Bill Zima
- High Reliability Schools Summit Portable Event Package
Virtual Event | Now through Dec 31, 2024
For those just beginning to explore the concept of High Reliability Schools, this Portable Event Package is an excellent way to build your foundational knowledge. For those who are deepening and sustaining the work, this package is the ideal opportunity to revisit your mission, dive into new content, and get answers to your most pressing questions.
- Personalized Competency-Based Education Webinar
September 5, 2019
In this webinar, participants will learn about the systems and structures of personalized competency-based education that can support the development of learners’ self-efficacy, so they recognize they have the ability to shape lives better, giving them the power of hope.
- Mindsets and Skill Sets for Learning
A Framework for Building Student Agency
Rely on Mindsets and Skill Sets for Learning to help you cultivate confident thinkers who have a strong sense of agency over their lives. Use this guide to enhance your classroom culture with targeted, student-centered learning.
$35.95 - High Reliability Schools Summit
San Antonio, Texas | January 29–31, 2025
Join our lineup of acclaimed experts to learn how your school can achieve the highest levels of effectiveness using the High Reliability Schools framework.
- Marzano Mastery Approaches Institute
St. Louis, Missouri | July 21–23, 2025
For those just beginning to explore standards-referenced, mastery-based, and competency-based concepts and actions, this is an excellent way to build your knowledge base. For those already involved in deep implementation, this institute is the perfect opportunity to revisit your goals, focus your work, introduce new team members to the process, and get answers to new questions.
- Competency-Based Education: Ensuring All Children Achieve
October 12, 2023
Do you want all of your learners to be inspired? Do you want them to believe they have the skills and knowledge to control their lives—whatever they choose? Competency-based education (CBE), focusing on clarity of outcomes, evidence of student learning, and feedback for improvement can help teachers, schools, and districts do just that.
- Making Your Classroom Standards-Based Even When Your School Is Not Yet Ready
May 22, 2024
Standards-based education is becoming more and more common across the country. The approach is typically implemented at the school level. When it is, the school leaders support the change and are deeply involved in adjusting practices, processes, and policies to support the work. But what about the individual teacher or small group of like-minded teachers who wish to implement a standards-based grading approach in their classrooms but still adhere to the school or district’s traditional requirements?
- Student Agency (edWebinar)
May 15, 2024
We cannot teach our students everything, so we must prepare them for anything. Being prepared requires one to have specific skill sets and mindsets of success. Teachers should intentionally plan to develop agency in all learners. The framework we will share has four requirements: Inquiry starter, clear learning targets, application of knowledge, and reflection. We will share the framework, how it works in a classroom, and how you can get started.
- Marzano Mastery Approaches Toolkit
Build a school where everyone succeeds, with the support of the Marzano Mastery Approaches Toolkit. Designed by our experts, this curated package of self-guided professional development resources will help you grow and extend your knowledge in levels 3 through 5 of high reliability schooling.
$730.00 - High Reliability Schools Institute
Montgomery, Alabama | November 5–7, 2025
Take a deep dive into the High Reliability Schools framework with our team of nationally acclaimed HRS experts. Explore the research underpinning each level, learn practical strategies for implementation, and create a plan to guarantee student success in your school or district.