PD Library

There are many resources that have been critical in helping establish the direction of this AISI project. Each of these publications are available for Grasslands teachers and administrators to read for their own professional growth and benefit. If you are interested in one or some of these publications, use the 'contact us' buttons at the top or bottom of this web page and make your request!

Below is a quick overview of some of the research and literature involving school improvement that are shaping our AISI Project:

Author	Year	Title	Source
Alberta Education	2005	The Heart of the Matter A teaching resource which provides information that jurisdictions and schools can use to support and enhance character and citizenship education initiatives.	Alberta Education, AB
Bellanca, James, Chapman, Carolyn, and Swartz, Elizabeth	1997	Multiple Assessments for Multiple Intelligences (3rd Edition) This book provides authentic methods to assess Howard Gardner's Eight Multiple Intelligences. It explains how teachers can devise specific performance standards for each intelligence and apply them directly to the classroom.	Skylight Professional Development: Arlington Heights, IL.
Borba, Michele	2002	Building Moral Intelligence This publication provides practical ideas of incorporating lessons related to the seven essential virtues: Empathy, Conscience, Self-Control, Respect, Kindness, Tolerance and Fairness into schools and curricula.	Jossey-Bass, A Wiley Imprint: San Francisco, CA
Costa, Arthur L. and Kallick, Bena		Discovering and Exploring Habits of Mind: A Developmental Series In Discovering and Exploring Habits of Mind, the authors define and describe 16 types of intelligent behaviour that they call 'habits of mind'. These habits of mind can aid both students and adults in school and in evryday life as they encounter problems, dlemmas and enigmas, the resolutions of which are not immediately apparent.	Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Alexandria VA.
Davies, Anne	2000	Making Classroom Assessment Work This publication provides a thoughtful and thought-provoking framework that teachers and administrators can use to reconsider how assessment is working in theor classrooms. From building the foundation for student involvement through to ways to report, the author provides a bridge between what the research shows and what teachers can do in their classrooms.	Connections Publishing, Courtenay, BC.
Dufour, Richard, et al.	2005	On Common Ground - The Power of Professional Learning Communities This book bring sthe ideas and recommendations of many of North America's educational leaders into one resource foe educators working to help their students achieve at ever-higher levels. Each chapter contributes to a sound conceptual framework and specific, practical, strategies for developing professional learning communities.	National Education Service: Bloomington Indiana
Dufour, Richard and Eaker, Robert	1998	Professional Learning Communities at Work: Best Practises for Enhancing Student Achievement	National Education Service: Bloomington Indiana
Dufour, Richard, Dufour, Rebecca Eaker, and Karhanek, Gayle and Robert	2004	Whatever it Takes: How Professional Learning Communities Respond When Kids Don't Learn	National Education Service: Bloomington Indiana
Elmore, Richard	2002	Building a New Structure for School Leadership Elmore provides 5 principles for large scale improvements in school systems	Website
Fullan, Michael	2001	The New Meaning of Educational Change (3rd Edition) Here Fullan extrapolates on the initiation, implementation and continuation of educational change.	New York: Teachers College Press
Fullan, Michael and Campbell, Carol	2006	Unlocking the Potential for District-Wide Reform A cross-case analysis of eight school districts in Ontario attempting to achieve improvements in literacy and numeracy.	Paper and presentation at the 2006 CASS Annual Conference in Edmonton on April 27, 2006
Gregory, Kathleen, Cameron, Caren and Davies, Anne	2000	Self Assessment and Goal Setting - For Use in Middle and Secondary School Classrooms Focuses on practical ways for teaches to involve students in their own assessment. The authors provide approaches that successfully build self-assessment and goal-setting into classroom practise.	Connection Publishing, Courtney, BC.
Gregory, Kathleen, Cameron, Caren and Davies, Anne	2000	Setting and Using Criteria - For Use in Middle and Secondary School Classrooms Focuses on practical ways for teachers to involve students in their own assessment. The authors outline a four-step process for setting criteria, then show how to use thses criteria for assessing learning.	Connection Publishing, Courtney, BC.
Gregory, Kathleen, Cameron, Caren and Davies, Anne	2000	Conferencing and Reporting - For Use in Middle and Secondary School Classrooms Focuses on practical ways for teachers to involve students in their own assessment. The authors provide different scenarios that outline how students can demonstrate their learning to others and take active roles in conferences with parents.	Connection Publishing, Courtney, BC.
Hulley, Wayne and Dier, Linda	2005	Harbors of Hope - The Planning for School and Student Success Process This publication combines the authors' extensive experience with efective school research and the power of the professional learning community to create a uniquely hopeful approach that results in schools that are efefctive, efficient and excellent.
Jacobs, Heidi Hayes	2004	Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping This publication describes how teachers can use curriculum mapping to draw explicit connections between content, skills, and assessment measures and help ensure that all aspects if a lesson are aligned not only with each other but also to the mandated standards and tests.	Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Alexandria VA.
Jacobs, Heidi Hayes	1997	Mapping the Big Picture - Integrating Curriculum and Assessment K-12 The author describes a seven-step process for creating and working with curriculum maps, from data collection to ongoing curriculum review. She discusses the importance of asking 'essential questions' and of designing assessments that reflect what teachers know about the students in their care.	Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Alexandria VA.
Marzano, Robert J., Pickering, Debra J., and Pollock, Jane E.	2001	Classroom Instruction That Works - Research-based strategies for increasing student achievement. In this publication, the authors examine decades of research findings and distill the results into nine broad teaching strategies that have positive effects on student learning.	Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Alexandria VA.
O'Shea, Mark R.	2005	From Standards to Success: A Guide for School Leaders This publication provides detailed information on how learning communities can help their students achieve standards if they enact a cycle of collaborative activities.	Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Alexandria VA.
Senge, Peter	1999	The Dance of Change: The challenges to sustaining momentum in learning organizations	New York: Doubleday
Supovitz, Jonathan	2000	Manage Less, Lead More Supovitz describes three specific forms of distributed leadership within comprehensive school reform designs.	Pricipal Leadership: High School Edition. 1(3), 14-19
Tate, Marcia L.	2004	"Sit and Get" Won't Grow Dendrites - 20 Professional Learning Strategies That Engage the Adult Brain New Cell 3	Corwin Press, Thousand Oaks, California.
University of Alberta's Faculty of Education AIS Team	2006	Celebrating Schol Improvement: Six Lessons Learned from Alberta's AISI Projects This publication explores the culture of educational research and the culture of teaching in relation to Cycles One and Two of AISI throughout Alberta.	School Improvement Press, University of Alberta.
Wiggins, Grant and McTighe, Jay	2005	Understanding by Design The authors answer questions like 'What is understanding and how is it different from knowledge?', 'How can we determine the big ideas worth understanding?', 'Why is understanding an important teaching goal, and how do we know when students have attained it?', 'How can we create a rigorous and engaging curriculum that focuses on understanding and leads to improved student performance in today's high stakes, standards-based environment?'	Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Alexandria VA.
Wormeli, Rick	2006	Fair Isn't Always Equal - Assessing and Grading in the Differentiated Classroom This publication offers the latest research and comon sense thinking that teachers and administrators seek when it comes to assessment and grading in differentiated classes.	Pembroke Publishers, Markham, ON

PD Library

Author

Year

Title

Source

The Heart of the Matter

Multiple Assessments for Multiple Intelligences (3rd Edition)

Building Moral Intelligence

Discovering and Exploring Habits of Mind: A Developmental Series

Making Classroom Assessment Work

On Common Ground - The Power of Professional Learning Communities

Professional Learning Communities at Work: Best Practises for Enhancing Student Achievement

Whatever it Takes: How Professional Learning Communities Respond When Kids Don't Learn

Building a New Structure for School Leadership

The New Meaning of Educational Change (3rd Edition)

Unlocking the Potential for District-Wide Reform

Self Assessment and Goal Setting - For Use in Middle and Secondary School Classrooms

Setting and Using Criteria - For Use in Middle and Secondary School Classrooms

Conferencing and Reporting - For Use in Middle and Secondary School Classrooms

Harbors of Hope - The Planning for School and Student Success Process

Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping

Mapping the Big Picture - Integrating Curriculum and Assessment K-12

Classroom Instruction That Works - Research-based strategies for increasing student achievement.

From Standards to Success: A Guide for School Leaders

The Dance of Change: The challenges to sustaining momentum in learning organizations

Manage Less, Lead More

"Sit and Get" Won't Grow Dendrites - 20 Professional Learning Strategies That Engage the Adult Brain

Celebrating Schol Improvement: Six Lessons Learned from Alberta's AISI Projects

Understanding by Design

Fair Isn't Always Equal - Assessing and Grading in the Differentiated Classroom