Barbara Blackburn – författare

Learn how to keep the rigor and motivation alive in a remote learning or hybrid K–12 classroom. In this essential book, bestselling author Barbara R. Blackburn shares frameworks and tools to help you move online without compromising the rigor of your instruction. You’ll learn… how to create a remote culture of high expectations; how to scaffold so students reach higher levels of learning; how to have students collaborate in different settings; and how to provide virtual feedback and deliver effective assessments.You’ll also discover how common activities, such as virtual field trips, can lack rigor without critical thinking prompts. The book provides practical strategies you can implement immediately to help all students reach higher levels of success.

Learn how to keep the rigor and motivation alive in a remote learning or hybrid K–12 classroom. In this essential book, bestselling author Barbara R. Blackburn shares frameworks and tools to help you move online without compromising the rigor of your instruction. You’ll learn… how to create a remote culture of high expectations; how to scaffold so students reach higher levels of learning; how to have students collaborate in different settings; and how to provide virtual feedback and deliver effective assessments.You’ll also discover how common activities, such as virtual field trips, can lack rigor without critical thinking prompts. The book provides practical strategies you can implement immediately to help all students reach higher levels of success.

Learn how to keep the rigor and motivation alive in a remote learning or hybrid K–12 classroom. In this essential book, bestselling author Barbara R. Blackburn shares frameworks and tools to help you move online without compromising the rigor of your instruction. You’ll learn…

how to create a remote culture of high expectations;

how to scaffold so students reach higher levels of learning;

how to have students collaborate in different settings; and

how to provide virtual feedback and deliver effective assessments.

You’ll also discover how common activities, such as virtual field trips, can lack rigor without critical thinking prompts. The book provides practical strategies you can implement immediately to help all students reach higher levels of success.

Learn how to keep the rigor and motivation alive in a remote learning or hybrid K–12 classroom. In this essential book, bestselling author Barbara R. Blackburn shares frameworks and tools to help you move online without compromising the rigor of your instruction. You’ll learn…

how to create a remote culture of high expectations;

how to scaffold so students reach higher levels of learning;

how to have students collaborate in different settings; and

how to provide virtual feedback and deliver effective assessments.

You’ll also discover how common activities, such as virtual field trips, can lack rigor without critical thinking prompts. The book provides practical strategies you can implement immediately to help all students reach higher levels of success.

Learn the secrets to more effective instructional coaching. This practical book from bestselling authors Ronald Williamson and Barbara R. Blackburn covers a broad range of key coaching and instructional strategies to help you implement meaningful, lasting change, leading to elementary school improvement.Each chapter from A to Z offers guidance on a specific aspect of coaching and instruction, such as using data, offering better feedback, working with administration, partnering with resistant teachers, building capacity, and sustaining the work. There are special features throughout, including reflection questions and additional resources. With twenty-six short chapters each devoted to a different aspect of instruction, this book can be read in order or used as a reference that you'll go back to again and again.Whether you're a new or experienced coach, you'll find valuable takeaways to help you refine how you work with teachers to improve student learning.

Learn the secrets to more effective instructional coaching. This practical book from bestselling authors Ronald Williamson and Barbara R. Blackburn covers a broad range of key coaching and instructional strategies to help you implement meaningful, lasting change, leading to elementary school improvement.Each chapter from A to Z offers guidance on a specific aspect of coaching and instruction, such as using data, offering better feedback, working with administration, partnering with resistant teachers, building capacity, and sustaining the work. There are special features throughout, including reflection questions and additional resources. With twenty-six short chapters each devoted to a different aspect of instruction, this book can be read in order or used as a reference that you'll go back to again and again.Whether you're a new or experienced coach, you'll find valuable takeaways to help you refine how you work with teachers to improve student learning.

Learn the secrets to more effective instructional coaching. This practical book from bestselling authors Ronald Williamson and Barbara R. Blackburn covers a broad range of key coaching and instructional strategies to help you implement meaningful, lasting change, leading to elementary school improvement.Each chapter from A to Z offers guidance on a specific aspect of coaching and instruction, such as using data, offering better feedback, working with administration, partnering with resistant teachers, building capacity, and sustaining the work. There are special features throughout, including reflection questions and additional resources. With twenty-six short chapters each devoted to a different aspect of instruction, this book can be read in order or used as a reference that you’ll go back to again and again.Whether you’re a new or experienced coach, you’ll find valuable takeaways to help you refine how you work with teachers to improve student learning.

Learn the secrets to more effective instructional coaching. This practical book from bestselling authors Ronald Williamson and Barbara R. Blackburn covers a broad range of key coaching and instructional strategies to help you implement meaningful, lasting change, leading to elementary school improvement.Each chapter from A to Z offers guidance on a specific aspect of coaching and instruction, such as using data, offering better feedback, working with administration, partnering with resistant teachers, building capacity, and sustaining the work. There are special features throughout, including reflection questions and additional resources. With twenty-six short chapters each devoted to a different aspect of instruction, this book can be read in order or used as a reference that you’ll go back to again and again.Whether you’re a new or experienced coach, you’ll find valuable takeaways to help you refine how you work with teachers to improve student learning.

Turn your school into a student-centered learning environment, where rigor is at the heart of instruction in every classroom. From the bestselling author of Rigor is Not a Four-Letter Word, Barbara Blackburn, and award-winning educator Ronald Williamson, this comprehensive guide to establishing a schoolwide culture of rigor is for principals and other administrators who seek to create the conditions in which rigorous classrooms flourish. School leaders will learn to manage a movement toward increased schoolwide rigor; engage teachers in conversations about improving instruction; build support for rigor among families and community members; learn methods for gathering meaningful data on student learning; and much more! With practical, ready-to-apply strategies, this book outlines and simplifies the steps toward achieving rigor at the school level. It represents a successful program that principals and administrators can use to put student learning first!