Minding the Achievement Gap One Classroom at a Time

Minding the Achievement Gap One Classroom at a Time

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  • Author: Jane E. Pollock
  • Publisher: ASCD
  • ISBN: 1416614710
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 163

The achievement gap is a persistent and perplexing challenge for educators. While school- and system-level reforms continue to be discussed in statehouses and district offices, individual teachers are challenged to do something now to help students who are falling short of standards, including students who are English language learners and receiving special education services. A companion to the ASCD best-seller Improving Student Learning One Teacher at a Time, this book identifies small, specific adjustments to planning, teaching, and assessment practices that will support more effective learning in every student, every day, and help close the achievement gap on a classroom-by-classroom basis. Here, you'll learn how to * Use readily available tools--curriculum documents, a plan book, and a grade book--to improve all students' access to, interaction with, and mastery of lesson content. * Design daily lessons that clarify learning goals and require students to use high-yield learning strategies, seek feedback, and reflect on their progress. * Promote the progress of English language learners through coordinated pursuit of content and language goals, and synchronize instruction to improve the performance of special education students in both co-teaching and resource environments. This book also features the voices of working educators who share how "minding the gap" has helped them engage academically at-risk students, ELLs, and special education students; improve students' test scores; and sustain these gains over time. If you are a classroom teacher or specialist committed to helping all your students become more successful learners and unwilling to wait for high-level solutions or even the results of another "data retreat," then this is just the resource you need.


Minding the Achievement Gap One Classroom at a Time

Minding the Achievement Gap One Classroom at a Time

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  • Author: Jane E. Pollock
  • Publisher: ASCD
  • ISBN: 1416613846
  • Category : Academic achievement
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 163

A companion to Improving Student Learning One Teacher at a Time, this book identifies small, specific adjustments to planning, teaching, and assessment practices that will support more effective learning in every student, every day, and help close the achievement gap on a classroom-by-classroom basis. --from publisher description


Improving Student Learning One Teacher at a Time

Improving Student Learning One Teacher at a Time

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  • Author: Jane E. Pollock
  • Publisher: ASCD
  • ISBN: 1416605207
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 155

Learn how making the right adjustments in four critical areas of practice-curriculum, instruction, assessment, and feedback-can help any teacher significantly improve student learning.


Learning in the Fast Lane

Learning in the Fast Lane

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  • Author: Suzy Pepper Rollins
  • Publisher: ASCD
  • ISBN: 1416618708
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 187

This book offers fresh insights into your students' learning difficulties and moves you to explore classroom practices that align with the functioning of memory and the ways students learn.


Becoming the Educator They Need

Becoming the Educator They Need

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  • Author: Robert Jackson
  • Publisher: ASCD
  • ISBN: 1416628223
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 146

"They don't care about their education." "They are not capable of learning." "I can't work with them." "I can't get through to them." Just as you may have thought these things about your students, they, too, may have similar thoughts about you: "She doesn't care about my education." "He is not capable of understanding me." "I can't work with her." "I can't get through to him." While all students in your class, building, or school district need your support, the Black and Latino male students—the most underserved, suspended, and expelled students in education—need you to understand them as you support them so that they can thrive academically. In Becoming the Educator They Need, former professional athlete turned educator Robert Jackson reminds teachers and administrators that although "a great majority of all the stories in the news about Black and Latino males are negative," these young men—the most likely to be incarcerated, drop out of school, and become victims of homicide—need you to work through any biases you may have and internalize and employ the five core beliefs and mindsets necessary to best serve your Black and Latino male students, the six core values for teaching Black and Latino males, and the 11 characteristics of strong, healthy relationships and become the educator that these students need.


Changing Policies to Close the Achievement Gap

Changing Policies to Close the Achievement Gap

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  • Author: Cynthia D. Prince
  • Publisher: R&L Education
  • ISBN: 9781578861200
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 116

Closing the academic achievement gap is one of the most complex challenges that school system leaders face. Closing the gap became even more urgent with the enactment of the No Child Left Behind Act. For the first time, the federal government has set a deadline for closing the gap, requiring schools to bring all students to proficient levels of academic performance in twelve years. How much of the achievement gap can be attributed to what school districts themselves may be doing? What factors and conditions impede progress toward closing the achievement gap? And what can superintendents do to narrow as much of the gap as they can? These questions led to the development of this guide. In Changing Policies to Close the Achievement Gap Cynthia Prince identifies state and local policies that tend to make the achievement gap worse and describes policy changes that superintendents have made with the support of their boards to help narrow the gap. She also examines policies that aggravate the inequitable distribution of quality teachers and principals, that restrict student access to challenging coursework, and that reduce academic instruction time. Prince argues that closing the gap will require serious efforts to change these policies and other conditions that impede the ability of school districts to bring all students to high levels of performance.


The i5 Approach

The i5 Approach

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  • Author: Jane E. Pollock
  • Publisher: ASCD
  • ISBN: 1416624562
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 179

If the three r's define education's past, there are five i's—information, images, interaction, inquiry, and innovation—that forecast its future, one in which students think for themselves, actively self-assess, and enthusiastically use technology to further their learning and contribute to the world. What students need, but too often do not get, is deliberate instruction in the critical and creative thinking skills that make this vision possible. The i5 approach provides a way to develop these skills in the context of content-focused and technology-powered lessons that give students the opportunity to 1. Seek and acquire new information. 2. Use visual images and nonlinguistic representations to add meaning. 3. Interact with others to obtain and provide feedback and enhance understanding. 4. Engage in inquiry—use and develop a thinking skill that will expand and extend knowledge. 5. Generate innovative insights and products related to the lesson goals. Jane E. Pollock and Susan Hensley explain the i5 approach’s foundations in brain research and its links to proven instructional principles and planning models. They provide step-by-step procedures for teaching 12 key thinking skills and share lesson examples from teachers who have successfully "i5'ed" their instruction. With practical guidance on how to revamp existing lessons, The i5 Approach is an indispensable resource for any teacher who wants to help students gain deeper and broader content understanding and become stronger and more innovative thinkers.


Cultural Literacy for the Common Core

Cultural Literacy for the Common Core

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  • Author: Bonnie M. Davis
  • Publisher: Solution Tree Press
  • ISBN: 1936764423
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 210

Build your cultural literacy while inspiring deep, thoughtful, unbiased thinking in students. Discover a six-step framework for becoming culturally literate that complements the Common Core and encourages students to be at the center of learning. Explore how to develop teacher-student relationships, engage in collaborative conversations, and encourage feedback to give voice to the increasingly diverse student body found in today’s classrooms


Bridging the Achievement Gap

Bridging the Achievement Gap

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  • Author: John E. Chubb
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
  • ISBN: 0815714025
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 252

The achievement gap between white students and African American and Hispanic students has been debated by scholars and lamented by policymakers since it was first documented in 1966. The average black or Hispanic secondary school student currently achieves at about the same level as the average white student in the lowest quartile of white achievement. Black and Hispanic students are much less likely than white students to graduate from high school, acquire a college or advanced degree, or earn a middle-class living. They are also much more likely than whites to suffer social problems that often accompany low income. While educators have gained an understanding of the causes and effects of the education achievement gap, they have been less successful in finding ways to eliminate it—until now. This book provides, for the first time in one place, evidence that the achievement gap can be bridged. A variety of schools and school reforms are boosting the achievement of black and Hispanic students to levels nearing those of whites. Bridging the Achievement Gap brings together the findings of renowned education scholars who show how various states, school districts, and individual schools have lifted the achievement levels of poor and minority students. The most promising strategies include focusing on core academic skills, reducing class size, enrolling students in more challenging courses, administering annual achievement assessment tests, creating schools with a culture of competition and success, and offering vouchers in big-city school districts. While implementing new educational programs on a large scale is fraught with difficulties, these successful reform efforts offer what could be the start of widespread effective solutions for bridging the achievement gap.


The Educator's Handbook for Understanding and Closing Achievement Gaps

The Educator's Handbook for Understanding and Closing Achievement Gaps

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  • Author: Joseph Murphy
  • Publisher: Corwin Press
  • ISBN: 1412964555
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 305

Synthesizes the most current research to help school leaders understand the achievement gap and provides strategies to address the external society factors and internal school factors that contribute to this issue.