage progressions of learning for “just right” instruction
- Utilize evidence-based feedback
- Maximize peer and self-assessment in classroom practice
Presented in an easy-to-read, practical format, this book will help teachers build upon their strengths to create conditions where innovation and creativity thrive and where students can develop the belief in their capacity to learn.
Key Features
(1) Guides teacher teams through a journey to maximum effectiveness that results in extraordinary gains in teacher learning and student achievement.
(2) Employs a powerful Evidence*Analysis*Action protocol designed to embed the formative assessment process deep into school culture.
(3) Assets-based: helps teachers focus on what each student can do in relation to learning progressions based on the CCSS or any state standards.
(4) Helps promote the growth of self-directed learners by creating conditions in which students can self-assess.
(5) Includes a variety of rubrics, surveys and tools to guide the work of impact teams.
(6) The framework can be used to monitor and inform the implementations of any school or district learning initiative.
