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Wondering how your department can start implementing change? Tired of basing department decisions on teacher anecdotes? Here is some research to get the discussion started. Teachers can read individually and report to the department or each teacher can read all research.

Research on Homework

Center for Public Education - The Value of Homework
Homework - How we Assign it and Mark it - Wormeli
Homework: What the Research Says - Harris Cooper
Does Homework Improve Academic Achievement? What the Research Says - Cooper
Changing the Conversation about HW from Quantity and Achievement to Quality and Engagement - Stanford Challenge Success White Paper
The Case For and Against Homework - Marzano and Pickering

Research on Grading Policies

Start your discussion with this link: Starting the Conversation about Grading - ASCD - Educational Leadership
Center for Teaching - Test Retakes
Fairness and Grading
Seven Reasons for Standards Based Grading - ACSD
Why Standards Based Grading isn't working -newspaper article
Toxic Grading Policies video- Dr. Douglas Reeves
Failure Preferred, Actually - Wormeli
Fair Isn't Always Equal: Assessing and Grading in the Differentiated Classroom by Rick Wormeli
Against the "no zero" policy - Read comments for different perspectives

Research on Helping Students to Succeed

High School Rigor and Good Advice: Setting up Students to Succeed
http://www.centerforpubliceducation.org/Main-Menu/Staffingstudents/High-school-rigor-and-good-advice-Setting-up-students-to-succeed
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Challenging Students with Math
http://www.centerforpubliceducation.org/Main-Menu/Success-stories/Suburban-success-stories-/VA-Challenging-students-with-math-at-JEB-Stuart-High-School.html
John Hattie's Visible Learning 
by category
http://visible-learning.org/hattie-ranking-influences-effect-sizes-learning-achievement/

Research on Formative Assessment

Inside the Black Box - Raising Standards through Classroom Assessment (Black and Wiliam, 1998)
Staying focused on Formative Assessment (and grading) - Wormeli
Difference between Formative and Summative Assessment - video
Formative Assessment Guide - mathshell
Formative Assessment - John Scammel blog

Psychology in the Classroom

Growth Mindset - Carol Dweck, Stanford
http://mindsetonline.com/whatisit/about/index.html
Video: Growth Mindset - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTXrV0_3UjY 
Creating a Safe, Supportive Classroom Environment - Dr. Margaret Tapin
Multiple Intelligence Assessment 
http://www.literacynet.org/mi/assessment/findyourstrengths.html
Watching Neurons Grow: Video from MIT
http://mit.tv/vZbO6Z
The Truth about What Motivates Us - Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

All Students Can Learn - Research

IQ is not fixed in the teenage brain
http://news.sciencemag.org/2011/10/iq-not-fixed-teenage-brain

How to motivate students to work harder
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/09/how-to-get-insecure-students-to-work-harder/379500/

Growth Mindset Gaining Traction
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2013/09/11/03mindset_ep.h33.html?tkn=XOXFBNQ4B%2FHIIr0QE4AmncfSnI8rAXD8%2B6hR&cmp=clp-edweek

Boosting Achievement with Messages that Motivate
http://www.lib.usf.edu/tutoring/files/2012/02/Boosting_Achievement_Spring07-Dweck.pdf 
John Hattie's Effect Size
Mixed categories
http://www.teacherstoolbox.co.uk/T_effect_sizes.html

Professional Learning Communities

What is a Professional Learning Community?
http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/may04/vol61/num08/What-Is-a-Professional-Learning-Community%C2%A2.aspx

Makes me think...

Catching up or Leading the Way - Video - Yong Zhao
Teaching Kids Real Math with Computers - TED talk - Conrad Wolfram
Teach Statistics before Calculus - TED talk - Arthur Benjamin
30 questions for Teacher Reflection - My favorite is #27: "What new ideas have I tried in my classroom lately to keep me energized about teaching?"

Common Core Implementation

CCSS Implementation Mathematics -Video - Phil Daro

Response to Intervention (RTI)

RTI Action Network: http://www.rtinetwork.org/
RTI - American Institutes for Research
http://www.rti4success.org/

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