Instructional Agility:Responding to Assessment with Real-Time Decisions (Lea to Quickly Improve School Culture and Student Ownership of Leaing)

by: Cassandra Erkens (Author),Tom Schimmer(Author),Nicole Dimich Vagle(Author)&0more

Publisher: Solution Tree Press

Publication Date: 2017/10/27

Language: English

Print Length: 200 pages

ISBN-10: 1943874700

ISBN-13: 9781943874705

Book Description

The true power of assessment comes when emerging results determine what comes next in student leaing. This practical book empowers educators and their teams, schools, or districts to move seamlessly between instruction, formative assessment, and feedback, improving school culture more effectively than traditional methods. Instructional agility enhances ownership of leaing, proficiency, and motivation for students, and promotes a positive school culture. Each chapter concludes with reflection questions that assist readers in determining next steps for supporting the whole child and the whole leaing process.Lea how to promote an agile culture of leaing in school to increase student ownership of leaing:Discover how instructional agility fits within the six tenets of the essential assessment framework.Lea how to foster and maintain a culture of leaing in schools.Gain strategies and tools to enhance instructional agility and assessment practices.Examine examples of instructional agility in action.Consider questions that help individual teachers and leaing teams contemplate what they leaed and their next steps for implementing for instructional agility strategies.Contents:Chapter 1:Establishing a Culture of Leaing Chapter 2:Engineering Engaging Conversations Chapter 3:Questioning Chapter 4:Observing Chapter 5:Mobilizing Chapter 6:Practicing Chapter 7:Fostering a Culture of Instructional Agility References and Resources

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The true power of assessment comes when emerging results determine what comes next in student leaing. This practical book empowers educators and their teams, schools, or districts to move seamlessly between instruction, formative assessment, and feedback, improving school culture more effectively than traditional methods. Instructional agility enhances ownership of leaing, proficiency, and motivation for students, and promotes a positive school culture. Each chapter concludes with reflection questions that assist readers in determining next steps for supporting the whole child and the whole leaing process.Lea how to promote an agile culture of leaing in school to increase student ownership of leaing:Discover how instructional agility fits within the six tenets of the essential assessment framework.Lea how to foster and maintain a culture of leaing in schools.Gain strategies and tools to enhance instructional agility and assessment practices.Examine examples of instructional agility in action.Consider questions that help individual teachers and leaing teams contemplate what they leaed and their next steps for implementing for instructional agility strategies.Contents:Chapter 1:Establishing a Culture of Leaing Chapter 2:Engineering Engaging Conversations Chapter 3:Questioning Chapter 4:Observing Chapter 5:Mobilizing Chapter 6:Practicing Chapter 7:Fostering a Culture of Instructional Agility References and Resources