Resources

Alphabetical Topics of Interest:

Academic Content Standards:

KyStandards.org

Acronyms:

The Ridiculously Long List Of Kentucky Educational Acronyms

Assessment in Instruction:

Collective Efficacy & Collective Teacher Efficacy:

Conferencing & Coaching:

Coaching+: Link to support digital coaching. Digital instructional design can play a major role in providing students with voice and choice through differentiation and personalization. At the center of the design and implementation is effective coaching that supports the process from beginning through reflection allowing teachers to more accurately determine what learners know and still need to accomplish.
Sample Questions for mid-year conferencing
Sample Mid-year Conference Protocol with coaching questions.
The Power of Educational Coaching--"By asking the teacher probing, open-ended questions, the administrator helps the teacher reflect and analyze an issue of the teacher's choosing and then asks the all powerful question: "What are you going to do about it?"
Feedback on Teaching: SREB Article (July 2017)
Feedback: Strategies for enhancing the impact of post -observation feedback for teachers --Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching "Approached with the strategies outlined here, feedback conversations can challenge rather than threaten, encouraging teachers in pedagogical advancement and the steady improvement of practice." (p. 9)
Post-Observation Coaching Protocol (Principals with Teachers/Other Professionals)
Post-Observation Coaching Protocol (Principal Supervisors with Principals)

Curriculum, Instruction, & Assessment:

Deeper Learning

Book Recommendations:
- Leadership for Deeper Learning by Jayson Richardson, Scott McLeod, and Justin Bathon
- Most Likely To Succeed by Mike Wagner
- What School Could Be by Ted Dintersmith
Deeper Learning Video Series by Justin Bathon

Equity:

Kentucky's DEIB (Diversity, Equality, Inclusion, and Belonging) from KDE

Family & Community Engagement:

Kentucky Collaborative for Families and Schools from The Prichard Committee

Growth Mindset:

Link to Chip Southworth's resources and information about how to provide professional development for your school/district staff to engage in effective ways to build growth mindset.
Mind/Shift Resource page for teaching strategies, motivation, and big ideas around mindset.

Mathematics Instruction:

+8 Teaching Practices and KFfT Crosswalk Document

+K-5 Math Teaching Resources

+Middle and High School Teaching Resources

Novice Reduction:

+KDE Link to Novice Reduction for Gap Closure

Observation & Feedback:

+Observation Google Sheets (You are forced to make a copy to save to your Drive)

+Observation Excel Spreadsheets (Specialists Frameworks, included)

+Feedback on Teaching: SREB Article (July 2017)

+Learning-Focused Evaluations-- This is an excerpt from Evaluating for Impact

+Post-Observation Coaching Protocol (Principals with Teachers/Other Professionals)

+Post-Observation Coaching Protocol (Principal Supervisors with Principals)

Professional Learning Communities:

+PLC Continuum of Effectiveness Sample Rubric

+Video of vertical PLC (K-5 Math; Stults Road Elementary, TX)

+Power of Teacher Teams Ch. 5

+Stages of Team Development

+Teamwork Questionnaire

+Team Dev Score Sheet

Questioning and Classroom Discussion

+Costa's Levels of Questions and Thinking--These are keywords to identify depth of questions; also included are question stems distinct to subject areas.

+Never Say Anything a Kid Can Say!--NCTM Article "To help students engage in real learning, I must ask good questions, allow students to struggle, and place the responsibility for learning directly on their shoulders." Steven Reinhart

School Culture & Climate:

+A Culture of Collaboration (Becoming a Learning School; National Staff Development Council)

+Self-Assessment: School Culture Triage-- This packet of tools includes a plan for self-assessing, planning, and monitoring. This tool has been used successfully in public schools of North Carolina, Florida and Kentucky over the last decade. It can be used with one school or an entire district. It recognizes/uncovers strengths and challenges.

+Managing Complex Change--The change matrix, often attributed to John Kotter's research.

+Kotter's 8-Step Change Model--Link to infographic depicting Kotter's model.

+Practical Principles for Principals (Lovely; Staffing the Principalship, ch 4)

+Professional Learning/Collaboration experience for a school/district--This sample plan outlines goals and activities for guiding teachers and leaders to a shared understanding of the purpose and responsibilities of teaching and learning.

+Guiding Questions for Discussion

+ PBIS Information Link

+Find Your Marigold--The One Essential Rule for New Teachers--This is an article by Jennifer Gonzalez in Cult of Pedagogy