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Educational Administration
By Timothy D. Kanold
Empower your team to uncover their professional impact with this video set from Dr. Timothy D. Kanold. Participants will explore five essential elements - Happiness, Engagement, Alliances, Risk, and Thought - that will deepen their connection to their work and inspire them to become more reflective and mindful practitioners.
HEART! Video support passion for teaching and ongoing professional development for teachers and educators.
Consider the challenges and stressors related to the teaching profession and motivate teams to reflect on their inner strength and resiliency.
Hear stories and honest reflections from real teachers and administrators on being a professional teacher or educator and why they teach.
Explore the personal and professional qualities of a teacher that impact student learning.
Recognize, support, and engage in alliance with other educators who have an intrinsic passion for teaching and the motivation to work for the success of every student.
Understand what it means to develop and pursue a deeply mindful career as a teacher or leader.
Help staff and collaborative teaching teams think through and actualize their own personal development plan ideas and become more intentional in their professional teaching lives.
DVD / 2018 / 51 minutes
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By: Anthony Muhammad
Address staff resistance and create a positive school culture with this video, which includes Transforming School Culture by Anthony Muhammad. Follow one district's staff and educational leadership as they explore a school improvement plan that created a positive school culture and became an award-winning district.
Robert J. Marzano's five decades of education research come to life in this unscripted video workshop. Rather than quick-fix solutions, Marzano provides the foundation teams need to usher in a new era of competency-based student learning. A companion to The New Art and Science of Teaching, the DVD details three overarching categories of teaching and features 20 new research-based instructional strategies shown to have the greatest impact on student success in classrooms.
This competency-based education video provides K - 12 educators with the following tools to improve student learning outcomes:
Twenty innovative strategies, and guidance for implementing effective teaching methods in classrooms
High-quality footage demonstrating the instructional strategies in real classroom settings
Guidance for implementing the three overarching categories of teaching
New techniques for student engagement in meaningful learning experiences
DVD / 2018
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With William H. Parrett, Kathleen M. Budge
Drawing upon their years studying high-poverty, high-performing schools, William Parrett and Kathleen Budge identify the common practices and structures that effective schools put into action as well as the unproductive processes these schools eliminate. This data forms the basis of their framework for action to help get all students learning to high standards. It's not a one-size-fits-all approach; you'll discover the critical components that set these institutions apart from their struggling peers. In Disrupting Poverty in the Elementary School, you'll visit schools where district leaders, school leaders, and teachers have found great success by improving practices, or eliminating what's not working, in the key areas of:
Building leadership capacity.
Fostering a healthy, safe, and supporting learning environment.
Focusing on student, professional, and system learning.
Learn what these schools do to help students succeed and how your school can adopt the same practices to disrupt the cycle of poverty and lift students to achievement.
DVD / 2016 / 60 minutes
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With William H. Parrett, Kathleen M. Budge
What can you do to disrupt poverty in your school and turn it into a high-achieving school? In this DVD, William Parrett and Kathleen Budge look at secondary schools that are pushing impoverished students to high achievement. They identify the common practices and structures these schools put into action as well as the processes they eliminate. This data forms the basis of their framework for action designed to help schools get all students learning to high standards. Visit a middle and high school where district leaders, school leaders, and teachers have found great success by improving practices in
Building leadership capacity
Fostering a healthy, safe, and supporting learning environment
Focusing on student, professional, and system learning.
Learn what these schools do to help students succeed and how you and your school can adopt the same practices to disrupt the cycle of poverty and lift students to achievement.
DVD / 2016 / 60 minutes
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Author and educator, Erik Palmer, puts the spotlight on the often-neglected language arts by offering new and exciting ways to bolster students' speaking skills.
Teachers assign oral activities, but they don't usually spend much time teaching students how to be successful with those activities. What does it take for students to be effective oral communicators?
Listen Up! Speaking Matters answers that important question. Veteran teacher and author, Erik Palmer, presents an approach to teaching speaking skills that is focused on preparing students for 21st century communication both inside and beyond the classroom.
You'll visit elementary, middle, and high school classrooms where teachers are guiding and assessing students in collaborative discussions, media literacy, questioning and reasoning, speech presentation, effective multimedia use, and adapting speech to different content and tasks. You'll learn about PVLEGS (Poise, Voice, Life, Eye contact, Gestures, Speed) and how this concept can help students become more effective public speakers.
Throughout the video, Palmer provides his expert advice on how teachers can focus on oral communication in their classroom and how these techniques can be implemented on a school-wide basis. You'll also see him jump back into the classroom with a lesson on making thoughtful and targeted presentations to different audiences.
Listen Up! Speaking Matters is a key resource for teachers and schools committed to helping students acquire essential oral communication skills that cross content areas and support long-term success.
DVD / 2016 / 45 minutes
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With Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey
Experience Fit Teaching, a coherent approach designed for schools and districts to ensure that high-quality teaching and learning occurs in every classroom, every day.
The role of the educator is an intellectually demanding one requiring the support of clear, research-based strategies to ensure success. That's where FIT Teaching in Action comes in. Drawing on the work of authors and educators, Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey, this video outlines their FIT Teaching framework, a tool for teachers that provides them with the strategies and expertise they need to elevate instruction. Fisher and Frey have developed a system of tactics that, when consistently and thoughtfully implemented, results in success for all. Using FIT Teaching framework, teachers can show continuous growth in a high-stakes evaluation process; more important, students are provided the opportunity to flourish.
In Fit Teaching you'll see teachers at all levels using the four elements of the framework (School and Classroom Culture, Establishing a Purpose, Gradual Release of Responsibility, Formative and Summative Assessments) to support their students in learning. You'll also hear Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey's expert advice and practical guidance on implementing the FIT Teaching framework at your school.
Embracing FIT Teaching provides teachers with the tools for success they need in the classroom and offers a foundation for achievement that all students deserve.
DVD / 2015 / 65 minutes
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The Reflective Educator: A Collaborative Approach DVD profiles teachers working with administrators and coaches to take charge of their professional growth and move along the path to excellence by becoming reflective practitioners.
Capacity building is the focus of Pete Hall and Alisa Simeral's work, and their strategies are becoming the model for instructional coaching in schools across the country.
This video takes an in-depth look at a school where three teachers are taking steps to grow as reflective practitioners with the help of Hall and Simeral's strategies. We see them working in partnership with their administrator and instructional coach to make use of Hall and Simeral's Reflective Cycle and the Continuum of Self-Reflection tools. Each teacher is at a different stage on the Continuum and by observing their practice, we'll learn about the specific strategies for growth that each stage calls for.
We'll also observe the key role administrators and coaches play in building teachers' capacity for success. We'll see them identifying and nurturing their teachers' strengths to help them reach new levels of professional success and satisfaction.
The Reflective Educator: A Collaborative Approach shows that teachers are a school's most essential strength. As their capacity for success increases, so does their ability to positively affect the students they guide.
DVD / 2015 / 56 minutes
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When taking a hard look at assessment policies in schools, the most obvious question is: do the grades we assign to students truly reflect the extent of their learning? And the unfortunate answer is... probably not. In studying many of the assessment policies that teachers adopt, it becomes clear that they can actually prove detrimental to student motivation and achievement. But it doesn't need to be this way.
In this video, discover that policies can be tailored to focus on what really matters, student understanding of the content. Author and educator, Myron Dueck, and his talented colleagues at high schools in Penticton and Summerland, British Columbia, will open a window into their classrooms as they work on figuring this out. Learn how they're revamping their assessment procedures and developing a variety of new practical strategies and consider key ideas like:
Teachers should grade smarter, not harder. Smarter thinking and planning will actually diminish a teacher's workload.
Teachers often function better as coaches.
Learning is more important than grades. Rather than grading everything students do regardless of its purpose, organizing lessons according to learning goals and identifying clear levels of performance keeps the focus on learning. Then, improvement will follow.
Positive relationships are essential for success in teaching and learning, and changing assessment strategies can have a profound effect on the relationship between teacher and student.
DVD / 2015 / 73 minutes
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Moving From Coordination to Collaboration in a PLC at Work
By Mike Mattos
Build a powerful PLC to meet the needs of every student. Based on Mike Mattos's 1-5-10 team-evaluation activity, this unscripted video will give your team the know-how to transition from a low- to high-performing team. Explore the three foundational elements to build strong teams: forming the right teams that share learning outcomes, providing dedicated time to collaborate, and collaborating professionally.
Gain advice from real PLC teams that identify the key elements of a high-performing team.
Access practical activities and tools necessary to improve team function and collaboration.
Explore the process for creating a 10 Team through activities.
Weave the short format into your busy schedule and view the video all at once, alone, or with a team.
DVD / 2014 / 43 minutes
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Based on the book, College Acceleration, Eric J. Ban presents the stories of four secondary school leaders-all of whom have demonstrated an ability to lead diverse environments to drive gains in college, career, and workforce readiness that twenty-first century business require. School leaders will learn the four-part leadership framework of the College Acceleration Network: Leadership, Assessment, Intervention and Partnerships. These principles are research-based and classroom-proven to increase student engagement through personalized learning.
Ban starts with leadership philosophy and quickly moves into areas of training that will challenge your community to examine and adopt tangible practices for student success. From assessment protocols and regional economic partnerships to specific programs such as Gateways-a program developed at Dayton Early College to improve students' intellectual habits and management skills. The accompanying instructional guide will assist school leadership teams in this work.
DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2013 / 77 minutes
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By Lynn Murray
Connected Schools, the only DVD on the market documenting the wiring of American schools.
This DVD will demonstrate effective uses of technology for K-12 classrooms that will help American students thrive in the connected world. Schools must teach students about digital citizenship, accountability and appropriate Internet use, collaboration, evaluating sources, tech tools, and knowledge creation. This DVD highlights innovations that any teacher can integrate into classroom life. The hardware and applications will change, but the principles will remain true. It's not all about the technology - it's about the learning.
The rate of technological development is exponential; it keeps speeding up. The more we speed up communication and access, the more we interact with people all over the world. This is a two-edged sword, fostering collaboration and increasing competition. Businesses and services are no longer limited by geographic boundaries. The whole world is connected in real-time. To prepare students for globalization, schools must change their environments and strategies, and engage the digital world students live in every day. We need to do new things in new ways. Our students need new skills and capabilities. We have to learn to live and thrive in this world in order to prepare our students for active citizenship, satisfactory work lives, and life-long learning.
DVD / 2012 / 136 minutes
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By Ken Kay
The term 21st century education is used to describe myriad trends. In this keynote, Ken argues that for the term to have meaning, 21st century education must be rooted in knowledge and skills that ensure readiness for every student. Providing examples of successful districts and models, he outlines the need for local, state, and federal leaders to create polices that support a new approach for every school.
DVD (With CD) / 2011 / 67 minutes
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By Robert J. Marzano
Dr. Marzano provides a blueprint for how schools and districts can develop teacher expertise.
Gain a blueprint for how schools and districts can develop teacher expertise. Beginning with the premise that excellent teachers are made, not born, Dr. Marzano walks through research-based techniques on how districts and schools can emphasize professional growth, with ties to teacher evaluation. Dr. Marzano delivers specific techniques through research, audience participation, and personal reflection.
DVD (With CD) / 2011 / 130 minutes
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By Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour
Transforming a school into a professional learning community requires changing behaviors, beliefs, and processes, which can cause resistance and conflict. This video shows how to hold conversations that lead to higher levels of commitment to core PLC practices. Richard and Rebecca model a principal and a teacher engaging in such a conversation, then the process is analyzed.
Counteract behavioral resistance, and resolve conflicts in a tactful yet professional manner.
Discover the five elements to successfully engage in difficult conversations.
Gain research-based techniques for collaborating with your team using best practices to guarantee results.
Determine how to overcome resistance and conflict with effective collaboration and leadership.
DVD / 2011 / 30 minutes
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In this DVD, Baruti Kafele, educator and author of the blockbuster Motivating Black Males to Achieve in School and in Life, helps teachers and administrators understand how to address critical issues facing many young black male students. He provides practical tools and empowering examples that schools can integrate into their programs and practices right away, including
How to address the crisis of self-identity that many young black males face today.
How to encourage reflective practice among teachers of young black male students.
How to motivate and encourage young black males by establishing and leading a Young Men's Empowerment Program.
Walk the school hallways with Baruti Kafele and learn what it takes to motivate, educate, and empower young black males to succeed in school and in life.
DVD / 2011 / 40 minutes
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Hear the leading experts on three powerhouse approaches to school improvement:
Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins on Understanding by Design®
Robert Marzano on What Works in Schools®
Heidi Hayes Jacobs on Curriculum Mapping
Filmed live at a recent conference, their discussion illuminates how educators can use these models to increase classroom success for today's students. Use this DVD in your next team meeting or with your professional learning community to explore the relationships among these models and how they individually and together can improve curriculum, instruction, assessment, and learning environment.
DVD / 2010 / 90 minutes
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By Cassandra Erkens
Many leaders avoid addressing conflict because they fear long-term negative effects. While navigating conflict feels nerve-racking at the outset, there are specific ways leaders can address conflict to elicit respect, improve rapport, and enable progress. Using humor, personal stories, and participant interaction, Cassandra shares strategies, skills, and guidelines to address conflict safely and directly.
DVD (With CD) / 2010 / 60 minutes
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Hosted by Dr. Marilyn Friend
Leaders at the Charlotte-Mecklenberg School District decided that to meet achievement and accountability standards mandated in federal education law, they had to do something very different. If students with IEPs continued to be educated largely in special classes and resource rooms, those students would have a difficult path to success. Releasing the Power illustrates how the Charlotte-Mecklenberg School District researched, created, and implemented a district-wide co-teaching initiative. Today CMS is an exemplary model of what can happen when a district releases the power of two.
First on this DVD, CMS Superintendent and his top deputy for Special Education discuss the district's inclusive practices and co-teaching journey from conception through implementation. Then you'll hear CMS principals discuss, in practical detail, the expectations, challenges, and supports necessary to ensure all students are learning in co-taught classrooms.
DVD (Closed Captioned) / 2010 / 59 minutes
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Learning by Doing
By Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker, Thomas W. Many
This short program shows exactly what collaborative teams do. Aligned with the best-selling book Learning by Doing, the video features unscripted footage of collaboration in action. Learn how team norms are managed; how teams organize, interact, and find time to meet; what products they produce; and what team conversations about the critical questions of student learning look like.
Learn the value of uncompromised, continuous work with educators.
Unleash the powerful PLC at Work framework for gaining and sustaining momentum with your collaborative team.
Close the knowing-doing gap by leveraging research-based tools and strategies.
Move beyond the planning phase, and begin to implement actionable changes that progress learning.
Discover how to engage your students by targeting issues that they are invested in to amplify learning.
DVD (With Facilitator's Guide) / 2009 / 30 minutes
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By Nancy French
From one of the nation's leading authorities, Dr. Nancy French, University of Colorado at Denver, comes a comprehensive and powerful two-set DVD for the effective supervision and training of paraeducators. In today's school environments, teacher aides/assistants/monitors play a critical support role in the delivery of quality instruction, the implementation of accommodations/modifications for students with special needs, as well as in the supervision/monitoring of students during less structured times of the day.
In order to most effectively utilize paraeducators, schools need to provide an environment where teachers "coach" and paraeducators "learn" to better understand their roles and responsibilities. This DVD program addresses the supervision and support of paraeducators as they work in:
Inclusive/co-teaching classrooms
Response To Intervention (RTI) and data collection roles
Implementing instructional accommodations modifications
Student supervision and behavior monitoring
This DVD set is cost-effective for the training of both teachers and paraeducators.
2 DVDs / 2009 / 69 minutes
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By Alan Gartner, Kerzner Lipsky
This production provides a comprehensive framework for administrators, teachers and staff developers to build an effective schoolwide approach that focuses on "service" rather than "location" in teaching special education students. Using clips from actual classrooms. the framework takes on additional meaning as its main features are seen "in action." This is true theory in practice and includes reference to RTI.
The viewer will, by watching the video be able to:
Understand the concept of a "whole school" approach to inclusion
Recognize the value that an effective school-wide approach has on all students
Observe best inclusionary practices, based upon experience and current research that support growth of all students
Identify the components of effective co-teaching, and be familiar with print resources from the manual that support on-going development of collaborative teams
Recognize that inclusive environments support the needs of a diverse learning community, such as ELL, at risk, etc.
Identify roles of all stakeholders in the implementation of a whole school approach
Better understand Response to Intervention (RTI)
DVD (With Publication) / 2008 / 38 minutes
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By Fran Peek
For general and special educators, parents, and students committed to creating a more inclusive and tolerant school and community, Celebrating Diversity: A Universal Message from The Real Rain Man provides a powerful teaching and learning tool. An excellent resource for staff development, parent training and/or for use with students in grades 5-12 as part of a character education unit. Meet Kim Peek, The Real Rain Man, observe him interact with students and demonstrate his unique gifts. Through his life's story, viewers will learn about accepting differences in others, developing tolerance and fostering a greater understanding of diversity.
DVD / 2007 / (Grades 5-2) / 27 minutes
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By Joseph S. Renzulli
Based on the belief that "a rising tide lifts all ships", the Schoolwide Enrichment Model (SEM) is a proven plan for infusing a broad range of high-end learning strategies into existing school programs and standard-based reform initiatives. SEM helps educators and schools develop the gifts, and talents, of all students, by using gifted education teaching practices, with all students.
In the video, Joseph Renzulli and Sally Reis take viewers inside schools where they will observe the Schoolwide Enrichment Model in action and meet teachers, principals, and students who have benefited from this easy-to implement plan. SEM places a premium on local school involvement, and the belief that all students are capable of developing their unique talents through the use of challenging, and enriching teaching practices.
DVD (With VHS, Publication) / 2007 / 40 minutes
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Narrated by Dr. Wayne Sailor
This program illustrates how White Church Elementary School in Kansas City, Kansas created a unified system to support the learning needs of all students regardless of label or severity of need. Their implementation of the six principles of the School-wide Application Model (SAM), created by Wayne Sailor from the University of Kansas and Blair Roger of Oakland, California, has allowed them to create a learning environment where all students are honored and their parents engaged. All students receive the learning support they need; all staff subscribe to a data-driven, standards-based educational program; and, as a result, all students are successful. They are proud to report that they have met their schoolwide AYP for the past three years, but not only that, in 2004 90% of the students achieved proficiency in math and literacy, well above the state average!
At White Church Elementary School you will see the following SAM Principles in action and how they are making a difference for the entire school community in terms of student achievement, policy, practice, and the professional development needed to continually improve:
The SAM principles frame the program. They are:
1. All Instruction is Guided by General Education
2. All School Resources are Configured to Benefit All Students
3. Schools are Team Driven, Data-Driven, Problem Solving Organizations
4. Schools Proactively Address Student Social Development & Citizenship
5. Schools Have Open Boundaries in Relation to Their Family & Community
6. Each School has District Support for Undertaking the Extensive Systems Change Activities
DVD / 2004 / 56 minutes
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Schoolwide Behavioral Support (SBS) is a systems approach to build a school's capacity to adopt and sustain effective teaching practices that improve academic, personal and social outcomes for all students. Our video team followed two Indianapolis public schools for a year as they incorporated SBS in their schools. The fundamental assumption of SBS is that behavior can and should be taught just as we teach academics.
This program chronicles the step-by-step training of leadership teams in both schools by Indiana University facilitators. The teams and facilitators demonstrate the eight elements of behavioral support identified in the research of Timothy Lewis and George Sugai.
Consider SBS in your school if problem behavior is drawing energy away from instruction
8 Elements of the Process
1. Establish Priority and Mission
2. Select and Develop a Leadership Team
3. Examine Behavioral Support Needs through Data
4. Establish Schoolwide Behavioral Expectations
5. Establish Procedures to Teach Behavioral Expectations Across All Settings
6. Encourage Expected Behaviors
7. Discourage Problem Behaviors
8. Monitor Implementation and Progress
DVD (With Resource Guide) / 2002 / 59 minutes
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By William Glasser, M.D.
Dr. William Glasser, world-renowned lecturer and author, provides an insightful and informative presentation on Building a Quality School.
The viewer will be able to:
Learn the theory and concepts of choice theory
Understand how to implement Choice Theory and become a Quality School
Recognize the intrinsic advantages of Choice Theory over the external control theory of reward and punishment
Hear from children, parents and teachers about the positive aspects of a Quality School
View the impact of a Quality School environment on actual classrooms and schools
Understand the value of self-evaluation as a key to learning and life
DVD / 1998 / 34 minutes
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By Sue Neame & Ashley Ross
An effective School Council, which allows pupils' views to be listened to, will make them feel more valued members of the school. They will learn active citizenship, their personal, social and moral development will be supported and their behaviour in and around school will be improved. In turn their enhanced self-esteem will contribute to more effective learning.
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By Sue Neame & Ashley Ross
This resource aims to help you run a highly effective school council which will allow students' views to be heard and enable them to develop personally, socially and morally. This in turn will improve behaviour and enhance self-esteem, thereby contributing to more effective learning.
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