Small Changes, Big Impact

Discover a pathway to improvement that is simple and field tested. Designed as a practical guide to school reform, this resource outlines a series of ten small-scale changes powerful enough to make a lasting impact in schools and districts. Within each chapter, you will find easy-to-implement strategies for strengthening culture, building relationships, and promoting student growth at every K-12 grade level.

Use this resource to leverage student reflection and reperformance to ensure high levels of learning:


Understand how to redefine student success as efficacy and ownership of learning.

Gain research-based instructional strategies and teaching methods for creating student-centered mission statements that promote student success, self-reliance, and social-emotional learning (SEL).

Explore how to use performance-based assessments as a process for learning.

Examine the qualities of growth-based feedback to promote a future pathway for achievement.

Obtain tools for developing dynamic reporting structures that communicate stories of learning and promote self-evaluation.


Contents:


Chapter 1: Redefine Student Success


Chapter 2: Create Student-Centered Mission Statements


Chapter 3: Organize the Curriculum Around Skills, Not Content


Chapter 4: Develop Student-Centered Rubrics


Chapter 5: Use Assessment as a Process for Learning


Chapter 6: Implement a Generative Learning Model of Instruction


Chapter 7: Provide Critical Growth-Based Feedback


Chapter 8: Leverage Reflection and Reperformance


Chapter 9: Use Evidence-Based Grading Practices


Chapter 10: Establish Dynamic Reporting Structures