Full Description
Ensure all your students are ready to tackle rigorous content
To understand the achievement gaps that persist in our schools despite years of equity initiatives, we must look to the insidious legacy of segregated schools and the deliberate underdevelopment of diverse students' cognitive abilities. Uprooting this "cognitive redlining" requires we reimagine instruction for our most vulnerable learners so they can rebuild their brains' learning muscles.
Rebuilding Students' Learning Power outlines a five-step process to coach students to strengthen their natural learning abilities while dismantling over-scaffolding of instruction, the number one contributor to cognitive redlining. Additional features include:
A cognitive apprenticeship model that recenters the student as the primary actor in the classroom
Guidance for administrators, instructional coaches, instructional leadership teams, and teachers to collaborate in creating sustainable liberatory teaching practices
A how-to plan to build teacher capacity to coach students in becoming good information processors
Building on the popular Ready for RigorTM framework from her bestselling book Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain, author Zaretta Hammond offers a practical roadmap on how to close the knowing-doing gap, grounded in the science of learning. This essential resource is for educators, instructional coaches, and school leaders who are committed to moving the needle on academic achievement in their districts.
Contents
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Introduction
Part I
Chapter 1: Instructional Equity, the Science of Learning, and the Quest for Cognitive Justice
Chapter 2: Moving Toward a Pedagogy of Possibility
Chapter 3: Moving Away from a Pedagogy of Compliance
Part II
Chapter 4: Making the Shift Happen in the Service of Instructional Equity
Chapter 5: Decolonizing and Rematriating the Classroom as a Dojo
Chapter 6: Uncovering the Algorithm of Learning for Our Community of Learners
Chapter 7: Building Power Moves through Meta-Strategic Thinking
Chapter 8: Coaching Learning Power Inside the Instructional Conversation
Part III
Chapter 9: Distributed Leadership for Change and Cognitive Justice
Conclusion: Answer the Call to Adventure
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