What+Works+in+Schools

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===// Thirty-five years of research have identified three general factors that positively support student learning: school, teacher, and student. There are specific categories in each of the general factors which are listed below. Each of these categories are links to information and tools to support teaching and learning at Pioneer. // ===

School

The following categories are ranked in order of greatest impact on increasing student achievement.

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 * __Guaranteed viable curriculum__ - The essential content by grade level and course is identified and sequenced to be taught in the time available.
 * Curriculum Mapping
 * __ Understanding by Design __


 * //__C__//__hallenging goals and effective feedback -__ Establishment of high academic goals and the expectation to attain are in place for all students

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 * RTI - Response to Intervention
 * Formative Assessments
 * Grading Practices
 * Project Based Learning
 * __Parent and community involvement__ - Parents and community are are well informed, participate in a variety of roles during and after school, and encourage parents to have a voice in key school decisions.


 * Safe and orderly environment- The school has established schoolwide rules, procedures, interventions, and programs to promote self-discipline and responsibility.


 * __Collegiality and professionalism - All staff interact with one another collaboratively with one another collaboratively and congenially during all aspects of their professional responsibilities. __
 * __Professional Learning Community__

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Teachers Teachers who are able to use effective instruction, classroom management, and curriculum design are more influential on increasing student achievement than all five of the school level factors

__ Instruction strategies __ Strategies that have a high probability of enhancing student achievement for all students in all grades and all subject areas. >>>>>>> **http://nychold.org/art-hoven-el-0711.pdf** >>>>>>> **http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5Bte7K_Mxg** >>>>>>> **http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjCdzM40LDM** >>>>>>> **http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbfFOCFISow**
 * **Common Core Curricula**
 * **Math**
 * **Singapore Math links**
 * **http://www.thesingaporemaths.com/**
 * **http://www.thesingaporemaths.com/**
 * **Literacy**
 * **Ellin Keene - Critical Thinking Strategies**
 * **Core Literacy (UPK - 2)**
 * **Core Literacy (3 - 4)**
 * **Differentiated Instruction**
 * **Marzano's Nine Instructional Strategies**
 * **Thoughtful Education**
 * Reciprocal Teaching
 * **__Classroom management__ - Classrooms have established and enforced rules and procedures, use interventions that have a balance between positive and negative, and teachers and students have a quality atmosphere of cooperation.**
 * **Supportive Learning Environment**


 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">**__Curriculum Design__- This is the sequencing and pacing of content and the experiences students have with content that are focused on specific knowledge, allow for transfer of concepts, and provide multiple opportunities for exposure.**
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">**Understanding by Design**


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<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: center;">__Student__
 * The following categories are student characteristics that effect academic achievement and schools can do things to positively impact them.


 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">__Home Environment__ - This includes communication about school, supervision of free time, and parental expectations and parenting style.
 * Vocabulary
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">__Learned intelligence and background knowledge__ - Both can be directly enhanced by deepening the experiential base and indirectly enhanced by a program of wide reading and direct vocabulary instruction.
 * <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; text-align: left;">__Motivation__ - Student motivation, drive for success or failure avoidance, student attributes, need for self worth, and emotional dynamics can be positively impacted by the following four actions: altering the competitive nature of the classroom, engaging students in long term projects related to their passions, and providing student techniques to control their motivation.