Books written by Lorna M. Earl

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  Professional Learning Conversations: Challenges in Using Evidence for Improvement

  This volume provides informed arguments, theory and practical examples based on research about what it looks like when educators, policy makers, and even students, try to rethink and change their practices by engaging in evidence-based ...

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  Leading Schools in a Data-Rich World: Harnessing Data for School Improvement

  Lorna M. Earl and Steven Katz show educators how to become comfortable with data, and provide valuable tools for school improvement teams to use in their work, including: Vignettes to support group discussion Activities for practicing the ...

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  Assessment as Learning: Using Classroom Assessment to Maximize Student Learning

  Using clear explanations and cases, this must-have resource shows how formative assessment can improve student learning. Included are lesson plans and ideas for easy implementation.

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  Assessment As Learning: Using Classroom Assessment to Maximize Student Learning

  Assessment as Learning represents one of these cruical changes, but it encompasses more than just using a variety of new techniques.

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  Building and Connecting Learning Communities: The Power of Networks for School Improvement

  Through a sample school narrative, the book illustrates how NLCs can significantly improve instruction, increase student performance, and promote deep and sustained change.

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  Rethinking Classroom Assessment with Purpose in Mind: Assessment for Learning, Assessment As Learning, Assessment of Learning

  This document is intended to inform discussion among Manitoba educators regarding the effective use of assessment processes to facilitate learning for all students.

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  Building and Connecting Learning Communities: The Power of Networks for School Improvement

  Illustrating how networked learning communities (NLCs) can impact school improvement, the authors examine formal/informal leadership roles, collaborative inquiry as an essential tool, and how NLCs support schoolwide accountability.

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  Participatory Evaluation In Education: Studies Of Evaluation Use And Organizational Learning

  What Version of Participatory Evaluation do We Have Here? This turns out to be a hard question to answer. At the outset, I came to the conclusion that Cousins, Earl and their colleagues had invented a new species of participatory ...

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  Assessment as Learning: Using Classroom Assessment to Maximize Student Learning

  Readers should do likewise, asking themselves what they believe is true about assessment and then extending their learning with this book." —Susan M. Brookhart, Consultant Brookhart Enterprises

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  Professional Learning Conversations: Challenges in Using Evidence for Improvement

  This volume provides informed arguments, theory and practical examples based on research about what it looks like when educators, policy makers, and even students, try to rethink and change their practices by engaging in evidence-based ...

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  Assessment as Learning: Using Classroom Assessment to Maximize Student Learning

  Fully revised, this second edition features: Discussion of the complex nature of learning Ways to use formative assessment in a variety of contexts Real-life examples and case studies of assessment in action Sample rubrics and lesson plans ...