Planning and Implementing Rigor - Research and Resources

In this book, Zaretta Hammond draws on cutting-edge neuroscience research to offer an innovative approach for designing and implementing brain-compatible culturally responsive instruction.

"This chapter explores how students’ lived experiences contribute to the rigor of their thinking. Insights from research indicate faculty can enhance rigor by accounting for the many ways it may surface in the classroom. However, to see this type of rigor, we must revisit the way we conceptualize it for higher education."

Learn how to keep the rigor and motivation alive in a remote learning or hybrid K-12 classroom. Blackburn shares frameworks and tools to help instructors move online without compromising the rigor of your instruction. NOTE: Not currently available through the Relay Library.

A descriptive study conducted to identify faculty and student
perceptions of care and rigor in online courses at an institution of higher education.

Upgrade Your Teaching: Understanding by Design Meets Neuroscience answers these questions by merging insights from neuroscience with Understanding by Design (UbD), the framework used by thousands of educators to craft units of instruction and authentic assessments that emphasize understanding rather than recall.

This discusses how frequently classrooms use rigorous and responsive talk, through the lens of a science classroom.

This article focuses on a case study of a teacher who uses rigorous and responsive talk in an elementary science classroom.

This article outlines the features of Accountable Talk, which encompasses three broad dimensions: accountability to the learning community, accountability to accepted standards of reasoning, and accountability to knowledge.

This study examines the quality of classroom talk and its relation to academic rigor in reading-comprehension lessons. While this is very reading-specific, they do use an Accountable Talk rubric that might be more widely applicable.

This gives a high level overview of what rigor is, the various taxonomies, and current state as of 2015.

DIssertation. "A multiphase action research study of academic or instructional rigor...The findings suggest the value of utilizing teacher perspectives, along with the intervention tools and the structured framework, as well as the planning processes employed when seeking to increase academic rigor."

"Learn how to differentiate instruction while maintaining a rigorous learning environment. In this practical book, rigor expert Barbara R. Blackburn shows that the differentiated classroom doesn't mean extra work for top students and easy work for others; instead, you can have high expectations for all students and provide scaffolding so that everyone can reach success."

"What would it take to transform our high schools into places capable of supporting deep learning for students across a wide range of aptitudes and interests? What must schools do to achieve the integrations that support deep learning: rigor with joy, precision with play, mastery with identity and creativity? In Search of Deeper Learning takes a deep dive into the state of our schools and lays out an inspiring new vision for American education."

Learn how to increase instructional rigor so that all students can reach higher levels of learning! In this new edition of a best seller, author Barbara R. Blackburn offers practical ideas for raising expectations, increasing complexity, integrating scaffolding into instruction, creating open-ended choices and projects, and much more.

Learn how to incorporate rigorous activities in your math or science classroom and help students reach higher levels of learning. Expert educators and consultants Barbara Blackburn and Abbigail Armstrong offer a practical framework for understanding rigor and provide specialized examples for middle and high school math and science teachers.

Learn how to incorporate rigorous activities in your English language arts or social studies classroom and help students reach higher levels of learning. Expert educators and consultants Barbara R. Blackburn and Melissa Miles offer a practical framework for understanding rigor and provide specialized examples for middle and high school ELA and social studies teachers.

Learn how to incorporate rigorous activities into your English language arts or social studies classroom and help students reach higher levels of learning. Expert educators and consultants Barbara R. Blackburn and Melissa Miles offer a practical framework for understanding rigor and provide specialized examples for elementary ELA and social studies teachers.

Learn how to incorporate rigorous activities in your math or science classroom and help students reach higher levels of learning. Expert educators and consultants Barbara R. Blackburn and Abbigail Armstrong offer a practical framework for understanding rigor and provide specialized examples for elementary math and science teachers.

This practical guide explains how to raise the rigor for students with special needs so they can achieve higher levels of learning.