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A Comprehensive Framework for Shaping Exceptional School Culture

By: Mario I. Acosta

Foreword by: Anthony Muhammad

Drive change by leveraging your school culture with this research-driven guide. It lays the foundation for an effective culture, helping educators explore school vision, behavior, climate, and instructional practices-and offering actionable strategies to enhance learning and foster lasting community engagement.

A practitioner's guide to developing an effective school culture

Author Mario I. Acosta emphasizes the critical importance of school culture in enhancing student learning and optimizing teacher efficacy. In this guide, he defines and examines the foundations of an effective school culture and how it influences the school's vision, values, climate, and community and family involvement. With research-backed strategies, real-world examples, and practitioner-driven insights, he provides actionable steps for implementing meaningful culture change that ensures lasting community impact.

K-12 teachers, leaders, and administrators can use this book to:

Establish balanced cultural values of strong academic integrity and mutual respect

Craft common working goals based on a vision of what their school culture should be

Identify and adopt positive behaviors that support culture change

Evaluate and strengthen the school's climate to ensure educators feel safe and supported

Build support with students' families and the community to reinforce school culture values

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Drive change by leveraging your school culture with this research-driven guide. It lays the foundation for an effective culture, helping educators explore school vision, behavior, climate, and instructional practices-and offering actionable strategies to enhance learning and foster lasting community engagement.

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Self-Care for Educators is the podcast for creating happy, healthy, inspired, badass educators. Host Tina H. Boogren is a lifelong educator, the author of numerous books, and an associate for Solution Tree and Marzano Resources. Each week, Tina will help educators dig into the essential work of self-care via bite-sized episodes that fit into your busy schedule. If you are a teacher, administrator, counselor, coach, singleton, or simply considering a career in education, this podcast is for you.

Because truth be told, this isn't just a podcast; this is a community. We are the caretakers.

It's time to find ourselves again, so we can

create lives we don't

need to escape from.

You are welcome here.

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Self-Care for Educators is the podcast for creating happy, healthy, inspired, badass educators. Host Tina H. Boogren is a lifelong educator, the author of numerous books, and an associate for Solution Tree and Marzano Resources. Each week, Tina will help educators dig into the essential work of self

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This practical handbook will guide you through implementing competency-based education that improves student learning outcomes and academic achievement. Better understand and utilize the research-based instructional strategies and teaching methods of the Marzano framework in your classroom, school, or district.
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Learn the history of Robert J. Marzano's framework of teaching methods first laid out in his best-selling The Art and Science of Teaching.

Thoroughly examine the updated The New Art and Science of Teaching framework for competency-based education.

Explore numerous instructional strategies that correspond to each of the 43 elements of The New Art and Science of Teaching.

Acquire examples that will assist in the realization of the instructional strategies discussed throughout the book.

Discover strategies that will improve both the mental and physical environment of the classroom to better support student success.

Reimagine how to develop relationships with students and generate student engagement.

Access free reproducibles that will assist in implementing The New Art and Science of Teaching framework in classrooms.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part I: Feedback
Chapter 1: Providing and Communicating Clear Learning Goals
Chapter 2: Using Assessments

Part II: Content
Chapter 3: Conducting Direct Instruction Lessons
Chapter 4: Conducting Practicing and Deepening Lessons
Chapter 5: Conducting Knowledge Application Lessons
Chapter 6: Using Strategies That Appear in All Types of Lessons

Part III: Context
Chapter 7: Using Engagement Strategies
Chapter 8: Implementing Rules and Procedures
Chapter 9: Building Relationships
Chapter 10: Communicating High Expectations

Appendix: Reproducibles

STUDY GUIDE

PRINTABLE REPRODUCIBLES

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Appendix

SUGGESTED RESOURCES

BOOKS

Carleton, L., & Marzano, R. J. (2010). Vocabulary Games for the Classroom. Bloomington, IN: Marzano Research.

Marzano, R. J. (2010). Formative Assessment and Standards-Based Grading. Bloomington, IN: Marzano Research.

Marzano, R. J. (2017). The New Art and Science of Teaching. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.

Marzano, R. J., & Heflebower, T. (2012). Teaching & Assessing 21st Century Skills. Bloomington, IN: Marzano Research.

Marzano, R. J., & Marzano, J. S. (2015). Managing the Inner World of Teaching: Emotions, Interpretations, and Actions. Bloomington, IN: Marzano Research.

Marzano, R. J., & Simms, J. A. (2014). Questioning Sequences in the Classroom. Bloomington, IN: Marzano Research.

Marzano Research. (2016). Marzano Compendium of Instructional Strategies. Centennial, CO: Author.

Scott, D., & Marzano, R. J. (2014). Awaken the Learner: Finding the Source of Effective Education. Bloomington, IN: Marzano Research.

WEBSITES

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Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

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The Handbook for the New Art and Science of Teaching

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By: Tina H. Boogren

Access 36 weeks of daily self-care for teachers and administrators to support your health and wellness throughout the school year. These self-care ideas and activities will help you manage stress inside and outside of the classroom.

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A 36-week plan of low-cost self-care for teachers and educators

Rely on 180 Days of Self-Care for Busy Educators to help you lead a happier, healthier, more fulfilled life inside and outside of the classroom. With author Tina H. Boogren's guidance, you will work your way through 36 weeks of daily self-care strategies and techniques, each corresponding with a week of the school year. Weekly themes range from creativity and inspiration to relationships and time management for teachers and administrators.

Follow this self-care plan designed to support your health and wellness during the school year:

Understand how prioritizing your own self-care will better equip you to positively impact student learning and achievement.

Discover low-and no-cost self-care ideas for teachers and administrators designed to help make meaningful, positive change.

Explore the dangers of stress in the classroom and in an educator's personal life, and understand how this stress affects students.

Learn how to assess what you need, check in with yourself throughout the day, and act on what you learn.

Utilize reflection questions to help you think through which strategies worked-and which didn't.

Let go of the expectations of perfection while practicing these self-care techniques and teacher wellness ideas.

"This book is the perfect companion for the busy educator. Its easy self-care steps and well-thought-out plan allow educators the ability to reflect on their self-care practice and implement a plan to be the best version of themselves. This guide is easy to follow, practical, and full of tips that teachers can use each day to bring their best selves to the classroom and be their best for students."

Kayla Dessert, third-grade teacher, curriculum developer

"Multiple teaching award-winner Tina H. Boogren cites the research on the high level of teacher stress as a call to arms against it. She offers intense encouragement to find the eye in the storm of teacher stress and gives readers multiple tips, strategies, ideas, and paradigms. The pages of this book jump with Boogren's smorgasbord of offerings for wellness. Teacher stress will lose its mighty grip on readers of this book!"

Tom Skovholt, author, The Resilient Practitioner, third edition, licensed psychologist, Morse-Alumni Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota

"Tina H. Boogren's latest book is a blessing for busy educators. Rich in practical suggestions, the book allows readers to explore new ways of tackling their difficult profession while choosing what works best for them. The book is comprehensive in that it covers mental, emotional, and physical tactics, but also ways to make the job more sustainable (such as using strategies for saying no and finding order). Whether you are new to self-care or a veteran, Boogren will give you new ways to combat burnout and find joy in your professional life."

Jenny Grant Rankin, author, First Aid for Teacher Burnout and Psychology Today

"Boogren writes in an accessible and engaging style and offers specific strategies and opportunities for reflection that so the reader can create a self-care plan that stands the test of time."

Michelle Trotter-Mathison, licensed psychologist

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Rely on 180 Days of Self-Care for Busy Educators to help you lead a happier, healthier, more fulfilled life inside and outside of the classroom. With author Tina H. Boogren's guidance, you will work your way through 36 weeks of daily self-care strategies and techniques, each corresponding with a week of the school year.

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A Guide for Leaders, Coaches, and Teachers

By: Robert J. Marzano, Cameron L. Rains, Philip B. Warrick

Written for teachers, coaches, and educational leaders, this resource offers a paradigm-shifting approach to teacher development and evaluation. Readers can further their professional growth through self-reflection strategies.

Improving Teacher Development and Evaluation

Teachers cannot become great unless they are given the time, support, and tools to grow in their professional practice. Written for teachers, coaches, and educational leaders, this resource offers a paradigm-shifting approach to teacher development and evaluation. The authors share research-backed steps for improvement, outline the principles for successful observation, and offer extensive protocols designed to help readers fully implement the book's recommendations.

Recognize the failure of past teacher evaluation efforts and its relationship with stagnant teacher development.

Understand why the professional growth of teachers is vital to the well-being of the educational system.

Discover the beneficial influence of teacher self-reflection and self-rating on elements of effective instruction.

Restructure systems of classroom observation and evaluation to improve their effectiveness and encourage teacher development.

Learn new, more reliable methods of scoring teachers' classroom practices and students' academic growth.

"Once again, Marzano and colleagues offer teachers and educational leaders a clear, concise, research-informed, translatable, and subsequently usable guide to not only help develop good teachers but also evaluate teachers in support of their continuous development and genuine growth. Given the new paradigm for teacher evaluation Marzano and colleagues offer, this is a must-read, particularly in light of the liberties granted back to schools by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). It is this set of freedoms educators should now exercise, and exercise wisely in terms of actually improving teacher development and evaluation, in order to help improve America's schools."

Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, professor and lead editor of Education Policy Analysis Archives, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University

"At last, a comprehensive and practical guide to leverage the teacher appraisal process and impact professional growth. Marzano, Rains, Warrick, and Simms build on research to provide practical and straightforward strategies for teacher growth. This is a must-read for anyone charged with supporting teachers on their professional growth journeys. Improving Teacher Development and Evaluation thoroughly discusses almost every aspect of the teacher growth and appraisal process clearly and completely. It will become your go-to book as you're working to help teachers grow!"

John and Sheila Eller, authors of Score to Soar: Moving Teachers from Evaluation to Professional Growth

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Teachers cannot become great unless they are given the time, support, and tools to grow in their professional practice. Written for teachers, coaches, and educational leaders, this resource offers a paradigm-shifting approach to teacher development and evaluation. The authors share research-backed steps for improvement, outline the principles for successful observation, and offer extensive protocols designed to help readers fully implement the book's recommendations.

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In some circles, Ben Hogan is credited with "inventing practice."

Hogan was one of the greatest golfers of the 20th century, an accomplishment he achieved through tireless repetition. He simply loved to practice. Hogan said, "I couldn't wait to get up in the morning so I could hit balls. I'd be at the practice tee at the crack of dawn, hit balls for a few hours, then take a break and get right back to it." 1

For Hogan, every practice session had a purpose. He reportedly spent years breaking down each phase of the golf swing and testing new methods for each segment. The result was near perfection. He developed one of the most finely-tuned golf swings in the history of the game.

His precision made him more like a surgeon than a golfer. During the 1953 Masters, for example, Hogan hit the flagstick on back-to-back holes. A few days later, he broke the tournament scoring record. 2

Hogan methodically broke the game of golf down into chunks and figured out how he could master each section. For example, he was one of the first golfers to assign specific yardages to each golf club. Then, he studied each course carefully and used trees and sand bunkers as reference points to inform him about the distance of each shot. 3

Hogan finished his career with nine major championships-ranking fourth all-time. During his prime, other golfers simply attributed his remarkable success to "Hogan's secret." Today, experts have a new term for his rigorous style of improvement: deliberate practice.

What is Deliberate Practice?

Deliberate practice refers to a special type of practice that is purposeful and systematic. While regular practice might include mindless repetitions, deliberate practice requires focused attention and is conducted with the specific goal of improving performance. When Ben Hogan carefully reconstructed each step of his golf swing, he was engaging in deliberate practice. He wasn't just taking cuts. He was finely tuning his technique.

While regular practice might include mindless repetitions, deliberate practice requires focused attention and is conducted with the specific goal of improving performance.

The greatest challenge of deliberate practice is to remain focused. In the beginning, showing up and putting in your reps is the most important thing. But after a while we begin to carelessly overlook small errors and miss daily opportunities for improvement.

This is because the natural tendency of the human brain is to transform repeated behaviors into automatic habits. For example, when you first learned to tie your shoes you had to think carefully about each step of the process. Today, after many repetitions, your brain can perform this sequence automatically. The more we repeat a task the more mindless it becomes.

Mindless activity is the enemy of deliberate practice. The danger of practicing the same thing again and again is that progress becomes assumed. Too often, we assume we are getting better simply because we are gaining experience. In reality, we are merely reinforcing our current habits-not improving them.

Claiming that improvement requires attention and effort sounds logical enough. But what does deliberate practice actually look like in the real world? Let's talk about that now.

Examples of Deliberate Practice

One of my favorite examples of deliberate practice is discussed in Talent is Overrated by Geoff Colvin. In the book, Colvin describes how Benjamin Franklin used deliberate practice to improve his writing skills.

When he was a teenager, Benjamin Franklin was criticized by his father for his poor writing abilities. Unlike most teenagers, young Ben took his father's advice seriously and vowed to improve his writing skills.

He began by finding a publication written by some of the best authors of his day. Then, Franklin went through each article line by line and wrote down the meaning of every sentence. Next, he rewrote each article in his own words and then compared his version to the original. Each time, "I discovered some of my faults, and corrected them." Eventually, Franklin realized his vocabulary held him back from better writing, and so he focused intensely on that area.

Deliberate practice always follows the same pattern: break the overall process down into parts, identify your weaknesses, test new strategies for each section, and then integrate your learning into the overall process.

Here are some more examples.

Cooking: Jiro Ono, the subject of the documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi, is a chef and owner of an award-winning sushi restaurant in Tokyo. Jiro has dedicated his life to perfecting the art of making sushi and he expects the same of his apprentices. Each apprentice must master one tiny part of the sushi-making process at a time-how to wring a towel, how to use a knife, how to cut the fish, and so on. One apprentice trained under Jiro for ten years before being allowed to cook the eggs. Each step of the process is taught with the utmost care.

Martial arts: Josh Waitzkin, author of The Art of Learning, is a martial artist who holds several US national medals and a 2004 world championship. In the finals of one competition, he noticed a weakness: When an opponent illegally head-butted him in the nose, Waitzkin flew into a rage. His emotion caused him to lose control and forget his strategy. Afterward, he specifically sought out training partners who would fight dirty so he could practice remaining calm and principled in the face of chaos. "They were giving me a valuable opportunity to expand my threshold for turbulence," Waitzkin wrote. "Dirty players were my best teachers."

Chess: Magnus Carlsen is a chess grandmaster and one of the highest-rated players in history. One distinguishing feature of great chess players is their ability to recognize "chunks," which are specific arrangements of pieces on the board. Some experts estimate that grandmasters can identify around 300,000 different chunks. Interestingly, Carlsen learned the game by playing computer chess, which allowed him to play multiple games at once. Not only did this strategy allow him to learn chunks much faster than someone playing in-person games, but also gave him a chance to make more mistakes and correct his weaknesses at an accelerated pace.

Music: Many great musicians recommend repeating the most challenging sections of a song until you master them. Virtuoso violinist Nathan Milstein says, "Practice as much as you feel you can accomplish with concentration. Once when I became concerned because others around me practiced all day long, I asked [my professor] how many hours I should practice, and he said, 'It really doesn't matter how long. If you practice with your fingers, no amount is enough. If you practice with your head, two hours is plenty.'" 4

Basketball: Consider the following example from Aubrey Daniels, "Player A shoots 200 practice shots, Player B shoots 50. The Player B retrieves his own shots, dribbles leisurely and takes several breaks to talk to friends. Player A has a colleague who retrieves the ball after each attempt. The colleague keeps a record of shots made. If the shot is missed the colleague records whether the miss was short, long, left or right and the shooter reviews the results after every 10 minutes of practice. To characterize their hour of practice as equal would hardly be accurate. Assuming this is typical of their practice routine and they are equally skilled at the start, which would you predict would be the better shooter after only 100 hours of practice?"

The Unsung Hero of Deliberate Practice

Perhaps the greatest difference between deliberate practice and simple repetition is this: feedback. Anyone who has mastered the art of deliberate practice-whether they are an athlete like Ben Hogan or a writer like Ben Franklin-has developed methods for receiving continual feedback on their performance.

There are many ways to receive feedback. Let's discuss two.

The first effective feedback system is measurement. The things we measure are the things we improve. This holds true for the number of pages we read, the number of pushups we do, the number of sales calls we make, and any other task that is important to us. It is only through measurement that we have any proof of whether we are getting better or worse.

The second effective feedback system is coaching. One consistent finding across disciplines is that coaches are often essential for sustaining deliberate practice. In many cases, it is nearly impossible to both perform a task and measure your progress at the same time. Good coaches can track your progress, find small ways to improve, and hold you accountable to delivering your best effort each day.

The Promise of Deliberate Practice

Humans have a remarkable capacity to improve their performance in nearly any area of life if they train in the correct way. This is easier said than done.

Deliberate practice is not a comfortable activity. It requires sustained effort and concentration. The people who master the art of deliberate practice are committed to being lifelong learners-always exploring and experimenting and refining.

Deliberate practice is not a magic pill, but if you can manage to maintain your focus and commitment, then the promise of deliberate practice is quite alluring: to get the most out of what you've got.

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By: Tina H. Boogren

All educators can reach for this book as an invitation (with accountability) to improve their physical well-being. Discover mindful eating strategies and methods for staying hydrated, creating a sleep routine, incorporating strength training into a daily routine, and many more actions that lead to a life well lived so you can be your best self.

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36 weeks of daily self-care for teachers and administrators

Using accountability tools, reflections, and 36 weeks' worth of invitations, Tina H. Boogren gives K-12 teachers and administrators the structure and ideas they need to improve their well-being. Boogren dives deep into the physical wellness aspect of self-care, inviting readers to engage in a new series of activities centered on the routines of physical wellness: food, hydration, movement, sleep, and rest.

All educators can use this book to:

Determine how they want to feel

Get ideas for how to pair tasks to help form healthy habits

Learn to tell the difference between hunger and appetite

Discover sensory rest and various ways to adopt it

Address revenge bedtime procrastination head-on

"If we've learned anything since 2019, it's that educator wellness is directly linked to teacher retention, teacher effectiveness, and student learning. Tina H. Boogren lays out a logical, research-affirmed, and practical set of strategies that will help us support the teachers of tomorrow and create the kind of schools where everyone thrives!"

Anthony Muhammad, educational consultant; author, Overcoming the Achievement Gap Trap: Liberating Mindsets to Effect Change

"As an educator, Dr. Boogren understands the importance of accessible and actionable steps for educators to enhance physical wellness, which impacts all dimensions of health and helps educators avoid burnout. She embraces the "all-or-something" approach to making progress toward feeling better and acknowledges that starting is the most difficult step, but this book makes it easy to take small steps toward big changes."

Jeanie Alter, executive director, American School Health Association

" 180 Days of Physical Wellness for Busy Educators is a must-read for all teachers wanting to gain more control over their wellness journey while balancing the demands of work, home, and daily life. This book's challenges are easy to implement and adapt to any lifestyle and can have a profound impact on your overall wellness. I recommend you use this book to focus on your health and wellness as an individual in order to boost your performance as the amazing teacher you are."

Kara Young, national board certified teacher; health/PE teacher, duPont Manual High School, Louisville, Kentucky; 2024 SHAPE America National Health Education Teacher of the Year

"We know that caring for our students must begin with taking care of ourselves . . . anything less and we slowly give ourselves away. The hard part is tending to our health within the maze of professional demands on our time. This awesome book is a treasure map to well-being! Dr. Boogren shares three dozen practical, proven ideas-one per week for the school year-to help you nourish your body and mind. And on every step of your journey, she provides powerful words of wisdom, kindness, and support."

Mike Mattos, educator, author, consultant

"Boogren uses her incredible gifts to navigate us through challenging physical wellness waters. Her words and tools surround us in the belief, the encouragement, the space and the pace to develop confidence and competence in our food, movement, and sleep routines. It is as if we have our very own 'wellness whisperer' showing us the way, and gently letting us grow and build our personal wellness path as we walk it, one day at a time!"

Timothy D. Kanold, author and co-creator, Wellness Solutions for Educators

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180 Days of Physical Wellness for Busy Educators

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Strategies to Awaken the Learner

By: Robert J. Marzano, Darrell Scott, Tina H. Boogren, Ming Lee Newcomb

Discover a results-driven framework-based on a six-level hierarchy of student needs and goals-that you can use to provide engaging instruction to students.

Motivating and Inspiring Students

Bringing motivation and inspiration to the classroom is not easy. With this practical resource, you'll discover a results-driven framework-based on a six-level hierarchy of student needs and goals-that you can use to provide engaging instruction to students. The authors share comprehensive understandings of the nature of motivation and inspiration and detail-specific strategies to connect with your students.

Gain specific chapter-ending guidance on how to use the book's strategies.

Consider scenarios that portray how the book's suggestions might play out in the classroom.

Review mindsets, dispositions, and behaviors that result in negative, unhelpful thinking and in positive, productive thinking.

Study step-by-step processes that ensure students' needs get met in individual classrooms.

Use the Awaken the Learner Snapshot Student Survey to assess students' levels of engagement, attention, motivation, and inspiration in school.

"This book takes the reader from research to application, providing information to help create an environment where students can connect to something beyond just self and be inspired. Using this book, you can change the learning environment in schools to be more fruitful and sustaining."

Gail Pletnick, superintendent of Dysart Unified School District, and AASA president-elect, Arizona

"You may have heard it said that the fastest way to find out who the best teachers are in a school is to ask the students. The problem with this method of discovery is that the reasons why some teachers are able to reach the minds and hearts of students while others miss the mark is not as easily articulated. Marzano, Scott, Boogren, and Newcomb go beyond Maslow's hierarchy of needs in Motivating and Inspiring Students. This new work addresses the role of long-neglected concepts such as altruism, empathy, forgiveness, gratitude, and mindfulness (to name a few). Beginning with understanding every person's need to make connections with something greater than self, this book provides theory supported with activities and worksheets that make Motivating and Inspiring Students a must for every teacher and administrator who wishes to reach the heart of our students. Together with the inspiring work done by Darrell Scott through Rachel's Challenge, this book provides every educator with the 'why' and 'how' to implement the most critical elements of motivation and inspiration for learners in our care. Our students become lifelong learners when skilled educators make the right connections with them. Motivating and Inspiring Students helps you get there."

Arturo Delgado, former county superintendent of Los Angeles Schools, California

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