How You Can Use the Recordings

As someone who will be an integral part of your school's reform effort, you are encouraged to listen to both recordings in their entirety.

For many people, listening to these recordings in a group setting may be the most effective. An effective use of the recordings is to facilitate a discussion, by using the "Questions for Reflection" suggested for each strategy in this guidebook. The setting may be informal, such as a lunch gathering. Or it may involve a more formal group of teachers and/or principals. You might choose to listen to just one strategy at a time (about five minutes long) in a faculty meeting, then discuss the reflection questions within your group.

In a half-day staff development session, your group could play both recordings and discuss how the six strategies could be best put into practice at your school.

After you and your group have listened to the recordings, feel free to share them with others who will be involved in your school's reform effort. This may include other teachers and principals, parents, community leaders, district superintendents, or other educational specialists whom you may come to work with throughout the implementation process.

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