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Becoming a Great High School

6 Strategies and 1 Attitude That Make a Difference

By: Tim R. Westerberg

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Becoming a Great High School

6 Strategies and 1 Attitude That Make a Difference

By: Tim R. Westerberg

What will it take to move your high school to the next level? In Becoming a Great High School, former principal Tim Westerberg emphasizes that significant improvement in any high school must start with improving the quality of instruction in the classroom. But the isolated efforts of individual teachers aren't enough. If your school is functioning like "a collection of educational entrepreneurs held together by a common parking lot," it's time for teachers and administrators to work together and pursue comprehensive, coordinated strategies that will help all students succeed. Westerberg's 6+1 Model for High School Reform shows how high-achieving schools maintain success and identifies what other schools can do to achieve similar results: * Adopt a we-expect-success attitude. * Develop clear instructional goals. * Implement effective instruction. * Use frequent formative assessment. * Track student progress. * Provide timely intervention for struggling students. * Celebrate student success. Westerberg provides comprehensive research on high school reform from leading education experts, candid examples from his 26 years as a principal, and thought-provoking insights from other high school leaders who have taken up the call to improve their schools. If you're ready to take your high school to the next level, this book will give you the tools and strategies to make the leap and create a school that enables all students to reach their full potential.

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141661205X

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Charting a Course to Standards-Based Grading

What to Stop, What to Start, and Why It Matters

By: Tim R. Westerberg

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Charting a Course to Standards-Based Grading

What to Stop, What to Start, and Why It Matters

By: Tim R. Westerberg

What's the best way to ensure that grading policies are fair, accurate, and consistent across classrooms? How can schools transition to a grading system that better reflects what students are actually learning? Tim R. Westerberg makes this journey easier by offering a continuum of options, with four "destinations" on the road to improved grading and assessment. Destination 1 critically examines such popular grading mechanisms as the zero, extra credit, the "semester killer" project, averaging, mixing academic performance with work ethic, and refusing to accept late work, and explains how they undermine objectivity and instead result in widely divergent grades for comparable work--with major consequences for students. Destination 2 invites educators to put assessment and grading into the larger context of a districtwide guaranteed and viable curriculum and lays out the organizational conditions and necessary steps to accomplish this goal. Destination 3 brings parents and others on board with a multiyear implementation plan and community engagement strategies for introducing report cards that indicate student achievement by standards rather than--or in addition to--letter grades. Destination 4, competency-based education, involves a total rethinking of the nature and structure of school, leading to individualized education for all students. However far they choose to go, administrators and teacher leaders can turn to Charting a Course to Standards-Based Grading for the quick wins and long-term support and guidance they need to make the trip well worth the effort.

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1416622667

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9781416622666

Charting a Course to Standards-based Grading

What to Stop, what to Start, and why it Matters

By: Tim Westerberg

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Charting a Course to Standards-based Grading

What to Stop, what to Start, and why it Matters

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Tim R. Westerberg guides educators to four key destinations on the road to improved grading and assessment.

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Charting a Course to Standards-Based Grading

What to Stop, What to Start, and Why It Matters

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What to Stop, What to Start, and Why It Matters

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Becoming a Great High School

Becoming a Great High School

Charting a Course to Standards-Based Grading

Charting a Course to Standards-Based Grading

Charting a Course to Standards-based Grading

Charting a Course to Standards-based Grading

Charting a Course to Standards-Based Grading

Charting a Course to Standards-Based Grading

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