Acceleration for All

A How-To Guide for Overcoming Learning Gaps (Educational strategies for how to close learning gaps through accelerated learning)

Sharon V. Kramer, Sarah Schuhl

• Publisher: Solution Tree Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781954631014
• eBook ISBN: 9781954631021
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

The need to overcome student learning gaps exists in every school. The answer is not a culture of remediation but one of acceleration. Every student deserves to learn at grade level or beyond—this is equity in action. Acceleration for All offers research-informed, real-world, and ready-to-implement strategies, with an emphasis on core instructional practices, to ensure accelerated learning schoolwide.

This book will help K–12 teachers and leaders:

• Implement practical strategies for sustained accelerated student learning
• Shift from a mindset of deficit thinking to strengths-based thinking related to student learning
• Develop opportunity equity so all students have access to grade-level learning every day
• Develop learning cycles to address instruction, assessment, and interventions or extensions as a team with a focus on every student learning grade-level standards
• Learn how to establish a learning-based culture rooted in collective efficacy
• Support teachers, teams, and students through collaborative leadership
• Create processes and procedures for continuously improving learning

Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Case for Acceleration
Chapter 2: The Importance of Culture
Chapter 3: Curriculum Plans for Grade-Level Learning
Chapter 4: An Assessment System That Supports Acceleration
Chapter 5: Daily Grade-Level Instruction
Chapter 6: An Intervention System That Supports Acceleration
Chapter 7: The Importance of Leadership
Chapter 8: Continuous Improvement
Epilogue
References and Resources
Index

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Acknowledgments
• Table of Contents
• About the Authors
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: The Case for Acceleration
• Chapter 2: Culture That Accelerates Learning
• Chapter 3: Priority Standards and Learning Cycles That Accelerate Learning
• Chapter 4: An Assessment System That Accelerates Learning
• Chapter 5: Daily Grade-Level Instruction That Accelerates Learning
• Chapter 6: An Intervention System That Accelerates Learning
• Chapter 7: Leadership Practices That Accelerate Learning
• Chapter 8: Continuous Improvement That Accelerates Learning
• Epilogue: Dare to Dream and Then Dare to Do
• References and Resources
• Index