Achieving Equity and Excellence : Immediate Results from the Lessons of High-Poverty, High-Success Schools (a Strategy Guide to Equitable Classroom Practices and Results for High-Poverty Schools)

tech Discover how to close the knowing-doing gap and transform your school or district into a high-performing PLC. Written specifically for Canadian educators, this comprehensive action guide expands on new and significant PLC topics. Access Canadian-specific case studies, advice, and tips for hiring and retaining new staff, creating team-developed common formative assessments, implementing systematic interventions, and more. Use this resource to create an action plan for school improvement: Learn how to improve student achievement across Canada's unique and widely diverse provinces and territories, including indigenous and remote regions. Build a shared knowledge of critical vocabulary and the concepts underlying key PLC terms. Explore scenarios, examples, and research aligned to the needs of Canadian educators and schools in Canada. Make honest assessments of your school by examining conventional practices from a fresh, critical perspective. Take immediate and specific steps to close the knowing-doing gap. Follow the step-by-step format outlined in each chapter to advance your own school's PLC journey. Move beyond planning, and start doing. Contents: About the Authors Preface: Learning by Doing for the Canadian Context Introduction to the Third Edition Chapter 1: A Guide to Action for Professional Learning Communities at WorkTM Chapter 2: Defining a Clear and Compelling Purpose Chapter 3: Building the Collaborative Culture of a Professional Learning Community Chapter 4: Creating a Results Orientation in a Professional Learning Community Chapter 5: Creating a Focus on Learning Chapter 6: Creating Team-Developed Common Formative Assessments Chapter 7: Responding When Some Students Don't Learn Chapter 8: Hiring, Orienting, and Retaining New Staff Chapter 9: Resolving Conflict and Celebrating in a Professional Learning Community Chapter 10: Implementing the PLC Process Districtwide References and Resources Index nology, 21st century skills, digital citizenship, global citizenship, ISTE Standards for Students, project-based learning, PBL, multimedia, communication, collaboration, information literacy, critical thinking, problem solving, elementary education, teaching, teachers, pedagogy, elementary education, teachers, educators, national educational technology, NET standard, NETS Achieve high performance for all in your school. In Achieving Equity and Excellence, author Douglas Reeves outlines how to make dramatic improvements to student learning, behavior, and attendance in a single semester. Study the mindset of high-poverty, high-success schools and follow their example to implement the equitable and just practices necessary to make student success a sustainable reality. Use this resource to empower students, teachers, and administrators: Study the landmark research on the practices of high-performing, high-poverty schools, and discover updated research showing how these results can be applied. Discover what high-poverty schools do differently to achieve high performance, and learn how to implement these strategies in your classroom. Transform any school into an effective and productive school through learner-centered teaching. Learn the importance of action during the change process and why action must come before belief to implement equitable teaching practices. Explore effective accountability systems, the different levels of accountability, and how these systems should be implemented to meet the needs of diverse learners. Contents: Acknowledgments About the Author Introduction Part I: Discovering When to Trust Educational Research Chapter 1: Understand the Five Levels of Educational Research Chapter 2: Decide Which Research to Trust Part II: Understanding What Equity and Excellence Schools Do Differently Chapter 3: Organize Their School or District as a Professional Learning Community Chapter 4: Display a Laser-Like Focus on Student Achievement Chapter 5: Conduct Collaboration Scoring Chapter 6: Emphasize Nonfiction Writing Chapter 7: Utilize Frequent Formative Assessment With Multiple Opportunities for Success Chapter 8: Perform Constructive Data Analysis Chapter 9: Engage in Cross-Disciplinary Units of Instruction Part III: Applying the Research in Your Schools Chapter 10: Discover the Equity and Excellence Mindset Chapter 11: Change Behavior Before Belief Chapter 12: Transform Vision Into Action Through Teacher Leadership Chapter 13: Improve Coaching, Feedback, and Evaluation Part IV: Creating Accountability in an Equity and Excellence System Chapter 14: Establish Accountability as a Learning System Chapter 15: Enact System-Level Accountability Chapter 16: Enact School- and Department-Level Accountability Chapter 17: Explain the Story Behind the Numbers Epilogue: Giant Leaps, Not Baby Steps References and Resources Index "In Achieving Equity and Excellence: Immediate Results From the Lessons of High-Poverty, High-Success Schools, author Douglas Reeves provides a methodology for change based upon identifying, recording, and replicating positive results in the readers' schools and communities. Dr. Reeves notes the need for immediate results and programs that are proven to work within readers' communities, as well as the urgent desire that educators have to create a more just and equitable system for their students. As such, this book serves as a research-backed guide for readers who wish to see their students make dramatic improvements in school in a single semester. Readers will study the mindset of high-poverty, high-success schools and the research that this mindset is founded on. Then, they will see how this mindset translates into a methodology of action for change that is based primarily in daily decisions that the readers will make for the benefit of their students. Through this book, readers will not only realize that a more equitable and just system is possible in their school, but also learn the mindset and practices necessary to make these changes a reality"-- Provided by publisher Achieve high performance for all in your school. In "Achieving Equity and Excellence," author Douglas Reeves outlines how to make dramatic improvements to student learning, behavior, and attendance in a single semester. Study the mindset of high-poverty, high-success schools and follow their example to implement the equitable and just practices necessary to make student success a sustainable reality: (1) Study the landmark research on the practices of high-performing, high-poverty schools, and discover updated research showing how these results can be applied; (2) Discover what high-poverty schools do differently to achieve high performance, and learn how to implement these strategies in your classroom; (3) Transform any school into an effective and productive school through learner-centered teaching; (4) Learn the importance of action during the change process and why action must come before belief to implement equitable teaching practices; and (5) Explore effective accountability systems, the different levels of accountability, and how these systems should be implemented to meet the needs of diverse learners