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View book details for Keeping the Whole Child Healthy and Safe
Reflections on Best Practices in Learning, Teaching, and Leadership
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This e-book, a collection of articles from Educational Leadership and other ASCD publications explores what it means to foster health and safety for students. Knowing that what we teach kids today will shape their future well-being, the authors look at …
View book details for Streamlining the Curriculum
Using the Storyboard Approach to Frame Compelling Learning Journeys
A game-changing resource for educators looking to elevate their unit and lesson plans, increase student engagement, and improve home-school communication.With so many standards to address and templates to fill out, curriculum design and lesson planning can be cumbersome and overwhelming. …
View book details for Inviting Students to Learn
100 Tips for Talking Effectively with Your Students
ASCD
We can all remember how great we felt when our favorite teacher praised us for a job well done or a good instructor encouraged us during a tough assignment. We were eager to go the extra mile for these teachers …
View book details for Catching Up or Leading the Way
American Education in the Age of Globalization
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At a time when globalization and technology are dramatically altering the world we live in, is education reform in the United States headed down the right path? Are schools emphasizing the knowledge and skills that students need in a global …
View book details for Common Core Standards for High School English Language Arts
A Quick-Start Guide
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Smart implementation of the Common Core State Standards requires both an overall understanding of the standards and a grasp of their implications for planning, teaching, and learning. This Quick-Start Guide provides a succinct, all-in-one look at* The content, structure, terminology, …
View book details for Starting School Right
How do I plan for a successful first week in my classroom? (ASCD Arias)
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Packed with ideas for both new and veteran teachers of K8 students, this book touches on a variety of topics that are especially relevant to the first week of school. The author provides critical information that includes arranging and navigating …
View book details for From Underestimated to Unstoppable
8 Archetypes for Driving Change in the Classroom and Beyond
In K12 education, your job title or place of work should not prevent you from offering unique insights and pathways for creating change. You have a voice.Working in education today is to continually be on the precipice of change. However, …
View book details for The Effective Facilitator's Handbook
Leading Teacher Workshops, Committees, Teams, and Study Groups
A one-stop shop to answer your most pressing questions about what it takes to facilitate.Workshops, committees, teams, and study groups are a regular part of an educator's professional life, and any educator can find themselves in the facilitator role, with …
View book details for Team Up, Speak Up, Fire Up!
Educators, Students, and the Community Working Together to Support English Learners
Cohan, Honigsfeld, and Dove bring together current research, authentic examples of best practices, and voices from the field to champion the power of purposeful collaboration and provide educators with resources that will empower them to support English learners (ELs) and …
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Many students leave elementary school without developing the reading skills they need to succeed in middle and high schools. Meanwhile, educators at all levels are under more pressure to maximize students' literacy achievement.Here's a book that provides the leadership strategies …
View book details for The Learning Leader
How to Focus School Improvement for Better Results
"We can't do that in our school district.""I don't have time to add that to my curriculum.""We're fighting against impossible odds with these students."Sound familiar? School improvement can often feel like a losing battle, but it doesn't have to be. …
Schools today face a crisis of relevance. Issues that people everywhere faceclimate change, disease, hungerrequire interdisciplinary solutions. Yet schools are still predominately organized by single-subject courses and narrowly focused high-stakes tests. By contrast, our students need to develop a range …
View book details for The Principal Influence
A Framework for Developing Leadership Capacity in Principals
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Principals navigate the dynamic complexities and subtleties of their schools every day. They promote, facilitate, and lead efforts to achieve both tangible and intangible results throughout the school community. They fulfill a role that includes counseling, budgeting, inspiring, teaching, learning, …
View book details for Getting Started with English Language Learners
How Educators Can Meet the Challenge
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"It's been six months, and I STILL can't get my English language learners to participate in class!""How can I help my newcomers feel more comfortable around other students?""Am I doing enough to help my English language learners succeed?"Have you had …
View book details for The Essentials of Social Studies, Grades K-8
Effective Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment (Priorities in Practice)
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In today's climate of accountability and high-stakes testing, many U.S. schools are choosing to focus on the three Rs to the exclusion of other subjects, including social studies. Yet it is more crucial than ever for schools to foster the …
View book details for Rethinking Homework
Best Practices That Support Diverse Needs
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In this updated edition, Cathy Vatterott examines the role homework has played in the culture of schooling over the years; how such factors as family life, the media, and "homework gap" issues based on shifting demographics have affected the homework …
View book details for Educating for Global Competence
Preparing Our Students to Engage the World
Preparing students to participate fully in today's and tomorrow's world demands that we nurture their global competence, and this book shows teachers how to do just that.In a world rife with rapid change, environmental vulnerabilities, and racial inequities, this second …
View book details for Charting a Course to Standards-Based Grading
What to Stop, What to Start, and Why It Matters
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What's the best way to ensure that grading policies are fair, accurate, and consistent across classrooms? How can schools transition to a grading system that better reflects what students are actually learning? Tim R. Westerberg makes this journey easier by …
View book details for Memory at Work in the Classroom:
Strategies to Help Underachieving Students
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Why do some students struggle to understand and retain information, while other students don't? The answer may well lie in the memory system, which is the root of all learning. In Memory at Work in the Classroom, Francis Bailey and …
View book details for Tell Your Story
Teaching Students to Become World-Changing Thinkers and Writers
Learn how to increase students' skills as writers and storytellers with an innovative, inclusive, and empowering framework for teaching writing that centers student voice.Tell Your Story: Teaching Students to Become World-Changing Thinkers and Writers explores how to help students see …
View book details for Learning and Leading with Habits of Mind
16 Essential Characteristics for Success
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In Learning and Leading with Habits of Mind, noted educators Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick present a comprehensive guide to shaping schools around Habits of Mind. The habits are a repertoire of behaviors that help both students and teachers …
View book details for The 5-Minute Teacher
How do I maximize time for learning in my classroom? (ASCD Arias)
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Even in an education system driven by the Common Core State Standards and high-stakes testing, teachers must adapt their methods to the styles of the modern learner. This means creating a student-centered classroom, driven by brief, interactive instruction from highly …
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How can we create and sustain professional learning programs that actually lead to improved student achievement? In this thoughtful and informative guide for teachers, administrators, and policymakers, Douglas B. Reeves provides answers. First he casts a critical eye on professional …
View book details for The Aspiring Principal 50
Critical Questions for New and Future School Leaders
So, you want to be a principal? Are you a new principal who could benefit from the wisdom of a successful four-time principal? Could you use help preparing for a school administrator job interview? Then this is the book for …
View book details for Designing Authentic Performance Tasks and Projects
Tools for Meaningful Learning and Assessment
Aimed at the growing number of educators who are looking to move beyond covering the curriculum, Designing Authentic Performance Tasks and Projects provides a comprehensive guide to ensuring students' deeper learningin which they can transfer their knowledge, skills, and understandings …
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