Leading the Rebound: 20+ Must-Dos to Restart Teaching and Learning

by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Dominique Smith, John Hattie

Overview

Let’s make the “next normal” a “better normal”

If there ever was a time for our heroic school leadership to persevere, it’s now. Because now, well over one year since the pandemic stretched the resilience and reserves of our school systems, it’s time to “rebound.” It’s time to leverage this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reboot teaching and learning as we know it so that we magnify the effective practices from the past while leveraging the so many recent lessons learned.

This is where Doug Fisher, Nancy Frey, Dominique Smith, and John Hattie, coauthors of The Distance Learning Playbook series, are ideally equipped to serve as your collaborators.

Inside Leading the Rebound: 20+ Must-Dos to Restart Teaching and Learning you’ll find immediate actions, mindsets, and approaches to take if we’re to reimagine and improve our schools and school systems.

What’s more Leading the Rebound is backed up with all kinds of resources—including VISIBLE LEARNING® research, sample planning tools, and other essential tips and strategies—to provide you with a start-to-finish roadmap for navigating this absolutely critical next leg in our journey toward a “better normal.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781071850459
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	04/28/2021
Pages:	112
Sales rank:	1,098,126
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Douglas Fisher is professor and chair of educational leadership at San Diego State University and a leader at Health Sciences High and Middle College. Previously, Doug was an early intervention teacher and elementary school educator. He is a credentialed teacher and leader in California. In 2022, he was inducted into the Reading Hall of Fame by the Literacy Research Association. He has published widely on literacy, quality instruction, and assessment, as well as books such as Welcome to Teaching, PLC+, Teaching Students to Drive their Learning, and Student Assessment: Better Evidence, Better Decisions, Better Learning.

Nancy Frey is professor of educational leadership at San Diego State University and a leader at Health Sciences High and Middle College. Previously, Nancy was a teacher, academic coach, and central office resource coordinator in Florida. She is a credentialed special educator, reading specialist, and administrator in California. She is a member of the International Literacy Association’s Literacy Research Panel. She has published widely on literacy, quality instruction, and assessment, as well as books such as The Artificial Intelligences Playbook, How Scaffolding Works , How Teams Work , and The Vocabulary Playbook.

Dominique Smith, Ed D, is chief of educational services and teacher support at Health Sciences High and Middle College in San Diego, California. Smith is passionate about creating school environments that honor and empower students. His research and instruction focus
on restorative practices, classroom management, growth mindset, and the culture of achievement. Dominique also provides professional learning
to K-12 teachers in small and large groups that address classroom and school climate and organization. He holds a doctorate in educational leadership from San Diego State University with an emphasis on equity as well as a master’s degree in social work from the University of Southern California. Dominique also holds credentials from San Diego State University in administrative services, child welfare, PPS, and attendance.
Smith has been recognized with the National School Safety Award from the School Safety Advocacy Council. In 2018, he delivered a TED Talk
on building relationships between students and teachers.

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 Take Care of Yourself 3

2 Take Stock and Find the Path 7

3 Rebuild Teacher Agency 12

4 Rebuild Collective Teacher Efficacy 15

5 Foreground Social and Emotional Learning 19

6 Change the Learning Loss Narrative 23

7 Guide Teacher Clarity 26

8 Ensure Instructional Excellence 29

9 Use Assessments for a Range of Purposes 35

10 Design and Implement Interventions 40

111 Win Back Parent-Teacher Relationships 43

12 Establish Restorative Practices 48

13 Avoid Stealing the Conflict 52

14 Enhance Teacher-Student and Student-Student Interactions 55

15 Develop Early Warning Systems for Attendance, Behavior, and Course Completion 59

16 Confront Cognitive Challenges to Learning 63

17 Ensure Equitable and Restorative Grading 67

18 Enhance Professional Learning Communities 72

19 Provide Empathetic Feedback 78

20 Host Honest Performance Conversations 82

21 Maintain Your Social Presence 86

22 Future-Proof Teachers and Students 92

References 96

Index 98

About the Authors 101

Editorial Reviews

Given the turbulent nature of our times, we are facing a nexus in public education. We need to re-establish our schools’ culture that will direct knowledge into wisdom, transform fear into hope and lift isolationism into compassionate engagement. It is more urgent than ever for leaders to be bold and courageous to take back the spirit of public education. Leading the Rebound will offer the reader crucial strategies to embark on this critical journey.

Chula Vista Elementary School District, CA - Francisco Escobedo

Leading the Rebound is a must-read for every leader preparing to restart in-person teaching and learning. The 20+ must-dos create a practical road map that empowers leaders with the insight and confidence needed to focus on implementing the essential recommendations: Acceleration of student learning through instructional excellence, social and emotional needs of students and staff, leveraging strengths from distance learning, are just a few! This will be a welcome and game-changing resource to guide leaders in the challenging next steps of our new instructional normal.

Santa Maria-Bonita School District, CA - Melissa Dutra

Leading the Rebound has tackled the most complex and difficult aspects of K–12 education during this unsettling time. This is an authentic and powerful call to action that inspires educators to do all that is necessary to create a school environment in which both students and adults thrive. Ultimately, we are shaping individual futures, and for that reason alone, this resource should be on every educator’s bookshelf.

National School District, CA - Leticia Hernandez

It is time to stop saying we changed something in education because of COVID and start saying we changed this because COVID gave us the opportunity to rethink education. Leading the Rebound: 20+ Must-Dos to Restart Teaching and Learning is the perfect book to help districts and schools move forward from the pandemic. The book offers support and guidance on all aspects of the education process, including social and emotional learning; curriculum, instruction, and assessment; classroom management; teacher evaluation and feedback; and parent–teacher–student relationships. Instructional Leadership Teams can utilize this book as a reference to help them identify where their gaps are, consider the reality, the recommendations, redefine and redirect, and agree to commitments. I could not put this down. Books from Fisher and Frey never disappoint and this is no different.

Kansas City Public Schools, KS - Michelle Fitzgerald