10 Mindframes for Leaders: The Visible Learning Approach to School Success

by John Hattie (Editor), Raymond L. Smith (Editor)

Overview

It’s not what you do, it’s how you think about what you do.

A must-have resource for any educator working toward student achievement at ever-higher levels, 10 Mindframes for Leaders: The VISIBLE LEARNING® Approach to School Success brings the mindframes of ten world-renowned educators to life. Each chapter, written by a different thought leader, details a mindframe at the heart of successful school leadership. It includes:

· The most current, up-to-date findings from the Visible Learning research, including the factors from Visible Learning that support each mindframe

· Practical ideas for leaders to implement high-impact strategies in classrooms and schools

· Resources to help educators clarify and refine their own mindframes

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781071800133
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	07/22/2020
Pages:	144
Sales rank:	459,510
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

John Hattie, Ph D, is an award-winning education researcher and best-selling author with nearly thirty years of experience examining what works best in student learning and achievement. His research, better known as Visible Learning, is a culmination of nearly thirty years synthesizing more than 2,100 meta-analyses comprising more than one hundred thousand studies involving over 300 million students around the world. He has presented and keynoted in over three hundred international conferences and has received numerous recognitions for his contributions to education. His notable publications include Visible Learning, Visible Learning for Teachers, Visible Learning and the Science of How We Learn; Visible Learning for Mathematics, Grades K-12; and 10 Mindframes for Visible Learning.

Dr. Raymond Smith is an Author Consultant with Corwin Press. Prior to joining Corwin Dr. Smith served as adjunct professor at the University of Colorado Denver Health Sciences Center teaching within a principal preparation program and currently works with Florida Atlantic University in their aspiring leader program. Dr. Smith’s diverse experience includes over 38 years of teaching and leadership at the building (high school principal), central office (Director of Secondary Education), and university levels.

Subsequent to completing his doctorate in educational leadership and innovation in 2007, Dr. Smith pursued his area of specialty and passion in leadership development by authoring several articles for the Ohio Department of Education, coauthoring three books: the first entitled School Improvement for the Net Generation (2010), the second entitled The Reflective Leader: Implementing A Multidimensional Leadership Performance System (2012), and the third entitled The Responsive School (in print).

In addition to writing about leadership and leadership development, Dr. Smith is an activator of learning, leading others in workshops around Professor John Hattie’s research in Visible Learning as one of 21 Visible Learning Plus Consultants with Corwin. He also conducts workshops around Dr. James Popham’s research regarding designing and implementing defensible teacher evaluation programs.

Table of Contents

About the Editors vii

About the Contributors ix

Introduction John Hattie Raymond Smith 1

Chapter 1 "I am an evaluator of my impact on teacher/student learning" Janet Clinton 11

Chapter 2 "I see assessment as informing my impact and next steps" Dylan Wiliam 23

Chapter 3 "I collaborate with my peers and my teachers about my conceptions of progress and my impact" Jenni Donohoo 35

Chapter 4 "I am a change agent and believe all teachers/students can improve" Michael Fullan 45

Chapter 5 "I strive for challenge rather than merely 'doing my best'" Zaretta Hammond 53

Chapter 6 "I give and help students/teachers understand feedback and I interpret and act on feedback given to me" Peter M. DeWitt 61

Chapter 7 "I engage as much in dialogue as in monologue" Douglas Fisher Nancy Frey Dominique Smith 71

Chapter 8 "I explicitly inform teachers/students what successful impact looks like from the outset" Laura Link 81

Chapter 9 "I build relationships and trust so that learning can occur in a place where it is safe to make mistakes and learn from others" Sugata Mitra 89

Chapter 10 "I focus on learning and the language of learning" Jim Knight 99

Conclusion John Hattie Raymond Smith 105

References 117

Index 123