Empowering Excellence
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experts as well as his own in-class experiences with students, Jeff Halstead’s new book, Empowering Excellence: Creating Positive, Invigorating Classrooms
in a Common Core Environment , leads educators through a
transformation in their grading and assessment practices. Halstead, an NBCT
with extensive experience in standards-based grading, has written an
easy-to-understand, step-by-step process away from traditional
completion-oriented methods of grading towards strategies of teaching and
assessing soundly based on standards.
The Common Core and Next Gen Science Standards call for creative, innovative ways to teach and assess. Empowering Excellence: Creating Positive, Invigorating Classrooms in a Common Core Environment will transform the way you think about teaching, assessing and grading. |
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It’s no surprise to those teaching America’s students that public education is in an era of intense change, including dramatic changes to teacher evaluation and the implementation of the Common Core State Standards. Jeff Halstead, a practicing and accomplished educator, brings to life shifts that have the power to transform student learning. Empowering Excellence can be a great resource to guide Professional Learning Community (PLC), department, grade-level and other instructional teams to give structure and meaning to today’s emerging education environment. – James Meadows, Ph.D., Center for Organizing, National Education Association Empowering Excellence is brimming with accessible, real-world ideas to help teachers demystify classroom-based assessment and empower students to take charge of their academic progress. Arranged as shifts, Halstead provides tips and techniques for implementing a standards-based approach to instruction and assessment that values learning over grading, relationships over traditional power structures, and student data as means for self-assessing teacher effectiveness as well as student mastery. – Debbie Tully, associate dean for teacher education, School of Education, Whitworth University The 21st Century has ushered in dramatic changes in teaching and learning. Empowering Excellence meets those challenges and offers strategies to leverage learning and improve teaching. Jeff Halstead provides accessible, do-it-now ‘shifts’ that can transform the classroom. Drawn from his years as a teacher and coach, Halstead speaks from the heart to other educators ready for change. – Cindy McMahon, Ph.D., principal, The Community School, Spokane Public Schools Jeff Halstead has captured the essence of teaching by bringing the student, teacher, content, and assessment together in a manner that creates clarity and growth in students. Empowering Excellence provides strategies for any teacher wishing to increase their students’ confidence and understanding by making grading and reporting an integral part of the student-teacher-learning relationship. – Rick Biggerstaff, coordinator for mathematics concurrent enrollment program, Eastern Washington University In Empowering Excellence, Jeff Halstead provides a comprehensive array of practical strategies designed to help every teacher create a classroom that will maximize student learning and encourage students to strive for excellence. Filled with ideas to create a positive and hopeful learning environment, Halstead’s book empowers teachers to engage students in higher-level learning activities that create optimism and inspire success. – Susie Gerard, National Board Certified teacher, History-Social Studies |