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In this DVD, researcher and author Robert J. Marzano presents a framework for observing classroom instruction based on the questions and frameworks he first laid out in The Art and Science of Teaching. Marzano presents a detailed observation protocol and demonstrates how to use it, not only as a tool for analysing classroom instruction but also as a starting point to encourage professional dialogue among teachers. This is an essential tool for supervisors, administrators, coaches, and teacher leaders, and PLC's.

This program focuses on how to analyse differentiated learning tasks, plan differentiated lessons, manage a differentiated classroom, and provide all students with the opportunity to learn as much as they can. Teachers in primary, middle, and secondary years settings demonstrate differentiation in their classes and, with expert Carol Ann Tomlinson, explain how to create a differentiated classroom. Differentiating Instruction examines how to create multiple avenues to learning that challenges all students in a mixed-ability classroom.

In every classroom there are students with a wide range of exceptionalities – students with one or more learning problems, students with different interests, students who are very advanced and students without a "label" but whose learning needs are just as unique. How can teachers face this challenge and meet such a variety of student learning needs? Help answer that question and maximise learning for all students with the common-sense approach featured in this new video series. Use the included DVD with the workshops in the accompanying Facilitator's Guide to take teachers inside primary, middle years and secondary classes to show how a differentiated approach can help teachers to maximise their abilities as educators.

Transforming a school into a professional learning community (PLC) requires changing embedded behaviours, beliefs and processes, which can cause resistance and conflict. In healthy PLCs, these conflicts are addressed in ways that both support core values and respect team members. In this short video, Richard DuFour and Rebecca DuFour model a principal and a teacher engaging in a conflict over marking practices, then the role play is broken down and analysed. Viewers will learn how to hold difficult but crucial conversations that lead to higher levels of commitment to PLC practices.

In this keynote session from the 21st Century Learning Institute on 12 October 2010 Richard DuFour asserts that traditional school culture is not designed to deliver those outcomes. For students to acquire essential skills, schools must organise into PLCs. This set includes a 71-minute DVD with the video session and a CD with materials to support team or individual professional learning, including the presenter's PowerPoint, an excerpt from the book 21st Century Skills: Rethinking How Students Learn and relevant web links.

Join Carol Ann Tomlinson and classroom teachers as they bring Differentiated Instruction to life in this practical, easily implemented Professional Development Program for the Primary School level. Carol Ann Tomlinson guides viewers as they observe classroom examples of the non-negotiables of Differentiated Instruction. Use the integrated professional development plan, including accompanying PowerPoint presentation and handouts, to empower educators as they lead for student success.

Based on the updated second edition of Carol Ann Tomlinson's The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners, this new DVD series shows you practical, real-world examples from experienced K-5 and secondary school teachers of how to divide your time, resources and efforts to effectively instruct students of various backgrounds, readiness and skill levels, and interests. Through interviews with teachers, hear guidance on what to differentiate, how to differentiate and why. Understand the groundwork for bringing differentiated instruction into your own classroom or refining the work you already do. The videos include bonus content on how a differentiated classroom makes it easier to implement the Common Core State Standards.

Based on the updated second edition of Carol Tomlinson's The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners, this DVD shows you practical, real-world examples from experienced K-5 school teachers of how to divide your time, resources and efforts to effectively instruct students of various backgrounds, readiness and skill levels, and interests.

The Classroom Instruction That Works book comes to life in this engaging new production focused on its use in elementary (primary) school. Join Ceri Dean, coauthor of Classroom Instruction That Works, and a group of elementary school educators as they leverage elements from the Classroom Instruction That Works framework to transform their practice and their communities. Through the video, you’ll sit in on a planning session among Dean and the teachers and support personnel, watch how the lessons unfold with students – through success and challenge, and listen in as the team reflects on lessons learned. The Classroom Instruction That Works framework has helped countless schools and regions on their roads to academic success. Now you can see firsthand exactly how one region puts the framework to use!

The Classroom Instruction That Works book comes to life in this engaging new production series focused on its use in elementary, middle and high school. Join Ceri Dean, coauthor of Classroom Instruction That Works, and a group of educators as they leverage elements from the Classroom Instruction That Works framework to transform their practice and their communities. Through the video, you’ll sit in on a planning session among Dean and the teachers and support personnel, watch how the lessons unfold with students – through success and challenge, and listen in as the team reflects on lessons learned. The Classroom Instruction That Works framework has helped countless schools and regions on their roads to academic success. Now you can see firsthand exactly how one region puts the framework to use! This three-DVD set has everything a P–12 educator or school needs!

At the beginning of her breakout session (from the August 12, 2009, Professional Learning Communities at Work™ Institute in Lincolnshire, Illinois), Cassandra Erkens says, “Fish can’t see water. They swim in it every day, and they can’t see it. We are swimming in homework water, and I’m going to ask us to step back and see it.” Erkens is a high-energy, engaging presenter who uses humour, stories from her teaching experience, and lots of discussion to breathe life into the purpose and meaning of homework. She emphasises the importance of allowing students to make mistakes (and learn from them) as they practise their skills.

Teacher quality is the most significant variable in school improvement, and of all the things teachers can do to improve the quality of their teaching, formative assessment has been shown to provide the greatest impact. In Content, Then Process: Teacher Learning Communities in the Service of Formative Assessment (from the 2009 Annual Conference on Standards and Assessment in Las Vegas, Nevada), Dr Wiliam outlines a model to shift towards more formative assessment–based teaching practices by first addressing content (what needs to be changed) and then addressing the process to approach that change.