Julia A. Simms

Usher in the new era of school reform. The authors help you transform your schools into organizations that take proactive steps to prevent failure and ensure student success. Using a research-based five-level hierarchy along with leading and lagging indicators, you'll learn to assess, monitor, and confirm the effectiveness of your schools. Each chapter includes what actions should be taken at each level.

Feel like there’s not enough time to teach all of the content in your standards documents? Our analysts have identified a focused set of Critical Concepts for each K–12 grade level.

For those just beginning to explore standards-referenced, mastery-based, and competency-based concepts and actions, this is an excellent way to build your knowledge base. For those already involved in deep implementation, this institute is the perfect opportunity to revisit your goals, focus your work, introduce new team members to the process, and get answers to new questions.

Through a series of questions, Dr. Robert J. Marzano and Julia A. Simms will guide you through a decision-making process for the implementation of competency-based practices in your school. Emphasizing a strong research foundation and Dr. Marzano’s 25 years of experience helping schools and districts implement competency-based practices and systems, this webinar will help you organize your vision, align your current initiatives, and chart your pathway forward.

Gain insight into a practical action research process to ensure that the strategies you choose lead to the desired outcomes you seek by joining author Julia A. Simms for an exclusive webinar delving into her synthesis of Dr. Robert J. Marzano’s 50 years of educational research, alongside recent findings from top-ranked educational research journals. Explore the eleven educational systems she identified, and learn how to leverage them in selecting high-probability strategies to tackle specific needs and challenges.