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Practicing administrative clarity, or the idea that transparent expectations lead to fairness and achievement, has never been more accessible. As a leader of educational K 12 institutions, your position as a decision-maker and positive role model can always improve, and this book helps streamline the process. Inside you ll find: Ways to set goals for yourself and others; How to mark progress and positively reinforce administration delegates; Examples of forthrightness and success in school systems; And much more! Let Leading with Administrator Clarity guide you to learn and grow as an effective administrator and as a key part of shaping student lives for the better.

Help elementary school students engage in learning and achieve classroom goals through effective principles of teacher clarity. Clear communication between students and teachers is essential for effective learning. When students grasp the why and how of their education, they can better comprehend and engage with the material. However, ensuring good communication while managing curriculums, state standards, and grading can be challenging for elementary teachers. This all-in-one guide simplifies the core elements of teacher clarity, offering practical advice for integrating these concepts into the school day, along with ready-to-use classroom activities. It emphasizes the significance of shared learning progressions between students and teachers and presents effective practices for classroom settings, such as deconstructing state standards to create learning intentions, developing success criteria, fostering student awareness through structured discussions, and embedding self-assessment checks for students to evaluate their understanding. By employing research-based methods of teacher clarity, educators will recognize the importance of collaboration between students and teachers, ultimately enhancing student success.

Explore the "why," "what," and "how" of formative assessments in the classroom In The Formative Assessment Handbook: Resources to Improve Learning Outcomes for All Students, the authors, with over 40 years of cumulative classroom, school, and district and state-level experience, deliver a crucial toolkit of ready-to-go ideas, activities, and reproducibles that make it easy to implement formative assessment quickly, effectively, and efficiently. You'll also learn what formative assessment is, what it looks like, and why it’s a critical component to student achievement. The authors explain how to set your classroom up for success and develop & select learning targets and success criteria to create a clear pathway and roadmap for your formative assessments. You’ll also find: Up-to-date research supporting the use of formative assessment in the classroom Instructions for properly utilizing pre-assessments Collaborative routines you can implement during instruction Discussions of dialogic teaching and dialectic synergy An indispensable resource for both new and veteran K-12 educators, The Formative Assessment Handbook will also prove invaluable to administrators and educational coaches.