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OLAC Modules (21)

Assessment
Last Updated: May 26, 2023

Board Development and Governance Process
Last Updated: November 15, 2022

Coaching
Last Updated: December 12, 2022

Curriculum
Last Updated: November 14, 2022

Educational Equity: Understanding Why It’s So Important
Last Updated: August 21, 2023

Family and Community Engagement
Last Updated: January 11, 2023

Higher Education: Instructional Guide to Using OLAC and Moving Your Numbers Resources in Educator Preparation Courses
Last Updated: May 4, 2023

Implementation Science
Last Updated: September 6, 2022

Instruction
Last Updated: September 11, 2023

Leadership
Last Updated: May 22, 2020

Leadership for Early Childhood Care and Education
Last Updated: September 23, 2022

Leading Literacy
Last Updated: October 5, 2022

Learning Supports
Last Updated: June 7, 2023

Ohio Improvement Process
Last Updated: May 4, 2023

Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
Last Updated: August 15, 2022

Resource Management
Last Updated: February 13, 2023

Shared Accountability
Last Updated: August 23, 2022

TBTs: Bottom-Up and Top-Down
Last Updated: September 19, 2022

Teams Using Data Wisely
Last Updated: March 11, 2020

The Collaborative Process
Last Updated: May 3, 2023

Trauma Informed Practice
Last Updated: May 19, 2020

Gifted Education for Educators Courses (7)

Gifted Education for Educators Overview

Acceleration
Last Updated: November 13, 2018

Access to Advanced Curriculum
Last Updated: November 13, 2018

Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
Last Updated: November 13, 2018

Developing a Written Education Plan (WEP)
Last Updated: November 13, 2018

Differentiating Instruction for Advanced Learners
Last Updated: November 13, 2018

Monitoring the Growth of Advanced Learners
Last Updated: November 13, 2018

Social and Emotional Needs of Advanced Learners
Last Updated: November 13, 2018

Culturally Responsive Practice Courses (4)

Culturally Responsive Practice Overview

Course 0: Culturally Responsive Practice (CRP) Program Introduction
Last Updated: October 7, 2019

Course 1: Culturally Responsive Practice (CRP) Cultural Responsiveness
Last Updated: October 7, 2019

Course 2: Culturally Responsive Practice (CRP) Socio-Political Awareness
Last Updated: October 7, 2019

Course 3: Culturally Responsive Practice (CRP) Academic Achievement
Last Updated: October 7, 2019

A Brief Description of Distributed Leadership

A Changing Leadership Environment

A Georgetown TBT Representative Discusses Decisions and Actions with the BLT

A School Board Member and Superintendent Discuss Their Roles in Improving Outcomes for Students

A Teacher's Perspective as a Team Coach

Adult Implementation

An SST Director and Consultant Describe Their Role in District Support

Behavior Then Academics? Academics Then Behavior?

Benefits of Early Childhood Educators on Leadership and Teacher Teams

Board Involvement

Board Members on the DLT

Bottom-Up and Top-Down Learning: Team Leadership

Celina City Schools Creates a Practice Profile to Define and Measure Implementation

Celina City Schools Researches and Selects an Evidence-Based Strategy

Changing District Culture to Improve Learning for All Students

Chardon High School PLC

Clearview Local Schools: Using Data in Leadership Teams

Clermont Northeastern, Human Capital

Clermont Northeastern: Preparing for PBIS Implementation

Collaborative Teaching and Small Group Problem Solving, Campbell City Schools

Collaboratively Defining Learning Targets

Comprehending the Uses and Limitations of Formative and Summative Assessments

Connecting with Families and Community

Coteaching 4th Grade: Dewitt Elementary Cuyahoga Falls

Creating Assessment Capable Learners Canton City Schools

Creating High Expectations through Trauma-Informed Practice

Curriculum: The Written, the Taught and the Learned

Differentiated Teaching Model

Doug Reeves Discusses Economic Status as a Core Equity Issue

Dr. Brian McNulty Addresses the Issue of Ability Grouping

Early Childhood Care and Education: Part 1 Leadership

Early Childhood Care and Education: Part 2 Teaching to the Edges

Early Childhood Care and Education: Part 3 The Importance of Play

Early Childhood Care and Education: Part 4 Supporting Families

Educational Equity: Confronting the Challenges

Effective Instruction with Clear Learning Targets

Effective Practices for Teaching Online

Elements of an Effective Coaching Session

Elements of an Effective Leadership Coaching Session

Engaging Families Through the Leadership Team Process

Enhancing the Quality of Supervision in Higher Education Using OLAC Resources

Equity: A Question of Expectations

Equity: One Year's Growth in One Year's Time

Field Experiences for Teacher Candidates-Using Remote and Hybrid Instruction-During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Flexible Grouping, 3rd Grade Dewitt Elementary School, Cuyahoga Falls City Schools

Fostering Disciplinary Literacy

Hallmark of Collaboration: Douglas Reeves

Having Data to Understand Your Needs

High Quality Assessment System

High School Team Common Assessment Analysis

Impacting All Learners Through Clarity and Culture

Implementation of PBIS in Ohio

Improving Literacy with the 5-Step Process

Increasing Expectations for Students with Disabilities

Increasing Student Ownership of Learning Through Formative and Summative Assessments

Informal Formative Assessment

Instructional Coaching

Integrated Comprehensive Systems with Elise Frattura

Introduction to Assessment

Introduction to Board Development and Governance Process

Introduction to Coaching

Introduction to Coaching

Introduction to Curriculum

Introduction to Developing Shared Accountability

Introduction to Educational Equity: Understanding Why It's So Important

Introduction to Family and Community Engagement

Introduction to Higher Education Module

Introduction to Implementation Science

Introduction to Instruction: Teacher Clarity

Introduction to Leadership

Introduction to Leadership for Early Childhood Care and Education

Introduction to Learning Supports

Introduction to Resource Management

Introduction to Shared Accountability

Introduction to TBTs: Bottom-Up and Top-Down

Introduction to Teams Using Data Wisely

Introduction to The Collaborative Process

Introduction to Trauma Informed Practice

Investments in Human and Social Capital are Central to the School Improvement Process

Leadership Coaching In Practice

Leadership Coaching: Enhancing a Principal's Instructional Leadership Skills

Leadership's Role in Literacy Achievement

Leading Literacy Improvement

Learning Centers: Dewitt Elementary School, Cuyahoga Falls City Schools

Meeting the Needs of Each Learner

Moral Support is Key to Internal Accountability

Moving Forward: Post-pandemic Education

OLAC Resources Supporting the OIP

One Teach, One Assist

One Teach, One Observe Teaching Model

Parallel Teaching Model

PBIS and OIP

PBIS: An Ideal Framework for increasing Equity and Student Outcomes

Performance Coaching In Practice

Performance Coaching: Enhancing a Principal's Instructional Leadership Skills

Personalize the Data Implement Successful Practice Lead Differently

Pickerington Local Schools' Journey to Improvement

Planning for Family Engagement

Practical Advice About Research

Practically Explained: MTSS

Preparing to Teach All Learners

Principal's Role in Developing Teacher Leadership

Recognizing Bias and Creating Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and Assessment

School - A place they go to feel safe

Scoring and Grading to Support Student Learning

Second Grade Team Discusses Their Team Collaboration, Georgetown Elementary School

Selecting Effective Instructional Strategies for the Three Phases of Learning

Social & Emotional Learning

Station Teaching Model

Statistically Significant Outcomes of PBIS

Staying Focused in Challenging Times

Student Assessment Data

Student Ownership of Learning

Students Explain How They Monitor Their Learning

Students Using Assessment Data to Monitor Their Learning

Superintendents Role in Supporting Instructional Leadership

Supplemental Teaching Model

Support for Leadership Coaching in Bucyrus City Schools

Supporting Collaborative Building Leadership Teams

Supporting TBTs to Effectively Implement District Priorities

Sustainability and Stability

Sustaining the Work

Sustaining the Work: Ten Years Later 2022

TBT-A Cycle of Inquiry

Teaching the Process of Collaboration

Teaching the Real Fundamentals

Teaching to the Edges, a Story

Team Leadership Structures- Top-down and Bottom-up Learning

Team Teaching Model

Teams as the Framework for Improving Educational Equity

The Benefits of a Balanced Assessment System

The Board's Role in Engaging the Community

The Collaborative Process: Supporting Improvement

The Collective Sense of Efficacy

The Disruption of Development for Children Who Have Special Needs or Have Experienced Trauma

The Impact of Nonfiction Writing: Thinking Through the End of a Pen

The Importance of Aligning Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment

The Importance of Common Assessment

The Importance of Play, a Story

The Importance of Strengthening Family Relationships

The Importance of Teacher-Designed Common Assessments

The Ohio Improvement Process An Overview Part One

The Ohio Improvement Process An Overview Part Two

The Role of School Boards Responding to a Crisis When Schools Have to be Closed

The School Board's Role in District Goal Setting

The School Board's Role in Engaging the Community

The TBT- Improving Student Outcomes Through Collaboration

The Value of District-Wide Curriculum Development

The Value of Teams During Times of Crisis Video

Third and Fourth Grade Students Learning Through Discussion, Wickliff Progressive School, Upper Arlington City Schools

Three Levels of Implementation A Continuum of Support for All

Trotwood-Madison’s Plan for Remote Learning

Two Educational Leaders Talk About Internal Accountability

Understanding the Variety of Assessment Tools Available for Use in Instruction

Universal Design for Learning in the Classroom

Universal Design For Learning with Ron Rogers and Steve Ramos

Using a Balanced Classroom Assessment System to Strengthen Student Learning

Using a Student-based Team to Improve Instruction

Using Assessment to Guide Instruction

Using Data To Create Equity For All Students

Using Student Self-Assessment to Guide Instruction

Using the OLAC Crosswalk and Resources in Higher Education Field Experience

Using the OLAC Modules to Support Teacher Leadership

Why We Must Share the Leadership Role

OLAC Webinars (27)

Advanced Work for Teams Part 1
Last Updated: November 19, 2020

Advanced Work for Teams Part 2
Last Updated: November 19, 2020

Being an Instructional Leader in All Stages of the OIP: Superintendent and Principals
Last Updated: June 1, 2019

Coaching TBTs and BLTs
Last Updated: November 1, 2018

Developing Non-Negotiables with Your BLT
Last Updated: November 1, 2018

Ensuring Fidelity: Effective Implementation
Last Updated: February 20, 2013

Facilitation for Teacher-Based Teams
Last Updated: April 1, 2020

Five Things Principals Should Know and Do Part 1
Last Updated: November 19, 2020

Five Things Principals Should Know and Do Part 2
Last Updated: November 19, 2020

Insights into Effective DLTs

Insights into Effective TBTs

Integrating Ohio's Work into a Comprehensive Improvement Process Using the OIP
Last Updated: June 1, 2019

Moving the Work Forward through OPES

Moving the Work Forward through OTES

Multi-tiered System of Academic Behavioral and Social-emotional Supports
Last Updated: January 11, 2023

Performance Coaching

Post-Pandemic Education
Last Updated: July 1, 2021

Reclaiming Assessment Using a Balanced Classroom Assessment System to Strengthen Student Learning
Last Updated: October 31, 2022

Shared Leadership for Principals
Last Updated: December 6, 2012

Shared Leadership For Superintendents Central Office And DLTs
Last Updated: April 1, 2020

Social Emotional Learning (SEL)

Superintendent and Central Office Leadership

The Critical Role of the BLT

The Ohio Improvement Process for Prospective Teachers: A Look at What's Happening

The Ohio Improvement Process: Opportunities and Supports for New Teachers

Understanding Trauma - Part 1

Understanding Trauma - Part 2

2021 - 2022 Professional Development Series (11)

Become an OLAC Facilitator 2021
Last Updated: November 2, 2022

Celebrating Courageous School Leadership
Last Updated: November 2, 2022

Facilitation for Teacher-Based Teams Live Q&A
Last Updated: November 2, 2022

Five Things Principals Should Know and Do - Live Q&A
Last Updated: November 2, 2022

Leadership Challenges Today:  Staffing, Morale, Discipline, and Student Failures
Last Updated: November 2, 2022

Making Every Minute Count ~ Tactical Scheduling Tips for Administrators
Last Updated: November 2, 2022

My Favorite OLAC Tools and How to Put Them to Use Immediately
Last Updated: November 2, 2022

Shared Accountability: The Why, Who, How, and What of Teams
Last Updated: November 2, 2022

Summer School - Post Pandemic
Last Updated: November 2, 2022

Systematic Improvement Practices Review
Last Updated: November 2, 2022

Using OLAC and Supportive Technologies to Create Ongoing Professional Development
Last Updated: November 2, 2022

2022 - 2023 Professional Development Series (14)

Become an OLAC Facilitator 2022
Last Updated: September 16, 2022

Become an OLAC Facilitator 2023
Last Updated: May 24, 2023

Confronting the Crisis of Engagement: How Leaders Gain Motivation and Commitment for Every Student and Staff Member Part 1
Last Updated: November 7, 2022

Confronting the Crisis of Engagement: How Leaders Gain Motivation and Commitment for Every Student and Staff Member Part 2
Last Updated: January 13, 2023

Evaluating, Designing & Preparing Your Master Schedule Part 1
Last Updated: January 26, 2023

Evaluating, Designing & Preparing Your Master Schedule Part 2
Last Updated: January 31, 2023

Evaluating, Designing & Preparing Your Master Schedule Part 3
Last Updated: February 10, 2023

OLAC 101 for Principals/Educational Leaders
Last Updated: September 28, 2022

Radical Compassion: Tools for Resistant Colleagues and Students
Last Updated: April 25, 2023

Resources to Support District Planning
Last Updated: November 7, 2022

The Ohio Improvement Process: From the Perspectives of the Ohio Department of Education and Ohio Districts
Last Updated: March 16, 2023

Three Part Series - Part 1 You Have Your Staff, Now What - Strategies for Strengthening Building Leadership
Last Updated: June 28, 2023

Three Part Series - Part 2 You Have Your Staff, Now What - Making OTES Meaningful
Last Updated: August 7, 2023

Three Part Series - Part 3 You Have Your Staff, Now What - Understanding and Using Your School Data
Last Updated: August 29, 2023

A Teacher's Perspective

About Us

Assessment Tools

Cornerstone Connections

Disclaimer

Earn Credit

Educator Evaluation Crosswalks

Educator Resources

External Accountability Testing
Last Updated: May 16, 2023

Facilitators Corner

Facilitators' Guidebook: Using OLAC Tools and Resources

Gibsonburg Exempted Village School District

Leading Edge Blog

Massillon City Schools Teaching Case

New Ohio Personnel Guide to OIP

News and Events

On Demand Videos

Painesville City Schools Teaching Case

Rethinking Traditional Assessment
Last Updated: May 16, 2023

Foundational Concepts (26)

Designing High-Quality Teaching and Learning Online: The Big Ideas
Last Updated: February 23, 2021

Developing And Using Rubrics
Last Updated: January 27, 2020

Distributed Instructional Leadership: What School and District Leaders Can Do to Make it Happen
Last Updated: May 4, 2020

Education for Social Justice
Last Updated: January 27, 2020

Handling Data in Ohio Leadership Teams
Last Updated: June 15, 2020

Helping Families and Communities: Building on Lessons Learned from the Pandemic
Last Updated: April 1, 2021

High Quality Instructional Materials for Remote Learning
Last Updated: December 11, 2020

Implementation Science
Last Updated: January 27, 2020

Implicit Bias
Last Updated: June 11, 2021

Inclusive Instructional Practice
Last Updated: July 20, 2020

Inclusive School and District Culture
Last Updated: January 27, 2020

Instructional Coaching
Last Updated: January 27, 2020

Money for Educational Leadership
Last Updated: January 27, 2020

Multi-tiered System of Supports (MTSS)
Last Updated: January 27, 2020

Ohio Improvement Process (OIP): A Foundation for Sustainable Improvement in Student and Adult Learning
Last Updated: January 22, 2020

Root Cause Analysis
Last Updated: November 5, 2021

Special Work, Advisory, and Ad Hoc Groups
Last Updated: December 15, 2021

The Common Good as the Ongoing Conversation about Schooling
Last Updated: January 27, 2020

The Implications of Extreme and Rising Economic Inequality for Ohio’s Children

The Problems of Equity in Resource Allocation
Last Updated: December 11, 2020

The Research Evidence About Coaching
Last Updated: January 27, 2020

The Spirit of Inquiry for Ohio's Collaborative Teams
Last Updated: January 27, 2020

Theories of Change
Last Updated: February 7, 2020

Theories of Learning
Last Updated: January 27, 2020

Understanding by Design
Last Updated: January 27, 2020

Understanding Teacher Influence and Instructional Improvement
Last Updated: January 27, 2020