Crafting Your Message. Tammy Heflebower
Word Webs
Agreement Circles
Cheers and Fears
Clock Partners
Dramatize Key Concepts
Elbow or Shoulder Partners
Fan and Pick
Gallery Walk
Give and Get
In-Text Questions
Lines of Communication
Mentimeter
Numbered Heads Together
Pantomime
Reader Response Chart
Review Meal
Role-Play
Round Table
Roving Reporter
Spaces
Stir the Group
Table Family
Taboo Review
Take a Stand
Talking Stick
Talking Turns
Think Aloud
Think-Write-Pair-Share
Word or Concept Sorts
Zip Line
Dot Voting
GOILS: Groups of Increasingly Large Size
Idea Survivor
Nonverbal and Verbal Lineup
Ranking
3 As
3-2-1
A-B-C Summarize
Across-the-Room Allies
Folder Categorizing
Getting the Gist
Information Puzzle
In the Bag
Mystery Words
One-Minute Paper
Picture This
Posters
Quick Draw
Reciprocal Teaching
Roundabout
Six- or Twelve-Word Summary
Teams Check
Three-Step Interview
Two Cents
Whip Around
Work Sample Review
Writing Tweets
Confidence Hand Responses
Muddiest Point
Parking Lot Tool
Send-a-Question
Signal Cards
Snowball
Tickets to Enter or Exit
About the Authors
Tammy Heflebower, EdD, is a highly sought-after school leader and consultant with vast experience in urban, rural, and suburban districts throughout the United States, Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, and the Netherlands. Dr. Heflebower has served as an award-winning classroom teacher, building leader, district leader, regional professional development director, and national and international trainer. She has also been an adjunct professor of curriculum, instruction, and assessment at several universities, and a prominent member and leader of numerous statewide and national educational organizations. Dr. Heflebower was the vice president and then senior scholar at Marzano Resources prior to becoming the CEO of her own company, !nspire Inc.: Education and Business Solutions. She also specializes in powerful presentation and facilitation techniques—writing and sharing them worldwide.
Dr. Heflebower is widely published. She is lead author of the award-winning book A School Leader’s Guide to Standards-Based Grading and the award-finalist book A Teacher’s Guide to Standards-Based Learning. She is coauthor of Collaborative Teams That Transform Schools: The Next Step in PLCs and Teaching and Assessing 21st Century Skills. She is a contributor to A Handbook for High Reliability Schools: The Next Step in School Reform, Becoming a Reflective Teacher, Coaching Classroom Instruction, The Highly Engaged Classroom, The Principal as Assessment Leader, The Teacher as Assessment Leader, and Using Common Core Standards to Enhance Classroom Instruction and Assessment. Her articles have been featured in Kappan, Educational Leadership, Diversity Journal, the Education Week blog, and the Nebraska Council of School Administrators Today.
Dr. Heflebower holds a bachelor of arts from Hastings College in Hastings, Nebraska, where she was honored as an Outstanding Young Alumna and her team was inducted into the hall of fame. She has a master of arts from the University of Nebraska Omaha. She also earned an educational administrative endorsement and a doctor of education in educational administration from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
Jan K. Hoegh has been an educator for thirty-plus years and an author and associate for Marzano Research since 2010. Prior to joining the Marzano team, she was a classroom teacher, buildinglevel