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Feedback to Feed Forward
31 Strategies to Lead Learning

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June 2018 | 256 pages | Corwin

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Feedback that works—for leadership that makes a difference.
 

As a leader, you know that feedback is essential to teachers’ growth and development. But crafting the right feedback can be daunting. How do you conduct comprehensive observations, accurately analyze lessons for effectiveness, and develop high-leverage action steps that bring lasting change to teacher practices and student outcomes? 

This how-to book, designed for leaders in all roles and at all experience levels, provides a dynamic yet practical leadership model focused on precisely those key tasks. Features include

  • Comprehensive explanations of standards and descriptions of discrete core skills
  • Explicit think-alouds, ready-to-use strategies, and field-tested lesson examples
  • Evidence-collection notes—with templates—from live observations
  • Feedback samples across grade levels and content areas
  • Replicable case studies for professional learning 

Simply inspecting teaching practice through observation might be easy; providing feedback that feeds forward and promotes growth is far more challenging. With this comprehensive learning tool, you’ll use feedback to make the most of your role as a leader of learning—for both teachers and students.

Feedback to Feed Forward has been recognized for focusing on practices that have high effect sizes and will help you translate the groundbreaking Visible Learning research into practice. When educators use strategies that have high effects (greater than 0.40), they can accelerate student achievement. The power of the Visible Learning research lies in helping educators understand which factors have the highest impact on student achievement so that educators can begin making strategic decisions based on evidence that will utilize their time, energy, and resources to the best extent possible. The Visible Learning research is based on Professor John Hattie’s unmatched meta-analysis of more than 1,600 research reviews comprising 95,000 studies, involving more than 300 million students—the world’s largest evidence base on what works best in schools to improve student learning. From that research, Dr. Hattie identified more than 250 factors that have an impact on student achievement.  
View a full list of Visible Learning® Supporting Resources


 
Preface
 
Acknowledgments
 
About the Authors
 
Chapter 1: What does it mean to lead learning?
Finding Time to Lead Learning

 
Rethinking Evaluation

 
Leading Change Through Educator Evaluation

 
Core Assumptions About Current Practice

 
Feedback as the Common Thread

 
A Shift From Summary to Analysis

 
Core Skills for Observation and Feedback

 
What’s Ahead?

 
 
Chapter 2: How can you use an instructional framework to improve observation and feedback practices?
Skill Set for Building Understanding of a Framework

 
Deconstructing Your Framework

 
Unpacking Expectations

 
Using a Feedback Frame

 
Final Thoughts

 
 
Chapter 3: How can you collect evidence in the classroom to improve feedback?
Skill Set for Collecting Evidence

 
Bias in Observation

 
Identifying Types of Data

 
Evidence Collection: The Basics

 
Evidence Collection: Student Engagement and Learning

 
Using a Balance of Evidence to Feed Forward

 
Final Thoughts

 
 
Chapter 4: How can you determine effectiveness of instruction and a teacher’s impact on learners?
Skill Set for Determining Effectiveness

 
Using Your Evidence to Analyze Effectiveness

 
Understanding What We Are Analyzing

 
Analyzing Engagement

 
Influences on Engagement and Learning

 
Final Thoughts

 
 
Chapter 5: How can you determine a teacher’s areas of instructional strength and growth?
Skill Set for Determining Areas of Strength and Growth

 
What Teachers Need to Know

 
Using Analysis

 
Determining Areas of Strength and Growth

 
Citing Areas of Strength and Growth

 
Understanding Research-Based Strategies

 
Using Research-Based Strategies in Feedback

 
Pulling It All Together

 
Final Thoughts

 
 
Chapter 6: How can your feedback feed forward?
Skill Set for Developing Objective Feedback

 
Bias in Feedback

 
Increasing Objectivity

 
Feedback to Feed Forward

 
Skill Set for Developing Feedback as a Learning Tool

 
Defining “Actionable” Next Steps

 
Developing Action Steps

 
Prioritizing Next Steps

 
Developing Reflective Practices

 
Pulling It All Together

 
Final Thoughts

 
 
Chapter 7: What professional learning builds your capacity to lead learning?
What’s Next?

 
The Current Approach

 
Essentials of Effective Professional Learning Design

 
Building a New Approach

 
Professional Learning Designs in Action

 
Final Thoughts and Beyond

 
 
Strategies List
 
Tables and Figures List
 
References
 
Index

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