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UCLA SMP works closely with hundreds of educators each year, providing them with strategies to enhance their classroom practice and leadership skills. Our publications highlight this work, providing opportunities for our readers to share in each school’s successes. UCLA SMP publications include:
Breaking Through to Effective Teaching: A Walk-Through Protocol Linking Student Learning & Professional Practice “...a modest, practical book with
a powerful, revolutionary purpose.”
--Richard Elmore, Ed.D., Harvard University
a powerful, revolutionary purpose.”
--Richard Elmore, Ed.D., Harvard University
Teacher Education with an Attitude: Preparing Teachers to Educate Working-Class Students in Their Collective Self-Interest, chapter by SMP faculty John Otterness
article by SMP faculty: “Classroom Walkthroughs as a Catalyst for School Improvement” by Laureen Cervone & Patricia Martinez-Miller
Watch the video clip above as Laura Gaber talks about her experience using the successful Miramonte Test Thinking Method with SMP faculty during one of the “Test Thinking” Institutes.
The “Test Thinking” Strategies Workshop is a two-and-a-half hour session designed to help teachers better understand how students think about test questions and their answer choices. With this enhanced understanding, teachers can coach students to a better performance. Easy-to-use strategies can be applied across grade levels 2 to 12 and across all content areas.
Register for an upcoming session of the “Test Thinking” Strategies Workshop.
UCLA SMP is a non-profit school reform initiative that is committed to the sustainable transformation of public schools into learner-centered organizations where all students can achieve at high levels. Our professional development team of practitioners has partnered with over 800 public schools since 1992, working with educators, administrators, and community members to improve student achievement by fostering well-managed schools where professional development enhances teacher effectiveness, builds community, and results in personal transformation.
Our model of school improvement planning involves developing a deep understanding of the unique needs of the district or school site and providing sound tools and processes that can be employed to support the continuous improvement of both the individual and the organization.
A second office in the Northeast Region of the country was opened in January 2006. UCLA SMP Northeast Region provides the same high level of school improvement programs for urban and rural schools in the New England states and New York.
Upcoming Institutes
- June 25-27, 2008
- The Riverhouse, Haddam, CT
- August 19-21, 2008
- The Riverhouse, Haddam, CT
- September 23-25, 2008
- Location TBD
- April 28-30, 2008
- The Conference Center at Massasoit,
Brockton, MA - October 27-30, 2008
- Location TBD
- August 4-8, 2008
- August 11-15, 2008
- October 20-24, 2008
- Locations TBD
- 2008 & 2009 dates TBD
- Locations TBD
- October 1, 2008
- November 6, 2008
- January 22, 2009
- February 5, 2009
- Locations TBD
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