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A Leader's Guide to Excellence in Every Classroom
To ensure learning for all students, schools must build support systems that guarantee excellence for all teachers. This resource examines the Hierarchy of Instructional Excellence, which prioritizes the order of teacher development for ultimate success. Each chapter begins with a teacher narrative and ends with a reflection tool, which challenges readers to apply chapter content to their work as education leaders.
Benefits
- Learn to ask the right questions to ensure success for all students.
- Study research that proves we need excellent teachers for students to experience significant growth in learning.
- Consult schoolwide, team, and individualized support systems and interventions, which strengthen teachers at every level of need and experience.
- Learn how the author’s Hierarchy of Instructional Excellence relates to Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in order to address specific areas for teacher improvement and growth.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Every Teacher Counts
Chapter 2: Leading for Excellence: Learning Resources
Chapter 3: Leading for Excellence: Classroom Routines and Procedures
Chapter 4: Leading for Excellence: Relationships for Learning
Chapter 5: Leading for Excellence: Student Engagement
Chapter 6: Leading for Excellence: Rigor and Mastery
Chapter 7: Leading for Excellence: Creative Strategies for Individual Students
Chapter 8: Leading for Excellence: Teacher Leadership
REPRODUCIBLES
Chapter 2
- Figure 2.2: Reflection Tool for Skillful Use of Learning Resources
- Figure 2.4: Team Norms for Learning Resources
- Figure 2.5: Problem Simplification Plan—Learning Resources
- Reflection Tool: Learning Resources
Chapter 3
- Figure 3.2: Team Norms for Student Behavior
- Figure 3.3: Problem Simplification Plan—Classroom Routines and Procedures
- Figure 3.4: Excellence Plan for Classroom Routines and Procedures
- Reflection Tool: Classroom Routines and Procedures
Chapter 4
- Figure 4.3: Problem Simplification Plan—Relationships for Learning
- Reflection Tool: Relationships for Learning
Chapter 5
- Figure 5.4: Student Engagement Lesson-Planning Template
- Figure 5.5: Reflection Tool for Schoolwide Systems to Support Student Engagement
- Figure 5.6: Problem Simplification Plan—Student Engagement
- Reflection Tool: Student Engagement
Chapter 6
- Figure 6.5: Vertical Standard Analysis
- Figure 6.8: Problem Simplification Plan—Rigor and Mastery
- Reflection Tool: Rigor and Mastery
Chapter 7
- Figure 7.7: Preventive Intervention—Preparing for Failure
- Figure 7.8: Problem Simplification Plan—Creative Strategies for Individual Students
- Reflection Tool: Creative Strategies for Individual Students
Chapter 8
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
Books
- Buffum, A., & Mattos, M. (Eds.). (2015). It’s About Time: Planning Interventions and Extensions in Elementary School. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Buffum, A., Mattos, M., & Weber, C. (2012). Simplifying Response to Intervention: Four Essential Guiding Principles. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Ferriter, W. M. (2015). Creating Purpose-Driven Learning Experiences. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Ferriter, W. M., Graham, P., & Wight, M. (2013). Making Teamwork Meaningful: Leading Progress-Driven Collaboration in a PLC. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Muhammad, A. (2009). Transforming School Culture. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
Websites
Chapter 2
- CHAMPs for Recess
- CHAMPs for the Cafeteria
- CHAMPs for the Hallway
- Explain Everything Interactive Whiteboard
- GES Curriculum Site and Resources
- GES Principal’s Page Blog
- GES Print Request Website
- GES Staff Blog
- How to Navigate the Blog
- iMovie
- Screencast-O-Matic
- Twitter, Laura Fleming
- Worlds of Learning
- YouTube
Chapter 4
Chapter 6
Chapter 8
- Cool Cat Teacher Blog
- Institute of International Education
- The Tempered Radical
- Twitter, Bill Ferriter
- Twitter, Vicki Davis
