CLARITY
What Matters MOST in Learning, Teaching, and Leading
By: Lyn D. Sharratt
Paperback | 14 December 2018 | Edition Number 1
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orComprehensive in scope, CLARITY illustrates how system and school leaders must come together to boost student achievement and build teacher capacity to learn, teach and lead. By emphasizing collaborative processes, Lyn Sharratt’s detailed design demonstrates how shared knowledge, equity and expertise can make every classroom more impactful and every teacher more empowered. Readers will uncover these ‘Big Ideas’:
- 14 essential Parameters to guide system and school leaders toward building powerful collaborative learning cultures
- Case studies, vignettes and firsthand accounts from gifted teachers and leaders bring important theories and practices to life
- From all points in the organization, a ‘line-of-sight’ directly to students’ FACES in every classroom to ensure continuous improvement
- Data-driven tasks and tools to tackle solutions needed in all facets of education
List of Acronyms
Foreword by John Hattie
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
In Memoriam
Introduction by Alma Harris
PART I. LEARNING
Chapter 1. CLARITY: The 14 Parameters: A Learning Framework
The Third Teacher: Creating a Collaborative Culture of Learning
Introduction to the 14 Parameters
Achieve CLARITY Using the 14 Parameters
How to Begin Implementing the 14 Parameters
A Deliberate Pause to Create CLARITY
Chapter 2. CLARITY: Knowing the FACES of Learners
Achieving Because They Believe They Can
Parameter #1: Shared Beliefs and Understandings
Parameter #14: Shared Responsibility and Accountability
Putting FACES on the Data
Powerful Questions to Get to Know Learners and Learning
Parents Are Critical Partners in Knowing Each Learner
Parameter #12: Parents and the Community Are Critical Partners in Learning
A Deliberate Pause to Create CLARITY
Chapter 3. CLARITY: Collaborative Inquiry With Teachers and Leaders
Parameter #11: Collaborative Inquiry
The Value of Collaborative Inquiry
When Do We Inquire Collaboratively? Professional Learning Communities at Work
Lead in Order to Learn and Learn in Order to Lead
A Deliberate Pause to Create CLARITY
PART II. TEACHING
Chapter 4. CLARITY in Teaching: Assessment
Parameter #3: Quality Assessment Informs Instruction
Formative and Summative Assessment
Debriefing Each Component of the Assessment Waterfall Chart
Learning Walls Capture the Ongoing Assessment Journey
A Deliberate Pause to Create CLARITY
Chapter 5. CLARITY in Teaching: Instruction
Parameter #3: Assessment Informs Instruction and Parameter #13: Cross-Curricular Literacy Connections
Literacy Learning Is the Foundation of All Instruction
Eight Components of High-Impact Literacy Instruction
A Deliberate Pause to Create CLARITY
Chapter 6. CLARITY: Processes That Support Collaborative Inquiry With Students
Parameter #14: Shared Responsibility and Accountability
Collaborative Inquiry With Students
Collaborative Inquiry in the Classroom
Three Approaches to Student-Led Collaborative Inquiry
A Deliberate Pause to Create CLARITY
Chapter 7. CLARITY: Using Data for Prevention and Intervention
Parameter #6: Case Management Approach
Prevention: Data Walls
Intervention: Case Management Meetings
Parameter #5: Early and Ongoing Intervention
A Deliberate Pause to Create CLARITY
PART III. LEADING
Chapter 8. CLARITY: The Knowledgeable Other—Leading Alongside
Parameter #2: The Embedded Knowledgeable Other
Six Evidence-Proven Professional Learning Approaches
A Deliberate Pause to Create CLARITY
Chapter 9. CLARITY: Precision in Leadership Practice
Parameter #4: Principals and System Leaders as Lead Learners
The Six Dimensions of Leadership
The New Sixth Leadership Dimension
System Leadership in Action
School Leadership in Action
Principal Learning Teams
Learning Walks and Talks: Leading to Ensure the Growth of All Students
A Deliberate Pause to Create CLARITY
Conclusion
CLARITY: Leadership for the Future
The FACES of CLARITY
Afterword by Melanie Greenan
Glossary of Terms
References and Further Reading
Index
ISBN: 9781506358727
ISBN-10: 1506358721
Published: 14th December 2018
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 400
Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publisher: CORWIN PRESS, INC.
Country of Publication: US
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 23.5 x 15 x 2.5
Weight (kg): 0.68
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