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2.5 Monitoring and Evaluation The staff monitors and evaluates curriculum and instructional programs based on student results, and makes modifications as needed to ensure continuous school improvement. 
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Related Resources Tools AIMS Website This website provides Arizona teachers, administrators, students, and parents access to the AIMS Hotline phone number for tutoring help, an overview of the AIMS test, sample tests, study guides, and information about tuition waivers. Publisher: Arizona Department of Education Comparing the Research on Best Practices This activity has practitioners working in pairs to find the intersection of components found in articles on what research says, what research-based best practices are, and what strategies impact student achievement. It is noted that the activity requires at least 30 minutes. Author: Carol Rolheiser and Michael Fullan Publisher: Center for Development & Learning Articles NEW! How To Increase Higher Order Thinking This article defines higher order thinking and provides strategies for enhancing higher order thinking skills. Author: Alice Thomas and Glenda Thorne Publication Date: 2009 Publisher: Center for Development and Learning NEW! Classroom Walkthroughs: Learning to see the trees and the forest Pilter and Goodwin discuss how to effectively use walkthroughs to collect data and provide useful feedback to educators to improve instruction. Author: Howard Pitler with Bryan Goodwin Publication Date: Summer 2008 Publisher: Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL) NEW! Foundations for Success: Report of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel On March 13, 2008, the National Mathematics Advisory Panel presented its Final Report to the President of the United States and the Secretary of Education. This report contains information for parents, teachers, policy makers, the research community. Publication Date: 2008 Publisher: U.S. Department of Education NEW! Mathematics Intervention at the Secondary Prevention Level of a Multi-Tier Prevention System: Six Key Principles The author lists and describes six principles necessary for RtI in mathematics at a secondary level. Author: Lynn S. Fuchs, Ph.D. Publication Date: Retrieved November 2008 Publisher: RTI Action Network NEW! Reducing Behavior Problems in the Elementary School Classroom This guide offers strategies to reduce problematic behavior in elementary schools. Author: Michael Epstein, Marc Atkins, Douglas Cullinan, Krista Kutash, and Robin Weaver Publication Date: 2008 Publisher: Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education Computers, The Internet, and Cheating Among Secondary School Students: Some Implications for Educators This article investigates how secondary students may use the Internet for plagiarizing schoolwork and provides some basic precautions educators can implement in their classrooms. Author: Stacey Conradson & Pedro Hernández-Ramos Publication Date: 2004 Publisher: Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation Eight Questions about Implementing Standards-Based Education This article, written by Robert Marzano, presents eight questions that are relevant to how standards-based education affects classroom instruction and assessment at the local level. Author: Robert Marzano Publication Date: 1996 Publisher: Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL) Every Child Reading: Tips for Schools The Learning First Alliance presents eleven tips schools can use to focus faculty on student literacy. Publisher: Learning First Alliance Extensive Reading Interventions in Grades K-3: From Research to Practice This report summarizes available data on the effects of extensive reading interventions (comprising at least 100 instructional sessions) and related implications for practice. Author: Nancy Scammacca, Sharon Vaughn, Greg Roberts, Jeanne Wanzek and Joseph K. Torgesen Publication Date: 2007 Publisher: Center on Instruction Hard Questions about Practice The author believes that educators need to look closely at the organizational and instructional practices in schools that affect the learning of students and adults, in order to effectively change practices and improve student learning. Instructional practice and the improvement of instructional practice are complex and require high levels of knowledge and skills across a number of important domains. Success requires that schools have structures that develop the knowledge and skills of administrators and teachers. Author: Richard F. Elmore Publication Date: 2002, May Publisher: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Interim Assessments: A User's Guide The author argues that in order to reduce achievement score gaps, we must advocate rebalancing assessment priorities to bring classroom assessment into the equation. Author: Kim Marshall Publication Date: 2008 Publisher: Phi Delta Kappa Interventions for Adolescent Struggling Readers: A Meta-Analysis with Implications for Practice This report focuses on interventions designed to improve students' use of reading comprehension strategies. It also considers the impact of interventions that target improved reading vocabulary, accurate decoding of unfamiliar words in text, and increased reading fluency. Author: Nancy Scammacca, Greg Roberts, Sharon Vaughn, Meaghan Edmonds, Jade Wexler Publication Date: 2007 Publisher: Center on Instruction Linking Formative Assessment to Scaffolding This article addresses four strategies that illustrate the strong connection between formative assessment and research on learning: eliciting prior knowledge, providing effective feedback, teaching for transfer of knowledge, and encouraging student self-assessment. Author: Lorrie A. Shepard Publication Date: 2005 Publisher: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Meeting the Needs of All Students Through Professional Development Arguing that the needs of all teachers must be meet before schools can begin to meet the needs of all students, this principal advocates for comprehensive, on-going professional development and describes specific factors that have helped at his middle school in San Francisco. Author: John A. Michaelson Publisher: Center for Development & Learning Progress Monitoring in an Inclusive Standards-based Assessment and Accountability System This report describes how progress monitoring can be used to compare student performance against standards and make adjustments in order to help students accelerate their progress towards meeting those standards. Benefits and contextual challenges that must be addressed are discussed. Author: Rachel Quenemoen, Martha Thurlow, Ross Moen, Sandra J. Thompson, and Amanda Blount Morse Publication Date: 2003 Publisher: National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO), University of Minnesota Screening for Mathematics Difficulties in K-3 Students [K-3] This report looks at the key features needed to screen kindergarten through third grade students for difficulties in mathematics. Author: Benjamin S. Clarke, Russell Gersten, Nancy C. Jordan Publication Date: 2007 Publisher: Center on Instruction Useful Links NEW! Science Resource Page This page provides links to help teachers implement the Arizona Science Standard, including links to the Science Standard, AIMS information related to science, ADE professional development opportunities, state and national organizations, and resources for science teachers. Publisher: Arizona Department of Education NEW! Tiered Instruction/Intervention The site offers details and information on the RtI process and articles as well as descriptions of the three tiers. Publication Date: Retrieved November 2008 Publisher: RTI Action Network Academic Literacy Instruction for Adolescents This PowerPoint presentation discusses resources and areas of knowledge that can assist in successful academic literacy instruction. Author: Joseph Torgesen Publication Date: 2007 Publisher: Center on Instruction Tips from Teachers The COMP Resource Library contains “Tips from Teachers” where educators from around the country post helpful hints under the topics of Room and Materials Arrangement, Rules and Procedures, Managing Student Work and Accountability, Maintaining Good Student Behavior, Planning and Organizing Instruction, Conducting and Facilitating Instruction to Maintain Lesson Momentum, Getting the Year Off to a Good Start, Climate Communications and Self-Management. Publisher: COMP Classroom Organization and Mangement Program Other Resources NEW! Dr. Archer Video Series “Dr. Anita Archer is a talented author and beloved teacher of teachers. This video series is one of her many gifts to the educational community. Produced with support from the Sonoma County Office of Education, it is made available at no cost thanks to her generous spirit. The series addresses strategic literacy instruction in grades K-8 using a research to practice approach grounded in pragmatic real-world application. Each video is 4 to 8 minutes long, has a particular strategic focus, and was shot unrehearsed in real time. A short viewing guide is included for each video, providing guidance for viewing and feedback for post-viewing applications.” Sonoma County Office of Education Author: Dr. Anita Archer Publication Date: 2008 Publisher: Sonoma County Office of Education ©2005 WestEd. All rights reserved. |
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