Small Changes, Big Impact: Ten Strategies to Promote Student Efficacy and Lifelong Learning (A pocket guide to school reform through research-based instructional strategies)

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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

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 str...

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