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Small Shifts, Meaningful Improvement
Meaningful improvement in schools and districts is just small shifts away. How can administrators and teachers work together in ways that lead to significant—and sustained—improvement over time? How can schools accomplish this goal without adding to the work of overstretched educators? This practical guide answers these questions with recommendations for small, practical, powerful shifts that educators can make to their daily practice.
In Small Shifts, Meaningful Improvement, P. Ann Byrd, Alesha Daughtrey, Jonathan Eckert, and Lori Nazareno define collective leadership, a set of practices through which teachers and administrators work together to improve teaching, learning, and innovation. They explore the seven conditions of collective leadership and their corresponding shifts that, when effectively implemented, make a difference:
* Adapting, not adopting, a shared vision and strategy
* Building co-ownership, not buy-in, through supportive administration,
* Mindfully aligning resources and capacity,
* Developing supportive social norms and working relationships to build culture and continuity,
* Growing shared influence authentically and organically,
* Creating an orientation toward improvement, and
* Structuring an intentional work design to support sustainability.
The authors share stories of real schools and districts that have implemented the shifts and provide useful tools that educators can use as they begin their own efforts. Both informative and inspiring, Small Shifts, Meaningful Improvement supports leadership work that will advance how administrators and teachers collaborate, learn together, generate solutions to longstanding challenges, and make those solutions stick over time.
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Developing Digital Literacies
Turn teachers—and students—into tech-savvy digital citizens!Digital literacies are essential for managing information and communication in our rapidly changing world—but the old scattered approaches to introducing technology have left many teachers playing catch-up with their students. With this authentic, job-embedded professional development program, you'll help K–12 teachers incorporate digital literacies into their classrooms once and for all.Using a modular, highly adaptable framework that capitalizes on the personnel and resources you already have available, this comprehensive program includes:Instructions on developing personal learning networks (PLN) for collaborative learning and applying digital literacies in the classroom; Tips for maximizing teacher motivation and buy-in; Technology-related supports to enable schoolwide curriculum integration; A companion website with electronic planning and implementation materials, sample instructional tools, and links to supporting resourcesWhen you empower teachers to harness existing technologies and digital resources, they'll build upon their teaching expertise—and change the way students learn.“Summey presents a well-crafted, technology professional development model that is sound in practice, adaptable, and can be easily implemented at the local level. And, as an added bonus, he includes a new digital literacies framework that surrounds the professional development structure and is a stellar model for framing the teaching and learning of the important 21st century skill-set for both educators and students!”—Kathy Schrock, Educational Technologist
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Singletons in a PLC at Work
In a professional learning community, isolation is the enemy of school improvement. But what does collaboration among teachers look like when you can't easily identify with a team? This book will help singleton teachers first develop clarity on learning essentials, then find creative entry points to form collaborative teams. Drawing from their own experiences, the authors offer practical solutions for eliminating the practice of isolation for all educators.
Collaborative teams will:
* Understand what meaningful collaboration is and how singletons can utilize the PLC process
* Build the groundwork for meaningful collaboration using strategies for your specific situation
* Implement meaningful collaboration as a singleton across separate schools or within the same school
* Align disparate singletons under the same unifying PLC process
Contents:
Chapter 1: Meaningful Collaboration
Chapter 2: Singleton On-Ramps for Collaboration
Chapter 3: Preparation for Meaningful Collaboration
Chapter 4: Course-Alike Entry Point—The Virtual Team
Chapter 5: Common-Content Entry Point
Chapter 6: Critical-Friend Entry Point
Chapter 7: Putting It All Together
Afterword: Final Thoughts
References and Resources
Index
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Community Connections and Your PLC at Work
In a PLC, every student, teacher, staff member, parent, and family member is vital to the success of the school. With an emphasis on transparency, mutual trust, and clarity of purpose, this resource provides a road map to growing community engagement and involvement. Learn step by step how to establish deep-rooted relationships that lead to the lasting betterment of your school or district.
Use this resource to make students and families feel welcome, included, and valued.
* Gain insight into the importance of parent and family engagement with schools as part of students' success.
* Learn key concepts of the professional learning community (PLC) process and how they apply to fostering school engagement with families and other community stakeholders.
* Gain strategies to encourage community involvement in goal setting within schools.
* Understand how to overcome the barriers of economically disadvantaged families and communities traditionally underserved by schools.
* Acquire best practices for involving stakeholders in a collaborative process of learning and growth.
Contents:
Introduction: Bringing in Parents, Families, and the Community
Chapter 1: Setting the Stage
Chapter 2: Creating a Family-Engagement Guiding Coalition
Chapter 3: Articulating a Family-Focused Mission and Vision
Chapter 4: Achieving a Customer-Centric Culture
Chapter 5: Creating a Focus on Learning for Families
Chapter 6: Focusing on Collaboration With Families
Chapter 7: Focusing on Results With Families
Epilogue
Appendix: Additional Resources and Materials
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Unpacking the Competency-Based Classroom
When implemented effectively, competency-based education (CBE) promotes high levels of learning for every student. Further, the practices and structures of a professional learning community (PLC) support this work. Explore a variety of perspectives and examples from educators who have shifted to CBE with great results. The book details how to do the work by reevaluating and revamping traditional policies, structures, and procedures, including assessment and instruction practices.
Individualized learning educators will:
* Discover how to make the transition to competency-based education to promote learning for all students.
* Learn the role PLC practices and structures play in establishing competency-based classrooms and schools.
* Study real-world experiences and insights from educators from various schools and districts that have transitioned to competency-based systems.
* Reflect with end-of-chapter questions to enhance their understanding of the material.
* Receive reproducible templates they can easily use and adapt to fit their needs.
Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Seven Principles for Competency-Based Learning in the Classroom
Chapter 2: PLC, Collaborative Teaming, and Competency-Based Learning
Chapter 3: Competencies, Essential Standards, and Learning Targets
Chapter 4: Meaningful, Balanced Assessment
Chapter 5: Structures and Systems to Support Classroom Instruction
Chapter 6: Structures for Feedback
Chapter 7: The Design Rubric
Epilogue
Appendix
References and Resources
Index
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