!”“As an education researcher, I admire the passion, determination and expertise that Dr. McNealy brings to the Alachua County School Board. It examines the relationship between language and learning to show how this works moment to moment in the classroom.Provides educators with guidelines and steps for designing a comprehensive assessment program that ensures assessments and grades lead to timely, accurate feedback on specific, standards-based learning goals.Provides instructional strategies that can be applied to ELL students in every grade level.

She is knowledgeable, listens well and puts our children first!”“I’m supporting Leanetta McNealy for Alachua County School Board because of her extensive experience as a parent, educator and school administrator.”“You’ve got my vote! As a school board member I am dedicated to: MAKE SURE EVERY STUDENT IN ALACHUA COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS HAS A GREAT SCHOOL EXPERIENCE BY . It also offers 17 criteria of effective practice that allow leaders to focus on behaviors that have the greatest direct effect on the culture and status of learning and teaching.This book provides school administrators with an initial guide to establishing a strong math culture, including developing common tasks, getting buy-in, and suggestions for monitoring, supporting, and sustaining improvement.Provides teaching strategies for every grade and subject, with dozens of variations and steps and examples for how to implement them. Focuses on feedback that comes from a teacher to a student and is based on student work.This book offers enhanced guidance for considering the effectiveness of properly crafted and individually tailored feedback on student work. . Leon County School Board Meeting - August 4th, 2020 - Duration: 2:14:18. How do mathematicians balance intuition and proof? 2020/21 School Year Calendar. Includes tools for using the framework in teacher preparation, teacher recruitment and hiring, teacher mentoring and peer coaching, professional development, and teacher evaluation.In this book, the author introduces the Teacher Intentionality Practice Scale (TIPS), a framework for both supporting and measuring effective teaching. Of those who responded to a poll of families in Alachua County, 41% selected traditional classes, 41% chose the Digital Academy and 18% picked the eSchool.According to Karen Clarke, superintendent of Alachua County public schools, the county is working on a comprehensive reopening plan that includes more details than the optional innovative reopening plan.“This will give us the flexibility that we need to offer this plan whether we reopen with some brick-and-mortar, some in the Digital Academy, some in eSchool,” she said.She said this plan is just one piece of the full reopening plan.As dean of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications from 1976 to 1994, Lowenstein arranged for the installation of a large, integrated PC network, made up of some 300 computers – one of the earliest in a university environment.

It shows teachers how to collect, analyze, and act upon data about multilingual learners.This book condenses the complexities of educational testing to six practical and action-oriented understandings about validity, reliability, fairness, score reporting, formative assessment, and affective assessment, in order to improve assessment practices and build a case for stopping ineffective ones.This book explores the neurological and evolutionary factors that drive teenage behavior and can affect both achievement and engagement. 2, v. Provides practical planning advice, case studies of successful programs, and numerous implementation resources. Understand why lack of proficiency in reading, writing, and math among black males is a symptom of deeper problems that are generally ignored.Provides updates on multiple intelligences theory and its many applications to schools and classrooms. Congregation B'nai Israel --Gainesville, Florida. It also shows how to think in a new way about why grades are given and the purpose of a report card grade, and how to build a team of stakeholders - including teachers, principals, and guidance counselors - to lead the change process.Provides a framework for effective teaching that can be applied in any subject area and grade level and practical tips on how to use rubrics, checklists, and point systems to convey your expectations.This book offers a continuum of options, with four "destinations" on the road to improved grading and assessment.Explores formative assessment techniques that work in any subject area and grade level. They present a unique blend of useful metaphors, learning strategies, and instructional tips you can use to teach your students to be the boss of their brains.This book explains how teachers can use reflection to help students decipher their own learning needs and engage in deep, thought-provoking discourse about progress.This book details how to design, manage, and maintain an active classroom that balances autonomy and structure. It also provides dozens of practical teaching techniques to try in the classroom right away—strategies to stimulate students to connect ideas; rich tasks that encourage students to wonder, generalize, conjecture, and persevere; and routines to teach students how to collaborate.Describes a purposeful classroom structure that relies on four phases. It explores what differentiation is and why it is essential, how to set up the flexible and supportive learning environment that promotes success, how to manage a differentiated classroom, and how to plan lessons differentiated by readiness, interest, and learning profile.Provides educators with ideas on matching instructional approaches to the readiness, interests, and talents of all students: learning centers, hands-on activities, contracts, and investigative projects.