Evidence-informed for Real Learning with Eric Kalenze Transformative Principal 334

Social Media: Evidence-informed means looking at what has worked.

Eric Kalenze is the author of “What The Academy Taught Us: Improving Schools From The Bottom Up In A Top-Down Transformation Era.”

How to teach practitioners to put this into practice.

• High school teacher, English, coach, journalism.
• Help educators around the country become evidence informed.
• Education is upside down.
• ResearchED
• Evidence-informed - looking at what has worked.
• More fascinated with planning instruction according to the evidence we have based in cognitive or behavioral science.
• “There’s contrary evidence that the reading program didn’t work in another district.”
• This is an evidence-based program, well show me the evidence.
• “What has worked” is an incredibly complex study.
• Humans learn incredibly similarly to others, regardless of our backgrounds.
• Repetition is the mother of all learning.
• Practice can make permanent.
• How do we learn, and how can we integrate those sorts of things into practice.
• How might you retrain people who are already ridiculously busy?
• Redesigning teacher coaching and evaluation process.
• Little systemic ways we can talk about scientific studies.
• In what ways can systems make sure their PD is about evidence-based
• Give us the tools you do have, and how can we apply some principles that inform the little things you do?
• In the control of districts.
• I can’t do certain things because district is moving in this direction.
• “What the Academy Taught Us” - less academic, but still crucial in education.
• Remarkable amount of autonomy.
• I don’t know that enough research has been done on kids post-K–12 experience!
• 10 years out - how do you look back on this experience?
• What happened 5–6 years ago.
• “They jumped the girl in front of me and told their story to me intentionally.”
• Still close to each other even after all this time.
• In Search Of Deeper Learning
• Dr. Bob Perdaems
• How to be a transformative principal? A book - Daniel Willingham - When can you trust the experts?
• If the principals can push back on centrally

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Learn about some of John Catt Educational’s newest publications:

• What the Academy Taught Us: Improving Schools from the Bottom-Up in a Top-Down Transformation Era by Eric Kalenze

• Be More Toddler: Leadership Lessons From Our Little Learners by Emma Turner

• A Quiet Education: Challenging the Extrovert Ideal in Our Schools by Jamie Thom

• Rosenshine’s Principles in Action by Tom Sherrington

• The Thinking School: Developing a Dynamic Learning Community by Kulvarn Atwal

• The researchED Guide to Explicit and Direct Instruction: An evidence-informed guide for teachers by Various Authors

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