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What if you had a collaborative process of looking at student data
that could pinpoint student gaps in learning and suggest effective
strategies to close those gaps? What if you knew not only what you
should start doing to enhance student learning, but also what you
should stop doing because it hasn't given you the hoped-for
results? Enter Achievement Teams. This is not another program
that's here today and gone tomorrow; it's a timeless approach that
any school or district can replicate that focuses on the most
significant variable in student achievement: teaching. In
Achievement Teams, Steve Ventura and Michelle Ventura offer a
framework based on John Hattie's Visible Learning research that
makes teacher collaboration more efficient, rigorous, satisfying,
and effective. Think of it as a systematic treasure hunt for best
practices using real data on your students. The authors walk you
through the Achievement Teams four-step meeting protocol: In Step
1, teams focus on the evidence from a pre-assessment to provide
specific feedback to students and teachers about concepts and
skills that students did and did not learn. In Step 2, teams use
that evidence to establish SMART goals for both teachers and
students. In Step 3, teams summarize the collected data and make
inferences around students' mastery levels. In Step 4, teachers
select high-impact strategies directly targeted to student needs. A
post-assessment reveals what did and didn't work. The authors
provide a plethora of resources along the way, including reflection
activities to extend your thinking and a variety of helpful
downloadable templates designed to facilitate the work. If you're a
teacher or leader who is interested in maximizing student
achievement, this book is for you.
Michael Ventura, entrepreneur and CEO of award-winning strategy and
design practice Sub Rosa, shares how empathy - the ability to see
the world through someone else's eyes - could be what your business
needs to innovate, connect, and grow. Having built his career
working with iconic brands and institutions such as Google and
Nike, and also The United Nations and the Obama Administration,
Michael Ventura offers entrepreneurs and executives a radical new
business book and way forward. Empathy is not about being nice.
It's not about pity or sympathy either. It's about understanding -
your consumers, your colleagues, and yourself - and it's a direct
path to powerful leadership. As such, Applied Empathy presents real
strategies on how to make lasting connections and evolve your
business internally as well as externally. This ground-breaking
guide lays the foundation to establish a diverse, inventive, and
driven team that can meet the challenges of today's ever-evolving
marketplace. If you want to connect to the people you work with and
for, you first have to understand them.
In 1983 visionary director John Cassavetes asked journalist Michael
Ventura to write a unique film study - an on-set diary of the
making of his film Love Streams. Cassavetes laid out his
expectations. He wanted 'a daring book, a tough book'. In Ventura's
words, 'All I had to do for 'daring' and 'tough' was transcribe
this man's audacity day by day.' Cassavetes Directs describes the
creation of Love Streams shot by shot, crisis by crisis. During
production, the director learned that he was seriously ill, that
this film might, as it tragically turned out, be his last. Starring
alongside actress and wife Gena Rowlands, Cassavetes shot in
sequence, reconceiving and revising his film almost nightly, in
order that Love Streams could stand as his final statement. Both an
intimate portrait of the man and an insight into his unique
filmmaking philosophy, Cassavetes Directs documents a heroic moment
in the life of a great artist.
Michael Ventura's owned only one car his entire life: a green '69
Chevy Malibu. Its wheels have crisscrossed the American landscape
over more miles than a round trip to the moon. From Times Square to
Terlingua, from Maine to Los Angeles, from Austin to Deadwood,
Ventura has chronicled the continent in "a kind of switchback
journey in image and thought." His essays convey a tactile and
intimate relationship with land and people-and of course the car.
Ventura's distinctive voice and vision are familiar to readers of
the Austin Chronicle (where many of these pieces first appeared),
as well the Austin Sun, Psychotherapy Networker, and LA Weekly. In
this collection, its title borrowed from a Butch Hancock song, the
essays switch lanes with Hancock's evocative black-and-white
photographs. Slowing down to take notice of a makeshift shrine in
the Texas Panhandle or zipping along the New York Thruway before
dawn, Ventura captures the details that make us think profoundly
about work, music, poverty, beauty, our home on the planet and in
the universe. About volcanoes and the Very Large Array. About
friends and companions. About gods and goddesses and God. With
Lubbock, Texas, and the Southwest as the book's home base, If I Was
a Highway roams widely and freely as Ventura takes readers on an
unforgettable journey not only into the country but into the soul.
Michael Ventura's owned only one car his entire life: a green '69
Chevy Malibu. Its wheels have crisscrossed the American landscape
over more miles than a round trip to the moon.From Times Square to
Terlingua, from Maine to Los Angeles, from Austin to Deadwood,
Ventura has chronicled the continent in "a kind of switchback
journey in image and thought." His essays convey a tactile and
intimate relationship with land and people--and of course the
car.Ventura's distinctive voice and vision are familiar to readers
of the Austin Chronicle (where many of these pieces first
appeared), as well the Austin Sun, Psychotherapy Networker, and LA
Weekly. In this collection, its title borrowed from a Butch Hancock
song, the essays switch lanes with Hancock's evocative
black-and-white photographs. Slowing down to take notice of a
makeshift shrine in the Texas Panhandle or zipping along the New
York Thruway before dawn, Ventura captures the details that make us
think profoundly about work, music, poverty, beauty, our home on
the planet and in the universe. About volcanoes and the Very Large
Array. About friends and companions. About gods and goddesses and
God.With Lubbock, Texas, and the Southwest as the book's home base,
If I Was a Highway roams widely and freely as Ventura takes readers
on an unforgettable journey not only into the country but into the
soul.
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