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It all starts with Instruction

“The challenge in schools today is not just to get more students to pass tests, but to create new knowledge about how to improve instruction” Tony Wagner Harvard

He goes on to say…. “More testing, alone, will not improve teaching. We must understand clearly all of the elements of a more systemic approach to strengthening teaching in every classroom.” Tony Wagner is the co-director of the Change Leadership Group at Harvard University’s graduate school of education, in Cambridge, Mass.

His success in schools concludes that in order to improve student achievement a district must consider… The 7 Disciplines For Strengthening Instruction

The district creates an understanding and a sense of urgency among teachers and in the community for the necessity of improving all students' learning, and it regularly reports on progress. Data are disaggregated and are transparent to everyone. #1

There is a widely shared vision of what good teaching is, which is focused on rigorous expectations, the quality of student engagement, and effective strategies for personalizing learning for all students. #2

All adult meetings are about instruction and are models of good teaching. #3

There are well-defined standards and performance assessments for student work at all grade levels. Both teachers and students understand what quality work looks like, and there is consistency in standards of assessment. #4

Supervision is frequent, rigorous, and entirely focused on the improvement of instruction. It is done by people who know what good instruction looks like. #5

Professional development is primarily on-site, intensive, collaborative, and job-embedded, and is designed and led by educators who model the best teaching and learning practices. #6

Data are used diagnostically at frequent intervals by teams of teachers, schools, and districts to assess each student's learning and to identify the most effective teaching practices. There is time built into schedules for this shared work. #7

These disciplines align with our belief that we need to go beyond testing and look at other classroom evidence in order to improve student achievement. We also believe it starts with examining teaching and learning. Take a look at this video…..

Based on the grades what is good teaching? Are the grades and reasons for the grading aligned? Would this be the same in your district or school? How can we expect students to achieve when there are different expectations for what is good teaching?

What is evidence of good teaching? Student work? Grade Books? Attendance? Observations? Lesson plans?

In this academy….. we see the role of the leader is to assist with the examination of classroom data, make claims about what you see, go back to the evidence to substantiate the claim and then offer an interpretation or analysis of the evidence. The role of the leader than is to provide feedback, identify next steps and what he/she will follow up on ( maybe providing time/ resources/ etc… and then follow through with monitoring

You will now have a chance to work with some classroom data to practice this: The CEI tool can lead us with: What is happening? Claim Based on what evidence? Evidence So what/ (draw a conclusion) now what? Interpretation – What does it mean? What are the next steps?