Overview

If your high school is like most others, you're under way more pressure to improve graduation rates, close achievement gaps, and teach 21st century knowledge and skills. Here's a book that helps you rise to the challenge with a comprehensive, practical, and research-based model that has a proven track record. Drawing from his 26 years of experience, award-winning former principal Tim R. Westerberg explains how any high school can improve by

• Eliminating general and remedial tracks.
  
• Providing students the support they need to meet college- and career-prep standards.
  
• Ending curriculum anarchy with clear instructional goals at classroom and school levels.
  
• Focusing teachers collectively on research-based instructional practices.
  
• Implementing formative assessments and student interventions that lead to higher achievement.

Discover lots of proven strategies that have helped real high schools reach the next level, including:

• A six-step process for creating more rigorous curriculum.
  
• Creative ways to increase time for teachers to collaborate on instruction.
  
• Five common grading practices that should be eliminated.
  
• Four ways to capitalize on the potential of effective feedback.
  
• Why and how to communicate students’ progress graphically.

(ASCD book, 2009) 7" x 9", 130 pages.

Also available as an E-Book!

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