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Transform your classroom into a dynamic learning experience with small groups
A learning centers model enhances excellent pedagogy. Learning is a dynamic experience, and students thrive when educators acknowledge individual learners' needs and interests and inspire them to engage with the content more deeply within personalized spaces.
Learning centers create robust thinkers, problem-solvers, and brave leaders. As teachers and administrators, we can build learning structures that include everyone and allow students to collaborate, experiment, reflect, self-assess, and transfer the learning to their lives beyond school.
Hacking Learning Centers in Grades 6-12 shares the why along with practical guidance to design and teach with learning centers. Authors and award-winning educators Starr Sackstein and Karen Terwilliger show how to:
Amazing. Exciting. Terrifying.
Your first year as a school leader can be all those things at once. Emotions seem to swing from one end of the spectrum to the other and back again in a single hour, not to mention the school year. You miss the classroom even as you hope to make an impact on a larger scale. You wonder where you fit in now that you're one of them--a leader.
Whether you have already made the move into leadership or are wondering whether a role in administration is right for you, Starr Sackstein's insight in From Teacher to Leader will help you make the best decisions for yourself and those you serve. In this honest and practical guide, Sackstein prompts you to reflect as you stretch for personal and professional growth.
How do you know when you're ready to move into leadership?
What do you do when you miss being in the classroom?
How can you make sure you're leading well?
What do you do when you feel overwhelmed?
Leadership isn't easy, and being a first-time leader carries its own set of challenges. But with From Teacher to Leader, you'll be equipped to thrive in your new role.
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Starr Sackstein uses her usual raw honesty (which I happen to find refreshing) to help new leaders negotiate their way through the transition. This book is about more than our profession; it's about life.
--Peter DeWitt, EdD, author/consultant, Education Week, Finding Common Ground blog
An excellent resource for any educator moving from the classroom into an administrative role. I highly recommend this well-written, important book.
--Jeffrey Zoul, EdD, author, speaker, leadership coach, and president of ConnectEDD
New to the world of leadership? Buy this book today
--Brad Currie, 2017 NASSP National Assistant Principal of the Year
Internationally-recognized grading and assessment expert Starr Sackstein is back with the long-awaited update to her highly-regarded guide to throwing out grades, even in a traditional grades school.
Nearly seven years after helping launch a global no-grades classroom movement, Sackstein has honed her practice and now brings teachers and school leaders more than 100 new and updated strategies, solutions, and practical resources you can read today and use in any classroom tomorrow to transform how you assess learning.
Readers will learn about the flaws of traditional assessment systems and how to make immediate changes so students can better advocate for themselves as learners.
Begin by addressing your mindset about grading, and learn how to help your community buy into the shift and to go gradeless. Bravely change the systems that aren't serving your students.
In this power-packed second edition of Hacking Assessment, you will find:
The single greatest authority on student learning is the student doing the learning-but the right structures must be in place for students' voices to be clearly heard and truly valued.
Conventional formative and summative assessment are most often conducted through one-size-fits-all quizzes and tests that yield narrow, predetermined categories of data about students' academic progress. But if we want a truly accurate look at what, how, and to what extent students are learning, who better to consult than the obvious experts on the matter: the students themselves.
In this lively and comprehensive guide, veteran teacher and author Starr Sackstein provides the tools needed to help students compile and present evidence of learning through portfolios and student-led conferences-from templates and rubrics to personal testimonials, reflection questions, and activities.
The book features
- Forms-applicable across grade levels and content areas-for unpacking standards, co-constructing success criteria with students, evaluating current classroom practices, and more.
- Real-life perspectives and scenarios from educators in the field who have embraced portfolios and student-led conferences over standardized tests and letter grades.
- Practical, experience-based guidance for building classroom and schoolwide learning cultures that promote both learner agency and academic achievement.
The resources, recommendations, and reflections in Student-Led Assessment allow educators at all levels to develop systems and protocols for ensuring student ownership of-and pride in-their own hard-won achievement.
In this essential guide, Starr Sackstein--a National Board Certified Teacher--explains how teachers can use reflection to help students decipher their own learning needs and engage in deep, thought-provoking discourse about progress. She explains how to help students set actionable learning goals, teach students to reflect on and chart their learning progress, and use student reflections and self-assessment to develop targeted learning plans and determine student mastery. Filled with practical tips, innovative ideas, and sample reflections from real students, this book shows you how to incorporate self-assessment and reflection in ways that encourage students to grow into mindful, receptive learners, ready to explore a fast-changing world.
Educators, you can continue to make an impact after you're ready to leave the classroom! This handy, comprehensive resource will help you explore alternative career paths in education that will still allow you to use the skillsets and unique qualifications you developed as a teacher or leader.
Bestselling author Starr Sackstein begins by helping you decide whether you want to move into another position or leave altogether. She then shows you how to seek opportunities, take risks, network, and prepare for interviews. Next, she presents a wide variety of career pathways for educators, including school and district-based options, consulting work, EdTech opportunities, publishing jobs, higher education, and more!
Starr also answers frequently asked questions such as how much you should charge and whether you need additional degrees. Throughout, there are fascinating case studies highlighting people who have left to do alternate jobs and their top takeaways. An accompanying video series offers even more advice from a wide variety of educators who have switched roles. With this helpful guide, you'll feel empowered to courageously restart - and continue to leave a legacy in education.
In Peer Feedback in the Classroom, National Board Certified Teacher Starr Sackstein explores the powerful role peer feedback can play in learning and teaching. Peer feedback gives students control over their learning, increases their engagement and self-awareness as learners, and frees up the teacher to provide targeted support where it's needed.
Drawing from the author's successful classroom practices, this compelling book will help you
The book also includes extended reflections that express, in students' and teachers' own words, the approach's powerful effect on their practice. Invite students to be your partners in learning, and enrich your collective classroom experience.
In this timely and thoughtful call to action, author and educator Starr Sackstein examines the critical intersection between assessment and social and emotional learning (SEL), particularly as it affects students of color and other marginalized groups. The book addresses the five SEL competencies identified by the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)--self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision making--and explains how teaching students to develop their abilities in these areas can help them improve their learning and assessment experiences.
Sackstein also raises important considerations for educators, urging them to
* Examine their implicit biases to improve their relationships with students.In addition to presenting the relevant research, Sackstein draws from personal experience and the reflections of students, teachers, and administrators to present a compelling case for approaching assessment through the SEL lens. Educators at all levels who have witnessed the devasting effects that testing can have on students' beliefs in themselves as learners will find Assessing with Respect to be an invaluable guide to ensuring better outcomes--and better emotional health--for all students.
How to Go Gradeless -- Assessment That Makes Learning Visible
What's my grade? What's it worth? Is there extra credit? Is this for a mark? It's time to shift the conversation and make learning visible. Now, you can easily stop reducing students to a number, letter, or any label that misrepresents learning. Now, you can help children see the value in every single assignment. Today, you can make assessment a rich, ongoing conversation that inspires learning for the sake of learning, rather than as a punishment or a reward. All you have to do is go gradeless.
Throw out your grade book tomorrow
In Hacking Assessment: 10 Ways to Go Gradeless in a Traditional Grades School, award-winning teacher and world-renowned formative assessment expert Starr Sackstein unravels one of education's oldest mysteries: how to assess learning without grades -- even in a school that uses numbers, letters, GPAs, and report cards. While many educators can only muse about the possibility of a world without grades, teachers like Sackstein are reimagining education. In this unique, eagerly-anticipated book, Sackstein shows you exactly how to create a remarkable no-grades classroom like hers, a vibrant place where students grow, share, thrive, and become independent learners who never ask, What's this worth?
Learn what formative assessment really looks like.
Summative assessment is typically an end-of-unit exam or standardized test, but what is formative assessment? Many teachers struggle with the concept. Hacking Assessment not only explains what formative assessment is, it provides blueprints for implementation and examples from educators around the world, who use this strategy successfully every day.
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This is not your average assessment book
Hacking Assessment won't bore you with outdated research or unrealistic strategies. In her captivating, conversational style, Sackstein provides practical ideas woven into a user-friendly success guide with actionable steps for creating an amazing conversation about learning that does not require a traditional grade. Each chapter is neatly wrapped in this simple Hack Learning Series formula:
Teachers around the world are going gradeless, and you can too
Scroll up and click the Buy Now or Add to Cart button; read Hacking Assessment now, and go gradeless tomorrow.
In this comprehensive handbook, you'll gain a treasure trove of strategies that you can implement to address some of the most common school challenges. You'll see the amazing impact that educators are having on their schools and classrooms across the country.
The authors offer tangible solutions to problems such as teacher retention and the educator pipeline, money, technology, innovation and initiatives, mental health and well-being, data, perceptions of education, educator commitment, and systemic issues. These issues may seem daunting, but the authors share stories of educators across the country who are already overcoming such obstacles. Each chapter provides inspiring examples, action steps, and takeaways to help you improve your school or classroom.
This thorough resource is designed to be a reference that you can use as needed--either by reading in order or flipping to the sections that most apply, and returning to again and again for a wealth of practical ideas that you can bring to your own setting.