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Aligning Professional Learning to Improve Literacy Outcomes
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An Interactive DLT Process for Developing Consistency and Commonality, Clearview Local Schools
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Behavior Then Academics? Academics Then Behavior?
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Benefits of Early Childhood Educators on Leadership and Teacher Teams
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Bottom-Up and Top-Down Learning: Team Leadership
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Building Relationships for Students' Mental Health
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Celina City Schools, Selecting an Evidence-Based Strategy
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Changing District Culture to Improve Learning for All Students
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Chris Wollard on a Balanced Assessment System
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Clearview Local Schools: Create the Culture
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Co-planning and Co-teaching: 4th Grade Dewitt Elementary School Cuyahoga Falls City Schools
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Collaborative Teaching and Small Group Problem Solving, Campbell City Schools
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Collaboratively Defining Learning Targets
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Comprehending the Uses and Limitations of Formative and Summative Assessments
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Creating Assessment Capable Learners Canton City Schools
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Curriculum: The Written, the Taught and the Learned
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Cycle of Inquiry for TBTs
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Danielle Wallace on Effective Leadership Coaching
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Deborah Tully on Instructional Coaching
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Differentiated Teaching Model
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Disciplinary Literacy
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Doug Reeves Advises Ohio Leaders
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Doug Reeves Discusses Economic Status as a Core Equity Issue
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Douglas Reeves: Hallmark of Collaboration
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Dr. Brian McNulty Addresses the Issue of Ability Grouping
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Dr. Kimberly St. Martin: Active Implementation Frameworks
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Dr. Kimberly St. Martin: An Active Implementation Formula
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Dr. Melinda Wolford: A Place They Go to Feel Safe
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Dr. Melinda Wolford: Creating Harmonious Moments for Children Who Have Special Needs or Who Have Experienced Trauma
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Early Childhood Care and Education: Part 1 Leadership
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Early Childhood Care and Education: Part 2 Teaching to the Edges
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Early Childhood Care and Education: Part 3 The Importance of Play
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Early Childhood Care and Education: Part 4 Supporting Families
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Educational Equity: Confronting the Challenges
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Effective Instruction with Clear Learning Targets
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Effective Practices for Teaching Online
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Engaging Families in Decision Making
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Engaging Families: Important: Things to Consider
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Enhancing the Quality of Supervision in Higher Education Using OLAC Resources
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Equity: One Year's Growth in One Year's Time
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Flexible Grouping, 3rd Grade Dewitt Elementary School, Cuyahoga Falls City Schools
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Georgetown Elementary Teachers Discuss Collaboration
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Having Data to Understand Your Needs
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High School Example of Informal Formative Assessment
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Implementation of PBIS in Ohio
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Increasing Expectations for Students with Disabilities
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Integrated Comprehensive Systems with Elise Frattura
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Introduction to Assessment
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Introduction to Board Development and Governance Process
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Introduction to Coaching
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Introduction to Curriculum
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Introduction to Instruction: Teacher Clarity
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Introduction to Leadership for Early Childhood Care and Education
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Introduction to Leadership to Support Students Mental Health
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Introduction to Leading Literacy
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Introduction to Learning Supports
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Introduction to Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
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Introduction to Resource Management
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Introduction to Shared Accountability
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Introduction to TBTs: Bottom-Up and Top-Down
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Introduction to Teams Using Data Wisely
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Introduction to The Collaborative Process
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Introduction to Trauma Informed Practice
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Jim Gay on Collaboration
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Jim Gay on Distributed Leadership
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Jim Gay on Supporting Teams
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Josh Englehart on Accountability as a Key to Improving Learning
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Josh Englehart on Investments in Human and Social Capital
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Journey to Improvement Pickerington Local Schools
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Julie Frankl on Leadership Coaching in Bucyrus City Schools
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Kristin Souers Connection, Regulation, Self-efficacy
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Leadership Coaching
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Leading Literacy Achievement
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Learning Centers: Dewitt Elementary School, Cuyahoga Falls City Schools
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Literacy Assessment Data
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Meeting the Needs of Each Learner
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Moving Forward: Post-pandemic Education
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Moving the Work Forward, District Leadership Team, Paulding Exempted Village Schools
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Neil Gupta on Supporting Collaborative Building Leadership Teams
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OLAC Supporting a Changing Leadership Environment
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One Teach, One Assist Teaching Model
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One Teach, One Observe Teaching Model
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Parallel Teaching Model
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PBIS and OIP
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PBIS: An Ideal Framework for Increasing Equity and Student Outcomes
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Pete Pirone on Moral Support for Internal Accountability
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Planning for All: A Multi-Tiered Approach to Family Engagement, Part 1, The Basics of a Tiered Approach
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Reclaiming Assessment Using a Balanced Classroom Assessment System to Strengthen Student Learning
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Recognizing Bias and Creating Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and Assessment
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Scoring and Grading to Support Student Learning
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Selecting Effective Instructional Strategies for the Three Phases of Learning
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Station Teaching Model
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Statistically Significant Outcomes of PBIS
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Staying Focused in Challenging Times
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Stephen Barr on Internal Accountability
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Student Self-Assessment to Guide Instruction
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Students Monitoring Their Own Learning
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Supplemental Teaching Model
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Supporting TBTs to Effectively Implement District Priorities
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Tachelle Banks on Collaboration
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Tachelle Banks: Preparing to Teach All Learners
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Teacher-Designed Common Assessment
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Teaching the Real Fundamentals
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Teaching to the Edges
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Team Teaching Model
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Teams as the Framework for Improving Educational Equity
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The Basics of a Multi-Tiered System of Support
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The Impact of Collective Teacher Efficacy
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The Impact of Nonfiction Writing: Thinking Through the End of a Pen
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The Importance of District and SST Partnership
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The Importance of Play, a Story
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The Importance of Strengthening Family Relationships
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The Ohio Improvement Process An Overview Part One
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The Ohio Improvement Process An Overview Part Two
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The Responsibilities of Leadership Teams in Supporting Literacy
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The Role of School Boards Responding to a Crisis When Schools Have to be Closed
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The School Board's Role in District Goal Setting
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The School Board's Role in Engaging the Community
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The Value of District-Wide Curriculum Development
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The Value of Teams During Times of Crisis Video
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Third and Fourth Grade Students Learning Through Discussion, Wickliff Progressive School, Upper Arlington City Schools
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Three Levels of Implementation A Continuum of Support for All
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Trotwood-Madison’s Plan for Remote Learning
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Two Educational Leaders Talk About Internal Accountability
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Understanding the Variety of Assessment Tools Available for Use in Instruction
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Universal Design for Learning in the Classroom
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Using a Balanced Classroom Assessment System to Strengthen Student Learning
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Using a Team Process to Improve Literacy
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Using Data in Leadership Teams: Clearview Local Schools
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Using Data To Create Equity For All Students
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Using the OLAC Crosswalk and Resources in Higher Education Field Experience
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Vincent Elementary School: Implementing a Redesigned BLT Process to Improve Teaching and Learning
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Wilmington City Schools Superintendent on Collaboration, Trust, and the Improvement Process in Schools
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Ensuring Fidelity: Effective Implementation
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Performance Coaching

Post-Pandemic Education
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Reclaiming Assessment Using a Balanced Classroom Assessment System to Strengthen Student Learning
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Shared Leadership for Principals
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Shared Leadership For Superintendents Central Office And DLTs
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Superintendent and Central Office Leadership

The Critical Role of the BLT

Understanding Trauma - Part 1

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Episode 21: Beyond Literacy Basics: Building Readers and Leaders
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Last Updated: December 14, 2021

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Episode 14: On Reading and Relationships
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Episode 13: Supportive Grading: Two Districts Share Alternatives Part 2
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Episode 12: Supportive Grading: Two Districts Share Alternatives Part 1
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Episode 11: Equity in the Age of COVID-19
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Episode 10: COVID-19 and Schools: The Early Days
Last Updated: May 1, 2020

Episode 9: Capacity Building Through the Development of Professional Capital
Last Updated: April 1, 2020

Episode 8: Teams Working Towards Inclusive Instructional Practices
Last Updated: March 13, 2020

Episode 7: Best Practices for TBTs - Part 2
Last Updated: July 12, 2019

Episode 6: Best Practices for TBTs - Part 1
Last Updated: July 12, 2019

Episode 5: Courage and Educational Leadership - Part 2
Last Updated: April 1, 2019

Episode 4: Courage and Educational Leadership - Part 1
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Episode 3: Instructional Leadership
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Last Updated: November 12, 2018

Episode 1: Promoting a Culture of Inquiry Through Formative Assessment
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Distributed Instructional Leadership: What School and District Leaders Can Do to Make it Happen
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Education for Social Justice
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Implicit Bias
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Instructional Coaching
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Money for Educational Leadership
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Multi-tiered System of Supports (MTSS)
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Ohio Improvement Process (OIP): A Foundation for Sustainable Improvement in Student and Adult Learning
Last Updated: January 22, 2020

Root Cause Analysis
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Special Work, Advisory, and Ad Hoc Groups
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The Common Good as the Ongoing Conversation about Schooling
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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
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Theories of Learning
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Understanding by Design
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Understanding Teacher Influence and Instructional Improvement
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