Evidence-based High Leverage Practices

High-leverage instructional practices are evidence-based teaching methods that are time-efficient and effective at helping students learn and retain information. Click below to explore high leverage practices that can enhance teaching and support all learners.

High Leverage Practices in General Education

TeachingWorks.org is a resource to learn about the 19 evidence-based high-leverage practices in general education that can support all learners. To provide addition guidance on the delivery of each practice, each of the links below will take you to the decomposition of the practice.

Leading a group discussion
Explaining and modeling content
Eliciting and interpreting individual students' thinking
Attending to patterns of student thinking
Implementing norms and routines for discourse
Coordinating and adjusting instruction
Establishing and maintaining community expectations
Implementing organizational routines
Setting up and managing small group work
Building respectful relationships

11. Communicating with families
12. Learning about students
13. Setting learning goals
14. Designing single lesson and sequences of lessons
15. Checking student understanding
16. Selecting and designing assessments
17. Interpreting student work
18. Providing feedback to students
19. Analyzing instruction for the purpose of improving it

High Leverage Practices in Special Education

In partnership with the Collaboration for Effective Educator Development, Accountability and Reform (CEEDAR), the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) has developed and published a set of high-leverage practices (HLPs) for special educators and teacher candidates. There are 22 HLPs that are organized around four aspects of practice: Collaboration, Assessment, Social/Emotional/Behavioral Practices, and Instruction.

Collaboration

1. Collaborate with professionals to increase student success.

2. Organize and facilitate effective meetings with professionals and families.

3. Collaborate with families to support student learning and secure needed services

Assessment

4. Use multiple sources of information to develop a comprehensive understanding of a student’s strengths and needs.

5. Interpret and communicate assessment information with stakeholders to collaboratively design and implement educational programs.

6. Use student assessment data, analyze instructional practices, and make necessary adjustments that improve student outcomes.

Social/Emotional/Behavioral Practices

7. Establish a consistent, organized, and respectful learning environment.

8. Provide positive and constructive feedback to guide students’ learning and behavior.

9. Teach social behaviors.

10. Conduct functional behavioral assessments to develop individual student behavior support plans.

Instruction

11. Identify and prioritize long- and short-term learning goals.

12. Systematically design instruction toward a specific learning goal.

13. Adapt curriculum tasks and materials for specific learning goals.

14. Teach cognitive and metacognitive strategies to support learning and independence.

15. Provide scaffolded supports.

16. Use explicit instruction.

17. Use flexible grouping.

18. Use strategies to promote active student engagement.

19. Use assistive and instructional technologies.

20. Provide intensive instruction.

21. Teach students to maintain and generalize new learning across time and settings.

22. Provide positive and constructive feedback to guide students’ learning and behavior.

High Leverage Practice Resources

Danielson Rubric and High Leverage Practices Correlation

https://highleveragepractices.org/

https://www.teachhub.com/classroom-management/2024/03/unmute-the-classroom-unleashing-the-power-of-student-participation/

https://teaching.cornell.edu/teaching-resources/active-collaborative-learning/active-learning/getting-started-active-learning

https://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/resources/high-leverage-practices/

https://explicitinstruction.org/

https://www.voyagersopris.com/blog/edview360/learning-is-not-a-spectator-sport

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