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View book details for Teaching to Empower
Taking Action to Foster Student Agency, Self-Confidence, and Collaboration
We want students to master academic standards, and we want them to be confident, adaptive, and socially responsible. Above all, we want them to find meaning and satisfaction in their lives. Achieving these goals requires a concerted focus on the …
View book details for Literacy Strategies for Grades 4-12
Reinforcing the Threads of Reading
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It's tough to teach students science, math, or social studies when they have a hard time reading the textbook. But now, every teacher in grades 4-12 can use the ideas and classroom exercises from this practical guide to help students …
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The authors chart a middle course in our war over religion and public education, one that builds on a developing national consensus among educational and religious leaders. While it is not proper for schools to practice religion or proselytize, neither …
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Ernest Boyer pushed school leaders to close "the gap between the haves and have-nots." Al Shanker led teachers to form a strong union. Deborah Meier created small schools of choice that broke achievement records. Through interviews with these and many …
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Technology is ubiquitous, and its potential to transform learning is immense. The first edition of Using Technology with Classroom Instruction That Works answered some vital questions about 21st century teaching and learning: What are the best ways to incorporate technology …
View book details for The Principal 50
Critical Leadership Questions for Inspiring Schoolwide Excellence
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"Why do I lead?" With this deceptively simple question, best-selling author Baruti K. Kafele begins a powerful examination of what it takes to make a school community achieve the greatest success in the classroom and beyond. In The Principal 50: …
View book details for Promises Kept
Sustaining School and District Leadership in a Turbulent Era
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* What happens when a powerful school leader leaves?* What do innovating schools do to keep their learning agendas alive?* How can schools regroup when upheavals at the district, state, or federal level threaten to cripple their programs?In Sustaining Reform: …
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Join Carol Ann Tomlinson and Caroline Cunningham Eidson in their continuing exploration of how real teachers incorporate differentiation principles and strategies throughout an entire instructional unit. Focusing on the elementary grades, but applicable at all levels, Differentiation in Practice, Grades …
View book details for The Classroom Behavior Manual
How to Build Relationships with Students, Share Control, and Teach Positive Behaviors
Positive student behaviors are desired outcomes, but this manual concentrates on inputs. How do you respond to difficult behavior in the moment when you know that punitive, compliance-based behavior management is so often ineffectual? What's the best way to prevent …
View book details for Training Design, Delivery, and Diplomacy
An Educators Guide
Veteran instructional coaches A. Keith Young and Tamarra Osborne provide practical advice for trainers seeking high-leverage strategies for successful professional trainings.How do you see yourself as a trainer? Are you occasionally extraordinary, or do you flail about a bit? Are …
View book details for Discipline with Dignity
How to Build Responsibility, Relationships, and Respect in Your Classroom
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In this revised and updated 4th edition, Discipline with Dignity provides in-depth guidance for implementing a proven approach to classroom management that can help students make better choices and teachers be more effective. Emphasizing the importance of mutual respect and …
View book details for The Instructional Playbook
The Missing Link for Translating Research into Practice
In schools, every day is "game day." Every day, teachers need the best resources and forms of support because students deserve the best we as educators can offer. An instructional playbook aims to serve as that kind of support: a …
View book details for Assessing with Respect
Everyday Practices That Meet Students' Social and Emotional Needs
In this timely and thoughtful call to action, author and educator Starr Sackstein examines the critical intersection between assessment and social and emotional learning (SEL), particularly as it affects students of color and other marginalized groups. The book addresses the …
View book details for The Assistant Principal Identity
Protecting Your Leadership Mindset, Fervor, and Authenticity
Baruti K. Kafele, a champion for assistant principals, offers stories from his own leadership practice and thought-provoking advice for being effective in the role.The job of a school leader is more challengingand importantthan ever. To be effective, administrators need to …
View book details for Building Literacy in Social Studies
Strategies for Improving Comprehension and Critical Thinking
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Preparing students to be active, informed, literate citizens is one of the primary functions of public schools. But how can students become engaged citizens if they can't read, let alone understand, their social studies texts? What can educatorsand social studies …
View book details for Engaging Minds in Science and Math Classrooms
The Surprising Power of Joy
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"We decide, every day, whether we are going to turn students on or off to science and mathematics in our classrooms."Daily decisions about how to incorporate creativity, choice, and autonomyintegral components of engagementcan build students' self-efficacy, keep them motivated, and …
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Only a few hundred schools across the United States have research programs. Although some of the schools with programs are magnet schools or highly advantaged schools, many ordinary schools have successful programs. Every school is capable of at least a …
View book details for Powerful Student Care
Honoring Each Learner as Distinctive and Irreplaceable
If we want to really understand our students so that we can optimize instruction for them, we must think of each individual student as distinctive and irreplaceable. From this core principle springs the radically humane framework for meaningful teaching that …
View book details for A Close Look at Close Reading
Teaching Students to Analyze Complex Texts, Grades K5
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The Common Core State Standards have put close reading in the spotlight as never before. While elementary school teachers are certainly willing to teach students to closely read both literary and informational text, many are wondering what, exactly, this involves. …
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Veteran educator Marilee Sprenger explains how to teach the essential, high-frequency words that appear in academic contexts--and reverse the disadvantages of what she calls "word poverty." Drawing on research and experience, Sprenger provides a rich array of engaging strategies to …
View book details for What Makes a Star Teacher
7 Dispositions That Support Student Learning
How do some teachers manage to expertly engage students in deep learning, harmonize mandated standards with individual student needs, and create trusting relationships in the classroom? What typically sets these "star teachers" apart from other teachers? In What Makes a …
View book details for Designed to Learn
Using Design Thinking to Bring Purpose and Passion to the Classroom
Students become attentive, curious, and passionate about learning when they can see its relevance to their lives and when they're empowered to use that learning to solve problems that matter. Regardless of the subject or grade level you teach, you …
View book details for Assessing Multilingual Learners
A Month-by-Month Guide (ASCD Arias)
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While students who enter a new school must learn to adapt to a new situation, multilingual students who enter a new school must often first learn to adapt to a new country and a new languageand they must be assessed …
View book details for Rise to the Challenge
Designing Rigorous Learning That Maximizes Student Success
Do you sense that some students have mentally "checked out" of your classroom? Look closely and you'll probably find that these students are bored by lessons that they view as unchallenging and uninteresting. In this follow-up to The Highly Effective …
View book details for A Better Beginning
Supporting and Mentoring New Teachers
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Here's help for any school or district that wants struggling first-year and beginning teachers to survive and thrive. Written by seasoned administrators and teacher leaders who know the ropes, this guide covers every aspect of the topic, including:Best ways to …
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