Culture Champions

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1: Responding to Peers Who Have Lost Their Way
Chapter 2: Empowering Believers to Speak Up—The Fundamentalist Playbook
Chapter 3: Doing Is Learning—The Power of Project-Based Learning
Chapter 4: Making the Shift From Classroom Management to Classroom Leadership
Chapter 5: Navigating Bias and Building Respect and Trust
Chapter 6: Creating Partnerships With Parents and the Community—Reading Goals and Donut Holes
Chapter 7: Collaborating for Classroom Culture—Doing the Right Work
Chapter 8: Fostering Classroom Cultures to Motivate Learners and Give Hope to Teachers

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Chapter 7

• Figure 7.1: Determining Priority Standards for Ensuring a Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum
• Figure 7.2: Learning Scales for Mastery of Standards
• Figure 7.3: Planning for Instruction and Assignments
• Figure 7.4: Pacing Plan Tool
• Figure 7.5: Planning Tool for Giving More Time and Support and Extension of Learning

SUGGESTED RESOURCES

Books

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• Buffum, A., Mattos, M., & Malone, J. (2018). Taking action: A handbook for RTI at Work. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
• Depka, E. (2017). Raising the rigor: Effective questioning strategies and techniques for the classroom. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
• DuFour, R., & DuFour, R. (2012). Essentials for principals: School leader’s guide to Professional Learning Communities at Work. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
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• DuFour, R., DuFour, R., Eaker, R., Many, T. W., & Mattos, M. (2016). Learning by doing: A handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work (3rd ed.). Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
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• Muhammad, A. (2018). Transforming school culture: How to overcome staff division. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
• Muhammad, A. (2018). Transforming school culture: How to overcome staff division (2nd ed.). Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
• Muhammad, A. (2024). The way forward: PLC at Work and the bright future of education. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
• Muhammad, A., & Cruz, L. F. (2019). Time for change: Four essential skills for transformational school and district leaders. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
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• Ryan, B. (2023). Brilliance in the building: Effecting change in schools using the PLC process. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree.
• Sommers, W. A. (2020). Responding to resistance: Thirty strategies to manage conflict in your school. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.

Websites

Chapter 1

• Arvin Union School District
• Ball Charter Schools
• Walnut Valley Unified School District

Chapter 2

• The Forage
• Data.gov