What is your impact?

Our staff spent most of yesterday listening to me, and working with each other, focused on high-impact teaching strategies. These are those strategies that teachers can use that have been shown to be more powerful than poverty, home impact, parent involvement, etc. According to John Hattie,(click on name for research) there are 30+ things that teachers can do in their classrooms that trump whatever a students bring with them. And his most recent research shows that Teacher Collective Efficacy has a 1.56 effect size. 

The highest impact on student growth is having a team of teacher who work interdependently, believing that every student on their team can and will achieve. Hattie found that this strategy can yield 3 to 4 years of growth in a single school year.

The average teacher can increase a student one years' worth of growth, as long as that student comes from a middle class (or higher) home life, has parents who are involved and engaged with the student, and the student has a good relationship with the parents.

A team of teachers working together can make every student meet or exceed standard, regardless of the student's home life.

We have the moral obligation, as educators, that when we know better, we must do better. 

I have teams whose students will make the most amazing growth of their lives this year. 

I am so excited for Monday!