Data-Driven Dialogue: A Facilitator's Guide to Collaborative Inquiry

This timely book offers school leaders a practical toolkit for structuring and facilitating collaborative inquiry with and about data. This resource presents a three-phase model that supports groups in discovering assumptions, promotes data-focused investigations and develops shared understandings of both problems and possible solutions. Readers will increase their confidence and skill in facilitating data-driven dialogue by applying these easy-to-follow directions for tools and techniques.

Blackline masters, relevant resources, print and on-line references increase the usability and value of this book. This is the guide for educators committed to data-driven planning processes that develop shared responsibility for continuous improvement in student learning.

Bruce Wellman and Laura Lipton,

Sherman, CT: MiraVia, LLC, Copyright 2004
Softcover ISBN 0-9665022-3-x
$28.95 (see order form for volume discounts)

Pathways to Understanding: Patterns & Practices in the Learning-Focused Classroom, 3rd Ed.

Based on a three-phase framework for learning and teaching, this practical resource is filled with classroom-tested strategies and innovative ideas for structuring learning-focused classrooms. Blackline masters and detailed strategy descriptions make these effective teaching tools accessible to new and experienced teachers alike.


Laura Lipton & Bruce Wellman

Sherman, CT: MiraVia, LLC, Copyright © 1998
Softcover ISBN 0-9665022-0-5 pp. 127
$24.95 (see order info for volume discounts)

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Mentoring Matters: A Practical Guide to Learning-Focused Relationships, 2nd Edition.

An invaluable reference for mentors of beginning teachers, this guide offers structures, strategies and tools for developing expertise in teaching. Sections include specific information about the mentor’s role, the needs of beginning teachers and the attributes of effective mentor-protégé relationships. Tips for maximizing time and attention, an extensive resource section and blackline masters to support developmental interactions make this book a must-have for mentors.

Laura Lipton & Bruce Wellman; with Carlette Humbard

Sherman, CT: MiraVia, LLC, Copyright © 2001
Softcover ISBN 0-9665022-2-1 pp. 130
$24.95 (see order info for volume discounts)

ChartArt: 32 Traceable images for flip charts and overhead transparencies

Now anyone can make eye-catching flipcharts and overheads by slipping these easy-to-use graphics beneath a sheet of chart paper or blank transparency and tracing the images. Adapt and combine the pictures to create dozens of graphic design effects. Each image comes with tips for use as well as visual and conceptual idea banks to guide and inspire user creativity. Printed on durable stock and three-hole punched for easy filing and retrieval, ChartArt is an invaluable resource for presenters, facilitators, educators and all others who work with groups.

Images by Michael Buckley

Sherman, CT: MiraVia, LLC, ©2002

32 81/2 X 11 images with illustrated tips for use
$21.95 (see order info for volume discounts)

 

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Learning-Focused Mentoring: A Professional Development Resource Kit

More than 24 hours of professional development in 16 detailed, easy-to-follow teaching outlines.  Each module includes participants manuals, PowerPoint slides and other support materials.  8 Awareness modules provide a solid introduction to mentoring concepts and the tools for developing learning focused relationships between mentors and beginning teachers.  * Skill Developement modules build on their respective awareness topics to extend and consolidate the tools and techniques of skillful mentoring.

The Resouce Kit, packaged in a 12"x13" nylon carrying case includes:

  • A 3-ring binder with:
    • 16 detailed teaching outlines
    • Resources on adult learning
    • Presentation tips and tools
  • A CD containing:
    • Printable masters for all teaching outlines and participant manuals
    • Printable blackline masters for related workshop materials
    • PowerPoint slides for each session
  • A DVD with video clips illustrating ley concepts and tools
  • A set of 3 27"x49" nylon banners for wll display of essential mentoring concepts
  • A copy of Mentoring Matters: A Practical Guide to Learning-Focused Relationships

Developed by Laura Lipton and Bruce Wellman

Each kit sells for $945.00

For more detailed information and sample pages click here.

To order download this printable form

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Mentoring Matters Banner Set

Display these eye-catching banners in your Mentoring Matters seminars:

  • Illustrate key content

  • Support visual memory

  • Provide reference for introducing new material

  • Increase retention of importatn ideas

 

 

 

Three 27 x 49 inch durable nylon banners with gromments are easy to transport, handle and display.  Packaged in a reusable plactic pouch these vibant teaching aids will enhance your learning-focused workshops.

$99.95

Mediational Mats

This simple to use exercise "mat" provides a format for workshop instruction on mediational questions.  A great teaching and learning tool.

  • Organizes critical information on learning-focused questions

  • Supports learning with graphic cues

  • Provides follow-up ideas for independent practice

Developed by Laura Lipton and Bruce Wellman. 

25 - 8 1/2 x 11 2-sided sheets.

MiraVia, LLC, Sherman, CT © 2005

$18.99/ea (see order info for volume discounts)

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Related Products:

The Adaptive School: A Sourcebook for Developing Collaborative Groups

Turn to this authoritative guide for a wealth of specific tools you can use immediately

to develop collective understanding, make decisions, respond to conflict, and develop high performance groups.

Recipient of the 1999 National Staff Development Book Award, this volume blends theory and practical strategies for facilitating groups and enhancing the skills of group members.


By: Robert Garmston and Bruce M. Wellman

Norwood, MA: Christopher-Gordon Publishers, ©1999

Hardcover, ISBN 0-926842-91-9, pp 308

$65.95

Making Mentoring Work: An Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development Action Tool

Dozens of tools help you support and challenge new teachers within the context of these three goals:

  • Mentoring to develop the professional capacities of new teachers

  • Mentoring to help new teachers start, structure, and sustain their thinking

  • Mentoring to develop teachers' flexibility in a classroom where there is constant interaction

Practical tools and templates help you guide and evaluate your mentoring efforts along a continuum of interaction: from coaching to collaborating to consulting. Based on the latest theory and school-tested approaches, this product is an excellent companion to: Mentoring Matters: A Practical Guide to Learning Focused Relationships

Questionnaires, self-evaluations, and checklists illuminate the stages
of developing expertise and explore specific strategies, approaches, and patterns for supporting emerging beginners.


By Laura Lipton and Bruce Wellman

Alexandria. VA:ASCD, ©2003

3-Ring Binder, ISBN 0-87120-751-6

$100.00

Effective Mentoring: Building Learning Focused Relationships

For beginning teachers the benefits of skillful mentoring includes increased confidence as instructional problem-solvers and decision makers. For experienced teachers, mentoring a colleague increases understanding and rekindles a love for learning.   We don't learn to teach, we learn from our teaching.

 

This video course helps you to:

  • Understand the roles, responsibilities, and intentions of the mentor/the growth agent.

  • Identify the functions of a learning-focused relationship, offering support, creating challenge, and facilitating a professional vision.

  • Explore the stances for navigating across a continuum of interaction, including coaching, consulting, and collaborating.

  • Apply verbal and non-verbal tools for establishing and sustaining learning-focused relationships.

  • Investigate templates for producing effective planning, reflecting, and problem solving.

  • Connect the needs of beginning teachers with the hallmarks of teaching expertise and long-time commitment to the profession.

With Laura Lipton and Bruce Wellman

Sandy, UT: The LPD Video Journal of Education and TeachStream, ©2003

1 video DVD, 1 Implementation Guide, 1 Audio CD, includes Mentoring Matters:  A Practical Guide to Learning-Focused Relationships, 2nd Edition.

ISBN 1-58740-134-7

$475.00

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