Targeted High Yield Strategy
Distributed Summarizing
Enhance Student Learning with Strategies That Really Work
Distributed Summarizing moves students beyond recall by asking them to represent knowledge and skills in their own words at several points during a lesson. Research has shown that summarizing increases comprehension and long-term retention of information for students.
Learn how Distributed Summarizing helps you determine which students know the information before you continue instruction. When students summarize, their confusions, misconceptions, or misunderstandings surface, and these can be addressed accordingly. It actively requires students to categorize details, eliminate insignificant information, generalize information, and use clear, concise language to communicate the essence of the information.
This Distributed Summarizing professional learning teaches you how to scaffold for curriculum content, thinking processes, or the learning environment. You will consider the criteria for planning Scaffolding and why it is essential for student success.
Key Takeaways
•Differentiate between different Distributed Summarizing Strategies.
•Explain the relationships between working memory, attention span and Distributed Summarizing.
•Describe the importance of Distributed Summarizing as formative assessment.
•Plan consistently and intentionally detailing when, where, and how Distributed Summarizing will be used throughout the lesson.
•Select Distributed Summarizing tasks that align with Learning Goals and the Levels of Learning.
•Incorporate multiple opportunities during the lesson for students to respond to questions and prompts for Distributed Summarizing and Distributed Practice prior to independent work.
•Carefully monitor students’ thinking, conversations, and writing. Use their responses to inform instruction.
Who is Distributed Summarizing for?
Distributed Summarizing is designed for educators and instructional leaders who want to enhance student learning, improve retention, and strengthen instructional effectiveness. Whether you teach in a classroom, support teachers, or design curriculum, this professional learning provides practical strategies to make learning more engaging and meaningful.
- Teachers (All Subjects & Grade Levels): Educators looking to implement high-impact strategies that improve comprehension and long-term retention will find Distributed Summarizing adaptable to any content area. The professional learning offers practical guidance on integrating summarizing techniques into daily lessons to enhance student engagement and understanding.
- Instructional Coaches & Mentors: Those who support teachers in implementing best practices can use Distributed Summarizing as a powerful strategy to enhance instructional coaching, providing teachers with actionable methods to improve student learning.
- Curriculum Developers & Specialists: Professionals responsible for designing instructional materials will learn how to incorporate Distributed Summarizing into curriculum frameworks, ensuring that students engage with and retain information effectively through structured summarization opportunities.
- School Leaders & Administrators: Educational leaders focused on improving student outcomes and teacher effectiveness can use this professional learning to inform professional development, support data-driven instruction, and align instructional practices with cognitive science research.
In short, anyone involved in designing, delivering, or supporting instruction will benefit from this professional learning. By addressing barriers to learning, leveraging cognitive science principles, and applying evidence-based strategies, this professional learning empowers educators to help students deepen understanding, self-assess their knowledge, and organize new learning for long-term success.
Distributed Summarizing
Professional Development Opportunities
Distributed Summarizing is a Targeted High-Yield Strategy.
Learning-Focused Targeted High-Yield Strategy Professional Development provides focused learning on a single High-Yield Instructional Strategy. Targeted High-Yield Strategy Professional Development gives you essential concepts, practical tools, clear examples, and implementation-ready ideas to implement a specific high yield strategy with clarity and purpose. By moving beyond theory into practice, this professional development helps you plan and apply the high-yield strategy with confidence and assurance that it will drive measurable student success.
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With this Distributed Summarizing professional learning, you will learn…
- The benefits of summarizing on processing, memory, and retrieval.
- Distributed Summarizing is one of the most impactful learning strategies, with an effect size of 1.0.
- The importance of using vocabulary in-context in summaries to provide students with multiple exposures in order to use the words correctly.
- To incorporate multiple opportunities during the lesson for students to respond to questions and prompts for Distributed Summarizing and Distributed Practice prior to independent work.
- How a Summarizing Rubric may be used to guide and support students’ summaries.
- Regular price
- $40.00
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We offer quantity discounts up to 10% on materials when purchased for a school-wide or district-wide professional development
training that we are providing at your location or when using with a Learning-Focused Online course.
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