Materials Archive

Featured Materials

 

I. Learn about the Gates Measures of Effective Teaching Project and the role of the Tripod Student Surveys. 

 

II. Access presentations and resources focused on instructional quality at The Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard University.

 

III.  Read a Paper written by Ron Ferguson in the fall of 2010: How Students’ Views Predict Graduation Outcomes and Reveal Instructional Disparities under Children First Reforms.

 

IV. View The First Day Video
This short video presents perspectives of students and adults who reflect on their expectations for the first day of school and the steps adults can take to create a safe and welcoming environment for students. Such conditions are closely tied to the Tripod Project’s first engagement target which focuses on trust and security. Creating conditions that will promote this engagement target is a challenge that should be emphasized during the start of the school year.

 

 V.  Read a collection of poems written by Ron Ferguson: A Flock of Poems for Teachers