Tools & Talk: Data, Conversation, and Action for Classroom and School Improvement
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ORDER NOW! By Michael Murphy How do teachers and coaches start a conversation that will lead to improved practice? This book provides structures and suggestions to answer that question for anyone who works with classroom teachers to find new ways to improve student learning. Ready-to-use tools kick start discussions around how to build responsive, brain-based classrooms, create engaging student tasks, and form a classroom community of respect and learning. Data-gathering tools begin to help teachers and coaches examine student engagement, how lesson and classroom design work together to support optimal learning, whether the school and classroom environment welcomes all students, and how well teachers are managing instructional processes. Murphy provides a framework for conversations around the data, as well as prompts that allow coaches to discuss the findings in a collegial, collaborative way that encourages teachers to think critically about their own practices. With an emphasis on strengthening supportive relationships rather than evaluation and a “gotcha” interaction, Murphy shows principals, assistant principals, instructional specialists, and anyone in a position to affect instruction how to gather and use data to improve teaching and contribute to schoolwide change. NSDC, 2009