Gabe Gillespie

Believer in Jesus, proud husband, father, and school change leader. Advocate of the DuFour PLC model to move schools from "good" to "great".

[Raquel Jaime @jraquelj2013]

@martimakuta thank you for caring for us! 💙@cavazos_ms

[Gabe Gillespie @gabegillespie1]

“Success doesn’t come by pie-in-the-sky thinking. It’s the result of consciously doing something EACH DAY that will add to your overall excellence.”~ Nick Saban #continuousimprovement

[kerry vega @kerryvega]

#lisdsli #whyyoumatter #pantherpride #teachersmatter

[Solution Tree @SolutionTree]

For every new increment of performance that you demand from classroom teachers, you have an equal obligation to provide the time, the tools, and the training necessary to meet those new expectations: https://t.co/QStUPedaOs #edtech #edleadership @plugusin

[Gabe Gillespie @gabegillespie1]

#dunbarpride https://t.co/mLFRpopxZS

[Robert J. Marzano @robertjmarzano]

If the teacher is willing to demonstrate vulnerability about personal goals, students will be encouraged to follow suit. #studentengagement

[Robert J. Marzano @robertjmarzano]

By asking students to track their progress over time, teachers are encouraging them to see assessments not as isolated tests that can permanently influence their overall grade but as connected measurements of their learning and progress over time. #studentengagement

[Tom Schimmer @TomSchimmer]

Grades will only be as meaningful/meaningless as we allow them to be; their existence isn't the issue. The issue is how they're defined & determined. "Meaningless" when disassociated from the most/more recent versions of quality that students produce or demonstrate. #atAssess

[Douglas Reeves @DouglasReeves]

When forgiveness is part of school culture: 1). Adults admit mistakes and seek forgiveness; 2). Adults reward students for admitting mistakes and learning from them. 3). Systems that punish learning mistakes are abolished.
#leadupchat https://t.co/9td2zVw02X

[Robert J. Marzano @robertjmarzano]

In a classroom organized around learning goals, a score on a particular scale for a learning goal represents the student’s status at one point in time only. At a later point in time, if the student demonstrates enhanced competence, his score changes to represent his new status.

[Robert J. Marzano @robertjmarzano]

The PLC movement as crafted by Rick and Becky DuFour and Bob Eaker is probably the most influential movement with regards to actually changing practices in schools I have ever seen.

[Robert J. Marzano @robertjmarzano]

Before students can recognize errors, they must understand them. Teachers need to spend an adequate amount of time providing the class with examples of types of fallacies (like below) and eliciting examples from students. #NASOT

[Robert J. Marzano @robertjmarzano]

Differences between instruction in a traditional system and a competency-based system across whole-class instruction, small-group instruction, individual instruction, and peer-to-peer instruction. #NASOT

[Douglas Reeves @DouglasReeves]

A4: It’s not zeroes that are the problem - it’s 0 on a 100-point scale - the academic death penalty.
#sblchat https://t.co/jJcGOx85a1

[Douglas Reeves @DouglasReeves]

A3. If we’re serious about getting work done, then let’s do it in class - less lecture, more work.
#sblchat https://t.co/jJcGOx85a1

[Gabe Gillespie @gabegillespie1]

Very proud of our ELAR rockstars. Digging into the work to refine our professional practice. https://t.co/Wz2F440VX1

[Dunbar @DunbarPanthers]

ELAR dept. instructional rounds at Dunbar. Refining the work using affinity mapping #pantherpride #plc

[Gabe Gillespie @gabegillespie1]

@DouglasReeves @DouglasReeves Yes! When sceptics are engaged, instead of ignored, by the guiding coalition, they have another opportunity to buy in!