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School Improvement

TRANSFORMING SCHOOL CULTURE

By: Anthony Muhammad

Address staff resistance and create a positive school culture with this book and video set, 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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TIMEBOMB: THE COST OF DROPPING OUT

By: Mike Mattos

This DVD addresses the urgency of reducing dropout rates and preparing students for a better future.

Timebomb addresses the urgency of reducing dropout rates and preparing students for a better future. Ideal for team meetings and whole-school professional development, the video's bold message will inspire and energize you and your team to provide the best education possible by collaborating at high levels and establishing quality systems of support.

Gain a deeper understanding of how education uplifts every aspect of a person's life, health, and well-being.

Empower teams to work collaboratively to respond to the needs of every student.

Motivate staff to build quality systems of academic and behavioral interventions.

Understand how educating today's students positively affects subsequent generations.

DVD / 2017 / 9 minutes

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CONNECTED SCHOOLS: HOW TECHNOLOGY IS CHANGING K-12 INSTRUCTION AND CONNECTING LEARNERS IN THE DIGITAL WORLD

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¡Xit'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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DEVELOPING EXPERT TEACHERS

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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ON SOLID GROUND

How PLC Practices Create the Foundation for a Successful Intervention Program

By Mike Mattos

Decades of research have demonstrated that all students can learn at high levels and that schools control the factors that make it possible. In this breakout session, Mike shows how professional learning community practices provide the foundation for a successful intervention program and offers practical, effective strategies for beginning to build that foundation. Discover straightforward practices for planning and self-assessment that create successful intervention programs.

DVD (With CD) / 2011 / 76 minutes

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PRACTICAL LOOK AT RESPONSE TO INTERVENTION, A

By Mike Mattos

A system in which struggling students must fail before they can receive additional support is being replaced by comprehensive systems of interventions. In this breakout session, Mike provides an accessible survey of response to intervention systems and explains how RTI, combined with a professional learning community foundation, creates a powerful system for achieving high levels of learning for all students.

DVD (With CD) / 2011 / 78 minutes

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CONNECTING UNDERSTANDING BY DESIGN, WHAT WORKS IN SCHOOLS, AND CURRICULUM MAPPING: CURRICULUM FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

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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NAVIGATING CONFLICT AND FEELING GOOD ABOUT IT

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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RELEASING THE POWER! DISTRICT AND SCHOOL-BASED LEADERS ON INCLUSIVE SCHOOLING AND CO-TEACHING

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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TRANSFORMING SCHOOL CULTURE: UNDERSTANDING AND OVERCOMING RESISTANCE TO NECESSARY CHANGE

By Anthony Muhammad

Discover the underlying tensions that impact school culture by identifying four different types of educators: Believers, Fundamentalists, Tweeners, and Survivors. After discussing the prevailing beliefs and assumptions of these groups, and arguing that the outcome of their collective dynamic ultimately determines the culture of a school, Dr. Muhammad shows you specific strategies for working with each group in order to create positive change.

DVD (With CD) / 2010 / 85 minutes

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DIFFERENTIATED SCHOOL, THE: MAKING REVOLUTIONARY CHANGES IN TEACHING AND LEARNING

Video scenes from three large urban schools show how educators can transform a school into an environment where differentiation is an institutionalized practice. Hear leaders from each of these schools reinforce.

How to develop a shared mission and vision with faculty and staff.

Specific steps that administrators take as they lead for change.

Strategies for implementing a Differentiated Instruction initiative.

Monitoring and evaluating to ensure success.

See how principals, staff developers, and other school leaders navigate the difficult process of implementing differentiated instruction, from setting the stage and identifying goals, to organizing supportive professional development for teachers, to monitoring and evaluating the change effort. Throughout the program, educators share many tips that have helped their school improvement efforts succeed, including:

The principal's role as the architect of change.

Getting the buy in of all faculty and staff.

Best ways to support teachers through professional development that is differentiated and focused on high quality curriculum, instruction, and assessment.

Included on the DVD are professional development resources to ensure that leaders can quickly and easily develop an action plan to support their change initiative when implementing differentiated instruction

DVD / 2009 / 60 minutes

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CONNECTING DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION, UNDERSTANDING BY DESIGN AND WHAT WORKS IN SCHOOLS: AN EXPLORATION OF RESEARCH-BASED STRATEGIES

Yes you can turn three of the leading approaches to school improvement into a unified system. This DVD of a landmark session at the 2008 Summer Conference features four of the top sages of school improvement connecting their ideas:

Carol Ann Tomlinson on Differentiated Instruction

Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins on Understanding by Design®

Robert J. Marzano on What Works in School™

Hear them discuss their three powerhouse frameworks and share the profound potentials for educators who use these models. Show this DVD at the next meeting of your school improvement team or professional learning community.

DVD / 2008 / 90 minutes

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LEADERSHIP FOR DIFFERENTIATING INSTRUCTION

Whether you're just starting to implement Differentiated Instruction or are well along in your effort, here is an essential video-based Professional Development tool to help principals, teacher leaders, and district administrators learn how to promote the use of DI in every classroom. Show the DVD to leadership teams and school improvement groups--or keep it on hand for individual checkout--to convey key concepts that are essential to success with Differentiated Instruction.

Guided by the experience of renowned authority Carol Ann Tomlinson and her work with all types of schools, this program shows an up-close and personal view of the three stages of leading a school to high-quality differentiation. Video scenes illustrate what school leaders do to get started with a differentiated approach, how they work with teachers to support the implementation of Differentiated Instruction in the classroom, and how they monitor progress. Classroom scenes and interviews with teachers and administrators address the issues that school leaders everywhere have with implementing Differentiated Instruction.

DVD (With User Guide) / 2007 / 100 minutes

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VISIT TO A DATA-DRIVEN SCHOOL DISTRICT, A

While most schools track data of some kind, a school that is truly data-driven goes way beyond typical efforts and uses data to achieve real progress in student achievement and school performance. Here's a DVD that takes you to a data-driven school district to show how data gathering and analysis is a required step to achieve desired results.

This up-close tour introduces key elements of data-driven school improvement:

How to use data in your school improvement process

What kinds of data give you a comprehensive and in-depth view of student performance and community expectations

Why collecting data from three levels--student, staff, and community--is essential

Where and when to analyze data to identify problems and give your school clear direction for improving student achievement

DVD scenes show how teachers, administrators, and students take an active role in collecting and analyzing data. Teachers demonstrate how they use data to spot achievement gaps, identify instructional improvements, and analyze the effects of improvement efforts. And school leaders explain how they create staff buy-in to the process and share data throughout the district.

Show this DVD to school improvement and teacher teams to highlight the positive impact of data-driven school improvement, and introduce audiences to methods that ensure data gathering and analysis provide direction and lead to decisions that are more likely to produce higher student achievement.

DVD (With Viewer's Guide) / 2006 / 35 minutes

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VISIT TO A FRESHMAN ADVISORY PROGRAM, A

Freshman year of high school has always been a tough year for students--with less structure, greater responsibility, and challenging academics. Students who do well in ninth grade are more likely to graduate high school than those who don't. In today's larger, test-driven high schools, freshman tend to feel isolated and overwhelmed, so teachers and administrators have to do more to ensure a welcoming and nurturing learning community for their youngest students. Show this program at your next improvement team or school climate committee meeting.

This DVD features a freshman transition program that builds community within the high school and helps freshmen achieve academically. Use the program and the workshop outlines to

Explain why a freshman advisory program is critical to overall school improvement

Help your school develop strategies for teaching freshmen how to succeed academically and socially within the high school and later on in life

Demonstrate how to use grade 10-12 students as mentors in your freshman-year transition program

Scenes throughout the DVD and interviews with teachers and students explain how to ensure your program is focused on

Teaching freshmen how to manage their time, set priorities, use good study skills, and monitor their own progress

Developing leadership and teamwork skills of the student mentors

Helping teachers manage the program, train student mentors, identify freshman students who are falling behind, and assess the effectiveness of the program

DVD (With Viewer's Guide) / 2004 / 26 minutes

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SCHOOLWIDE BEHAVIORAL SUPPORT: BUILDING SYSTEMS OF SUPPORT IN SCHOOLS

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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HOW TO RUN AN EFFECTIVE PRIMARY SCHOOL COUNCIL

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.

CD-ROM

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HOW TO RUN AN EFFECTIVE SECONDARY SCHOOL COUNCIL

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.

CD-ROM

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