Anyone can create a makerspace. Filled with step-by-step, practical ideas, this guide will help educators develop a ready-to-implement plan for a GREAT makerspace for their classroom, school, or district.
Researchers and practitioners are, for the most part, in agreement that the greatest instructional gaps exist between white, female teachers and their black, male students. Achievement data consistently reveal that black boys are underperforming in the nation's schools. The Guide for White Women Who Teach Black Boys requires the reader to work through activities that may challenge them, ask them to honestly reflect on who they are and where they come from. By engaging in personal and professional introspective work, this guide takes the reader through works by experts, stories by educators and students, and videos that will help personalize the educational lives of black boys and their white teachers.
Harnessing Natural Curiosity for Learning That Transfers
An elementary book for teachers, helping them to learn why conceptual learning is a natural fit for young minds, strategies for introducing children to conceptual learning, instructional strategies to help students uncover and transfer concepts, and much, much more.
Parent Voice provides parents with the motivation and inspiration they need to help their child reach their fullest academic, social and personal potential.
This expansion of the popular Common Core Mathematics Companions provides indexes for states implementing state-specific mathematics standards and shows which are the same as CCSS-M, which differ and how.
It's one of education's greatest challenges: How do we shape our youngest students, who often are just learning how to hold a pencil, into capable writers within the span of a single school year? Text Structures from Nursery Rhymes offers the solution: a clear and actionable framework for guiding young students to write successfully in any style, from narrative to descriptive to persuasive.
Strength-Based Practices That Support All Learners
Empower students through restorative assessments that offer multiple ways to demonstrate learning-and give educators more opportunities to assess progress and individualize teaching. In this guide, you'll find cutting-edge research on using assessments that promote equity and reduce conflict, plus real-world examples, action points and reflection questions, and practical strategies.
Brain-Compatible Strategies and Lessons That Integrate the Arts
Teachers and administrators in all of the schools the authors have worked with since the first edition have recognized that integrating the arts in STEM courses can awaken their own and their students' creativity. Starting with a synopsis of the importance of and possibilities with incorporating the arts into Science/Technology/Engineering/Math initiatives, the book also describes how to make a STEAM initiative successful. The lesson plans provided can be used in all grades.
To meet the needs of today's learners, fearless leadership is required to continually lead and support the adults who work with these learners. Many leaders lack the essential skill sets required to move stakeholders toward progress. A challenging problem for too many leaders is how, what to, and when to collaborate well with stakeholders. Remaining politically correct, being careful not to offend, and concentrating on getting promotions or retaining a position can often cloud the focus required to strengthen a leader's effectiveness. This book hits at the very core of the academic, behavioral, and social/emotional needs of students, and would help many instructional leaders to establish a foundation from which to guide their schools to greater success, as well as teaching administrators to rely on and empower master teachers to lead the way.
