[citation needed] He is also Executive Director of Learning Sciences Marzano Center in West Palm Beach, Florida.
[3] Marzano has identified three areas central to school improvement reforms: fostering and sustaining system-wide teaching strategies; providing effective feedback to students; and building a strong student academic vocabulary.
[4] In Classroom Instruction That Works (2001), Marzano and co-authors Debra J. Pickering and Jane E. Pollock outlined nine instructional strategies likely to improve student achievement across all grade levels and subject areas: In 2003, Marzano co-authored Classroom Management That Works: Research-Based Strategies for Every Teacher, which examined effective disciplinary interventions for teachers.
They outlined practical steps teachers could implement in classrooms, including establishing rules and procedures; using effective disciplinary interventions; fostering positive student-teacher relationships; developing an effective mental set; and instilling student responsibility.
These include "withitness", the idea of a teacher being completely aware of all students in his/her classroom through monitoring and adjusting; smoothness and momentum during lesson presentations; letting students know what behavior is expected of them at any given point in time; and creating variability and challenge in assignments and tasks.