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Feedback to Feed Forward

31 Strategies to Lead Learning

By: Amy Tepper, Patrick W. Flynn

With ready-to-use strategies and field-tested lesson examples, this how-to guide helps leaders conduct comprehensive observations, analyze lessons, develop high-leverage action steps, and craft effective feedback.

Product Details
  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781544320229
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2018
  • Page Count: 256
  • Publication date: July 10, 2018

Price: $39.95

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Feedback that works—for leadership that makes a difference.
 

As a leader, you know that feedback is essential to teachers’ growth and development. But crafting the right feedback can be daunting. How do you conduct comprehensive observations, accurately analyze lessons for effectiveness, and develop high-leverage action steps that bring lasting change to teacher practices and student outcomes? 

This how-to book, designed for leaders in all roles and at all experience levels, provides a dynamic yet practical leadership model focused on precisely those key tasks. Features include

  • Comprehensive explanations of standards and descriptions of discrete core skills
  • Explicit think-alouds, ready-to-use strategies, and field-tested lesson examples
  • Evidence-collection notes—with templates—from live observations
  • Feedback samples across grade levels and content areas
  • Replicable case studies for professional learning 

Simply inspecting teaching practice through observation might be easy; providing feedback that feeds forward and promotes growth is far more challenging. With this comprehensive learning tool, you’ll use feedback to make the most of your role as a leader of learning—for both teachers and students.

Feedback to Feed Forward has been recognized for focusing on practices that have high effect sizes and will help you translate the groundbreaking Visible Learning research into practice. When educators use strategies that have high effects (greater than 0.40), they can accelerate student achievement. The power of the Visible Learning research lies in helping educators understand which factors have the highest impact on student achievement so that educators can begin making strategic decisions based on evidence that will utilize their time, energy, and resources to the best extent possible. The Visible Learning research is based on Professor John Hattie’s unmatched meta-analysis of more than 1,600 research reviews comprising 95,000 studies, involving more than 300 million students—the world’s largest evidence base on what works best in schools to improve student learning. From that research, Dr. Hattie identified more than 250 factors that have an impact on student achievement.  
View a full list of Visible Learning® Supporting Resources

Author(s)

Author(s)

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Amy Tepper

Amy Tepper has served as a teacher, administrator, and program director in various K-12 settings and startups to include virtual, homeschool, blended, and public schools. She held the position of Executive Director of a Sylvan Learning Center, opened an alternative 6th-12th school in Okaloosa County, FL, and later was actively engaged in Florida high school redesign and career education reform, providing technical assistance across the state. Amy had the opportunity to collaborate with a team of parents to develop the Ohana Institute, an innovative blended school, focused on global citizenship and discovery learning, serving as Director in its first year. As a consultant, she provided instructional and administrative coaching at an international school in Panama, before joining ReVISION Learning Partnership in 2013. Amy has since completed countless classroom observations through work as a peer validator evaluating practices in Newark and New Haven schools, and in providing embedded, ongoing support for instructional leaders and teachers in the areas of high quality observation, feedback, and teaching and learning across Connecticut.
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Patrick W. Flynn

Patrick Flynn has worked as a teacher, teacher leader, curriculum director, and executive program director in K-12 settings in over eleven different states. As the Executive Director of High Schools for Edison Schools and the Chief Academic Officer for Great Schools Workshop in Sacramento, CA, Patrick worked with building and district administrations in nine states to implement systemic high school reform. He has provided professional learning in the areas of transformational leadership, performance management systems, standards-driven instruction, and data-driven decision-making. Patrick is Founder and Executive Director of ReVISION Learning Partnership, providing professional development and support to districts and educational organizations in CT, NY, NJ, and LA since 2010. He has led several school improvement initiatives in rural and urban settings and internationally in the United Arab Emirates with the Abu Dhabi Education Council. He has presented nationally and internationally, including as a keynote speaker at the Forum on Big Data at the Tianjin University of Technology, in Tianjin, China. ReVISION Learning is highly sought after for its leadership in providing the highest quality professional learning opportunities for teacher, administrators, and district personnel.
Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface


Acknowledgments


About the Authors


Chapter 1: What does it mean to lead learning?

     Finding Time to Lead Learning

     Rethinking Evaluation

     Leading Change Through Educator Evaluation

     Core Assumptions About Current Practice

     Feedback as the Common Thread

     A Shift From Summary to Analysis

     Core Skills for Observation and Feedback

     What’s Ahead?

Chapter 2: How can you use an instructional framework to improve observation and feedback practices?

     Skill Set for Building Understanding of a Framework

     Deconstructing Your Framework

     Unpacking Expectations

     Using a Feedback Frame

     Final Thoughts

Chapter 3: How can you collect evidence in the classroom to improve feedback?

     Skill Set for Collecting Evidence

     Bias in Observation

     Identifying Types of Data

     Evidence Collection: The Basics

     Evidence Collection: Student Engagement and Learning

     Using a Balance of Evidence to Feed Forward

     Final Thoughts

Chapter 4: How can you determine effectiveness of instruction and a teacher’s impact on learners?

     Skill Set for Determining Effectiveness

     Using Your Evidence to Analyze Effectiveness

     Understanding What We Are Analyzing

     Analyzing Engagement

     Influences on Engagement and Learning

     Final Thoughts

Chapter 5: How can you determine a teacher’s areas of instructional strength and growth?

     Skill Set for Determining Areas of Strength and Growth

     What Teachers Need to Know

     Using Analysis

     Determining Areas of Strength and Growth

     Citing Areas of Strength and Growth

     Understanding Research-Based Strategies

     Using Research-Based Strategies in Feedback

     Pulling It All Together

     Final Thoughts

Chapter 6: How can your feedback feed forward?

     Skill Set for Developing Objective Feedback

     Bias in Feedback

     Increasing Objectivity

     Feedback to Feed Forward

     Skill Set for Developing Feedback as a Learning Tool

     Defining “Actionable” Next Steps

     Developing Action Steps

     Prioritizing Next Steps

     Developing Reflective Practices

     Pulling It All Together

     Final Thoughts

Chapter 7: What professional learning builds your capacity to lead learning?

     What’s Next?

     The Current Approach

     Essentials of Effective Professional Learning Design

     Building a New Approach

     Professional Learning Designs in Action

     Final Thoughts and Beyond

Strategies List


Tables and Figures List


References


Index


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