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Educator Effectiveness

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SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT SERVICES

Professional Development & Specialized Support Services





Improve Leader and Teacher Performance to Improve Student Performance

21st century tools to support 21st century change

• Spend less time developing meaningful performance reviews and reports.

• Support your leaders and teachers’ growth with differentiated, any-time, anywhere online professional development.

• Benefit from some of the most engaging thinkers in education today.

Contents

Implementation Path 6

Success Story 7

Teacher Compass™ Observe 8

Teacher Compass™ PD 9

Principal Compass™ 12

Educational Effectiveness 20

Set a Time-Effective Course for Educational Effectiveness with Pearson’s Teacher Compass™ Suite

Teacher effectiveness? Leader effectiveness? With today’s focus on improving student performance, you can’t really manage one without managing the other. How can you effectively do that with your limited time? Use a compass to set the right course toward improving teacher and leader effectiveness—Pearson’s Teacher Compass™ Suite.

Time-saving efficiency

Behind the Teacher Compass™ Suite is simple-to-use technology that helps you record meaningful observations and recommend targeted professional development for both teachers and school leaders. Spend your limited time gathering important data and making performance recommendations, not learning how to use the technology that’s supposed to be helping you.

Time-saving support

Behind the Teacher Compass™ Suite is the largest available library of rubrics, videos, tutorials, and online modules all focused on improving teacher and student performance. Spend your limited time having meaningful conversations about performance, not trying to find the resources that help improve it.

Time-saving credibility

Behind the Teacher Compass™ Suite are some of the most respected voices in education today—ASCD, Dr. Michael Fullan, Dr. Robert Marzano, Johns Hopkins University, and school practitioners—speaking on what’s already been shown to bring about effective results. Spend your limited time helping implement effective strategies, not hunting them down.

How Pearson’s Teacher Compass™ Suite Works

Teacher Compass Suite

Technology that is:

Accessible – Reliable 24x7

Integrated – Data in one place

Analytical – Easy data analysis

Flexible – System changes with practice

Customizable – Can be adapted to meet specific district needs

Teacher Compass Observe

Enables quick data gathering and data organization of classroom walkthroughs, formal observations, and fidelity checks

Principal Compass

“Needs Analysis/Progress Monitoring”

The Marzano School Administrator Evaluation Rubric and other tools to help diagnose and identify development needs and monitor progress

Teacher Compass PD

On-demand, online, and assignable library of professional development for continuous training

Principal Compass

“Targeted Support”

More than 50 self-paced, online modules, on-site coaching and team development, and other professional development

Originally developed by Johns Hopkins University

LEGEND

[pic] English Language Learners

[pic] Response to Intervention

[pic] Common Core State Standards

[pic] Online Services

Time challenged? Drive teacher and leader effectiveness with the Teacher Compass™ Suite

Let Technology Work for You

The Teacher Compass™ Suite is designed as both a diagnostic and prescriptive professional development tool. The software streamlines the process of teacher and leader observations, allowing observers to gather and input data online easily via laptop or mobile devices and to generate insightful reports and graphs. It is highly customizable, supporting local evaluation frameworks, reports and labels.

Once trends or target areas for improvement have been identified, the Teacher Compass™ Suite automatically suggests online professional development from a library of thousands of videos, tutorials and online modules. The professional development library enables teachers and school leaders to browse, search and share professional development content from renowned authors such as Robert Marzano, Rick Stiggins, John Saphier and many others.

These recommended road maps show how you can implement the Teacher Compass™ Suite with fidelity—just pick your focus area.

STEP 1

• Define and customize rubrics

• Secure administrator training

STEP 2

• Perform observations

• Write comments or use system-generated comments

STEP 3

• Identify trends through reports

• Recommend differentiated professional development

STEP 4

• Monitor progress

Success Story

Innovative Rural District Improves Teaching Effectiveness with New Evaluation System

Beresford School District

Beresford, South Dakota

CHALLENGE

The schools in this small district share teachers in art, music, and language arts, but because the principals were conducting classroom observations in different ways, they could not compare findings or track data over time. And Tim Koehler, the Director of Curriculum and Professional Development and Principal of Beresford Middle School, found the old evaluation system very time-consuming.

SOLUTION

After Teacher Compass staff showed Mr. Koehler how to build customized online rubrics, he worked with other principals to quickly create additional rubrics and link them together. He now takes his iPad along on every classroom visit, working through the online rubrics, making comments, and e-mailing notes to teachers.

RESULTS

“My observation and feedback time has been reduced by over 50%,” says Mr. Koehler. “And it’s easy to do summative evaluations, because everything is in one place.” Sophisticated data collection is also helping to build personalized coaching plans, supported by the Teacher Compass online library of over 5,000 professional development videos.

“Now we have stronger teaching, and that’s key to improving student performance.”

—Tim Koehler

Director of Curriculum and Professional Development/Principal

Beresford Middle School

Teacher Compass Observe

Awards of Excellence Winner

“Teacher Compass™ is a huge help in writing the evaluations. It saved me approximately two hours for every evaluation. And, the dialogue during the post observation conference was more beneficial to the teacher.”

—Principal

Queen Anne’s County Public School, MD

Effectively Manage Classroom Observations and Guide Teachers to Personalized PD Goals

• Fully customizable rubrics, forms, and reports

• Paperless observations—online or off

• Walk-throughs, instructional rounds, observations, and evaluations

• Improved feedback for teachers

• Differentiated professional development

• Insightful reports for data-driven decisions

• Automatic recommendations of online professional development

• Include multiple measures by uploading documents, videos, and images

Teacher Compass PD

Awards of Excellence Winner

Unparalleled Breadth of PD Content

With over 3,000 videos, tutorials, and documents; fifteen strands; sixteen nationally-used programs; and dozens of renowned authors, the Teacher Compass™ Suite is the largest and broadest professional development library on the market.

Topics

Accountability

Assessments

Classroom Management

Common Core ELA

Common Core Mathematics

Curriculum Planning

Differentiation

Early Childhood

Effective Use of Technology

English Language Arts

English Language Learners

Families and Communities

Instructional Strategies

Mathematics

Professional Learning Communities

Programs

Assessment Training Institute

A+RISE®

enVisionMATH™

Good Habits, Great Readers™

Interactive Science™

Literacy Navigator®

Math Navigator®

Miller & Levine Biology

My Sidewalks

myWorld Geography

Opening the World of Learning™

Prentice Hall Literature

Prentice Hall Math

Reading Street™

SIOP®

Skillful Teacher

Authors / Partners

Dr. Robert Marzano

Rick Stiggins

Dr. Jon Saphier

Grant Wiggins, Ed.D.

ASCD

Johns Hopkins University

Battelle for Kids

Dr. Tim Shanahan

Margo Gottlieb, Ph.D.

Jeffrey Arnett, Ph.D.

Phil Daro

Donna Ogle, Ed.D

Charles Temple, Ph.D.

MaryEllen Vogt, Ed.D.

Lily Wong Fillimore, Ph.D.

Walt Wolfram, Ph.D.

Announcing the Jon Saphier

The Skillful Teacher Video Series—

featured in Teacher Compass™

Few have done more over the last quarter century to advance teacher effectiveness than Dr. Jon Saphier, Founder and President of Research for Better Teaching, Inc. His book, The Skillful Teacher: Building Your Teaching Skills (6th ed. 2008, Kindle ed. 2012) has become the gold standard text in many colleges and school districts across the country for studying pedagogy. Designed as a practical guide for practitioners working to broaden their teaching skills, the book combines theory with practice and focuses on critical areas of classroom performance.

And now this new video series helps to bring those lessons on classroom performance to life where they count the most—in the classroom.

The Skillful Teacher Video Series

Introduction:

Skillful Teaching – Performance, Repertoire, Matching

Skillful Teaching – What Accounts for Student Engagement

Curriculum Planning:

Learning Experiences – Differentiation

Inquiry-Oriented Lessons

How to Observe a Class

Effective Feedback During Instruction

Content Planning Conference

Error Analysis and Reteaching:

• PLC/Content Teams

• Students Giving Reasons

• Landmark Numbers

• Coordinate Pictures

Motivation:

Stimulating Effective Effort

Teaching Effective Effort – Motivational Structures

Teaching Effective Effort – Explicit Teaching of Strategies

History of Intelligence 1

History of Intelligence 2

Feedback and Building Confidence – Learning is Messy

Teaching Group Skills

High-Expectations Teaching

Persevere and Return

Three Expectations Messages

Giving Help with Tenacity and Making Thinking Visible

Instructional Strategies:

Framing the Learning – Mastery Objectives

Framing the Learning – Itineraries and Big Ideas

Framing the Learning – Criteria for Success

Making Thinking Visible in Small Groups

Making Thinking Visible and Classroom Climate

Checking for Understanding II

Connections

Management:

Entering Class and Opening Exercise

“Of all the things that are important for good schools, nothing is as important as the teacher and what that person knows, believes, and can do.”

—Dr. Jon Saphier

Research for Better Teaching, Inc. (RBT) is an educational professional development organization founded by Dr. Saphier in 1979 that is dedicated to the mission of improving student performance by improving teaching. RBT partners with many school districts, suburban and urban, large and small, to plan for, implement, monitor, and sustain improvements over time in teaching and learning. RBT’s programs, consulting, publications, and products for educators fall into three interlocking areas:

• Skillful Teaching centered on the rich research knowledge base on teaching and incorporating focus on the Common Core and 21st Century Skills

• Skillful Leadership with emphasis on skills required to leverage teacher quality, strengthen adult professional culture, and implement the mandated Teacher Evaluation systems

• Skillful Data Use™ aimed at supporting educators in using student data to improve and target instruction and to accelerate student learning

Learn more at products.html or contact RBT at info@ or 978.263.9449.

The Skillful Teacher Series videos are also available on DVDs as a full collection or by topic area from RBT. Reference code TSTPPD. Features include:

• Discussion questions, supplemental material, and textbook references for each video topic

• Longer duration clips to help viewers see lessons unfold naturally

• Post-viewing analysis provided by Dr. Saphier

Powered by a Partnership between Pearson and ASCD

Principal Compass

Bringing together some of today’s leading educational authors to connect improved student performance to improved leadership performance.

LEADERSHIP THAT IMPACTS STUDENT PERFORMANCE

Dr. Robert Marzano

Provides an evidence-based framework that outlines what principals must do to develop and maintain relentless focus on improving instruction. (See pages 18–19.)

Dr. Michael Fullan

Uses case studies from around the globe to highlight specific leadership actions that can build system-wide reform and sustainable change. (See pages 14–15.)

Lyle Kirtman

Identifies leadership-related personality traits of principals. Self-assessments compare individual results to high-performing principals and link to targeted professional development. (See pages 16–17.)

“You can’t find a great school without a great principal.”

—Arne Duncan

US Secretary of Education

Each Principal Compass™ module includes:

One or more videos of fellow practitioners.

One or more videos of the module topic at work in the classroom.

An overview PowerPoint.

Short readings.

An application that takes the module topic back into the school.

How Principal Compass Works to Build the Competencies of Effective School Leadership

• 24/7 online access provides time-strapped leaders with flexibility.

• Self-assessments analyze leadership tendencies and recommend a personalized training plan.

• Online, self-paced modules build the competencies of highly effective school leaders. (See pages 18–19 for a complete list of the modules in the series.)

• Videos and case studies bring in the key voice of the practitioner.

• Built-in applications bring the concepts back into the school building.

NEW for Principal Compass™ in 2013

Announcing the Michael Fullan Leadership-in-Motion Series for superintendents and other district and school leaders

“Motion Leadership” is a style of educational leadership that causes positive change forward—change in individuals, schools, and systems—toward two shared goals.

• Building capacity to drive system-wide reform and sustainable change

• Focusing on only a few select factors to improve instruction and student performance

The Michael Fullan Leadership-in-Motion Series includes:

|Action Seminars |Start with a face-to-face learning experience with other district and school |

| |leaders to hear what it takes to drive real system-wide reform that leads to |

| |improved student performance. |

|Fullan Leadership-in-Motion Modules |The Fullan Leadership-in-Motion self-paced, online modules provide a road map |

| |for action—“how” lessons with extensive case studies—to help district and |

| |school leaders drive sustained, system-wide change. |

|Social Networking |To increase collaboration within and beyond their district and carry the |

| |learning beyond the various training opportunities, participants have the |

| |option of joining a mediated, national social network. |

“The richest source of learning is through the alchemy of application.”

—Michael Fullan

Michael Fullan is professor emeritus at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Fullan and his team continue to be successfully engaged in the hands-on implementation of district- and system-wide reform in Canada, the United States, Australia, and other jurisdictions around the world.

NEW for Principal Compass™ in 2013

Announcing Lyle Kirtman’s Workplace Personality Inventory (WPI) for principals and school leaders—

available exclusively through Principal Compass™

• See how the performance of your district’s principals compares to some of the highest-performing principals in the country.

• Take the guess work out of recommending targeted professional development that can help all principals improve their performance.

A portion of an actual self-assessment using the WPI. The report compares a principal’s performance over eight domains and seventeen indicators against those of high-performing principals. Areas for targeted professional development are quickly identified.

“… a principal or superintendent who knows how to build capacity for change has a much better chance of sustained improvement than one who leads from a top-down stance.”

—Lyle Kirtman

Lyle Kirtman is the author of Leadership and Teams: The Missing Piece of the Educational Reform Puzzle. Since 1979, he has focused on the development of school leaders to build organizational capacity for sustainable change. In that time, Mr. Kirtman has assessed and observed principals to develop the Workplace Personality Inventory (WPI) and the Seven Competencies of Effective School Leaders—the behaviors that some of the nation’s top-performing principals routinely demonstrate on their way to leading effective schools.

Principal Compass modules that address WPI findings and help develop the competencies of effective principal leadership include:

• Developing the Seven Competencies of Effective Principal Leadership

• Challenging the Status Quo

• Building Trust through Clear Communication and Expectations

• Creating a Commonly Owned Plan for Success

• Focusing on Team over Self

• Creating a Sense of Urgency for Change and Sustainable Results

• Maintaining a Strong Commitment to Continuous Improvement

• Building External Networks and Partnerships

Modules in Principal Compass™

|Marzano Rubric Domains |Principal Compass™ Modules |

| |Overview to the rubric and domains |

|A data-driven approach to student achievement |Identifying and using the right data to improve instruction (district, school view) |

| |Using assessment results and other data to inform classroom instruction |

| |Providing tiered interventions |

| |Building a school-wide instructional improvement plan |

| |Creating structures and systems for data analysis |

| |Understanding the fundamentals of a data-driven culture |

| |Developing systems thinking |

| |Looking at student work against standards |

| |Improving student achievement through standards-based reporting |

|Continuous improvement of instruction |Implementing research-based instructional strategies |

| |Building instructional capacity |

| |Becoming an instructional leader; using a common instructional language |

| |Engendering standards-based instruction in the classroom |

| |Using observations to create a culture of continuous improvement |

| |Providing effective feedback to improve teacher performance |

| |Developing knowledge of the “art and science” of teaching |

| |Integrating technology purposefully into instruction |

| |Coaching for improved performance |

|Guaranteed and viable curriculum |Determining readiness for the Common Core and beginning to close the gaps |

| |Working with and managing special populations |

| |Developing academic behavior for college and career readiness |

| |Aligning and prioritizing programs and initiatives |

| |Creating and implementing a high-functioning schedule |

| |Personalizing the learning atmosphere for students to meet their academic, social, and |

| |emotional needs |

|Cooperation and collaboration |Developing a shared mission and vision that focuses on instruction |

| |Cultivating commitment and ownership within the staff |

| |Building distributed leadership and delegating authority |

| |Developing high-performing teams |

| |Developing professional learning communities |

| |Engaging the community |

| |Building rapport to open doors to new learning |

| |Understanding when and how to make strategic decisions |

|School climate |Creating a moral and ethical environment |

| |Managing human capital effectively |

| |Holding fierce conversations when you have to |

| |Using people’s time wisely |

| |Utilizing various budget sources and alignment them to the mission |

| |Using effective channels of communication and managing real-time information systems |

| |Creating a school climate conducive to learning |

| |Running effective meetings |

|Additional Pearson/ASCD Domain |Principal Compass™ Modules |

|Competencies for sustainable change |Developing the competencies of effective principal leadership |

| |Challenging the status quo |

| |Building trust through clear communications and expectations |

| |Creating a commonly owned plan for success |

| |Focusing on team over self |

| |Leading change for sustainable results |

| |Maintaining a strong commitment to continuous improvement |

| |Building external networks and partnerships |

| |Leading a culture of change |

| |Overcoming resistance to change |

| |Managing up effectively |

| |Building a value-added performance portfolio that shows principal/team impact |

New Modules for 2013 from the Michael Fullan Motion Leadership in Action Series

• Building the Foundation: Leadership for District-Wide Reform

• Working Towards Whole System Reform: Capacity and Coherence

• Change Knowledge: Leading and Mobilizing Reform

• Focusing on Instruction and Assessment

• Bring it Together: Integrated Change in the Culture of the District

• Sustaining Reform: Establishing a Legacy

Educational Effectiveness

Teacher Compass™ Software Licensing Options [pic]

Teacher Compass™ Observe:

• One-year subscription from first day of implementation

• Configuration of unique Teacher Compass™ instance

• Development and implementation of two customized rubrics

• Customizable reports

• 24x7 fully redundant hosting services

• Regular maintenance and upgrades during subscription

ISBN: Teacher Compass™ Observe: 116317

Teacher Compass™ PD:

• One-year subscription from first day of implementation

• Configuration of unique Teacher Compass™ instance

• Access to thousands of professional development videos, tutorials, and documents on various teaching topics

• Teacher-to-teacher social networking

• Customizable reports

• 24x7 fully redundant hosting services

• Regular maintenance and upgrades during subscription

ISBN: Teacher Compass™ PD: 116318

Teacher Compass™ Suite:

• Fully integrated version, including Teacher Compass™ Observe, Teacher Compass™ PD, and Principal Compass™

• 24x7 fully redundant hosting services

• Regular maintenance and upgrades during subscription

ISBN: Teacher Compass™ Suite: 116316

For those educators using a Pearson program, discounts are available for Teacher Compass™. Talk to your Pearson Account Executive for more information.

Training Options

Target Audience :

School and District Leaders, Supervisors, Human Resource Specialists, Coaches, New Teacher Induction Coordinators

Number of Participants :

1+ for online evaluation and coaching tool (set-up fee waived for orders of 150+ subscriptions)

ISBN: Training – One Day On-site: 117155

ISBN: Training – Three Webinars: 114075

The Pearson Common Core Mathematics Observation Framework and Coaching Tools

It’s one thing to adopt the Common Core State Standards. It’s another to see those standards come to life because of effective classroom instruction. You’re adopting the new Common Core State Standards. You need to see evidence of new teaching practices in the classroom. Existing indicators and rubrics may not be adequate to measure the practices needed for the Common Core Mathematics classroom.

Teacher Compass™ Suite with The Pearson Common Core Mathematics Observation Framework and Coaching Tools

As a result, Pearson commissioned the development of The Pearson Common Core Mathematics Observation Framework and Coaching Tools and embedded it within Teacher Compass™ Suite. This set of performance indicators and specific rubric measure effective Common Core instructional practices. The rubric can integrate with your existing rubric to help you achieve your goal of fostering college- and career-ready students.

Teacher Compass™ Suite with The Pearson Common Core Mathematics Observation Framework and Coaching Tools enables schools to:

• Digitally perform classroom observations and compile detailed results.

• Recommend appropriate professional development and job-embedded services based on instructional gaps.

• Support Inter-rater Reliability training (visit for description) to ensure that all classroom observers are calibrated to a single consistent scale.

Ask your Pearson Account Executive for a demonstration of Teacher Compass™ with The Pearson Common Core Mathematics Observation Framework and Coaching Tools.

The Pearson Common Core Literacy Observation Framework and Coaching Tools

It’s one thing to adopt the Common Core State Standards. It’s another to see those standards come to life because of effective classroom instruction. You’re adopting the new Common Core State Standards. You need to see evidence of new teaching practices in the classroom. Existing indicators and rubrics may not be adequate to measure the practices needed for the Common Core English Language Arts classroom.

Teacher Compass™ Suite with The Pearson Common Core Literacy Observation Framework and Coaching Tools

As a result, Pearson commissioned the development of The Pearson Common Core Literacy Observation Framework and Coaching Tools and embedded it within Teacher Compass™ Suite. This set of performance indicators and specific rubric measure effective Common Core instructional practices. The rubric can integrate with your existing rubric to help you achieve your goal of fostering college- and career-ready students.

Teacher Compass™ Suite with The Pearson Common Core Literacy Observation Framework and Coaching Tools enables schools to:

• Digitally perform classroom observations and compile detailed results.

• Recommend appropriate professional development and job-embedded services based on instructional gaps.

• Support Inter-rater Reliability training (visit for description) to ensure that all classroom observers are calibrated to a single consistent scale.

Ask your Pearson Account Executive for a demonstration of Teacher Compass™ with The Pearson Common Core Literacy Observation Framework and Coaching Tools.

Using the Right Data to Drive Effective Instructional Practices

NUMBER OF DAYS: 1

This one-day leadership development training helps school and district leaders design and implement a strategy for analyzing and using data to inform policy decisions that lead to better instruction. The program helps educational leaders identify the right data to use and understand how to use it in the right way to improve instruction and student learning.

Outcomes:

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

• Use the right data—not just any data—to positively impact the classroom and work within their instructional improvement plan.

• Understand a framework for analyzing data.

• Cultivate stronger practices and behaviors within their school or district around the use of data.

• Build a data action and implementation plan to use within their school or district.

Target Audience:

School and District Leaders

NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: 30

ISBN: 115512

Effectively Evaluating Teachers to Advance Student Performance

NUMBER OF DAYS: 1

This one-day leadership development training from Pearson and Johns Hopkins University helps school and district leaders understand and implement a research-based approach to teacher evaluations. The program helps instructional leaders evaluate teacher performance accurately, consistently, and efficiently as well as use the evaluation results to guide purposeful conversations with teachers about their instructional practices.

Outcomes:

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

• Understand how a systematic evaluation process helps change teaching practices and improve student learning.

• Implement rigorous, transparent, and fair evaluations based on indicators of effective teaching.

• Ensure consistent and fair evaluations across different observers, settings, and teachers.

• Use formal and informal evaluation data to identify opportunities for instructional improvement and personalize professional development.

• Create an action plan for building- or district-level implementation.

Target Audience:

School and District Leaders

NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: 30

ISBN: 115514

Leading the Way for Common Core State Standards Implementation in English Language Arts K–12 [pic]

NUMBER OF DAYS: 1

Administrators, curriculum directors, coaches, and other instructional leaders explore the implications the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) have on English Language Arts (ELA) content and curriculum, classroom instruction and assessment, and building and district culture. Changes in those areas relate to successfully implementing the Common Core. During this workshop, participants examine the likely impact of the Common Core on leaders, teachers, and students in their district. They also consider possible time frames and frameworks for implementation and learn about in-depth professional development opportunities that accommodate the needs of teachers and students.

OUTCOMES:

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

• Identify the factors that lead to the creation of the CCSS for ELA.

• Navigate the organizational structure of the CCSS for ELA.

• Identify implications of the CCSS for ELA on instruction, assessment, professional development, and leadership.

• Develop an actionable plan for the implementation of the CCSS for ELA.

TARGET AUDIENCE:

Administrators, Curriculum Directors, Coaches, District Personnel, Site-Based Leaders

NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: 30

ISBN: 113948

Leading the Way for Common Core State Standards Implementation in Mathematics K–12 [pic]

NUMBER OF DAYS: 1

Explore the implications that successfully implementing the Common Core has on math content and curriculum, classroom instruction and assessment, and building and district culture. Participants examine the likely impact of the Common Core on leaders, teachers, and students. They also consider possible time frames and frameworks for implementation and learn about in-depth professional development opportunities that accommodate the needs of teachers and students.

OUTCOMES:

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

• Determine the intent of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM) Standards for Mathematical Content and Standards for Mathematical Practice.

• Plan for the impact of the CCSSM on content, instruction, and assessment.

• Examine a process for influencing change and creating a school and/or district culture to effectively implement the CCSSM.

• Develop an actionable plan for making decisions to effectively implement the CCSSM.

TARGET AUDIENCE:

Administrators, Curriculum Directors, Coaches, District Personnel, Site-Based Leaders

NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: 30

ISBN: 113947

Classroom Technology: Leadership Support

Number of Days: 1

A Pearson Classroom Technology Consultant works with administrators in digitally rich learning environments to assist with technology planning and curriculum support. This is a highly flexible, customized service to address your key issues.

Target Audience:

School and District Leaders

Number of Participants: 25

ISBN: 114019

ATI July Conference on Classroom Assessment

Join nationally and internationally known keynote presenters at the Assessment Training Institute’s annual summer conference focused on the importance of quality assessments and assessment for learning.

Target Audience:

School Administrators, District Administrators, Staff Development Specialists, Teacher Leaders, K–12 Educators

Number of Participants:

1+ for annual conference

ISBN: See the schedule of national events and register at Institutes

ATI December Sound Grading Practices Conference

Grades are only as accurate as the assessments upon which they are built. Grades can decrease in accuracy if the procedures used to arrive at the final grade aren’t sound and if there are variables included in the grade that are unrelated to subject matter mastery.

Presentations at this conference provide both classroom teachers and school/district leaders with a deeper understanding of the issues involved in sound grading practices, as well as practical strategies and alternatives, in order to change how students are graded.

Target Audience:

School Administrators, District Administrators, Staff Development Specialists, Teacher Leaders, K–12 Educators

Number of Participants:

1+ for annual conference

ISBN: See the schedule of national events and register at Institutes

SIOP® Training for Administrators [pic]

NUMBER OF DAYS: 1

School and district administrators use the best-selling, research-based book The SIOP® Model for Administrators to learn about the SIOP® Model and understand how it can improve instruction for all students, including English learners. Participants consider the roles that coaches and administrators can play in supporting teachers using the SIOP® Model and are provided with The SIOP® Model for Administrators to support implementation upon returning to their schools.

Outcomes:

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

• Explain the general needs of English learners and how the SIOP® Model can meet these needs.

• Identify how implementing the SIOP® Model in their schools and districts can have a positive impact on teaching all students.

• Discuss the roles that coaches and administrators can play in supporting teachers implementing the SIOP® Model.

TARGET AUDIENCE:

District Administrators, School Administrators

NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: 30

ISBN: 112990

This workshop is also available for online learning. Visit for details on our online learning options.

SIOP® Training for Administrators: Fused Online Course [pic] [pic]

Equivalent Seat TIME: 6 hours

NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: Up to 50

cohort pricing

ISBN: Up to 15: 117002

ISBN: Up to 15 (+ Text): 116994

ISBN: Up to 30: 117013

ISBN: Up to 30 (+ Text): 117003

ISBN: Up to 50: 116983

ISBN: Up to 50 (+ Text): 117014

National Virtual Institute: Individual Registrations: See the schedule of national virtual events and register at Institutes.

Leading For Change

NUMBER OF DAYS: 2

This two-day workshop focuses on the role of leadership and its relationship to affecting higher-order change, with emphasis on learning how to distribute responsibilities among a leadership team comprised of supervisors, coaches, teachers, parents, and members of the community. The workshop also explores developing systems so that leaders can effectively focus on instructional leadership to improve student achievement, and the role of professional learning communities in affecting and sustaining change.

OUTCOMES:

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

• Identify the role of leadership in affecting change

• Identify opportunities to effectively distribute leadership at the school

• Leverage the difference between first and second order change

• Identify the level of change readiness at the school

TARGET AUDIENCE:

Administrators, Coaches, District Personnel, Site-Based Leaders

NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: 30

ISBN: 119092

Instructional Leadership [pic]

NUMBER OF DAYS: 4

This four-day workshop empowers leaders to understand the characteristics of Common Core Standards-based instruction and how they may be manifested in different content areas. Sessions focus on helping leaders analyze current instructional practices, use student work exemplars and anchors as references for understanding the expectations of the standards, discuss instructional practices from a standards-based perspective, align interventions for students who need additional support, and engage the parent and community in supporting all students to meet standards.

OUTCOMES:

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

• Understand the roles and responsibilities for instructional leadership

• Implement effective instructional leadership team meetings

• Create a common language of instruction for their school

• Identify College and career readiness behaviors in teaching and learning

TARGET AUDIENCE:

Administrators, Coaches, District Personnel, Site-Based Leaders

NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: 30

ISBN: 119082

Data-Driven Culture Institute for the Common Core [pic]

Number of days: 3

Explore how to build, implement, and sustain a highly effective data culture. The institute content links data analysis and interpretation skills to instructional analysis and decision-making skills in order to effectively use data to plot a course for instruction, course-correct as needed, and sustain long-term continuous, ongoing improvement.

This institute rests on the theory that in order to prepare students to be college and career ready, educators at all levels must efficiently use actionable, contextual data to improve students’ performance and the overall school environment. These data guide the development and provide evidence of mastery of content and next-generation skills.

The goal of this institute is to create a school culture in which data use is both systemic and habitual. The institute modules cover topics such as data literacy, analyzing students’ work, triangulation, and determining effective instructional strategies. Modules build on each other and include the content, information, techniques, and protocols for effectively using data. They also include collaborative practices to optimize effective and efficient data use in schools.

Outcomes:

By the end of the institute, participants will be able to:

• Understand the role of data and a data-driven culture in the context of current college- and career-readiness standards.

• Understand how to unpack and evaluate data strategically.

• Access tools and determine best strategies to address instructional issues.

• Use quality assessment practices and progress-monitoring data to determine and interpret change.

• Share best practices.

TARGET AUDIENCE:

Administrators, Coaches, District Personnel, Site-Based Leaders

NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: 30

ISBN: 119111

Using the Right Data

The Using the Right Data to Drive Effective Instructional Practices workshop presents the use of data in the context of improving specific classroom practices within an overall instructional improvement plan.

INFORMATION • UNDERSTANDING • EVALUATION • ACTION

• Collect the right data

• Share regularly

• Analyze

• Interpret

• Plan changes

• Implement changes

Effectively Evaluating Teacher Performance

Are your leaders practicing the C.R.A.F.T. of writing evaluations that are collaborative, rigorous, action focused, fair, and transparent?

The Effectively Evaluating Teachers workshop takes participants through a systematic five-step evaluation process, concentrating on the feedback step of the process and how to establish purposeful conversations.

• Rubrics: Developing the set of indicators and observables to be used during observations

• Observation: Implementing formal and informal observations of instructional practice

• Analysis: Synthesizing data from observations and student performance assessments

• Feedback: Engaging in purposeful conversations about instructional practice using the data

• Personalize: Identifying professional development to improve instruction practice

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