Ambitious Instruction: Teaching with Rigor in the Secondary Classroom (a Resource Guide for Increasing Rigor in the Classroom and Complex Problem-Solving)

Ensure all learners have opportunities to engage deeply in meaningful intellectual work. In Ambitious Instruction, author Brad Cawn offers a blueprint for how to make rigor visible, accessible, and actionable in grade 6-12 classrooms. The resource guides readers toward using the twin tenets of problem-based learning and synthesis to significantly strengthen students’ ability to read, write, and think within and across disciplines.

Use this resource to reinvigorate and modernize daily learning and instruction:

Develop a working understanding of rigor that will serve as the basis for rigorous, instructional excellence. Discover how to integrate inquiry and dialogue into your instruction to help learners engage in meaningful exploration of complex problems. Become familiar with actionable strategies that can be utilized to develop and increase rigor in the classroom. Learn how to create and organize tasks, texts, and processes in order to improve teaching and learning. Contents:

Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
About the Author
Introduction: Redefining Rigor
Chapter 1: Determining What Rigor Will Look Like
Chapter 2: Exploring the Two Tenets of Ambitious Instruction
Chapter 3: Creating an Ambitious Instruction Road Map
Chapter 4: Building Structured Inquiry to Power Ambitious Instruction
Chapter 5: Facilitating Ambitious Instruction Through Dialogue
Chapter 6: Launching and Sustaining Ambitious Instruction
References and Resources