It’s hard to believe we’re at the end of another year! We’re so appreciative of everyone who plays a role in supporting students and the work that has gone into navigating another year impacted by a global pandemic. It has been our honor to work alongside educators across the country to support their needs during this unique and challenging time.
As we entered the last month of 2021, we took a look to see which blog posts and resources connected the most with educators this year. Below is a roundup of our top five resources from 2021. The tools and blog posts highlight our teacher as researcher approach, school improvement coaching and consulting, and social-emotional learning. Check them out and share with your colleagues and professional networks!
If you have a topic you’d like us to explore in 2022, reach out to us at info@marzanoresearch.com.
1. Instructional Improvement Cycle Toolkit: Our top resource from 2021 provides a process and tools to help teachers use data from their classroom assessments to evaluate promising practices. The toolkit gives teachers guidance on how to apply and study a chosen classroom strategy and document and compare results to understand the effects of that instructional strategy on student learning.
2. Teacher as Researcher White Paper: This white paper by Marzano Research strategic advisor Bob Marzano and owners Danette Parsley and Jennifer Norford calls for a new paradigm for teacher research and guides our approach to this work.
3. What School Improvement Consultants Need to Know and Be Able to Do: This blog post, from a series of blog posts and resources on school improvement coaching and consulting, offers up a new framework to guide learning and development for the profession.
4. Three Social-Emotional Learning Strategies to Support Prosocial Behaviors and Positive Learning Environments: Social-emotional learning continues to be a hot topic in education. In this post, we outline multiple easy-to-implement strategies to help students develop prosocial behaviors and a scenario exercise to help educators practice these behaviors as well.
5. Six Principles to Guide Effective School Improvement Consultant Practice: The second post in our school improvement coaching and consulting series, this post dives into our six consulting principles and includes an exercise to support group learning about the principles.
