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Larry Ainsworth, “Unwrapping” the Standards: A Simple Process to Make Standards Manageable (Houghton Mifflin, 2014) |
Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, Understanding By Design (ASCD, 2005) |
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A very helpful overview of the process of unwrapping. Much (though not all!) of our work follows this approach to unwrapping.
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The classic introduction to assessment-driven curriculum and instruction.
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Susan Brookhart, How to Create and Use Rubrics for Formative Assessment and Grading (ASCD, 2013) |
Elizabeth Green, Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching Works (and How to Teach It to Everyone) (W. W. Norton, 2014) |
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A wonderful deep dig into rubrics, how to write them, and what they’re best used for. This book has been transformative for the way we think about scoring guides.
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A fascinating look at different traditions of teacher education, which touches upon many issues that relate to the pedagogical aspects of our LHILI work.
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Charlotte Abramson and Alex Sinclair, Bridging Vision, Curriculum, and Student Learning (HaYidion, the Ravsak Journal, 2010)Our attempt to describe the core starting point for this approach to curriculum.
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Alex Sinclair, Authentic Tanakh Assessments: A Typology
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Perside Himmele and William Himmele, Total Participation Techniques: Making Every Student an Active Learner (ASCD, 2017)This conceptual and practical approach to pedagogy for engaging all students, all the time, has been extremely influential on our thinking about instruction. For more on TPTs, see here.
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Rabbi Elliot Goldberg, former LHILI TEC, wrote three blog posts for the Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education of Brandeis University about one of the most interesting aspects of the Rabbinics Initiative: our work with Rabbinics education in Early Childhood Settings. See #1, The Teaching of Rabbinics Starts Sooner Than You May Think. What Should We do About it?; #2, Searching for Rabbinic Texts in a Jewish Early Childhood Center; and #3, Helping Early Childhood Educators Become Teachers of Rabbinics.
Online links
There are many online resources and occasional newspaper articles that are useful and relevant to our work. Here is a partial list. Please let us know of other great resources that you come across using the form below, and we'll add them here for everyone in our community to benefit from.
Grant wiggins, "get Real!" assessing for quantitative literacy
jon mueller's authentic assessment toolbox
what great listeners actually do, harvard business review
educational leadership: formative assessment
Many articles in this edition of ASCD's magazine Educational Leadership are informative for our work. In particular, check out the pieces by Carol Ann Tomlinson and Robert Sternberg.
linda darling hammond, teacher learning: what really matters
protocols from the national school reform faculty
A website from the people who brought protocols into the world of education, with dozens of useful protocols.
Appreciative inquiry resources
