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Notetaking Series Video I: 3 Ways to Improve Notetaking

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From the On Demand Library of the Hudson Valley RBERN: https://www.nysrbernondemand.org/instructional-design

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Notetaking Series Video II: Notetaking Practice with Written Text

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From the On Demand Library of the Hudson Valley RBERN: https://www.nysrbernondemand.org/instructional-design

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Notetaking Series Video III: Notetaking Practice with Videos

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From the On Demand Library of the Hudson Valley RBERN: https://www.nysrbernondemand.org/instructional-design

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Notetaking Series Video IV: Notetaking Practice with Lectures

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From the On Demand Library of the Hudson Valley RBERN: https://www.nysrbernondemand.org/instructional-design

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Sentence Strategies for Multilingual Learners: Advancing Academic Literacy through Combinations (Routledge, 2024)

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This book by Nell Scharff Panero and Joanna Yip presents Combinations as a set of high-yield instructional strategies for advancing academic literacy for multilingual learners and all students. It discusses the strategies themselves as well as how they work to advance content and language learning simultaneously, across the grades and content areas. The book is …

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Sophisticate It

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Many thanks to Ros Cooper, Bob Davies and the team at The Leadership and Community Service Academy (CIS 303) in the Bronx, NY for granting us permission to share their amazing song, Sophisticate It, written to teach students about improving writing through sentence strategies (Combinations). Lyrics by Ros. Music & production by Bob. Enjoy!

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Shifting Team Culture: An Analysis of Effective Facilitator Moves in Inquiry-Based Reform (Leadership & Policy in Schools, October 2021)

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Existing literature points to skilled facilitation as a key factor in enabling a team’s success in the context of inquiry-based reform. There is little understanding, however, of how precisely facilitators make the needed difference.  This study analyzes the moves of expert facilitators in a team-based reform found to be successful previously. It identifies and explicates five distinct categories of needed …

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Strategic Inquiry Model of School Improvement: Implementation Perspectives from School-Based Facilitators (University of Pennsylvania, 2018)

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Persistently low-achieving schools often work with external partners to receive support in improving culture and academics. Strategic Inquiry is a school turnaround model that has been implemented in poor performing high schools in New York City. The goal of this study was to learn lessons from school-based facilitators as they implemented Strategic Inquiry in three …

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Back to School for ELs After COVID-19 (English Learners Success Forum, May 2020)

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What will going back to school look like for the country’s 4.8 million English learners, many of whom are currently unable to access remote learning during school closure?  Many families of ELs may have lost jobs or suffered from the virus itself, unable to send remittances to loved ones living in other countries, and many …

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Inquiry into Student Learning Gaps Leads to Better Teaching and Shifts School Culture (Mind/Shift, July 2019)

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When Nell Scharff Panero walked into the high school math classroom, she couldn’t believe how bad it was. The teacher was at the board teaching his math, barely looking at the kids, while they ignored him and threw things across the room. She thought to herself: This guy shouldn’t be a teacher. So she was …

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