Transforming Schools Using Project-Based Learning, Performance Assessment, and Common Core Standards.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Video Contents -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Foreword by Tony Wagner -- Introduction: Why Learning Must Go Deeper -- Chapter 1 Transforming the Graduate -- Why Schools Need to Redefine Graduation -- Mapping Backwards" from Graduation -- Defining Success: Know, Do, and Reflect -- The Envision Schools Graduate Profile -- The Nuts and Bolts of Envision's Deeper Learning Student Assessment System -- Five Proficient Artifacts -- Five Artifact Reflections That Include the Four C's -- The Cover Letter -- The Digital Element -- Proficient Defense of Three Artifacts -- The Power of Portfolio Defense -- So That's the Goal -- How Do We Get There? -- The Rest of Kaleb's Story -- References -- Chapter 2 Designing a Standards-Aligned Performance Assessment System -- Performance Assessment Defined-and Refined -- An Old Pedagogy for a Newly Demanding World -- The Envision Performance Assessment System -- Key Features of the System -- The List of Performance Assessments Is Short -- The Performance Assessments Distill the Standards -- None of the Performance Assessments Is Tied to a Particular Subject Discipline -- The Rubrics Are Commonly Shared -- Designing Performance Assessments -- A Scientific Inquiry: Disaster in the Gulf -- A Textual Analysis: Dante's Inferno -- The Challenges Are the Strengths -- The Challenge: Performance Assessment Is "Costly" -- The Challenge: Performance Assessment Design Is Complex -- The Challenge: Performance Assessment Tries to Measure Skills That Are Hard to Measure -- The Challenge: Performance Assessment Is Hard to Score Reliably -- The Tailwind of the Common Core -- References -- Chapter 3 Project-Based Learning-It's the How (and the Why) -- Why Project-Based Learning -- What We Mean by "PBL -- What PBL Isn't -- PBL Is Not an End in Itself -- PBL Is Not New.

PBL Is Not "All or Nothing" -- A Tool for the Challenges That Face Us -- Common Core = Performance Assessment = PBL -- Deeper Learning Outcomes by Design, Not by Osmosis -- Giving Graduate Defenses Something to Defend -- How PBL Works at Envision Schools -- PBL Tips, Envision Style -- Start with Your Curricular Goals -- Project Planning: Give It Everything You've Got -- Craft a Good Driving Question (But Don't Overestimate It) -- "What Will Thrill the Audience?" Design for the Final Product -- Define Your Benchmarks -- Demand Proposals at Every Opportunity -- Don't Act as "Grader" -- Be a Traffic Cop -- Think Revision -- Good Assessment Will Follow -- PBL Night Lights -- Reflect on What's Been Learned -- PBL Can Start in Your Classroom -- Ask, "What's the Creative Next Step?" -- Reverse the Order: First the Challenge, Then the Instruction -- Put Your Unit in the Form of a Question -- Get Students Conducting Interviews -- Answering the Skeptics -- Coverage Fallacy -- Rigor Fallacy -- Demographic Fallacy -- What Students Remember: The Story of Their Education -- References -- Chapter 4 Transforming School Culture -- Envision Schools Culture -- Ability Is Not Fixed -- Through Effort, It Grows -- Failure Is Essential to Learning -- Revision Is the Route to Mastery -- Use Rubrics, But Use Them Formatively, Not Summatively -- Give Students Tasks That Require Multiple Steps to Complete -- Demand Lots of Public Speaking -- Knowledge Deepens and Expands through Inquiry -- Teaching Is Coaching -- Caring Is Essential to Accomplishment -- Learning Can (and Should) Be Fun -- Which Came First? -- References -- Chapter 5 Transforming School Systems -- Structure Matters -- Student Cohorts and Teacher Teams -- Project-Based Scheduling -- Advisories -- Parent-Student-Advisor Conferences -- Professional Development -- Common Planning Time -- Community Meetings.

Integrated Classrooms (No Tracking) -- Workplace Learning -- Grading -- References -- Chapter 6 Leadership for Deeper Learning -- Leading with "Holonomy -- Key Leadership Values -- Vision and Courage -- A Mission with a Moral Purpose -- A Persistent Learning Stance -- The Power of Staying -- Practical Advice for Leading for Deeper Learning -- Pay as Much Attention to the How as to the What -- Use RAPID Decision Making -- Establish Norms and Use Ground Rules -- Plan Every Meeting as a Well-Designed Lesson -- Go Slow to Go Fast -- Keep It Simple -- Hold a Vision of Success and Plan for Every Pothole -- Don't Forget to Have Fun -- References -- Chapter 7 A Call to Action -- Taking Action: Time to Start a Movement -- Where to Begin Idea #1: Ensure at Least One Deep Learning Experience per Year -- Where to Begin Idea #2: Develop a Graduate Profile for Your School -- Where to Begin Idea #3: Spearhead One Structural Change at Your School -- Is It Scalable? -- Perfect Storm -- A Story to Close On -- References -- Appendix: Supplementary Material -- Index -- How to Access the OnlineMaterials -- EULA.

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