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Supporting Data Use Through Teacher Collaboration Time (Part 2)
Data for Instruction > Improvement Cycle > See How It Works
Watch three teachers model a teacher collaboration session where they use data to make instructional decisions. Access the Using Data to Drive Action and the Collaborative Assessment Conference...
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Helping Struggling Students by Using the SAT Process
Data for Instruction > Improvement Cycle > See How It Works
Hear a principal describe how staff work to remove barriers to student learning through its Student Assistance Team (SAT) process. Teachers are able to intervene quickly and support struggling...
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Start With the Data
Data for Instruction > Improvement Cycle > See How It Works
Listen to the science skills specialist at a middle school describe how she supports teachers in their use of data. The teachers start with the data to determine their students’ areas of strength...
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Intervening Early Using Data From Multiple Assessments
Data for Instruction > Improvement Cycle > See How It Works
Listen to the curriculum skills specialist describe various assessment tools used by the staff to gather student data and identify their strengths and deficits. The sample material, Classroom...
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Using the Three-Week Assessment Cycle
Data for Instruction > Improvement Cycle > See How It Works
Listen to a testing coordinator and teacher talk about their perspectives on the three-week assessment cycle. Administration uses the testing cycle to assess teachers and students on a building and...
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Cultivating the Ability to Lead (Part 1)
School Turnaround > Leadership > See How It Works
Listen to the vice president of the NYC Leadership Academy's Principal Preparation Program describe how they select potential leaders to participate in the program. She enumerates important...
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Cultivating the Ability to Lead (Part 2)
School Turnaround > Leadership > See How It Works
Listen to the vice president of the NYC Leadership Academy's Principal Preparation Program describe the structure of the 14-month program. She explains how the introductory summer intensive,...
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Five Pillars That Guide Change
School Turnaround > Leadership > See How It Works
Turnaround schools often follow a core set of principles that target immediate areas of change. A high school principal describes the core principles that guided this school improvement process,...
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Professional Development Continuum
RtI Reading > Implementation > See How It Works
This professional development tool from Colorado shows a training continuum for RtI components starting at a beginning level and proceeding through an advanced level for administrators and staff....
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Preparing a Dialogic Reading Lesson
Preschool Language & Literacy > Interactive & Dialogic Reading > See How It Works
Use this dialogic reading planning tool to help teachers develop questions and prompts for repeated readings of a storybook using the framework described in A Three-Level Framework for Dialogic...
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Vocabulary Teaching Planner for Books
Preschool Language & Literacy > Interactive & Dialogic Reading > See How It Works
Consider using this planner as a resource to help teachers plan how they will highlight and explicitly teach vocabulary words they have selected from a story. Related Files: Tempe Early Reading...
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Daily Lesson Plan for Four-Year-Olds
Preschool Language & Literacy > Interactive & Dialogic Reading > See How It Works
This daily lesson plan format emphasizes activity planning based on instructional objectives, program standards, and desired learning outcomes and includes an example of interactive reading...
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