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Transforming School Culture [DVD/CD/Facilitator's Guide/Book]
Based on the book Transforming School Culture: How to Overcome Staff Division, Second Edition by Anthony Muhammad, this unscripted video workshop explores a powerful framework for understanding school culture and turning toxic cultures into healthy ones. In the video, Muhammad describes the underlying tensions that impact culture among four different groups of educators in a school: The Believers, the Tweeners, the Survivors and the Fundamentalists. It includes a 72-minute DVD, a 40-page facilitator's guide in print and on CD, and a copy of the book Transforming School Culture: How to Overcome Staff Division, Second Edition.
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Essential Questions DVD
Based on the best-selling book of the same name by Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins, this 45 minute video guides you through practical and proven processes, as well as suggested "response strategies" to encourage student engagement. Learn how to create a culture of inquiry so that all members of the educational community - student, teachers and administrators - benefit from the increased rigour and deepened understanding that emerge when essential questions become a guiding force for learners of all ages. See the process come to life with scenes from a seminar though by Wiggins and of teachers using essential questions in practice. In addition, McTighe and Wiggins provide expert commentary about their years of experience in schools exploring just what makes an essential question essential.
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Effective Supervision: Supporting the Art and Science of Teaching DVD
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.
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The Last Frontier: Tackling the Grading Dilemma DVD
Ken O'Connor is an independent consultant who specialises in issues related to the communication of student achievement, especially grading and reporting. In this video presentation, Ken submits that traditionally, grading encourages competition rather than collaboration and results. In order to get grades that are accurate, meaningful, consistent and supportive of learning, he outlines eight fundamental grading guidelines that will move traditional grades to standards-based. He also details how to implement them and support your staff as they change their attitudes and approaches toward grading - particularly in the middle years and secondary school. Includes 99 minute-DVD with presentation and accompanying CD-ROM with presentation handouts and supporting resources.
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Rita's Stories DVD: A Companion Piece to a Framework for Understanding Poverty
Rita Pierson has been a professional educator since 1972, with experience as an primary, junior high and special education teacher; counsellor; assistant principal; director and testing coordinator. Dr Pierson has an established record of successful educational leadership and management experience, particularly in curriculum and instructional development, community relations and personnel supervision. She developed a successful community involvement program for a large urban elementary school and organised an in-school crisis team for students in need of immediate intervention. An experience presenter, Dr Pierson has led more than 200 workshops, and has used her entertaining stories to aptly illustrate a number of key ideas from Dr Ruby Payne's book A Framework for Understanding Poverty.
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Leading Difficult Conversations: Professional Learning Communities at Work DVD
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.
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Connecting Differentiated Instruction, Understanding by Design and What Works in Schools: An Exploration of Research-Based Strategies (DVD)
Yes you can turn three of the leading approaches to school improvement into a unified system. For the first time on one stage, the experts on Differentiated Instruction, Understanding by Design, and What Works in Schools speak about these powerhouse educational approaches and share the underpinnings of their work and the implications for educators who use these models during a panel discussion recorded live at the 2008 ASCD Summer Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. This DVD features: Carol Ann Tomlinson on Differentiated Instruction; Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe on Understanding by Design; and Robert Marzano on What Works in Schools. This 90 minute recording gives you a front row seat and backstage access to interviews with the panellists.
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The Strategic Teacher DVD
One of the greatest challenges facing schools today is the push to raise the expertise of teachers. But if teachers are going to become experts, they need proven strategies and the training to make them work – plain and simple. In The Strategic Teacher, renowned education consultant Harvey Silver illustrates practical ways to make this happen in your school. Join Harvey as he showcases educators from across the United States who have used these strategies to transform their classrooms and schools into places full of a passion and joy for learning.
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A Six-Step Process For Teaching Vocabulary DVD
This program demonstrates how teachers use a six-step process recommended by Robert Marzano in his book Building Background Knowledge for Academic Achievement: Research on What Works in Schools to teach academic vocabulary in the primary or secondary years. It also compliments the Building Academic Vocabulary Teacher’s Manual. The DVD menu is split into primary and secondary titles, with each of the six steps able to be navigated individually or as a whole process.
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Differentiated Instruction in Action Video Series DVD Three Disc Series
Join Carol Ann Tomlinson and classroom teachers as they bring Differentiated Instruction (DI) to life in this practical, easily implemented PD Program for Primary, Middle and High School. Multiple vignettes depict how to establish and maintain a supportive learning environment; how to use on-going assessment to inform instruction; and how to support a high-quality curriculum by identifying learning goals. Tomlinson guides viewers as they observe classroom examples of the non-negotiables of DI. Use the integrated PD plan, including accompanying PowerPoint presentation and handouts, to empower educators as they lead for student success.
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Leadership in Professional Learning Communities at Work: Learning by Doing DVD
Set includes DVD, Facilitator's Guide and CD-ROM. The educators in this video share experience-based insight into the principal's responsibility to create the conditions that allow staff to continually build their capacity to ensure learning for all. They demonstrate the importance of dispersed leadership and mutual accountability between leaders and staff, and they address the necessity to provide clarity and coherence for staff by aligning the structure and culture of the school with its core purpose.
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Through New Eyes: Examining the Culture of Your School (DVD)
This four-hour training program for use with primary and secondary school staff helps educators see the differences between a traditional school and a Professional Learning Commnity school through the eyes of Johnny, a secondary school student. The resource contains a facilitator’s guide and a discussion DVD. The facilitator’s guide includes an introduction to the program, step-by-step instructions for leading the workshop, guiding questions, small-group and full-group activities, and pages that can be used for overhead or handouts. In his video introduction, Richard DuFour explains the structure and culture of PLCs. He discusses how educators can change the cultures of their schools, which is then demonstrated in Parts I and II of the video.
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