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 Click Here to Request Items To check out an item, document the name of the item you would like to borrow, click on the link provided below, and enter the selection in your e-mail message. You will be notified by return e-mail if the item is available and will be sent to you via intercampus mail within 2-3 days. Videotape check-out time is 7 days maximum. |
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How to Check Out Materials CISD Staff Development Office is now offering for CISD staff only a wide selection of videotapes for check-out through this web page. If you are interested in viewing what is available, click on the alphabetical table of contents below. Items are listed alphabetically by title. Once there, you may select from a large list of items. Click Here to view a list of new video titles. |
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Alphabetical List of Titles A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Video Journal of Education NOTE: All audio cassettes are in storage |
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Vol. 13 No. 3 Designing and Evaluating Professional Development for Increased Student Learning* Featuring Stephanie Hirsh and Joellen Killion with Dennis Sparks Believing that all students can succeed, the National Staff Development Council (NSDC) is committed to the understanding that quality staff development begins with a focus on what students need for learning. All professional learning must have as its objective higher student achievement. These programs present standards for professional development; a model for evaluation of staff development; and designed of professional development activities. Program 1 — Standards for Staff Development Program 2 — Evaluating Staff Development Program 3 — Designs for Powerful Professional Learning *Includes Companion Book: Assessing Impact: Evaluating Staff Development by Joellen Killion Return to Top |
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A Place at the Table, Struggles for Equality in America, Text, Video, and Teacher's Guide Abilene Paradox, The, by CRM Films. Learn why group "consensus" is NOT always what it appears to be and help inspire group members to voice their true opinions and prevent incorrect group decisions. Includes a leader's guide. Accelerated Schools for At Risk Children — Center for Educational Research at Stanford ADHD: Inclusive, Instruction, and Collaborative Practices by Sandra Rief Administrators Video Magazine for Elementary School Leaders - Volume 1.2 Raising Math Scores By Working Smarter: A Total School EffortAdministrators Video Magazine for Elementary School Leaders - Volume 1.3 How To Keep Good, New Teachers - A Training and Support ProgramAdministrators Video Magazine for Elementary School Leaders - Volume 1.4 School Uniforms: How It Works in Long Beach, CA Crisis Management: Is Your School Prepared? Adult Conflict Resolution by ASCD - Includes leader's guide Alliance Building: Valuing Trust as the Foundation for Change (workbook and manual) by CRM Film American Revolution in Learning: "Common Miracles", ABC Special - Innovative Ideas in Education, January 1993 American Promise, The Acts 6-9,Opportunity, Leverage, Deliberation, and Common Ground And Learning for All: #5 Teaming Up: Valuing Young Citizens, Young Achievers And Learning for All: #7 Learning for Life: Fostering a Lifelong Love of Learning And Learning for All: #3 People Who Care: Creating and Supporting Safe Schools And Learning for All: #6 Real Life Learning: Helping All Students Complete High School And Learning for All: #2 For the Children: Nurturing Young Learners And Learning for All: #4 You Knew That!: Cultivating Excellence in Math and Science And Learning for All: #1 What's Ahead: Where Learning is Going in America And Learning for All: Community Organizing Handbook And Learning for All: Individual Program Information Art of Resolving Conflicts in the Workplace, The by Lawrence D. Schwimmer, Kantola Productions Art of Training: Exploring the Ancient Myths, The, by US Sprint/United Telecom, Ed Harmon and Marge Jarmin, The Barksdale Foundation Asperger's Syndrome: A Guide for Parents and Professional (3 Videos) by Tony Attwood Assertiveness Training for Professionals by CareerTrack Publications Volume 1: Part 1 - The Basics; Part 2 - Beyond the BasicsAutism Workshop with Dr. Wheeler (January 5, 1999) Return to Top |
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Balancing Act, The: A Multiple Intelligences Approach to Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment (Includes Facilitator’s Guide) by Phi Delta Kappa, IRI/Skylight Training and Publishing, Inc., and The Training Works Be Prepared for Meetings by Toastmasters International Communications Series (Includes Instructor's Manual) Be Prepared to Speak by Toastmasters International Communications Series (Includes Instructor's Manual) Be Prepared to Lead by Toastmasters International Communications Series (Includes Instructor's Manual) Best of CareerTrack, The Volume 1: Self-Esteem and Peak Performance, How to Deal with Difficult People, Assertiveness Training for Professionals, and Stress Management for ProfessionalsBeyond Brainstorming: Parts 1 and 2 by Sivasailam Thiagarajan Beyond Secretary presented by Debra Such - CareerTrack Publications Volume 1: Change the way you look at your job foreverBrain and Reading, The. ASCD Publication (Includes Facilitator's Guide) Volume 1: Making ConnectionsBrain, The: Our Universe Within — Discovery Channel: Explore Your World Matter Over MindBreak It Up: Managing Student Fights. Research Press Building A Customer Driven Organization: The Manager's Role, CareerTrack Publications Volume 1: Looking Through Your Customers' EyesBuilding Sound Self-Esteem: Realities of Human Behavior by Barksdale Foundation Production, 1990 Business of Paradigms, The, Discovering the Future Series by Joel Arthur Barker (Includes a facilitator's guide) Business of Paradigms, The NEW (Classic and 21st Century Editions) by Joel Barker Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Western Classic (Used in Conjunction with TQM Training) Return to Top |
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Can We Talk?, CRM Films. An amusing and thought-provoking video makes your organization ask, are we encouraging open communication and are we really listening? Includes leader's guide. Change to Survive: A Brand New Ball Game, Program 2, Films Inc. Changing Schools Through Shared Decision Making, #1 and Shared Decision Making: How It Works, #2 with Facilitator's Guide Character Education: Restoring Respect and Responsibility in Our Schools by Thomas Lickona (National Professional Resources, Inc. Choosing Community - Vol. C: The Case Against Competition and The Consequences of "Consequences” by Developmental Studies Center Choosing Community-Vol. D: The Trouble with Rewards and Beyond Praise and Grades by Developmental Studies Center CLASS - Standards, Not Standardization, Authentic Assessment - Volume I: Re-Thinking Student Assessment - Provocations and Issues CLASS - Standards, Not Standardization, Authentic Assessment - Volume II: Re-Thinking Student Assessment - The District CLASS - Standards, Not Standardization, Authentic Assessment - Volume III: Re-Thinking Student Assessment - The Classroom CLASS - Standards, Not Standardization, Authentic Assessment - Volume IV: Re-Thinking Student Assessment - The School Classroom Connect: Your Ticket to the Most Successful Experiment in Interactive Education to Date Classroom of the Heart by Guy Doud Coaching for Commitment: Managerial Strategies for Obtaining Superior Performance, University Associates, Trainer's Package Coaching for Success, PBS Adult Learning Satellite Service, 3-31-94 Coaching for Top Performance Comer Process, The: Education, Health and Family, ASCD's Satellite Broadcast Conflict Resolution - Includes leader's guide Controlling Interruptions with Verne Harnish - CareerTrack Publications Cooperative Learning, Parts 1-5 Creating A Capacity for Change: Phillip Schlechty on the Future of Education, and Manual, CRM Films Creating Learning Communities: The Comer Process, ASCD Satellite Downlink, March, 1993 Creative Training Techniques by Robert Pike, '92 ASTD National Conference, New Orleans Creativity in the Classroom: An Exploration — Developed by Disney Learning Partnership in collaboration with Project Zero, at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (1 of a series) Cultivating Initiative In Your Staff presented by Cathy Shaughnessy - CareerTrack Publications Volume 1: Laying the groundworkCurriculum Mapping: Charting the Course for Content, ASCD - Includes Facilitator's Guide Volume 1: Essentials of Mapping, The |
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Day of Total Quality Learning, A presented by PBS Adult Learning Satellite Service (6-7-93) Dead Poets Society Featuring Robin Williams Dealing With Conflict, CRM Films. Shows the five key positions people take when in conflict and presents collaboration as the best way to control and resolve conflicts. Includes leader's guide Developing Healthy Self-Esteem, H. Stephen Glenn Differentiating Instruction, Creating Multiple Paths for Learning, Video Tapes and Facilitator's Guide Book, An ASCD Production Differentiating Instruction for Mixed-Ability Classrooms — An ASCD Professional Inquiry Kit Discipline with Dignity — Video Training Set on Prevention, Action, and Resolution by Dr. Richard Curwin and Dr. Allen Mendler Return to Top |
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Educating America by Ralph Tyler Effective Management: Laughing Matters, Kenneth J. Kovach and Gary Bunch, '91 ASTD National Conference Effective Public Relations - Everybody's Job!, American Association of School Administrators Effective Teacher, The by Harry K. Wong (Includes Facilitator’s Handbook) Part 1: The Effective TeacherEither Way You're Right — American Media Incorporated - Includes discussion guide Eleven Principles of Effective Character Education by Thomas Lickona and Catherine Lewis (National Professional Resources, Inc.) Empowering Others: Ten Keys to Affirming and Validating People, H. Stephen Glenn Even Eagles Need a Push, CRM Films, Reveals the five qualities of the confident, self-empowered person and inspires unprecedented commitment to individual and organizational excellence. Includes leader's guide Every Child Can Succeed Essential Elements Component: Instructional LeadershipEveryone's Public Relations Role, Communication Briefings Exceptional Customer Service and Manual: Volume 1: The Total Service Experience |
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Fast Track Reading Action, 2 Instructional Videos, 6 audio cassettes and workbook, dice and game pieces. Feedback Solutions: Receiving Feedback-Basic SkillsFenwick English - Alief Presentation (1 Hour 53 Minutes) Flight of the Buffalo: Soaring to Excellence Learning To Let Employees Lead, by James A. Belasco and Ralph C. Stayer For Children's Sake: The Comer School Development Program (Includes Discussion Leader's Guide) Video A - Segment 1: Social HistoryFor Goodness Sake!, CRM Films. Improves attitudes and morale, ethics and values, team-building, communication, and leadership training. 24 minutes Framework for Understanding and Working with Students and Adults from Poverty by RFT Publishing Video 1: Key Points and the Eight ResourcesFrom "No" to "Yes" - Video Arts Incorporated with Manual Further Thoughts: Extending the Lead Article in the Phi Delta Kappan — PDK Center for Professional Development and Services Return to Top |
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Getting the Most Out of Your Meetings, Communication Briefings Getting Things Done, CareerTrack Publications Volume 1: Part 1 - Goals; Part 2 - To Do ListsGrandin, Dr. Temple speaks on Careers: Opportunity for Growth — Presentation offered by Future Horizons Grandin, Dr. Temple speaks on Medications: Fact and Fiction — Presentation offered by Future Horizons Grandin, Dr. Temple speaks on Sensory Challenges and Answers — Presentation offered by Future Horizons Grandin, Dr. Temple speaks on Visual Thinking of a Person with Autism — Presentation offered by Future Horizons Greatest Human Need, The by H. Stephen Glenn Groupthink, CRM Films. See case histories of how group think prevents the success of group objectives and learn the eight group think symptoms and how to avoid them. Includes leader's guide. Return to Top |
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Hiring the Best by Ann M. McGil — Business Skills Express Series (Videocassette: 25 mins; audiocassette and book included) How Difficult Can This Be? The F.A.T. City Workshop — Presented by Rick Lavoie, Nationally Recognized Expert on Learning Disabilities How To Be A Better Trainer, CareerTrack Publications - Volume 1-3 (Includes Video Workbook) How To Be An Outstanding Receptionist presented by Sandy McKenzie - CareerTrack Publications Volume 1: Be More Positive and Productive Every DayHow to Create an Effective Learning Environment (ASCD - For the Classroom Teacher - 15 min) How to Create Successful Parent-Student Conferences (ASCD - For the Classroom Teacher - 15 min) How To Deal With Difficult People, CareerTrack Publications, Volume 1, 2, and 3 How To Increase Your Confidence, Respect, and Results, Career Track Publications Volume 1, 2 and 3 How To Interview and Hire the Right People - A step-by-step guide for managers and supervisors, CareerTrack Publications - Volume 1, 2, and 3 (Includes Video Workbook) How To Listen Powerfully, CareerTrack Publications Volume 1: Part 1 - Introduction to Communication; Part 2 - The Attitudes of a Good ListenerHow To Set and Achieve Goals with Dr. Bobbe Sommer, CareerTrack Publications Volume 1: Part 1 - Where Have I Been?; Part 2 - Where Am I Now?How to Start the School Year Right (ASCD - For the Classroom Teacher - 15 minutes) How To Write and Conduct Effective Performance Appraisals...and use them to help employees develop and improve, CareerTrack Publications - Volume 1, 2, and 3 Return to Top |
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Ideas Into Action (Includes manual) If You Don't Feed the Teachers, They Eat the Students! — Incentive Publications Instructor-Led, Participant-Centered Training Techniques, Robert Pike, '93 ASTD National Conference, Atlanta Integrating the Curriculum Vol. 1 and 2, and Facilitator's Guide Interactive Classroom, The (NEA Video Library) Part 1: Cooperative Learning: OverviewIntroduction to Developing Capable People by H. Stephen Glenn Is It Sexual Harassment? — Cambridge Educational - June 2003 Is Learning a Matter of Style? Answers for Teachers, IOX Educational Research and Development It's A Jungle Out There! And Time to Untame the Trainer by Kate Butler, '91 ASTD National Conference Return to Top |
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Kagan Affective Sensitivity Scale, Examiner's Manual, Forn H, by Norman I. Kagan, Ph.D. Kagan Interpersonal Process Recall, A Method of Influencing Human Interaction, by Norman I. Kagan, Ph.D. Videos Unit AKeeping Teams Together Return to Top |
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Leadership and The New Science, CRM Films Leading Schools to Quality — A National Educational Service Publication (Includes Discussion Guide) Learn & Live, Manual , CD, and Video, by The George Lucas Educational Foundation Lesson Plan Remodeling: A Strategy for Critical Thinking Staff Development K-12 with Richard W. Paul — Center for Critical Thinking and Moral Critique - Sonoma State University Lessons from the New Workplace, CRM Films Lily Tomlin, Customer Service Training Series: What Customers Want (includes manual)Looking at Teacher Work: Standards in Practice - A Professional Development Strategy for School Personnel — Created by Collaborative Communications Group, The Education Trust, and The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation (Length: 32 minutes) 2002 Return to Top |
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Maintaining Teacher Effectiveness, Phi Delta Kappa Professional Development Center
Tape 1: Overview of TeachingManager As Coach, The, Presented by Marion Howell - CareerTrack Publications Volume 1: Maximize Your Management ImpactManaging in a Multi-Cultural and Multi-Ethnic Environment, National Audiovisual Center, 11/93 Managing People, The Wharton School Video Series Managing Performance for Quality, CRM Films Marijuana: What Can Parents Do? — National Institute on Drub Abuse Videotape Series (14:00) Master Key To Success, The, Napoleon Hill and W. Clement Stone. This program will show you how to turn your desires into reality! Meetings, Bloody Meetings (includes two manuals) Mentoring — Sam Houston Center for Professional Development and Educational Partnerships (Region IV ESC) Mentoring the New Teacher and Facilitator's Guide Lack Of Instructional ResourcesMiddle Grades: Menu for Success — Incentive Publications Mining Group Gold, CRM Films, Apply Total Quality Management to the process of group interaction and ensure high-quality group decision-making for maximum benefits to the organization. Includes a leader's guide More Bloody Meetings, Video Arts Incorporated (includes two manuals) Return to Top |
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Naked Truth, The: Revealing Employee Sexual Harassment — TASB National School Conference Institute (NSCI) 10 Minute Preview: Comprehensive Staff Development and Networking with Schools Across the Country Nation's Challenge: A Guide for Educators of Children Affected by Alcohol and Other Drugs New Research on Continuous Learning in the Business Environment, J. Bragar and K. Johnson, '93 ASTD National Conference, Atlanta Nightingale, Earl Video Classics Recognizing OpportunityNoggin's "A Walk in Your Shoes" — Disabilities Awareness Teaching Kit — NAESP Return to Top |
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Open Meetings Act - Texas Association of School Boards/Legal Services Division
Tape 1: 72 Hours: Investigating the Open Meetings ActOpening Doors: An Introduction to Peer Coaching (Includes Supplemental Tape) - ASCD Publication Optimizing Intelligences: Thinking, Emotion, and Creativity Featuring Howard Gardner, Daniel Goleman, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Hosted by Peter Salovey (Videocassette: 40 minutes) Out-Come Based Education, ASCD Four Guiding Principles of Outcome-Based EducationOvercoming Procrastination presented by Susan Fowler Woodring - CareerTrack Publications Return to Top |
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Paradigm Pioneers — Discovering the Future Series by Joel Arthur Barker (Includes facilitator's guide) Paradigm Principles — Discovering the Future Series by Joel Arthur Barker (Includes a facilitator's guide) Performance Excellence: A video training package on six core coaching skills to ensure teamwork, commitment, and the best performance from everyone - Includes video workbook and facilitator’s guide Tape 1: Coaching to Clarify ExpectationsPoverty: A Framework for Understanding and Working with Students and Adults from Poverty by Dr. Ruby Payne (3 Tape Series Includes Book and Manual by the same name) Tape 1: Key Points and the Eight ResourcesPower of Vision, The — Discovering the Future Series by Joel Arthur Barker (Includes facilitator's guide) Professional Supervision Skills presented by Jack Everitt - CareerTrack Publications Volume 1: Becoming an Effective Supervisor and Mastering the Routine, but Crucial Supervisory TaskProfessional Telephone Skills presented by Debra Smith - CareerTrack Publications Volume 1: Be more confident and in control on the telephoneProgress Report From the Process Consultants, A: What Have You Done by K. Butler and M. Finnerty, '92 ASTD National Conference, New Orleans Putting Power, Punch and Pizzaz in Your Training, Robert Pike, '91 ASTD National Conference Putting Standards into Action — A Collaboration of the National Urban League, Inc. and the U.S. Department of Education Return to Top |
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Reclaiming Youth at Risk: Our Hope for the Future with facilitator’s guide Redesigning Assessment Volume 1: Introduction, ASCD, Includes a facilitator's guideRefusal Skills Video, The: Preventing Drug Use in Adolescents. Research Press Reinventing Our Schools Part 1: A Conversation with James P. Comer MD (29:30)Restructuring America's Schools, ASCD - Includes a leader's guide Restructuring the High School: A Case Study, ASCD - Includes a leader's guide Role of the Public Schools in a Democracy, The - Based on the publication, Do We Still Need Public Schools? Phi Delta Kappa Return to Top |
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7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The, by Stephen R. Covey (Overview) Schools of Thought I Part 1: "On Tracking and Ability Grouping" (28:11)Schools of Thought II Part 1: "Performance Assessment" (27:50)Seeking Solutions with Hedrick Smith, Part 1, Teen Crime Self-Esteem and Peak Performance, CareerTrack Publications Volume 1: Ten Steps to Peak Performance: Steps 1-4Set Straight on Bullies — A National School Safety Center Production (Includes Facilitator’s Guide Developed by John Hoover) Sexual Harassment: Crossing the Line — Cambridge Educational – May 2003 Sexual Harassment - How to Protect Yourself and Your Organization, CareerTrack Publications - Volume 1, 2, and 3 (Includes Video Workbook) Sexual Harassment Training Video and Manual: A Training Tape for Public Schools by Schwartz and Eichelbaum, P.C. Sexual Harassment - What Is It and Why Should I Care? and Manual, Quality Work Environments, Inc. Shadow of Hate, The: A History of Intolerance in America Site-Based Management and Decision-Making, American Association of School Administrators Six Steps to Developing Responsibility, H. Stephen Glenn Skills for Parents: How to Help Your Child Succeed with Homework, Lee Canter Skills for Parents: How to Help Your Child Succeed with Homework, Lee Canter, (Dubbed in Spanish) Skillstreaming the Adolescent — People Skills: Doing ‘Em Right. Research Press Skillstreaming the Elementary School Child — People Skills: Doing ‘em Right. Research Press Skillstreaming Video, The: How To Teach Students Prosocial Skills. Research Press Solving Conflict, Highland Publications Sources and Forces For Change: Recognizing Potential, Sharing Success: Dumas Public SchoolsStandards, Not Standardization, Volume 1; Re-thinking Assessment and Provocations and Issues Straight At Ya (Spanish Version), A Drug Abuse Prevention Video, Funded by: US Dept. of Education Produced by: The Scott Newman Center Success With Parents: Confident Parent Conferences, Lee Canter & Associates, the developers of Assertive Discipline Success With Parents: Positive Solutions to Difficult Situations with Parents, Lee Canter & Associates, the developers of Assertive Discipline Success With Parents: Turning Parents into Partners, Lee Canter & Associates, the developers of Assertive Discipline Super Mapping by Eric Jensen Discover Tips for Building UnderstandingSuper Searching the Web - Internet Revealed Video Series (Classroom Connect) - This tape will teach you all you need to know to quickly search the Internet's vast resources for information on hundreds of topics. You'll learn the basics of all of the Net's powerful search tools - from Yahoo to HotBot - all in less than half an hour. Return to Top |
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12 Techniques for Improving Your Skills by Scott Parry (ASTD) Taking Active Charge of Your Life, The Barksdale Foundation, By Ed Harmon and Marge Jarmin Taking Charge of Change, CRM Films (2 copies) - Includes Leader's Guide Taking Control of Your Work Day presented by Dick Lohr - CareerTrack Publications Volume 1: Focus, Organization and Balance - How to Accomplish Your PrioritiesTale of "O" - On Being Different, Goodmeasure, Inc. This video is an entertaining, captivating parable about what happens to any new or different kind of person in a group and how the situation can be managed. Teachers Who Make a Difference, Developing Capable People, H. Stephen Glenn Teacher TV Series, The Learning Channel - Volume 1: Anger, Conflict Resolution Teacher TV Series, The Learning Channel - Volume 2: Health and Learning Teacher TV Series, The Learning Channel - Volume 3: Learning Real World (Outside Classroom) Teacher TV Series, The Learning Channel - Volume 4: Flexibility in Teaching Teacher TV Series, The Learning Channel - Volume 5: Success for All Teacher TV Series, The Learning Channel - Volume 6: Restructured Middle School Teacher TV Series, The Learning Channel - Volume 7: Research: The Latest Trends Teacher TV Series, The Learning Channel - Volume 11: Alternative Assessment Teacher TV Series, The Learning Channel - Volume 12: A Curriculum With Bite Gets Kids to Sink Their Teeth Into Learning Teacher TV Series, The Learning Channel - Volume 13: ABC’s of Educational Resources Teacher TV Series, The Learning Channel - Volume 15: Violence in the Schools Teachers Who Make a Difference by H. Stephen Glenn Teaching an Elephant to Dance Today by James A Belasco (Includes manual and 3 disks) Teaching for Understanding Through Multiple Intelligences (Live Seminars on Tape) with Geni Boyer (ASCD Publication) Team Building, Second Edition CRM Films (Includes manual) Teamwork Game: The Game That Works by Alban Associates, Inc. Technology and the Role of the Teacher: How to Effectively Integrate Technology into the Classroom by Mark Mohensky, Educational Reform Group, Inc. Technology Education: Essential Knowledge and Skills for the 21st Century Teen Leadership — Educational Video Network, Inc. Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice, Dennis Kimbro, Napoleon Hill Foundation, 1991 Think—Pair—Share, NEA Video Library Total Quality Management with Verne Harnish by CareerTrack Publications Volume 1: The shift in the way we think and measuring qualityTourette Syndrome Association "Stop It, I Can't" — 13 Minutes Tourette Syndrome Association "A Regular Kid, That's Me" — 44 Minutes Train, The: A True Story About the Power of the Mind, American Media Incorporated - Includes Training Leader's Guide Truth About Tracking and Ability Grouping, The: Which Way for American Schools? (Includes Leader's Guide) Part 2: Getting Off the Track (39:00) Return to Top |
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Understanding Learning Organizations, Peter Senge, PBS Video conference, December 1993 Understanding Slower Learners, Volume 1 (Center for Slower Learners: All Children Can Learn, If.) Part I: Understanding Slower Learners: Covers identifying traits, learning characteristics, working with parents.Return to Top |
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What About Learning?, The Regional Laboratory What Is Sexual Harassment? American Media, Inc., This comprehensive teaching tool explains the nature of sexual harassment and raises awareness about what is acceptable conduct. Includes a study guide. What's New in School: Volume 1: An Introduction for Parents"Where We Stand" Does Our Democracy and Free Enterprise Really Work in Terms of Our Standard of Living? Sponsored by Huntsville Memorial Hospital for the Congressional District of Representative Jim Turner — Compare yourself to the rest of the world using an important indicator of one's standard of living - your physical well being and health. Who Moved My Cheese? Interactive Multimedia Learning Program — The Cheese Experience: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change at Work and In Life based on the #1 Bestselling Business Book by Spencer Johnson, M.D. Why Can't Bobby Pay Attention? Current Issues and Answers in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder — Visionary Productions Inc. Winds of Change, The, Barr Films Workteams and The Wizard of Oz, CRM Films, Using spectacular footage from the film The Wizard of Oz as a powerful metaphor, management expert Ken Blanchard teaches six keys to successful teamwork. Return to Top |
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Vol. 1 No. 1 William Glasser's The Quality School: Eliminating Coercion These videotapes allow the observer to examine the components of a quality school, the importance of meaningful relationships in the school, and the importance of fulfilling psychological needs. Program 1 Placing Schools in the Student Quality World - 26 minutes Program 2 It Can Be Done - 20 minutes Vol. 1 No. 2 William Glasser's The Quality School: Teaching Quality and Self Evaluation These videotapes allow the observer to explore the principles and concepts embodied in the quality school paradigm. Program 1 Establishing a Paradigm for Quality - 24 minutes Program 2 Self-Evaluation - The Pathway to Real Quality - 26 minutes Vol. 1 No. 3 Control Theory and Responsibility Training The quality school paradigm is enhanced by exploring the concepts and principles of Control Theory. Cooperative Learning is also introduced. Program 1 Understanding Control Theory - 25 minutes Program 2 Responsibility Training for a Quality School - 25 minutes Vol. 1 No. 4 Restructuring For Quality Schools and Quality Districts These videotapes allow the observer to examine the critical issues and processes in restructuring to achieve a quality school district. Program 1 Restructuring For Quality Schools and Quality Districts - 29 minutes Program 2 Answering the Need for Change - 29 minutes Vol. 1 No. 5 Creating Vision: The Key to School Improvement These videotapes help the observer acquire the skills and knowledge necessary to engage staff members in developing a meaningful vision of school improvement. Program 1 Envisioning Success - 28 minutes Program 2 Focusing on Outcomes - 28 minutes Vol. 1 No. 6 Mastery Learning in the Instructional Process These videotapes focus on the principles of mastery learning incorporated into the instructional process. The purpose of these videotapes is to assist you in helping staff members acquire additional expertise in essential phases of quality instruction. Program 1 Instruction for Mastery - 25 minutes Program 2 The Instructional Process in Action - 25 minutes Vol. 1 No. 7 Assessment of Quality Learning These videotapes allow the observer to explore the role of assessment in the process of measuring the outcomes in a quality school. The purpose of these videotapes is to assist you in evaluating your current assessment practices and engaging your staff in the process of developing accurate, viable assessment strategies. Program 1 Exploring Assessment Alternatives - 26 minutes Program 2 Performance Assessments - 27 minutes Vol. 1 No. 8 Effective Teacher Teaming: Secondary and Elementary These videotapes demonstrate how teaming can provide educators with opportunities to manipulate time structures, increase idea sharing, and improve management for quality instruction. Program 1 The Many Structures of Teaming - 27 minutes Program 2 Teams in Action - 27 minutes Vol. 1 No. 9 The Spirit of Change These videotapes demonstrate meaningful change in an ongoing process in a strong, healthy organization. Program 1 Schools: A People Business Program 2 Pulling Everyone Together for Quality Return to Top Vol. 2 No. 1 Invitational Education Invitational Education recognizes everyone as able, valuable, and responsible. These videotapes provide the assumptions of invitational schools and the behaviors and practices that are disinviting. Program 1 More Than Friendly Entreaty - 29 minutes Program 2 Creating Inviting Schools - 25 minutes Vol. 2 No. 2 Outcome Based Education These videotapes provide the meaning of Outcome Based Education and the system wide approach to school improvement. Program 1 Introduction to Effective Outcome Based Education - 29 minutes Program 2 Getting Started in Outcome Based Education - 31 minutes Vol. 2 No. 3 Outcome Based Education with Secondary School Emphasis These videotapes present the unique challenges of secondary schools. Program 1 Challenges and Applications - 31 minutes Program 2 Solutions for Secondary Schools - 32 minutes Vol. 2 No. 4 Managing Change These videotapes present the principles of the change process and the dynamics of change as it impacts schools. Program 1 The Dynamics of Change - 30 minutes Program 2 Planning for Change - 30 minutes Vol. 2 No. 5 Self Esteem These videotapes provide the observers with an understanding of the development of self esteem. Program 1 The Pillars of Self Esteem - 28 minutes Program 2 Creating the Condition for Self Esteem - 28 minutes Vol. 2 No. 6 Helping Disruptive and Unresponsive Students These videotapes provide the observers with causes of student misbehavior and low achievement in school and techniques to help the students develop a sense of responsibility for their actions. Program 1 Foundations for Developing Self Control Program 2 The Tools of Reality Therapy Vol. 2 No. 7 Transformational Leadership These videotapes provide the observers with the principles behind Transformational Leadership. Program 1 The Transformational Leader - 35 minutes Program 2 Empowering Staff and Students - 32 minutes Vol. 2 No. 8 Integrating the Curriculum These videotapes provide information concerning curriculum integration and provides a practical approach for implementation. Program 1 Meaningful Learning - 27 minutes Program 2 Designing Integrated Curriculum - 25 minutes Vol. 2 No. 9 Focus on Thinking These videotapes feature several practical strategies which will enable teachers to implement high level thinking skills into their classrooms. Program 1 Creating Thoughtful Learners Program 2 More Strategies of Thinking Return to Top Vol. 3 No. 1 The Collaborative Workplace and Peer Coaching These videotapes deal with the development of collaboration as an avenue for the sharing of collective staff expertise. Program 1 Collaboration: Breaking the Isolation Program 2 Peer Coaching Vol. 3 No. 2 A Fresh Look at Cooperative Learning These videotapes highlight Cooperative Learning as an innovative approach to the teaching/learning process and provide meaningful insights and user friendly examples. Program 1 Targeting Real Cooperative Learning Program 2 Making It Work Vol. 3 No. 3 Performance Assessment in the Classroom These videotapes explore these and related questions to enable educators to improve assessment techniques and practices. Program 1 Performance Based Assessment and Instruction Program 2 Creating Performance Tasks Vol. 3 No. 4 Portfolio Assessment These videotapes explore performance based assessments. Program 1 Reflections of Learning Program 2 Utilizing Portfolios Vol. 3 No. 5 Site-Based Governance These videotapes highlight these principles and demonstrate how they are being used to improve schools through shared governance, action research, and the focus of change. Program 1 Bringing Democracy Back to School Program 2 Shared Governance for Effective Education Vol. 3 No. 6 Brain Compatible Learning These videotapes highlight the human brain and the conditions which are conducive to the process of learning than educators. Program 1 A Model for a Brain Compatible Classroom Program 2 The ITI Model at Work Vol. 3 No. 7 Perspectives on Quality Education These videotapes explore Deming's principles of quality and the educators who are having success in putting the quality process to work in their school. Program 1 Structures for Developing Quality Program 2 A Framework for Quality Learning Vol. 3 No. 8 Diversity in the Classroom These videotapes illuminates a model of multicultural education designed to help educators achieve such a mission. Program 1 Education in a Multicultural Society Program 2 Developing Multicultural Curriculum Vol. 3 No. 9 Inclusion These videotapes explore the philosophy, rationale, and tools of inclusion used in many schools around the world to make them more successful, as well as broaden and enrich opportunities in learning for all students. Program 1 Building Inclusive Communities Program 2 Moving Students from Isolation to Interaction Return to Top Vol. 4 No. 1 Learning Differences: Designing Instruction with the 4MAT System These videotapes addresses the universal teaching conundrum: "How can we teach so all students learn while being true to the standards and curricular requirements for educational excellence?" Program 1 Understanding 4MAT Program 2 Utilizing 4MAT Vol. 4 No. 2 High School Alternative Scheduling to Enhance Teaching and Learning These videotapes contrasts traditional scheduling formats with alternative block scheduling at the high school level. Program 1 Reorganizing Time for Student Achievement Program 2 New Opportunities with Block Scheduling Vol. 4 No. 3 Elementary Parallel Block Scheduling for Enhanced Teaching and Learning These videotapes show elementary educators how to use resources to improve student learning. Program 1 Increasing Instructional Time and Effectiveness Program 2 Setting Parallel Block Scheduling in Motion Vol. 4 No. 4 Accelerated Schools These videotapes explore this systemic process for the long-term transformation of schools from conventional to accelerated. Program 1 Profile of the Accelerated Schools Model Program 2 Acceleration for All Student Vol. 4 No. 5 Community Involvement: Working Together to Improve Schools These videotapes brings yet another resource to educators who are engaged in school improvement and searching for effective ways to achieve their goals. Program 1 Inviting the Community Into Schools Program 2 Bringing Schools to the Community Vol. 4 No. 6 How Families Help Children Learn These videotapes give new insights into the role of the family in helping individuals become successful lifelong learners. Program 1 Mobilizing Parents to Help Their Children Program 2 Home Activities for Learning Vol. 4 No. 7 Multiple Intelligences: Developing Intelligences for Greater Achievement These videotapes brings new insights and understandings to these questions by delving into current cognitive and brain research. Program 1 Discovering the Seven Intelligences Program 2 Enriching Students' Intelligences in the Classroom Vol. 4 No. 8 Effective Schools: Building Foundations for School Improvement These videotapes find the Correlates of Effective Schools outlined in these videotapes to be invaluable cornerstones on which to build their school improvement efforts. Program 1 Implementing the Correlates of Effective Schools Program 2 Initiating School Improvement Vol. 4 No. 9 Creating Conditions for Success These videotapes depicts success for schools as a journey open to everyone. A positive school climate is explored as a powerful element that is totally within the control of the staff in a school. Program 1 Fostering a Positive School Climate Program 2 Engaging the Student in Successful Learning Return to Top Vol. 5 No. 1 Developing, Aligning, and Auditing Curriculum This video examines the function of curriculum in successful school improvement. Program 1 Achieving Curriculum Alignment Program 2 Conducting a Curriculum Audit Vol. 5 No. 2 Instructional Strategies for Greater Student Achievement This video provides a heaping portion of the kinds of instructional strategies so many teachers find themselves craving. Program 1 Shifting to More Powerful Teaching Program 2 Applying Instructional Strategies Supplemental Videos: 502E Strategies for Elementary School Teachers 502H Strategies for High School Teachers 502M Strategies for Middle School Teachers These videos provide the kinds of instructional strategies so many teachers find themselves craving. Vol. 5 No. 3 Multiage/Non-Graded Education From Practice to Theory This video series introduces a dynamic educational alternative which mirrors family and community group structures, emphasizes authentic learning/assessment experiences, and refrains from labeling students. Program 1 Focusing on Student Learning Program 2 Strategies for the Multiage/Non-Graded Classroom Vol. 5 No. 4 Supplemental Videos 504T - Planning for Information and Communication Technology This video helps educators sharpen their technology skills. 504I - Utilizing the Internet in the Classroom This video frames the impact of the new frontier in schools and classrooms. Vol. 5 No. 5 Teacher Induction, Mentoring, and Renewal This video series introduces the most dynamic induction, mentoring, and renewal programs operating in today’s schools. Research based and success driven, these programs feature specific ideas, activities, and topics in the training of new staff. Experienced teachers learn innovative classroom management strategies through renewal programs and share their expertise in the mentoring process. Highlights of these outstanding programs clearly portray the benefits and application at all levels of the school system. Program 1 New Teacher Preparedness Through Effective Induction Program 2 Mentoring and Teacher Renewal Vol. 5 No. 6 The Heterogeneous Classroom This video series depicts a powerful way for educators to prepare students for the heterogeneous society in which we live. Program 1 Preparing Students for a Changing World Program 2 Managing Heterogeneity for Greater Achievement Vol. 5 No. 7 Principals: Leaders of Change This video series exposes the dilemmas faced by today’s principals and explains the perceptual lenses that can help them address their mounting challenges. Program 1 Innovative Leadership for School Improvement Program 2 Culture-building Leadership Return to Top Vol. 6 No. 1 Teaching in the Block: Engaging Students in Active Learning This video series addresses the challenges of teaching and learning faced by schools using the block schedule. Changing time frames creates a unique opportunity for educators to reexamine instructional practices and approaches to learning. What does powerful learning look like? What strategies invite active student participation, long heralded as a hallmark of quality classrooms and now recognized as an imperative in extended time blocks? How can teachers capitalize on the time issue to engage learners in ways previously prevented by the clock? Program 1 Making Use of Expanded Time Program 2 English and Social Studies in the Block Program 3 Examples from Math and Science Vol. 6 No. 2 Middle School Block Scheduling This issue helps educators use block scheduling to maximize time management. Examples show how to structure time to meet student learning needs and enhance productive teaching strategies. Using block scheduling creates excellent opportunities for teacher teaming, planning, and integrating subject areas. In addition, seven common problem areas of middle schools are addressed in a variety of scheduling options. This program presents educators throughout the United States who have successfully implemented block scheduling in their schools. Program 1 Innovative Scheduling for Improved Learning Program 2 Block Scheduling in Action Vol. 6 No. 3 Encouraging Motivation Among All Students This issue takes an insightful look at this problem. This issue examines motivational principles and concepts fundamental to all children. Rather than manipulating students to learn, educators see how to induce intrinsic motivation through implementation of dynamic classroom conditions. Program 1 A Model for Intrinsic Motivation Program 2 Culturally Responsive Teaching in the Classroom Vol. 6 No. 4 Results-Driven Staff Development This issues focuses on student learning through staff development. The quest to become a better teacher is an issue that transcends the limits of salary, materials, class size, or parental support. Despite these limitations, most educators genuinely strive to improve themselves. This quest for improvement helps them to create classrooms where students are engaged in achieving high academic standards. Program 1 A Paradigm Shift: Staff Development for Improved Learning Program 2 National Staff Development Council Standards for Staff Development Vol. 6 No. 5 Work/Career 605H - High School-to-Work/Career 605M - Middle School-to-Work/Career 605E - Elementary School-to-Work/Career The connection between school and the world of work is an easy one to see. It’s a foregone conclusion that students in grades K-12 are being prepared to enter society with the skills necessary for success in the workplace. In fact, students leaving our schools do not have the skills required for the career roles they need to assume. All too often the academic work of students is far separated from its practical application. This can inadvertently obscure students’ ability to connect their learning with future careers and work settings. However, intentionally weaving together academic instruction and its practical application, learning can become both relevant and meaningful to all students. This issue portrays the power of this philosophy through its practical application in the classroom. A unique blend of school-to-career principles with specific examples are highlighted. Vol. 6 No. 6 Integrating Teaching Models 606E - For Elementary Teachers 606S - For Secondary Teachers Only when educators understand how to engage students in meaningful and relevant learning experiences can we unleash student potential and achieve our educational goals. Research has validated many models of teaching which can do just that. We call them the tools of our trade. This program brings to focus five truly exceptional and validated teaching models. Learning and carrying out these five models over time will allow educators to gradually integrate them and vastly improve the learning conditions for their students. Vol. 6 No. 7 Positive Discipline in the Classroom Every educator has to deal with student discipline. How they deal with it is the real issue. The way adults perceive and design the school environment has a lasting impact on young lives. All too often discipline is handled in a knee-jerk reactionary way. The result is a punitive collection of rules and warnings that are intended to push students into appropriate behavior. It is often successful — in the short term. But what about the long term ability of students to resolve problems and successfully develop socially acceptable behavior? This program provides insight into Positive Discipline, a unique model for student behavior. The forum of opportunity for students to develop valuable social skills is class meetings. Important tips, strategies, and procedures to ensure the success of this method are displayed in various levels of elementary and secondary classrooms. Program 1 A Foundation for Positive Discipline (35 minutes) Program 2 Class Meetings: A Forum for Positive Discipline (51 minutes) Vol. 6 No. 8 Student-Centered Reading and Learning Strategies 608E - For Elementary Schools 608H - For High Schools 608M - For Middle Schools Educators dream of helping students become independent learners by acquiring powerful reading skills. Teachers can achieve these goals when they understand and model for students how to learn, as well as the principles and philosophy that underlie the process. Immersing students in content and hoping that they will gradually mature as readers and learners is a common trap that teachers often fall into. This program provides the tools needed by teachers and students for lifelong reading and learning. These videotapes introduce CRISS (Creating Independent through Student-Owned Strategies) which is grounded in research-based principles and demonstrated across grade levels in a variety of classroom settings. These effective strategies help learners of all ages and abilities unlock meaning in reading and develop continuous learning skills. This compelling philosophy encourages teachers to model these strategies for students and then to gradually step aside, allowing them to take over as the makers of meaning in their own learning. Return to Top Vol. 7 No. 1 Teaching Intelligent Behaviors for Thinking and Problem Solving This program features classrooms centered on problem solving and thinking. Research studies reveal that certain “intelligent behaviors” are exhibited by effective problem solvers. Educators trained in teaching the intelligent behaviors share examples of helping students acquire attributes such as persistence, metacognition, listening with empathy, and creativity. Program 1 The Behaviors of Intelligence (53 minutes) Program 2 Teaching Toward the Intelligent Behaviors (47 minutes) Vol. 7 No. 2 Bringing Brain Research into Classroom Practice This program captures brain-based research practical in learning rich classrooms. Short and long-term memory, making sense of information, and creativity are demonstrated as functions of the brain. Illustrations enhance understanding, empowering educators to improve learning opportunities for students. Program 1 How the Brain Works While Learning (33 minutes) Program 2 Bringing Learning into Long-Term Memory (32 minutes) Program 3 An Enriched Environment for Learning (44 minutes) Vol. 7 No. 3 Cooperative Learning and Multiple Intelligences 703E - For Elementary Schools 703H - For High Schools 703M - For Middle Schools This program features the powerful merger of two widely recognized and highly respected educational movements. Cooperative Learning yields student gains both academically and socially. The theory of Multiple Intelligences allows students to develop and demonstrate intelligence in a variety of areas. Together they create a potpourri of strategies and structures for teachers, to meet the individual learning needs of all students. This issue consists of three separate tapes featuring classroom examples at elementary, middle, and high school levels. Vol. 7 No. 4 Developing Rigorous and Relevant Academic Skills This program dispels the misunderstandings obscuring a transformational shift in America toward higher academic standards. Technology, real-world projects, business partnerships, and community involvement must support school reform efforts. Outstanding classroom examples demonstrate the systemic development of key student skills through rigorous curriculum and relevant academic learning activities. Vol. 7 No. 5 The Technology-Infused Classroom 705E - For Elementary Schools 705H - For High Schools 705M - For Middle Schools This program redefines technology paradigms in today’s classrooms. The limited impact of technology integration is contrasted with the power of technology infusion. Technology becomes an essential skillful tool in developing projects and solving problems. Learner-active classrooms, utilizing a technology potpourri, are portrayed from school sites across North America. Vol. 7 No. 6 Increasing Student Performance and Achievement 706E - The Learning-Focused Elementary School 706H - The Learning-Focused High School 706M - The Learning-Focused Middle School This program turns the spotlight to learning-focused schools that successfully increase student performance and achievement. Resisting programs, agendas, policies, and issues which muddy educational waters, these schools relentlessly pursue learning excellence. Their experience reveals a foundation of research based learning practices rather than a reliance on serendipitous teacher performance. Learning-centered essential questions, rubrics, and powerful ideas for culminating activities are just a few components of the learning-focused schools highlighted in this issue. Vol. 7 No. 7 Achieving Reading Success in the Early Years Reading and writing are the essence of communication. Educators have a formidable and significant challenge in helping young learners acquire these valuable skills. The lifetime ability to read and write hinges heavily upon successful experiences in the formative primary years. What teaching methods and strategies most likely will ensure that students attain literacy? What beliefs must teachers embrace in order to generate a genuine confidence in students and a lifetime love of reading and writing? This program will answer these questions and take a close look at the experience of beginning learners as they discover how to read and write. In depth visits to classrooms show examples of student progress in these skills throughout the school year. Additionally, this program broadens teacher understanding of how language works and fits together in the development of literacy. Program 1 A Commitment to Literacy (51 minutes) Program 2 Focus on Reading (49 minutes) Program 3 Focus on Writing (45 minutes) Return to Top Vol. 8 No. 1 What’s Worth Fighting for in Education Presented by Michael Fullan and Andy Hargreaves This program captures a unique perspective on the challenge to move forward, stemming the tide of cynicism and forging the schools of tomorrow. Highlighted are key principles in understanding the change process, strategies for developing collaborative cultures, and engaging the community in school improvement. In addition, ideas for principals as leaders of change are illustrated in schools already progressing in this powerful process. Program 1 Parts One and Two: Changing Schools from Within Program 2 Parts One and Two: Going Beyond Schools Into the Community Vol. 8 No. 2 Standards That Work Featuring Douglas B. Reeves This program answers the questions: Standards: Are they just another educational fad in the winds of change? Benchmarks: How can they be assessed? Scoring Guides: Is this a new twist in what and how we measure? These and other issuers are the nucleus of the standards-based movement. Standards form a framework for educators as they grapple to implement multiple initiatives. Depicted in this issue is a systematic process for linking daily classroom activity with broad academic standards for learners. Specific examples of standards, benchmarks, and scoring guides are provided. Program 1: Why standards? Program 2: Implementing Standards Vol. 8 No. 3 Assessments and Scoring Guides Based on Standards Presented by Douglas B. Reeves 803E - Elementary Edition 803S - Secondary Edition Assessing the skills and understandings expected of students at certain stages is a formidable task. Traditional multiple stages is a formidable task. Traditional multiple choice, true/false, fill in the blank tests have perpetuated a low level knowledge-based approach to student learning. Writing assessment, for example, does not lend itself to right/wrong test answers. As a result, educators may shy away from significant standards of learning simply because the assessment of that learning is difficult. This program sheds a promising light on this dilemma through making assessments authentic and using scoring guides. Clearly illustrated in these videotapes are: five specific steps to designing rubrics; classroom examples of authentic assessments based on standards; ideas for writing as tools for assessment; and, a process for school wide assessment and improvement of writing skills. Program 1: Using Authentic Assessments and Scoring Guides Program 2: Writing As an Assessment Tool Vol. 8 No. 4 Questioning to Stimulate Learning and Thinking Featuring the QUILT Model Presented by Jackie Walsh and Beth Sattes 804 E - Elementary Edition 804 S - Secondary Edition This program takes a new look at a very old practice. Effective questioning can indeed be the springboard to powerful learning and higher level thinking. These videotapes clearly illustrate the following: a framework for an effective questioning process; strategies to actively engage ALL students in response to effective questions; feedback to student responses that enhance thinking and self-esteem; ideas to elicit quality student questions; and, steps for teacher self-assessment and the conscious, intentional planning of effective questioning. Program 1: Stage One: Prepare the Question Program 2: Stages Two and Three: Present the Question and Prompt Student Responses Program 3: Stages Four and Five: Process Student Responses and Critique the Questioning Episode Vol. 8 No. 5 Creating the Constructivist Classroom Presented by Dr. Bruce A. Marlow and Dr. Marilyn Page 805E - Elementary Edition 805M - Middle School Edition 805H - High School Edition This program takes viewers into classrooms filled with activity and high student interest. Highlights include: the four critical components of constructivism; research supporting constructivist learning; suggestions on getting started; three proven classroom strategies; and, multiple classrooms successfully incorporating the model. Program 1: Constructivism: Student-Centered Active Learning Program 2: Getting Started Vol. 8 No. 6 Designing Performance Assessments Presented by Jay McTighe 806E - Elementary Edition 806S - Secondary Edition This program provides a user-friendly guide to the expanding arena of assessment in a performance-based mode. This issue includes characteristics of quality performance assessments and tasks; a process for designing performance assessment tasks; defined content standards and performance indicators; examples of performance assessments in various content areas; and, rubric design to score performance products. Program 1: Content Standards and Indicators Program 2: Task Activities and Evaluative Criteria Vol. 8 No. 7 Ensuring Success for "Low Yield" Students: Building Lives and Molding Futures Featuring Judson Hixson, Ernestine Riggs, and Cheryl Gholar This program opens a new perspective on this age old dilemma. Helpful pieces provided to this challenging puzzle include: four critical ingredients for high impact schools; the three domains of holistic teaching; the power of teamwork and synergy; and, core processes that make holistic teaching work. Program 1: Critical Ingredients for High Impact Schools Program 2: Building Success Through Holistic Teaching Return to Top Vol. 9 No. 1 Creating Concept-Based Curriculum for Deeper Understanding Featuring H. Lynn Erickson This program gives educators first hand experience in the process of creating a concept-based curriculum. Highlights also include: an explanation of the model, "The Progression to Deep Understanding," a detailed approach to creating concept-based units, an illustrated technique for "scaffolding" which moves knowledge to enduring and deep understanding, and an exploration of the use of guided questions and the development of a culminating performance task. Program 1: The Profession to Deep Understanding Program 2: Designing the Concept-Based Unit Vol. 9 No. 2 Visual Tools: From Graphic Organizers to Thinking Maps Featuring David Hyerle 902E - Elementary Edition 902S - Secondary Edition This program spotlights graphic organizers used by students to map their thinking with a specific focus on the eight Thinking Maps. Other highlights include links between brain research and visual tools such as Graphic Organizers, eight Thinking Maps explained and demonstrated, examples of mapping across the disciplines, and Thinking Maps using computer software. Program 1: The Need for Visual Tools Program 2: Mapping Across the Disciplines Vol. 9 No. 3 Grading and Reporting Student Progress to Enhance Learning Featuring Thomas R. Guskey This program provides educators a refreshing new view of a stagnant and traditional practice. Report cards and grades are pools of water, that for a variety of reasons, have seldom been stirred. The videotapes give examples of educators who are vigorously challenging these sacred cows in pursuit of better communication and student learning. Highlights include examining the purposes of grading, grading as an incentive to learning. Alternative methods of reporting student learning, and the relationship between grading and assessment. Vol. 9 No. 4 Writing Across the Curriculum Presented by Verne Meyer 904IM - Intermediate/Middle School Edition 904H - High School Edition This issue outlines a powerful program for Writing Across the Curriculum. Highlights include school-wide writing, six traits for teaching and assessing writing, and strategies for building a Writing-Across-the-Curriculum program. Program 1: Writing Across the Curriculum to Enhance Learning Program 2: Building a Writing-Across-the-Curriculum Program Vol. 9 No. 5 Teaching Mathematics to Increase Student Achievement Presented by Kristin Hadley and Yvelyne Germain-McCarthy with comments by Glenda Lappan 905P - Primary Edition (Grades K-2) 905I - Intermediate Edition (Grades 3-5) 905M - Middle School Edition (Grades 6-8) This program present the new Principles and Standards created by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Highlights include NCTM's six Principles and how they are applied in the classroom, the NCTM Content and Process Standards for improving student learning, focus on the Process Standards, and activities and strategies to help students achieve the Standards. Program 1: Improving Mathematics with Principles and Standards Program 2: Applying Standards in the Classroom Vol. 9 No. 6 Helping Students of Limited English Skills in the Regular Classroom Presented by Virginia Rojas 906E - Elementary Edition 906S - Secondary Edition This program looks at the problems and opportunities presented as growing numbers of ESL students enter new classrooms. Highlights of these videotape programs include the mainstream classroom, becoming like an immersion teacher, cooperative learning and assessment strategies helpful to students of all language proficiency levels, and the power of collaboration between mainstream and ESL teachers. Program 1: Mainstreaming English-Language Learning Students Program 2: Effective Teaching and Assessment for English-Language Learning Students Return to Top Vol. 10 No. 1 Accountability for Greater Student Learning Featuring Douglas B. Reeves This issue outlines ten guidelines proven to help educators develop a sound internal system of accountability and improvement. The guidelines include 1) identifying an accountability task force, 2) articulating accountability principles, 3) researching existing systems, 4) deciding on a design for the system, 5) conducting a critical review to avoid pitfalls, 6) selecting district-wide accountability indicators, 7) determining school-based indicators, 8) creating accountability reports, 9) building the central office into the accountability system, and 10) making data-driven decisions. Vol., 10 No. 2 Data Driven Decisions to Improve Results Presented by Mike Schmoker This program portrays effective school teams carefully analyzing student performance data for the purpose of establishing and achieving clear, measurable goals. Highlights include methods of using various forms of data to improve student achievement, the proper use of data in accountability, the process of creating clear, measurable student goals, and the elements of effective teams and the "how to" of teamwork. Vol. 10 No. 3 Impacting Teaching and Learning with Brain Research Presented by David Sousa 1003E - Elementary Edition 1003M - Middle School Edition 1003H - High School Edition Of all the frontiers now being explored, the human brain is potentially the most exciting. Understanding of the learning process broadens as scientists unravel the mysteries of the brain. Is it possible many of the current practices employed in schools are actually antagonistic to the brain? Consider the ramifications of a learning system that is total brain compatible! This program portrays the classroom application of recent brain research findings. Highlights include the rational and emotional systems of the brain, brain and body cycles that affect learning, the "Brain Processing Model," ideas promoting long-term retention of learning, thought-provoking insights, and teaching examples based on research. Program 1: The Implications of Brain Research in Education Program 2: Brain and Body Cycles That Affecting Learning Program 3: Educating the Brain of Today's Youth Vol. 10 No. 4 Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening Across the Curriculum Presented by Heidi Hayes Jacobs 1004E - Elementary Edition 1004S - Secondary Edition This program provides unique insight to educators seeking ways to establish a learning environment rich in language skills across the curriculum. Highlights include the need for every teacher to be a language teacher, classroom examples that weave the skills into every discipline, how curriculum mapping facilitates language skills across the curriculum, and specific strategies demonstrating how to improve the skills of literacy. Program 1: Every Teacher a Language Teacher Program 2: Putting the Skills to Work Vol. 10 No. 5 Leadership in the Age of Standards and High Stakes Featuring Richard P. DuFour This program provides a practical and philosophical foundation with supporting pillars upon which to construct a successful school. Highlights include creating a professional learning community, four foundational assumptions of successful schools, four pillars around which to build school strength, a pyramid of interventions for student achievement, and numerous examples of successful schools. Program 1: Creating a Professional Learning Community Program 2: Bringing Students to Higher Levels of Success Vol. 10 No. 6 Helping Struggling Readers Beyond Grade One Featuring Darrell Morris This program portrays a powerful model of tutoring for reading success specifically designed for the struggling reader beyond grade one. Tutors are shown in action guiding learners with specific and effective interventions. Return to Top Vol. 11 No. 1 New Teacher Training: Classroom Management to Win Students Over--Not Win Over Them Featuring Carol Cummings 1101E - Elementary Edition 1101S - Secondary Edition In addition to providing valuable help to new teachers, this program provides many ideas that will be helpful to veteran teachers. Highlights include classroom examples of effective management practices; strategies for bonding and connecting with students; ideas to establish successful routines and procedures; proactive practices to deal with student misbehavior; and, The Law of Least Intervention. Vol. 11 No. 2 Differentiating Instruction to Meet the Needs of All Students Featuring Gayle Gregory and Carolyn Chapman 1102E - Elementary Edition 1102S - Secondary Edition Planning for differentiation enables teachers to meet the needs of all students in today's classrooms. Typically, classrooms are filled with learners of broad diversity, experience, and ability levels. This program introduces the elements for planning with many classroom examples that show actual practices. The elements include climate, knowing the learner, assessment, adjustable assignments, instructional strategies, and curriculum approaches. In Part 1 participants will learn about the power of differentiation and how it will increase achievement for all students. In Part 2 participants will see numerous classroom examples in which the elements of planning for differentiation are used in a multiplicity of ways. Vol. 11 No. 3 Reading for Older Struggling Students Featuring Kenneth U. Campbell with Cecil D. Mercer As students fail to learn how to read, they fall further behind in their education and in their potential for success in all aspects of school and life. This issue introduces the Great Leaps Reading intervention program which helps frustrated and struggling readers of any age attain reading independence and fluency. It is accomplished through daily one-minute timed readings in phonics, phrases, and stories directed by tutors. Program 1: Achieving Great Leaps in Reading Program 2: Great Leaps in the Classroom Vol. 11 No. 4 All Means All — "What It It About me You Can't Teach?" Featuring Eleanor Renee Rodriguez 1104E - Elementary Edition 1104S - Secondary Edition To close the achievement gap, all educators must understand that all students have the right to learn at high levels. Through the five E's of education, Exposure, Experience, Expectations, Enduring Understandings, and Enthusiasm, students are not left asking, "What is it about me you can't teach?" Vol. 11 No. 5 Cognitive Coaching Featuring Arthur L. Costa and Robert J. Garmston with Jane Ellison and Carolee Hayes Cognitive Coaching is a powerful way to help teachers plan, reflect, and solve their own problems. Through conversation, the coach helps the coachee understand his/her own thinking and helps him/her move to where he or she wants to be as an educator. These programs are presented as an overview to Cognitive Coaching and introduce the basic principles behind its successful implementation. Many examples of Cognitive Coaching are shown in the videotapes. Vol. 11 No. 6 Evaluation to Promote Teacher Growth and Student Learning Presented by Marilyn McGuire Bringing students to high levels of success can be realized through an effective evaluation process. Every administrator has the power and responsibility to help teachers grow and improve, which in turn ensures better learning for students. Vol. 11 No. 7 Action Research Featuring Cathy Caro-Bruce Action Research is a process where teachers, principals, and support staff examine their own practice systematically and carefully, using the techniques of research. Beginning with a compelling question regarding their own practice, action researchers gather data, analyze their own data, draw conclusions, and plan for future action. The original question may change over time. During the process, educators greatly benefit by improvements they initiate themselves. Return to Top Vol. 12 No. 1 Closing the Achievement Gap Featuring Glenn Singleton This program will help you recognize the reality of the Achievement Gap between students of color and their white counterparts> Solutions to close the gap are presented in ways that can be applied in all schools. Program 1 - Introduction: Open the Conversation on Race — Investigate the Achievement Gap dividing today's students of color and white students; explore statistics that expose the consistent gap in standardized test scores regardless of family income; realize the need to understand the effects of race on student success; engage in "Courageous Conversations" where educators of different races examine the impact of race on their own lives; and, learn how a more thorough awareness on the impact of race can help close the Achievement Gap. Program 2 - Moving Beyond Diversity into a Greater Understanding of Race — Reach a deeper understanding of the "The Racial Experience"; learn about what it means to be a person of color; come to an understanding of the phenomenon of whiteness; explore the agreements and conditions of effective "Courageous Conversations"; and, bridge cultures by overcoming institutionalized racism through the creation of community, true equity, and anti-racist leadership. Program 3 - Taking Action to Close the Achievement Gap — Learn to implement systemic change involving the entire school organization to close the Achievement Gap and see how schools courageously close the Achievement Gap. Vol. 12 No. 2 Assessment for Learning: Classroom Assessment for High-Stakes Success Presented by Rick Stiggins 1202E - Elementary Edition 1202S - Secondary Edition In an age of accountability, educators must provide students with clear targets to shoot for and ways to show what they know. Only then will students develop confidence in their own abilities as learners and feel capable of succeeding. Program 1 - Assessments As a Critical Part of Learning — Learn what it means to truly leave no student behind by relying on learning targets and classroom assessment processes that set students up for success. Program 2 - Targeting the Learning — Understand the need for teachers to develop Assessment Literacy, learn how to ask the questions that underpin assessment accuracy; discover how to link learning targets with various assessment methods; and, observe the power of student-led parent/teacher conferences as a breakthrough method to communicate student achievement. Vol. 12 No. 3 Secondary Principals As Leaders of Learning Presented by Irving C. Jones This program will help individuals discover how to lead staff and students by focusing on the actual learning that occurs in the school; explore in depth the role of the leader of a school, and how his or her actions as principal impact student achievement; and, realize overall school success by creating a culture of learning, teaching, and the achievement of excellence in all aspects of the secondary environment. Program 1 - Leading Learning Program 2 - Effective Leadership Program 3 - Building a Culture for Learning Vol. 12 No. 4 Elementary Principals as Leaders of Learning Presented by Rebecca Burnett DuFour This program will help individuals focus on staff and student learning by building a Professional Learning Community within your school; explore deeply your role as the leader of your school, and how your actions as principal impact student achievement; and, achieve overall school success by building a culture of learning, teaching, and achievement excellence in all aspects of the elementary environment. Program 1 - Leading Learning Program 2 - Effective Leadership Program 3 - Facilitating School Improvement Vol. 12 No. 5 High-Quality Teaching for Classroom Success (Secondary Edition) Featuring Outstanding Teachers High-quality teaching is something that happens intentionally. There is the right combination of pedagogy and content in the successful classroom. The high-quality teacher is knowledgeable in their area of discipline, highly skilled, and presents the content in an understandable way to each student. When there is such balance, each student will truly learn. Participants will view exemplary high-quality teachers as they work with their students to bring them to high-levels of achievement. They will know why a commitment to students and their learning is so important, see the importance of know the subject and how to teach it, learn how to manage and monitor student learning, discover the significance of self-reflection, and see the value of active involvement in the learning community. Volume 1205SC - Strategies That Work for Secondary Science Teachers Volume 1205SS - Strategies That Work for Secondary Social Studies Teachers Volume 1205MA - Strategies That Work for Secondary Math Teachers Volume 1205EN - Strategies That Work for Secondary English Teachers Vol. 12 No. 6 High-Quality Teaching for Classroom Success (Elementary Edition) Featuring Outstanding Teachers High-quality teaching is an art that happens intentionally with the right combination of pedagogy and broad understanding of the various disciplines. The high-quality elementary teacher is knowledgeable, very skilled, and presents the content in an understandable way to each student. When this balance exists, each student truly learns and experiences success. Participants will view exemplary elementary teachers as they work with their students to bring them to high-levels of achievement. They will know why a commitment to students and their learning is so important, see the importance of knowing the subject and how to teach it, determine how to manage and monitor student learning, discover the significance of self-reflection, and see the value of active involvement in the learning community. Return to Top Vol. 13 No. 1 Effective Mentoring: Building Learning-Focused Relationships Featuring Laura Lipton and Bruce Wellman For beginning teachers, the benefits of skillful mentoring include increased confidence as instructional problem solves and decision makes. For experienced teachers, mentoring a colleague increases understanding and rekindles a love for learning. We don’t learn to teach, we learn from our teaching. Program 1 — The Mentor As a Growth Agent Program 2 — Creating Learning-Focused Conversations Program 3 — Communicating Meaning Includes book titled Mentoring Matters: A Practical Guide to Learning-Focused Relationships by Laura Lipton and Bruce Wellman with Carlette Humbard Vol. 13 No. 2 Whole-Faculty Study Groups: Collaboration Targeting Student Learning Presented by Carlene Murphy With the purpose of increasing student achievement, Whole-Faculty Study Groups (WFSGs) engage the entire school in small groups of three to five educators. Using performance data, they tackle issues and research practices that move all students to higher levels of learning. Program 1 — A Catalyst for Change Program 2 — A Structure for Collaboration Includes book titled Whole-Faculty Study Groups: Creating Stuent-Based Professional Development by Carlene Murphy and Dale Lick Vol. 13 No. 3 Designing and Evaluating Professional Development for Increased Student Learning* Featuring Stephanie Hirsh and Joellen Killion with Dennis Sparks Believing that all students can succeed, the National Staff Development Council (NSDC) is committed to the understanding that quality staff development begins with a focus on what students need for learning. All professional learning must have as its objective higher student achievement. These programs present standards for professional development; a model for evaluation of staff development; and designed of professional development activities. Program 1 — Standards for Staff Development Program 2 — Evaluating Staff Development Program 3 — Designs for Powerful Professional Learning *Includes Companion Book: Assessing Impact: Evaluating Staff Development by Joellen Killion Return to Top |