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Instructional Innovation+
Cultivating Teaching Teams Through Action Research
- Jorge Valenzuela - Lifelong Learning Defined, Inc.
with Serbrenia Sims and Drew Hirshon
May 2025 | 184 pages | Corwin
Empower teaching teams with data-driven instructional innovation
With teacher shortages, high staff turnover, and an influx of new and underprepared teachers, highly capable data-informed teaching teams are needed now more than ever.
Instructional Innovation+ provides educators with a systematic action research approach to achieve instructional innovation and guide teaching teams to success through careful analysis, collaboration, and implementation. Inside you’ll discover
- A new model, flexible framework and tools for teaching teams to develop their own unique system for effective collaboration and feedback
- How to develop and implement instructional methodologies and strategies to enhance student learning
- How to gather and analyze data to inform innovative teaching strategies
- How to identify your students’ unique needs, plus guidance for initiating improvements in the classroom
This impactful guide helps your teaching teams bridge the ever-widening gap between proven strategies and student success through practical and sustainable instructional innovation.
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
Part 1 – Unifying the Path to Instructional Innovation by Building Collaborative Teams, Establishing Effective Feedback and Effective Core Instruction
Chapter 1: Fostering Synergy: Creating Shared Agreements for Collaborative School Environments
Chapter 2: Empowering Teachers: Effective Strategies for Providing Feedback
Chapter 3: The 5 Key Building Blocks of Effective Core Instruction
Chapter 4: Tools for Aligning Instruction and Assessment
Part 2 – 5 Steps to Instructional Innovation Through Action Research
Chapter 5: Step 1: Pinpointing Key Instructional Challenges and Problems of Practice
Chapter 6: Step 2: Conducting Instructional Rounds Using Learning Walks
Chapter 7: Step 3: Analyzing Learning Walk Data and Identifying Solutions Through Structured Data Debrief
Chapter 8: Step 4: Designing Data-Driven Professional Development (PD) Interventions for Solutions
Chapter 9: Step 5: Implementing Data-Driven Professional Development
Epilogue
Appendix A: Tools and Templates
References
