Mindframes--your internal set of beliefs about your role as school leader--determine the high-impact leadership practices you choose to implement. In other words, how you think about the impact of ...the actions you take has more effect on student achievement than your leadership practices themselves. Building on over twenty-five years of Visible Learning research and girded by a theory of action that ensures school leaders have the expertise to select, implement, and evaluate high impact interventions, "10 Mindframes for Leaders: The VISIBLE LEARNING® Approach to School Success" brings the mindframes of ten world-renowned educators to life. Ten chapters, each written by a different thought leader, detail a mindframe at the heart of successful school leadership, along with the high probability influences that make each mindframe visible. A must-have resource for any educator working toward student achievement at ever-higher levels, each chapter includes: (1) The most current, up-to-date findings from the Visible Learning research, including the factors from Visible Learning that support each mindframe; (2) Practical ideas for leaders to implement high-impact strategies in classrooms and schools; and (3) Vignettes, questions, insights, and exercises to help educators clarify and refine their own mindframes. Lead your school to reform from the inside out. Cultivate these ways of thinking, and you're more likely to have major impacts on the learning lives of those students entrusted to your care.
Explore a new and better approach to group work that fosters true collective learning, supports positive classroom culture, and enables continuous academic and social-emotional growth.
This book expertly illustrates the important process of authentic assessment and evaluation in the construction and dissemination of educational knowledge. One of the key strengths of this book is ...the diversity of contexts in which the various aspects of assessment are evidenced and discussed.
This open access book presents original contributions and thought leadership on academic integrity from a variety of Canadian scholars. It showcases how our understanding and support for academic ...integrity have progressed, while pointing out areas urgently requiring more attention. Firmly grounded in the scholarly literature globally, it engages with the experience of local practicioners. It presents aspects of academic integrity that is specific to Canada, such as the existence of an "honour culture", rather than relying on an "honour code". It also includes Indigenous voices and perspectives that challenge traditional understandings of intellectual property, as well as new understandings that have arisen as a consequence of Covid-19 and the significant shift to online and remote learning. This book will be of interest to senior university and college administrators who are interested in ensuring the integrity of their institutions. It will also be of interest to those implementing university and college policy, as well as those who support students in their scholarly work.
Rather than more programs, strategies, assessments, and meetings, teachers need more clarity, which emerges when we prioritize our efforts to do less with greater focus.
Young people in America are facing a health crisis of epidemic proportions--yet no one is taking action. Children are born as active, curious, imaginative beings with a built-in physical identity. ..."Survival of the Fit" offers a new and revelatory plan to nurture this identity and save the health of America's youngsters. One of the keys to this plan is rebranding physical education (PE) and making it available for every child, every day, in every year of school. In addition to establishing historical references and a scientific basis for this rebranding, the author provides a downloadable template for PE classes at all school levels. He lays out a blueprint to help educators and parents bring this "PE revolution" to their school with no increase in the school budget. Sounding the alarm regarding America's health crisis, "Survival of the Fit" explains how we can use existing tools, knowledge, and infrastructure to make needed changes with immediate results for every student, not just a privileged few. Everyone interested in seeing improvements in the physical, mental, and emotional health of our children will want to put this book to use.
"The Internal Coherence Framework" presents a system of research-based practices for assessing and developing the conditions that support adult and student learning in schools. Internal coherence is ...defined as the ability of educators in a school or system to connect and align resources to carry out an improvement strategy, engage in collective learning, and use that learning to provide students with richer educational opportunities. The internal coherence framework featured in the book brings together three important domains of research: leadership for learning, organizational improvement, and instructional efficacy. School or system leaders who progress through this book with colleagues will develop a shared vision for ambitious teaching and learning anchored in the instructional core; organize the work of the leadership and teacher teams to advance this vision; and build psychologically safe team, school, and system cultures to support the risk taking and constructive challenges necessary to move schools or systems to the next level of performance. At the heart of the book is a survey and rubric that can help schools better understand their strengths and weaknesses and the kinds of resources they need to support student learning. The book blends theory and practice to bring tested wisdom to bear on critical issues of education leadership and professional learning. The following are appended: (1) Annotated Internal Coherence Survey; and (2) Protocols and Readings by Chapter. Foreword by Richard F. Elmore.
In "Absent from School," Gottfried and Hutt offer a comprehensive and timely resource for educators and policy makers seeking to understand the scope, impact, and causes of chronic student ...absenteeism. The editors present a series of studies by leading researchers from a variety of disciplines that address which students are missing school and why, what roles schools themselves play in contributing to or offsetting patterns of absenteeism, and ways to assess student attendance for purposes of school accountability. The contributors examine school-based initiatives that focus on a range of issues, including transportation, student health, discipline policies, and protections for immigrant students, as well as interventions intended to improve student attendance. Only in the past two or three years has chronic absenteeism become the focus of attention among policy makers, civil rights advocates, and educators. "Absent from School" provides the first critical, systematic look at research that can inform and guide those who are working to ensure that every child is in school and learning every day. Chapters include: (1) Roll Call: Describing Chronically Absent Students, the Schools They Attend, and Implications for Accountability (Heather Hough); (2) Variation in Chronic Absenteeism: The Role of Children, Classrooms, and Schools (Kevin A. Gee); (3) Attending to Attendance: Why Data Quality and Modeling Assumptions Matter When Using Attendance as an Outcome (Shaun M. Dougherty and Joshua Childs); (4) The Distributional Impacts of Student Absences on Academic Achievement (Seth Gershenson, Jessica Rae McBean, and Long Tran); (5) Reinforcing Student Attendance: Shifting Mind-Sets and Implementing Data-Driven Improvement Strategies During School Transitions (Stacy B. Ehrlich and David W. Johnson); (6) Schools as Sanctuaries? Examining the Relationship Between Immigration Enforcement and Absenteeism Rates for Immigrant-Origin Children (Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj and Jacob Kirksey); (7) Can School Buses Drive Down (Chronic) Absenteeism? (Sarah A. Cordes, Michele Leardo, Christopher Rick, and Amy Ellen Schwartz); (8) The Ills of Absenteeism: Can School-Based Health Centers Provide the Cure? (Jennifer Graves, Sarit Weisburd, and Christopher Salem); (9) Tackling Truancy: Findings from a State-Level Policy Banning Suspensions for Truancy (Kaitlin Anderson, Anna J. Egalite, and Jonathan N. Mills); (10) Ready . . . Set . . . Text! Reducing School Absenteeism Through Parent-School Two-Way Text Messaging (Ken Smythe-Leistico and Lindsay C. Page); (11) Keeping Families Front and Center: Leveraging Our Best Ally for Ninth-Grade Attendance (Martha Abele Mac Iver and Steven B. Sheldon); (12) Intervention Design Choices and Evaluation Lessons from Multisite Field Trials on Reducing Absenteeism (Rekha Balu); and (13) Conclusion (Ethan L. Hutt and Michael A. Gottfried). Foreword by Elaine Allensworth and Robert Balfanz. Afterword by Todd Rodgers and Johannes Demarzi.
What if there was one strategy you could use to support students academically, socially, and emotionally? It exists--and it's simple, straightforward, and practical. In this results-focused resource, ...the authors dive deep into the what and how of structured SELf-questioning. Begin using this powerful academic and socioemotional approach in your own classroom to develop students into thriving thinkers who are confident, healthy, adaptive, and resilient. This book helps the reader: (1) Grasp the severity of the stress and anxiety teachers and students face in schools and how metacognitive SELf-questioning can reduce both; (2) Learn to implement effective SELf-questioning into instruction to foster social-emotional learning (SEL); (3) Review scenarios that depict use of the SELf-questioning strategy in every content area and grade level; (4) Gain insight into how advanced SELf-questioning can achieve transfer of learning in the classroom to any academic or social context; and (5) Autonomously customize and create your own SELf-question sets and apply them to any situation within or outside of school. Foreword written by Maurice J. Elias.
Even high-performing students sometimes need assistance to transform their high school achievement into a higher education outcome that matches their potential, especially when those students come ...from vulnerable backgrounds. Without intervention, many of these students, lost in the transition between secondary school and higher education, would not attend selective colleges that provide greater opportunities. Potential on the Periphery profiles the Simmons Memorial Foundation (SMF), a grassroots non-profit organization co-founded by author Omari Scott Simmons, that promotes college access for students in North Carolina and Delaware. Simmons discusses how the organization has helped students secure admission and succeed in college, using this example to contextualize the broader realm of existing education practice, academic theory, and public policy. Using data gleaned from interviews with past student participants in the programs run by the SMF, Simmons illuminates the underlying factors thwarting student achievement, such as inadequate information about college options, limited opportunities for social capital acquisition, financial pressures, self-doubt, and political weakness. Simmons then identifies policy solutions and pragmatic strategies that college access organizations can adopt to address these factors. 
