Video Toolkits to Introduce Standards
to Parents and Teachers

Schools That Learn:
High Standards for Teacher and Principal Performance

This 24-minute video examines several important elements of effective standards-based instruction. It portrays new, interactive relationships between teachers and students in the classroom; principals who act as instructional leaders and create school cultures focused on student learning; and teachers working together to improve their practice by looking at what students are learning. An accompanying discussion guide provides helpful tips and suggested questions to facilitate conversations at school faculty meetings, among teacher teams, and at professional development opportunities for new and existing principals and teachers. Features footage from three communities: Long Beach, CA; , Louisville, KY; and El Paso, TX.

Expecting Success:
How Standards Can Help Raise Student Achievement

This 13-minute video, aimed at parents and community members, describes standards-based teaching in simple, parent-friendly terms. The video features parents from four diverse communities (Boston, El Paso, Louisville, and Long Beach) who discuss what standards are and how they are helping to improve the conversations that parents have with teachers (and their own children) about what their children should know and be able to do p; and how to help them achieve it. An accompanying discussion guide provides helpful tips and suggested questions to facilitate conversations that can lead to increased parent involvement and a stronger sense of community between parents and schools.

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The production of these videos was supported by the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation. To learn more about the Collaborative Communication Group's standards-based materials for parents and schools, explore the Collaborative Communication Group's Standards website-- an on-line collection of tools and materials that can help build school and public support for the implementation of middle grades standards.

Video Toolkits to Introduce Standards to Parents and Teachers

Schools That Learn: High Standards for Teacher and Principal Performance

Expecting Success: How Standards Can Help Raise Student Achievement

Video Toolkits to Introduce Standards
to Parents and Teachers

Schools That Learn:
High Standards for Teacher and Principal Performance

Expecting Success:
How Standards Can Help Raise Student Achievement