Achieving Equity and Excellence: Immediate Results From the Lessons of HighPoverty, HighSuccess Schools (A strategy guide to e,Used

Product DescriptionAchieve high performance for all in your school. In Achieving Equity and Excellence, author Douglas Reeves outlines how to make dramatic improvements to student learning, behavior, and attendance in a single semester. Study the mindset of highpoverty, highsuccess schools and follow their example to implement the equitable and just practices necessary to make student success a sustainable reality.Use this resource to empower students, teachers, and administrators: Study the landmark research on the practices of highperforming, highpoverty schools, and discover updated research showing how these results can be applied. Discover what highpoverty schools do differently to achieve high performance, and learn how to implement these strategies in your classroom. Transform any school into an effective and productive school through learnercentered teaching. Learn the importance of action during the change process and why action must come before belief to implement equitable teaching practices. Explore effective accountability systems, the different levels of accountability, and how these systems should be implemented to meet the needs of diverse learners.Review'Doug Reeves's book provides an intriguing and convincing update to the 'effective urban schools' research of Ronald Edmonds and the British team behind Fifteen Thousand Hours. While some key factors in beattheodds schools have remained constant Reeves adds new arrows to our quiver, among them collaborative scoring of student work, crossdisciplinary curriculum units, and nonfiction writing. Achieving Equity and Excellence is a call to arms, urging educators to trust the experience of successful educators to bring equity and excellence to more and more students.' Kim Marshall, editor, The Marshall Memo; educational consultant'In this informative and important book, Doug Reeves challenges readers to avoid the dichotomous thinking that we must choose to either have excellent schools for some students or more equitable schools for all. Reeves provides ample research that demonstrates students can experience a high degree of academic success in both highpoverty and highsuccess schools. Importantly, Reeves provides a framework for how educators can make the dream for such schools a reality. Every educatorand equally important, every citizenshould read this book and accept the challenge of creating highly effective schools for all students. The challenge is great, but the stakes are enormously high.' Robert Eaker, author, Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work and 100Day Leaders'We must have courage and a steadfast, unwavering commitment toward justice in order to address the inequities that exist in education. Achieving Equity and Excellence provides us with the tools to bring words into actions.' Roger Len, superintendent, Newark Public Schools'Schools do not have to compromise quality to achieve equity! This book provides a logical and practical plan of action that will positively impact the achievement of all students. Dr. Reeves cuts through all of the minutiae and connects the reader to the structures, strategies, and mindsets that boost student learning.' Anthony Muhammad, educational consultant and author'Doug Reeves effectively addresses our greatest challenges in instructional practice, educational research, and how we effectively lead schools. His most recent work on equity and excellence exemplifies his commitment to identifying the best researchbased practices while keeping the needs of all students at the center of his work. His findings are right on the mark, and his insights are profoundly important for school and district leaders.' Chip Kimball, former superintendent, Singapore American School and Lake Washington School District, Washington'Insightful, reassuring, and empowering, Achieving Equity and Excellence expands on Douglas Reeves's original and groundbreaking