Achievement Teams: How a Better Approach to PLCs Can Improve Student Outcomes and Teacher Efficacy
What if you had a collaborative process of looking at student data that could pinpoint student gaps in learning and suggest effective strategies to close those gaps? What if you knew not only what you should start doing to enhance student learning, but also what you should stop doing because it hasn't given you the hoped-for results?

Enter Achievement Teams. This is not another program that's here today and gone tomorrow; it's a timeless approach that any school or district can replicate that focuses on the most significant variable in student achievement: teaching. In Achievement Teams, Steve Ventura and Michelle Ventura offer a framework based on John Hattie's Visible Learning research that makes teacher collaboration more efficient, rigorous, satisfying, and effective. Think of it as a systematic treasure hunt for best practices using real data on your students.

The authors walk you through the Achievement Teams four-step meeting protocol:

* In Step 1, teams focus on the evidence from a pre-assessment to provide specific feedback to students and teachers about concepts and skills that students did and did not learn.
* In Step 2, teams use that evidence to establish SMART goals for both teachers and students.
* In Step 3, teams summarize the collected data and make inferences around students' mastery levels.
* In Step 4, teachers select high-impact strategies directly targeted to student needs. A post-assessment reveals what did and didn't work.

The authors provide a plethora of resources along the way, including reflection activities to extend your thinking and a variety of helpful downloadable templates designed to facilitate the work. If you're a teacher or leader who is interested in maximizing student achievement, this book is for you.

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Achievement Teams: How a Better Approach to PLCs Can Improve Student Outcomes and Teacher Efficacy
What if you had a collaborative process of looking at student data that could pinpoint student gaps in learning and suggest effective strategies to close those gaps? What if you knew not only what you should start doing to enhance student learning, but also what you should stop doing because it hasn't given you the hoped-for results?

Enter Achievement Teams. This is not another program that's here today and gone tomorrow; it's a timeless approach that any school or district can replicate that focuses on the most significant variable in student achievement: teaching. In Achievement Teams, Steve Ventura and Michelle Ventura offer a framework based on John Hattie's Visible Learning research that makes teacher collaboration more efficient, rigorous, satisfying, and effective. Think of it as a systematic treasure hunt for best practices using real data on your students.

The authors walk you through the Achievement Teams four-step meeting protocol:

* In Step 1, teams focus on the evidence from a pre-assessment to provide specific feedback to students and teachers about concepts and skills that students did and did not learn.
* In Step 2, teams use that evidence to establish SMART goals for both teachers and students.
* In Step 3, teams summarize the collected data and make inferences around students' mastery levels.
* In Step 4, teachers select high-impact strategies directly targeted to student needs. A post-assessment reveals what did and didn't work.

The authors provide a plethora of resources along the way, including reflection activities to extend your thinking and a variety of helpful downloadable templates designed to facilitate the work. If you're a teacher or leader who is interested in maximizing student achievement, this book is for you.

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Overview

What if you had a collaborative process of looking at student data that could pinpoint student gaps in learning and suggest effective strategies to close those gaps? What if you knew not only what you should start doing to enhance student learning, but also what you should stop doing because it hasn't given you the hoped-for results?

Enter Achievement Teams. This is not another program that's here today and gone tomorrow; it's a timeless approach that any school or district can replicate that focuses on the most significant variable in student achievement: teaching. In Achievement Teams, Steve Ventura and Michelle Ventura offer a framework based on John Hattie's Visible Learning research that makes teacher collaboration more efficient, rigorous, satisfying, and effective. Think of it as a systematic treasure hunt for best practices using real data on your students.

The authors walk you through the Achievement Teams four-step meeting protocol:

* In Step 1, teams focus on the evidence from a pre-assessment to provide specific feedback to students and teachers about concepts and skills that students did and did not learn.
* In Step 2, teams use that evidence to establish SMART goals for both teachers and students.
* In Step 3, teams summarize the collected data and make inferences around students' mastery levels.
* In Step 4, teachers select high-impact strategies directly targeted to student needs. A post-assessment reveals what did and didn't work.

The authors provide a plethora of resources along the way, including reflection activities to extend your thinking and a variety of helpful downloadable templates designed to facilitate the work. If you're a teacher or leader who is interested in maximizing student achievement, this book is for you.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781416631194
Publisher: ASCD
Publication date: 05/27/2022
Pages: 150
Sales rank: 270,618
Product dimensions: 9.80(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Steve Ventura is the president and lead consultant at Advanced Collaborative Solutions. He is a highly motivational and knowledgeable speaker who approaches high-stakes professional development armed with practical, research-based strategies. Ventura is a former elementary and secondary teacher and has worked as both a school and a district-level administrator. He has published multiple books and articles and regularly presents and keynotes at global education events. He is passionate about helping school-based leaders instill a culture grounded in collective teacher efficacy through his flagship work, Achievement Teams. Through this collaborative work, Ventura has helped countless educators improve their teaching practice.


Michelle Ventura is cofounder of and a professional learning consultant with Advanced Collaborative Solutions. With 30 years of classroom experience, she brings a unique and sensible perspective to professional development grounded in effective teaching and learning. Ventura is passionate about the teaching profession and firmly believes that all kids can learn. She is known for creating engaging adult learning opportunities that provide participants with immediate possibilities to improve teacher practice. Most days, she can be found leading educators through sessions on Achievement Teams and high-impact instructional strategies.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Achievement Teams, the Key to Effective Collaboration vii

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction: Welcome to Achievement Teams 1

1 Setting Up the Achievement Team 17

2 Teacher Clarity and Learning Progressions 29

3 Clarity of Assessment 51

4 Planning for Achievement Teams 68

5 Step 1: Collect and Chart the Data 73

6 Step 2: Set SMART Goals 84

7 Step 3: Create Baseline Evidence Statements 98

8 Step 4: Select High-Yield Instructional Strategies 108

9 Achievement Teams in Action 125

References 140

Index 143

About the Authors 147

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From the Publisher

While many schools have established professional learning communities (PLCs), not all are realizing their potential due to unclear purpose, lack of trust among members, having no established protocols, or meetings that focus on trivial matters. Achievement Teams offers practical and proven strategies and tools to overcome these failings so that PLCs can achieve their ultimate purpose of enhancing student learning.

—Jay McTighe, Author and Consultant

The evidence is clear: when we see ourselves as a team (of schools, school leaders, teachers, students), our impact and growth can be exponential. This book, with proven strategies to support both teachers and learners in their efforts, provides a path to that growth. Through the work the Venturas have done with schools and with education researchers like John Hattie, they have gained knowledge, expertise, and passion that are evident in this insightful and practical book. Achievement Teams is a must-read for educators who want to make the biggest impact on student achievement that they can.

—Debra Masters, Director, The Education Partnership and Innovation Platform

Achievement Teams is a must for any school leader who is serious about creating sustainable, systemic, and effective pedagogical change. This is a book about envisioning and implementing a model of professional development that will grow educators' collective efficacy, strengthen and affirm professional knowledge throughout the school site, allow leaders and educators to be accountable to one another, and increase student learning and achievement. Achievement Teams have changed the way educators at my school engage with each other and made our school culture more closely connected.

—Alice Lee, EdD, Principal, Richmond Street School

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