Ready to Learn: The Frame Model for Optimizing Student Success (a Results-Oriented Approach for Motivating Students to Learn and Achieve Academic Success)

Ready to Learn introduces the FRAME model, a results-oriented approach for creating meaningful and motivating learning experiences across grade levels and content areas. Rely on the model's five steps--(1) focus, (2) reach, (3) ask, (4) model, and (5) encourage--to help you launch engaging lessons, articulate clear expectations, offer effective feedback, and foster habits of successful students.

Use this resource to foster a growth mindset in your learners and ensure student ownership:

• Utilize the FRAME model to plan and deliver meaningful learning experiences to every student.
• Learn how the FRAME model improves teacher clarity and efficacy.
• Discover strategies for engaging students within the first ten minutes of class and carrying this motivation throughout the lesson so they can learn from experience.
• Understand how encouraging peer observations and feedback among teachers will improve instructional practices and best practices in teaching.
• Study the FRAME model in real-world situations and utilize reflection questions to reinforce learning and maximize student coaching.
• Examine sample lesson plans and receive a template for planning lessons using the FRAME model.

Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: How to Create Learning Intentions and Success Criteria
Chapter 2: How to FRAME the First Ten Minutes of Class
Chapter 3: How to Embed FRAME Within a Lesson
Chapter 4: How to Use FRAME for Peer Observation and Feedback Among Teachers
Appendix: FRAME Lesson and Feedback Tools

Peg Grafwallner, MEd, is an instructional coach and reading specialist at Ronald Reagan High School, an urban International Baccalaureate school located on the south side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Peg has more than twenty-five years of experience in the field of education. She began her career as an English teacher at a private high school and eventually became an alternative education teacher in a suburban district. She has taught graduate-level courses on reading and writing in the content areas, with an emphasis on differentiation and interventions. She now supports teachers in seamlessly embedding literacy without disrupting their classroom. Peg models how to create comprehensive literacy lessons that enhance skill-building and coaches and assists teachers in creating these lessons.

Peg is a member of the Wisconsin State Reading Association (WSRA), the Wisconsin Council of Teachers of English (WCTE), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD). As the parent of a gifted and talented son and a special education daughter, Peg offers a unique educational lens that focuses on supporting students of all abilities in realizing their potential in the classroom and beyond. She is a blogger, author, and national presenter whose topics include coaching, engagement, and inclusion. Her articles have appeared in The Missouri Reader, Exceptional Parent, the WSRA Journal, and the Illinois Reading Council Journal. She has written for several websites and blogs, including Edutopia, ASCD InService, Education Week's Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo, KQED's In the Classroom, and Literacy & NCTE. She has also appeared on numerous podcasts such as Cult of Pedagogy, BAM! Radio, and Ed: Conversations About the Teaching Life. Peg is also the author of Lessons Learned from the Special Education Classroom: Creating Opportunities for All Students to Listen, Learn, and Lead.

Peg received a bachelor's degree in English from Cardinal Stritch University, a mentoring certification, a master's degree in curriculum and instruction and an alternative education certification from Marian College, and a reading specialist certification from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.