Small Changes, Big Impact : Ten Strategies to Promote Student Efficacy and Lifelong Learning (a Pocket Guide to School Reform Through Research-Based Instructional Strategies)

Discover a pathway to improvement that is simple and field tested. Designed as a practical guide to school reform, this resource outlines a series of ten small-scale changes powerful enough to make a lasting impact in schools and districts. Within each chapter, you will find easy-to-implement strategies for strengthening culture, building relationships, and promoting student growth at every K-12 grade level. Use this resource to leverage student reflection and reperformance to ensure high levels of learning: Understand how to redefine student success as efficacy and ownership of learning. Gain research-based instructional strategies and teaching methods for creating student-centered mission statements that promote student success, self-reliance, and social-emotional learning (SEL). Explore how to use performance-based assessments as a process for learning. Examine the qualities of growth-based feedback to promote a future pathway for achievement. Obtain tools for developing dynamic reporting structures that communicate stories of learning and promote self-evaluation. Contents: Chapter 1: Redefine Student Success Chapter 2: Create Student-Centered Mission Statements Chapter 3: Organize the Curriculum Around Skills, Not Content Chapter 4: Develop Student-Centered Rubrics Chapter 5: Use Assessment as a Process for Learning Chapter 6: Implement a Generative Learning Model of Instruction Chapter 7: Provide Critical Growth-Based Feedback Chapter 8: Leverage Reflection and Reperformance Chapter 9: Use Evidence-Based Grading Practices Chapter 10: Establish Dynamic Reporting Structures "In Small Changes, Big Impact: Ten Strategies to Promote Student Efficacy and Lifelong Learning, authors Anthony R. Reibel and Matt Thede describe a series of 10 small scale changes that can be utilized to create significant, positive change within schools. The authors relate their visit to Adlai Stevenson High School and their subsequent realization that there were numerous changes that could be ported from SHS to their own school. They realized that these changes could be made within their own, much smaller, school for little cost. According to the authors, there are ten small-scale changes that can be implemented in any school to encourage positive growth. In this book, the authors describe each of these changes. They deftly explain the concepts and ideas that support the effectiveness of these changes and provide numerous actionable strategies that will aid in their implementation. Through this book, readers will learn how to make big improvements through small changes"-- Provided by publisher