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Acceleration for All
A How-To Guide for Overcoming Learning Gaps
Closing achievement gaps is an urgent goal for all schools, not just priority schools. The authors show that remediation is not the answer. Instead, they offer educational strategies for acceleration that will level up learning for all students, as well as a framework for implementing accelerated learning schoolwide.
Benefits
- Implement practical strategies for sustained accelerated student learning
- Shift from a mindset of deficit thinking to strengths-based thinking related to student learning
- Develop opportunity equity so all students have access to grade-level learning every day
- Develop learning cycles to address instruction, assessment, and interventions or extensions as a team with a focus on every student learning grade-level standards
- Learn how to establish a learning-based culture rooted in collective efficacy
- Support teachers, teams, and students through collaborative leadership
- Create processes and procedures for continuously improving learning
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: The Case for Acceleration
Chapter 2: Culture That Accelerates Learning
Chapter 3: Priority Standards and Learning Cycles That Accelerate Learning
Chapter 4: An Assessment System That Accelerates Learning
Chapter 5: Daily Grade-Level Instruction That Accelerates Learning
Chapter 6: An Intervention System That Accelerates Learning
Chapter 7: Leadership Practices That Accelerate Learning
Chapter 8: Continuous Improvement That Accelerates Learning
Epilogue
REPRODUCIBLES
Chapter 1
- Figure 1.1: Learning Is Required Discussion Tool
- Figure 1.2: Assessment Discussion Tool
- Figure 1.3: Intervention Discussion Tool
- Chapter 1 Discussion Questions for Reflection and Action
Chapter 2
- Figure 2.2: Work of Teams in Recurring Learning Cycles
- Figure 2.3: Administrator Learning-Focus Planning Tool
- Figure 2.4: Symbol and Artifact Walk Recording Sheet
- Figure 2.8: SMART Goal Data Board
- Chapter 2 Discussion Questions for Reflection and Action
Chapter 3
- Figure 3.2: Critical Knowledge and Skills for Acceleration
- Figure 3.3: Priority Standards and Time Frames
- Figure 3.4: Unpacked Standard Template
- Figure 3.8: Learning Cycle
- Figure 3.9: Unit Plan and Calendar Template
- Figure 3.10: Ten-Day Cycle Planning Template
- Chapter 3 Discussion Questions for Reflection and Action
Chapter 4
- Figure 4.1: Assessment Audit Template
- Figure 4.3: Creating Common Assessments Checklist
- Figure 4.4: Common Assessment Rubric
- Chapter 4 Discussion Questions for Reflection and Action
Chapter 5
- Figure 5.1: Questions to Guide Lesson Design
- Chapter 5 Discussion Questions for Reflection and Action
Chapter 6
- Figure 6.3: Team Priority-Standards Tracker
- Figure 6.4: Common Formative Assessment Data Analysis for a Learning Target or Standard
- Figure 6.5: Progress-Monitoring Data Protocol for Priority Standards
- Figure 6.6: Intervention and Extension Team Plan
- Chapter 6 Discussion Questions for Reflection and Action
Chapter 7
- Figure 7.1: Leading the Right Work
- Figure 7.4: Organizer for Coach-Teacher Work During the Three-Week Coaching Cycle
- Chapter 7 Discussion Questions for Reflection and Action
Chapter 8
- Figure 8.1: The Work of Collaborative Teams to Archive
- Figure 8.4: End-of-Year Plan
- Figure 8.5: Step-Up Transition Planning Document
- Figure 8.6: Vertical Step-Up Transition Meeting Document
- Figure 8.7: Celebration Plan Template
- Chapter 8 Discussion Questions for Reflection and Action
Epilogue
- Figure E.1: Action Plan for Accelerating Learning Graphic Organizer
- Table E.1: Tools and Protocols for Next Steps
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