Accelerating Student and Staff Learning : Purposeful Curriculum Collaboration

This Title Presents A Powerful Model For Professional Development Centered Around Conversations About Curriculum. Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About The Author -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 - An Overview: Collaborative Curriculum Design As Professional Learning -- Chapter 2 - Establishing Assumptions About Student And Staff Learning -- Chapter 3 - Determining Complex Curriculum Standards And Concepts -- Chapter 4 - Mapping The Curriculum -- Chapter 5 - Assessment Of Student Learning -- Chapter 6 - Designing Instruction -- Chapter 7 - Analyzing Student Work And Monitoring Student Learning To Inform Instruction -- Chapter 8 - Using Effective Grading And Parent Reporting Practices -- Chapter 9 - Leading Schools To Sustain The Effort And Fulfill The Promise -- Resources -- Resource A: Our Assumptions About Student And Staff Learning -- Resource B: The Principles Of Professional Learning -- Resource C: Our Vision Of Our School Iduma Elementary School Killeen Isd Killeen, Tx -- Resource D: A Learning Walk -- Resource E: We Are A School Community That Values Learning -- Resource F: Our Learning Community's Norms -- Resource G: Quakertown High School Goals -- Resource H: Example Letter To Parents -- Resource I: Critical Attributes Of A Performance Task Or Project -- Resource J: Template For Culminating Demonstrations -- Resource K: Example Of A Second-grade, First-term Culminating Demonstration -- Resource L: Example Of A Second-grade, Third-term Culminating Demonstrations -- Resource M: Precision In Adverbs -- Resource N: Exemplary Rubric: Middle Ages Scoring Guide -- Resource O: Culminating Demonstration Rubric For First-grade Students At Heritage Elementary -- Resource P: Kindergarten Literacy Lesson Plans -- References -- Index.