Learning-Focused Strategies:
The Essentials
Strategies and core practices that drive deep student learning.
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How do Learning-Focused Strategies impact learning?
Are you looking for an overview of high-yield instructional strategies and how to weave these strategies into your everyday lessons?
Skillful teaching requires both knowledge of core learning strategies and the skills to weave them into units and lessons so that students learn as deeply and as quickly as possible. In high‑performing schools, great lessons aren’t accidents, they are the result of a specific set of high‑yield strategies used consistently and pervasively across units and lessons.
This professional learning is a concise field guide to those strategies and how they work together. You will learn what the strategies are, when to use them (beginning, during, and end of units and lessons), and how a few adjustments to instruction turn everyday work into measurable growth.
Key Takeaways
- Design for Learning Coherence
Use an Instructional Pathway to align standards with units, lessons, and learning strategies. - Match Strategies to Purpose
Select the right strategies that connect to promote the most learning by students. - Run Daily High-Leverage Routines
Utilize core practices before, during, and after lessons. - Integrate Critical Thinking Strategies
Apply comprehension, higher order thinking, and writing to deepen understanding. - Assess Fast and Fairly
Use quick formative assessments and turn the results into tomorrow’s preview. - Calibrate and Sustain
Conduct regular PLC/Team meetings, plan supports (such as scaffolding) and execute a common plan with milestones.
In high‑performing schools, great lessons aren’t accidents, they are the result of a specific set of high‑yield strategies and core practices used consistently and pervasively across units and lessons. This professional learning is a concise field guide to those strategies and practices, and how they work together. You will learn what the strategies are, when to use them (beginning, during, and end of units/lessons), and how a few adjustments to your instruction and daily practices turn everyday work into measurable growth.
Teachers don’t need more things to do; they need the right things to do - consistently. Learning-Focused Strategies: The Essentials helps teachers choose which high-yield strategies to use and guides them on how to use them most effectively. Teachers will learn a clear progression of preparing students to learn, how to move students through the Levels of Learning, and how the Learning-Focused Lesson connects strategies rather than sprinkling them in isolation.
Learning-Focused Strategies: The Essentials
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Buy Learning-Focused Strategies: The Essentials Book/Course -
In this introduction to Learning-Focused Strategies, you will learn the strategies and practices that exemplary schools use consistently and pervasively to be the highest achieving schools in the country.
In Learning-Focused Strategies: The Essentials, you will learn:- What are Learning-Focused Strategies?
- How do you focus units and lessons on learning?
- What learning strategies should be used at the beginning of units and lessons?
- What learning strategies should be used during units and lessons?
- What learning strategies should be used at the end of units and lessons?
- Regular price
- $55.00
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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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Learning-Focused will accept returns of products within 30 days of receipt of shipment for a refund. Learning-Focused will accept
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Call 866-95-LEARN to arrange the return for a refund or exchange. Products purchased that are made to order (Coaches Binders,
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