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Differentiated Supervision

Growing Teachers and Getting Results

Move your school’s culture around supervision from ideas to a powerful growth mechanism that examines, collaborates, and improves an entire system with individual and diverse staff needs.

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Product Details
  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781071853306
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2022
  • Page Count: 144
  • Publication date: August 11, 2022
Price: $40.95

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Description

Strategic observation practices to drive coherence and results

Supervision is often dreaded by teachers and principals alike because it can be disconnected from the context of the actual classroom and school. But when a culture of supervision is created – by differentiating which practices have the greatest impact in the context of the work educators are doing at the building and individual level – then supervision is about examining practice, working together to solve problems, and constantly improving.

Differentiated Supervision shows you how to develop a laser-like focus on improving an entire system while simultaneously addressing the individual needs of a diverse teaching staff. It lifts supervision out of isolation and presents a comprehensive model that provides a coherent method for creating a culture of supervision for supporting individuals, small groups, and the whole school in implementing high leverage strategies that improve student learning. Readers will find:

  • A clear framework for knowing what supervision practices to use when, and for what purpose
  • Useful templates and protocols for different supervision practices on a companion website
  • Helpful examples and vignettes from the field to show how to differentiate supervision for teachers
  • A unique focus on student learning at the center

Supervision is more than a series of steps that leads to final evaluation - its changing the culture and achievement in your school from just thinking about it as appraisal, but a powerful mechanism for growth.


Key features

This book is intended for anyone who evaluates and supports teachers, both formatively and summatively. Readers will find:

  • A clear framework for knowing what supervision practices to use when, and for what purpose
  • Useful templates and protocols for different supervision practices, located on a companion website
  • Helpful examples and vignettes from the field to show how to differentiate supervision for teachers
  • A unique focus on student learning at the center

Author(s)

Ann Mausbach

Ann Mausbach, co-author of Leading Student-Centered Coaching: Building Principal and Coach Partnerships (Corwin, 2018), School Leadership through the Seasons: A Guide to Staying Focused and Getting Results All Year (Routledge Eye on Education, 2016) and Align the Design: A Blueprint for School Improvement (ASCD, 2008) has been an educator for over 30 years. Ann’s belief that the greatest investment a leader can make is in people not programs has focused her work on supporting principals and teacher leaders with the tools they need to align purpose with action. Her administrative experience includes serving as a Coordinator of Staff Development, Director of Curriculum, Director of Elementary Education and an Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction. She currently works as an Associate Professor for Educational Leadership at Creighton University in Omaha, NE.

Kim Morrison

Kim Morrison, co-author of School Leadership through the Seasons: A Guide to Staying Focused and Getting Results All Year (Routledge Eye on Education, 2016), is the principal of an urban elementary school located in the Midwest. Her administrative experiences have included elementary, middle and district administration for over twenty years. She has primarily worked in at-risk environments addressing complicated issues of equity, poverty, homelessness and special education. She was named Middle School Principal of the Year by School Administrators of Iowa in 2016. She has been the coordinator for new teacher induction, McKinney Vento Homeless Grant and Safe and Drug Free Schools.

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Introduction

A Few Things You Should Know

Chapter 1. Differentiated Supervision 101

What Supervision Is and What It Is Not

The Challenge

A Model for Improved Supervision

Why It Works

Making It Happen

Equity Check

From the Field

Key Takeaways

Where Are You Now?

Chapter 2. Element I: Universal Support With Qualitative Feedback

Clarifying the Model

Why It Works

Making It Happen

Equity Check

From the Field

Key Takeaways

Where Are You Now?

Chapter 3. Element II: Individual/Small Group Support With Qualitative Feedback

Clarifying the Model

Why It Works

Making It Happen

Equity Check

From the Field

Key Takeaways

Where Are You Now?

Chapter 4. Element III: Universal Support With Quantitative Feedback

Clarifying the Model

Why It Works

Making It Happen

Equity Check

From the Field

Key Takeaways

Where Are You Now?

Chapter 5. Element IV: Individual Support With Quantitative Feedback

Clarifying the Model

Why It Works

Making It Happen

Equity Check

From the Field

Key Takeaways

Where Are You Now?

Chapter 6. Leading the Differentiated Supervision Model

Principal A

Principal B

Leadership Behaviors and the DIIE Model

How Behaviors Align to Elements I, II, and III

Do This, Not That

Leadership Commitments

It’s Your Time

Final Thoughts

Appendix A. Differentiated Supervision Timeline

Appendix B. Example School Improvement and Professional Development Plan ABC School

Appendix C. Developing Look Fors Protocol

Appendix D. Building Capacity Self-Assessment

References

Index

Reviews

Quote by John Hattie, University of Melbourne: The core of success in schools is educator expertise. This book doesn’t mince words about how hard it can be but sheds sunlight onto evidence-based processes that lead to improvement. Differentiated Supervision asks for excellent diagnoses of teachers’ needs, their theories of teaching, and the impact of current methods. Furthermore, it uses multiple coaching and supervision models to assist in the fidelity of implementation and provides processes for educators to work together to evaluate the impact on the learning lives of students. The book is rich in using feedback, look fors, and walkthroughs, as well as developing evaluative mind frames and equity checks—all leading to a bountiful harvest of student growth.
The core of success in schools is educator expertise. This book doesn’t mince words about how hard it can be but sheds sunlight onto evidence-based processes that lead to improvement. Differentiated Supervision asks for excellent diagnoses of teachers’ needs, their theories of teaching, and the impact of current methods. Furthermore, it uses multiple coaching and supervision models to assist in the fidelity of implementation and provides processes for educators to work together to evaluate the impact on the learning lives of students. The book is rich in using feedback, look fors, and walkthroughs, as well as developing evaluative mind frames and equity checks—all leading to a bountiful harvest of student growth.
John Hattie
University of Melbourne
Quote by Jenni Donohoo: In reconceptualizing supervision as a supporting process of continuous feedback, Mausbach and Morrison provide valuable insights into how school leaders can improve teaching and learning. This wonderfully written, comprehensive guide provides school leaders with the tools and strategies needed to strengthen collective efficacy and achieve improved results.
In reconceptualizing supervision as a supporting process of continuous feedback, Mausbach and Morrison provide valuable insights into how school leaders can improve teaching and learning. This wonderfully written, comprehensive guide provides school leaders with the tools and strategies needed to strengthen collective efficacy and achieve improved results.
Jenni Donohoo
Quote by Nancy Frey, San Diego State University: We differentiate instruction to meet the varied needs of students; why do we fail to do so for teachers? The authors have developed a model to remedy this, one that makes it possible for school leaders to provide the guidance and support all teachers deserve.
We differentiate instruction to meet the varied needs of students; why do we fail to do so for teachers? The authors have developed a model to remedy this, one that makes it possible for school leaders to provide the guidance and support all teachers deserve.
Nancy Frey
San Diego State University
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