The document outlines a framework for innovation in teaching within a top-performing urban school district in Florida, emphasizing the importance of monitoring student learning based on standards. It defines innovating as ensuring that 100% of students meet desired outcomes and adapting strategies for those who do not. Key steps include creating standards-based lessons, planning monitoring techniques, and preparing adaptations for unique student needs.

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Raising the Bar To…
Innovating

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Write a one sentence summary
that explains your current
understanding of the definition
of “Innovating” as stated in the
Marzano Model of Instruction.
One Sentence Summary

3. Teaching is easy…
Ensuring kids learn, that’s
tough work.
-Justin Tarte
Before we talk about Innovating….we
need to discuss Monitoring!

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The teacher act of checking
evidence for desired student
learning of critical content during
Instruction.
Monitoring Defined:

5. •The first step is to create your standards-based
scales and the units and lessons that support
students as they become proficient with those
standards.
•The next step toward innovation is intentionally
planning the monitoring techniques that you are
going to use with the planned lessons making
sure the chosen technique has the capability of
monitoring 100% of your students.
Using Monitoring To Drive
Innovation

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•Most importantly, once you have planned your
lessons and planned how you are going to
monitor your students…..
You need to think about/plan some “back pocket”
types of activities that you can implement for
students that do not meet the desired effect.
Using Monitoring to Drive Innovation

7. Innovating by definition is….

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To be innovative you need to monitor 100% of
your students to ensure that ALL of your students
met the desired effect for the chosen element. If
100% of your students did not meet the desired
effect the teacher then adapts and creates new
strategies for unique student needs and
situations.

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To recap, in order to be innovating you need to:
1. Create standards-based scales/units/lessons.
2. Plan for how you are going to monitor your students.
3. Plan for how you can adapt and/or create new
strategies for when your students have unique needs
which results in all of your students achieving the
desired effect.

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You do not have to be teaching students with
circus-like stunts to be innovating!

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News Flash!!!
You can even be coded as
Innovating when you are
observed teaching a
foundational lesson!

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What three items need to be in place
for this to occur?
When would this most likely occur?

13. Watch the following video
and determine the point at
which this teacher becomes
“Innovating.”

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•Read the article “The Marzano
Scale and the Fosbury Flop:
Why.”
•What can be learned from Dick
Fosbury?
Activity

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•Plan your lessons
•Plan for monitoring
•Work together and share
adaptations you might make for
students that are not “getting it.”
When you are working on your lessons today:

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