Visible Learning Into Action Guide
Visible Learning Into Action Guide
Visible Learningplus is based on one simple belief: every student should experience at least one year’s
growth over the course of one school year.
Within these pages, you will see how Visible Learningplus from Corwin, based on my research, can help
schools and systems develop visible learners who can articulate what they are learning, how they are learning,
and where they are going next in their learning journey.
Visible Learningplus is unique because it not only gives you evidence to prove that what you are doing is
effective, but it also provides the data-gathering techniques you need to continuously measure your impact
on student learning and use evidence to inform your next professional learning steps.
I can think of no better partner and permanent home for my lifework than Corwin, and I look forward to
seeing this work grow and improve education for all students.
Sincerely,
What’s Inside
About Visible Learningplus
The Visible Learning Research......................................... 2 Visible Learningplus is
Research in Practice......................................................... 4 made possible through
Mindframes for Visible Learning...................................... 5
a collaboration between
School Impact Process..................................................... 6
Professor John Hattie and
Corwin. Through a global
School Implementation
network of partners, Visible
The Foundation Series..................................................... 8
Learningplus professional
The Inside Series............................................................. 9
Evidence Gathering Tools............................................... 10 learning is implemented
Impact Coaching............................................................. 11 in over 16 countries in
Case Study: Ka’imiloa Elementary School....................... 12 North America, Europe, the
Books & Resources.......................................................... 14 Middle East, and the Pacific.
A Sample Roadmap......................................................... 16
The Visible Learningplus school change model of professional learning translates the research of John Hattie
into a practical pathway for implementation in the classroom and schoolwide. It has been used by more than
100,000 teachers and leaders in schools across more than 16 countries on four continents.
The key indicators below are just a few of the changes and benefits that school leaders, teachers, and
students will experience when Visible Learningplus practices are put in place.
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School Impact Process
Over the course of three years, schools that participate in the Visible Learningplus School Impact Process will build a
foundation of knowledge and create plans for success, learn to collect and assess data to inform decision-making,
and systematically embed high-effect strategies to ensure sustainability.
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Foundation Series
Professional Learning
Walks you through the process
of collecting your own data
so you can focus your efforts
and build a plan to increase
your students' achievement.
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Professional
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Impact Coaching Learning
Builds internal capability Builds on the plan you
to support long-term, created during the
sustainable, and ongoing Foundation Series,
evaluation of impact. helping you dig deep
into your areas of
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greatest need.
Gather
Gather Evidence evidence for Gather Evidence
60 days
Mindframes Survey
Questionnaire for school leaders and teachers
Understand
The Mindframes Survey represents the ten mindframes (attitudes and
beliefs and dispositions) that are integral to understanding the set of beliefs that teachers
attitudes and school leaders have toward the impact of their practice. These beliefs and
attitudes are correlated to improved student outcomes.
School Matrix
Self-evaluation assessment
Evaluate
The School Matrix is used to collect school-level information about the
systems and systems, processes, and practices that are in place across the school in
processes relation to the Visible Learning strands. The School Matrix is introduced in
the Foundation Series (Page 8).
The Approach
Over several years, Ka’imiloa Elementary in
Hawaii approached professional development
for Visible Learning in phases. The first year
focused on true basics, such as building
a shared vocabulary with which to have
conversations about learning. The second year
“It is hard work because teaching and learning is hard work. But
it’s the best and most rewarding hard work any school can take
on, simply because we are focusing on best teaching practices
that will make an impact on student learning, and John Hattie
has shown us the evidence in research to prove it.”
BESTSELLER! BESTSELLER!
Visible Learning for Literacy, Teaching Literacy in the
Grades K–12 Visible Learning Classroom
Implementing the Practices That Work Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey,
Best to Accelerate Student Learning John Hattie, Marisol Thayre
Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, John Hattie These companions to Visible Learning
Ensure students demonstrate more than a for Literacy show you how to use learning
year’s worth of learning during a school year intentions, success criteria, formative
by implementing the right literacy practice assessment, and feedback to achieve
at the right moment. profound instructional clarity.
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BESTSELLER! NEW!
Visible Learning for Mathematics, Teaching Mathematics in the
Grades K–12 Visible Learning Classroom
What Works Best to Optimize John Almarode, Douglas Fisher,
Student Learning Joseph Assof, Sara Delano Moore,
John Hattie, Nancy Frey
John Hattie, Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey,
Linda M. Gojak, Sara Delano Moore, These hands-on sequels to Visible
William Mellman Learning for Mathematics shows you
how to leverage the most effective
Discover the right mathematics strategy to
teaching practices at the most effective
use at each learning phase so all students
time to meet the surface, deep, and
demonstrate more than a year’s worth of
transfer learning needs of the middle
learning per school year.
school and high school students.
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Grades K–2: $34.95, 248 pages,
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Schoolwide Implementation
Impact
Coach
Day I
IMPACT CYCLE 1
Evidence
Into
Action I
School
Matrix
Evidence
Into
Action II
INSIDE SERIES
Schoolwide Implementation
Impact Classroom
Coach Observation
Day II Tool
IMPACT CYCLE 2
FOUNDATION SERIES
Visible
Evidence
School Learning
Into Matrix Into
Action III
Action I
Visible
Learning
Into
Action II
Schoolwide Implementation
Impact
Coach
Day III
IMPACT CYCLE 3
FOUNDATION SERIES
Visible
Evidence
School Learning
Into Matrix Into
Action IV
Action III
What to at a Expect
Visible Learningplus Institute
X: A DECADE
OF IMPACT
JULY 7–10
LAS VEGAS, NV