The Success Criteria Playbook

The Success Criteria Playbook

Author: John Almarode

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2021-02-05

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1071838105

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Provide students a clear view of what success looks like for any process, task, or product. What does success look like for your students? How will they know if they have learned? This essential component of teaching and learning can be difficult to articulate but is vital to achievement for both teachers and students. The Success Criteria Playbook catapults teachers beyond learning intentions to define clearly what success looks like for every student—whether face-to-face or in a remote learning environment. Designed to be used collaboratively in grade-level, subject area teams—or even on your own—the step-by-step playbook expands teacher understanding of how success criteria can be utilized to maximize student learning and better engage learners in monitoring and evaluating their own progress. Each module is designed to support the creation and immediate implementation of high-quality, high impact success criteria and includes: • Templates that allow for guided and independent study for teachers. • Extensive STEM-focused examples from across the K-12 STEM curriculum to guide teacher learning and practice. • Examples of success criteria applied across learning domains and grades, including high school content, skills, practices, dispositions, and understandings. Ensure equity of access to learning and opportunity for all students by designing and employing high-quality, high-impact success criteria that connect learners to a shared understanding of what success looks like for any given learning intention.


Redefining Student Success

Redefining Student Success

Author: Ken Kay

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2021-07-23

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1071831313

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Be the leader of a fresh, bold, enduring vision of education for your district or school. The future of learning has arrived, and it requires bold educational leadership and a dramatic redefinition of what it means to be a successful student today. Redefining Student Success invites you to lead this transformation with audacity. It engages leaders with the concepts and actions needed to reimagine schools, address inequities, and help today’s students develop the skills they need for personal, economic, and civic success. This vital guide supports transformative leadership with Concrete guidance on how to create a Portrait of a Graduate and Portrait of an Educator which will help ensure teachers have a unified vision for professional growth and student success. Reflection prompts that help you recognize your strengths, spark discussion among stakeholders, and identify next steps for inspired action. Compelling examples of students already engaged in creative, self-directed problem-solving around issues that matter to them and their communities, together with stories that illustrate how districts and schools have arrived at their own vision of what education must become. Companion guides to 21st century learning for parents and students available online. The time is now to reset educational outcomes, sync schools with the demands of 21st century society, and meet the needs of every learner, in every community.


Motivation and Learning Strategies for College Success

Motivation and Learning Strategies for College Success

Author: Helena Seli

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-06-21

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1317531957

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Combining theory, research, and applications, this popular text guides college students on how to become self-regulated learners. Students gain knowledge about human motivation and learning as they improve their study skills. The focus is on relevant information and features to help students to identify the components of academic learning that contribute to high achievement, to master and practice effective learning and study strategies, and then to complete self-regulation studies that teach a process for improving their academic behavior. A framework organized around motivation, methods of learning, time management, control of the physical and social environment, and monitoring performance makes it easy for students to recognize what they need to do to become academically more successful. Pedagogical features include Exercises, Follow-Up Activities, Student Reflections, Chapter-end Reviews, Key Points, and a Glossary. New in the Fifth Edition Discussion of the importance of sleep in learning and memory Revised and updated chapter on self-regulation of emotions Current research on impact of students’ use of technology including digital learning platforms and tools, social media, and online learning Updated Companion Website resources for students and instructors


Learn Better

Learn Better

Author: Ulrich Boser

Publisher: Rodale

Published: 2017-03-07

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1623365260

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For centuries, experts have argued that learning was about memorizing information: You're supposed to study facts, dates, and details, burn them into your memory, and then apply that knowledge at opportune times. But this approach to learning isn’t nearly enough for the world that we live in today, and in Learn Better journalist and education researcher Ulrich Boser demonstrates that how we learn can matter just as much as what we learn. In this brilliantly researched book, Boser maps out the new science of learning, showing how simple techniques like comprehension check-ins and making material personally relatable can help people gain expertise in dramatically better ways. He covers six key steps to help you “learn how to learn,” all illuminated with fascinating stories like how Jackson Pollock developed his unique painting style and why an ancient Japanese counting device allows kids to do math at superhuman speeds. Boser’s witty, engaging writing makes this book feel like a guilty pleasure, not homework. Learn Better will revolutionize the way students and society alike approach learning and makes the case that being smart is not an innate ability—learning is a skill everyone can master. With Boser as your guide, you will be able to fully capitalize on your brain’s remarkable ability to gain new skills and open up a whole new world of possibilities.


College Success for Adults

College Success for Adults

Author: C.M. Gill

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-07-26

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 1000091201

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College Success for Adults: Insider Tips for Effective Learning is a concise, user-friendly guide to college success for the adult college student. In it, readers learn to master the rules, vocabulary, and expectations of the college environment. They’ll discover how to balance their work and personal lives with college-level study, develop the mindset of the successful college student, take notes effectively, conquer testing anxiety, win over their professors, and much more. Armed with the knowledge this book provides, readers will emerge with a deeper understanding of what it takes to succeed in college—and how they can achieve this success. They’ll learn how to take their own experience and wisdom as adults and translate it into success in the college classroom. Readers also receive helpful supplementary resources that will aid them on their journey to college success, including a college vocabulary glossary, college knowledge quiz (with answer key), a list of scholarships exclusively for adult students, and a suggested course syllabus (with detailed course calendar).


How The Other Half Learns

How The Other Half Learns

Author: Robert Pondiscio

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2020-06-02

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 0525533753

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An inside look at America's most controversial charter schools, and the moral and political questions around public education and school choice. The promise of public education is excellence for all. But that promise has seldom been kept for low-income children of color in America. In How the Other Half Learns, teacher and education journalist Robert Pondiscio focuses on Success Academy, the network of controversial charter schools in New York City founded by Eva Moskowitz, who has created something unprecedented in American education: a way for large numbers of engaged and ambitious low-income families of color to get an education for their children that equals and even exceeds what wealthy families take for granted. Her results are astonishing, her methods unorthodox. Decades of well-intended efforts to improve our schools and close the "achievement gap" have set equity and excellence at war with each other: If you are wealthy, with the means to pay private school tuition or move to an affluent community, you can get your child into an excellent school. But if you are poor and black or brown, you have to settle for "equity" and a lecture--about fairness. About the need to be patient. And about how school choice for you only damages public schools for everyone else. Thousands of parents have chosen Success Academy, and thousands more sit on waiting lists to get in. But Moskowitz herself admits Success Academy "is not for everyone," and this raises uncomfortable questions we'd rather not ask, let alone answer: What if the price of giving a first-rate education to children least likely to receive it means acknowledging that you can't do it for everyone? What if some problems are just too hard for schools alone to solve?


Habits of Success: Getting Every Student Learning

Habits of Success: Getting Every Student Learning

Author: Harry Fletcher-Wood

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-10-27

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 1000463990

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For students to benefit from lessons, they must attend, listen, and try their best. But at times, almost all teachers struggle to manage classroom behavior, and to motivate students to learn. Drawing on decades of research on behavioral science, this book offers teachers practical strategies to get students learning. The key is students’ habits. This book reveals simple, powerful ways to help students build habits of success. Harry Fletcher-Wood shows how teachers can use behavioral science techniques to increase motivation and improve behavior. He offers clear guidance on topics such as using role models to motivate students, making detailed plans to help students act, and building habits to ensure students keep going. The book addresses five challenges teachers face in encouraging desirable behavior: Choosing what change to prioritize Convincing students to change Encouraging students to commit to a plan Making starting easy Ensuring students keep going Workshops, checklists and real-life examples illustrate how these ideas work in the classroom and make the book a resource to revisit and share. Distilling the evidence into clear principles, this innovative book is a valuable resource for new and experienced teachers alike.


Life Lessons in Success

Life Lessons in Success

Author: Angie Dobransky

Publisher: Capucia Publishing

Published: 2021-03-11

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9781954920026

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Simple Ways to Change Your Life for the Better We'd all like to be more successful in one or more aspects of our life. Maybe you'd like a more rewarding career, a more connected and passionate romantic relationship, to own your dream home, or to make a greater positive impact in the world. Whatever your definition of success, it can be yours with the right guidance. Every successful person has one thing in common-they didn't figure it out on their own. They followed the lead of coaches, mentors, and other successful people and then applied what they learned to their life. The authors of Life Lessons in Success are no different. The 36 writers in this book met for the first time at a training event led by Jack Canfield, #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Success Principles and teacher in the hit movie The Secret. They felt a wave of deep connection after experiencing the stories shared during that live event. This bond transcended nationality, language, religion, time, and space. Each found pieces of themselves in many of the stories shared. So they decided to share their experience and wisdom in this collection of stories illustrating how to: take 100% responsibility for your life respond to life events in ways that benefit you achieve your goals through the practice of visualization take action to make your lives successful Do you think success only happens to others and not to you? With the right guidance, you can be successful in life too. Life Lessons in Success is a collection of 36 personal stories from ordinary people who changed their lives for the better. It will inspire you to take action to improve your life too. Read Life Lessons in Success and discover how to bring success into your life! Contributing Authors Angie Dobransky, Amy Burton, Grace Liang, Jeannette Paxia, Hanna Hermanson, Melissa J. Shea, Carole B. Young, Cindy Hochart, Samantha Ruth, Pam Miller, Dorota McKay, Philip Daunt, Louise Neel Hoeyer, Rupali Trehan, Mark Hugh Sam, Aparna Vemuri, Stuart B. Fields, Susan Brown, Michael Maske, Gwen Medved, Bob Sollazzo, Maggie Sullivan, Mari-Liis Sallo, Ryan Abitz, Wendy Witt, Marilyn Montgomery, Filissa Caserta, Ati Rahbani Rexroad, Johannys Jiménez-Hartog, Tammy Gibson, Shannon Faulkner, Paula Harris, George Brown, Nelly Torras, Sherry McCool, Sunil Parekh


Learning from Lincoln

Learning from Lincoln

Author: Harvey B. Alvy

Publisher: ASCD

Published: 2010-08-15

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1416610235

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Explore how today's teachers and education leaders can apply the leadership qualities of Abraham Lincoln to tackle challenges big and small.