Resources

The key to successful school improvement is to establish and sustain systems focused on “the right work.” The High Reliability Schools (HRS) model provides a systemic approach for strategic planning and sustained school improvement within five different levels of operation.

Building and district leaders must be well versed in standards-referenced grading and all that it entails. This is no small change. It is a lot like parenting—exciting, challenging, trying, rewarding, frustrating, and extremely gratifying. It is the most transformational change upon which leaders may ever embark. This webinar discusses what leaders need to consider to lead the myriad of calculated processes and products that serve as the foundation for solid execution.

Learn how to ask sequences of questions that enhance students’ reasoning during this informative webinar with Robert J. Marzano and Julia A. Simms.

Join Jan K. Hoegh to learn key instructional strategies that meet the rigor of the standards and can lead to higher levels of student achievement.

Author Jeff Flygare hosts this webinar, based on the book he coauthored, to share practical advice for adjusting to teaching, assessing, and grading in a standards-based classroom. Following a brief overview of why the change to standards-based helps both student and teacher, the presenter will identify the key adjustments teachers face as they work with standards.

This webinar will overview multiple approaches to developing high-quality proficiency scales, as well as primary uses of proficiency scales in the classroom

Teachers should endeavor to be experts on the subject of assessment protocol. In order to make reliable decisions about student achievement, assessments must be of high quality. In addition, improved teacher expertise in terms of assessment practice can have a significant impact on student achievement—up to a 34-percentile gain. This webinar will focus on presenting a new and innovative view regarding classroom assessments.

What are the rules? How do we work together to make the school run optimally? This webinar will take a deep dive into Level 1 to help set educators on the path to high reliability.

Standards-based grading is a revolution of existing curriculum, assessment, and reporting practices that, for leaders, are the most transformational initiative they lead. This webinar introduces school leaders to formative assessments and methods of practical implementation of an effective standards-based grading system.

The New Art and Science of Teaching is an instructional framework that comprehensively addresses the well-researched components teachers use to make the most alterable effect on student achievement. In this webinar, Mario Acosta will overview the new framework and highlight some of the design questions and corresponding elements.