Chapter 6
What to teach, how to teach, how to meet the needs of individual students
What is professional development?
Not identified by name
What is anonymous?
Bar-Stool buddy
What is one type of Coach?
This is large and cumbersome
What is strategic planning?
This is essential for intellectual, physical, social, and occupational student development
What is good student attendance?
The most important resource any education leader allocates
What is teachers?
The most profound influence on student achievement
What is teacher quality and leadership?
The state of keeping or being kept secret or private
What is confidentiality?
Our class consultant and mentor
Who is Dr. Coefield?
The statistic providing a direct measure of a school’s gain or loss in student learning in each grade
What is learning gain index (LGI)?
A figure of speech that juxtaposes concepts with opposing meanings within a word or phrase that creates an ostensible self-contradiction
What is oxymoron?
Every teacher interviewee states this
What is all children can learn?
The first requirement of any coaching relationship
What is agreeing to a change in performance?
Results can be measured and tracked to help drive change
What is "less is more?"
The process whereby the character of a poor urban area is changed by wealthier people moving in
What is gentrification?
Tough work of examining real student needs
What is collegiality?
Classroom reviews, data analysis, consideration of authentic student work
What is a performance assessment?
Must be specific and measurable
What is performance goals?
A psychological phenomenon wherein high expectations lead to improved performance in a given area
What is the Pygmalion effect?
A quadrilateral with only one pair of parallel sides
What is trapezoid?
Collaborative scoring
What is 80%?
Known to every African American school leader who has been guilty of "driving while black"
What is the attribution error?
The year "Leading Change in Your School" (Reeves) was published
What is 2009?
More than 70% of these are never implemented
What is strategic planning?
A group-administered achievement test for grades K-12 which measures a student's knowledge in subject areas that students have learned in school
What is the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS)?