Enhancing Academic Learning and Essential Life Skills
Project-based learning PLUS essential life skills equals student and educator success Imagine not only helping kids reach their potential academically, but as citizens in society as well. In this updated edition of Jorge Valenzuela's book, you will learn how! Take project-based learning (PBL)-in which students develop educational skills like ......
Engaging Multilingual Students in Content Area Learning
Rethink how academic languaging can transform content area teaching For years, the teaching of content-based academic language to multilingual learners has focused on formulas, vocabulary lists, and sentence patterns-often sidelining students' linguistic and cultural strengths. Gisela Ernst-Slavit and Margo Gottlieb address these challenges by ......
Strategies for Integrating Social Connections Into Core Content
"Essential Connection Skills is a practical, specific, inspirational, and must-have resource for any teacher, coach, school leader, or parent who aims for a more empowered and successful student." Julie O'Connell Alholm, Instructional Coach and EL Teacher, MN "Essential Connection Skills is a must-read for any teacher-whether you're already ......
Cultivating Teaching Teams Through Action Research
Empower teaching teams with data-driven instructional innovation With teacher shortages, high staff turnover, and an influx of new and underprepared teachers, highly capable data-informed teaching teams are needed now more than ever. Instructional Innovation+ provides educators with a systematic action research approach to achieve ......
An Elementary Teacher's Quick-Guide to Meaningful Mathematical Strategies and Representations
Because when you see the math, they can see it too. The role of today's classroom teacher has evolved from being a disseminator of information to a facilitator of learning. As an elementary teacher, you can guide student thinking to deeper levels of understanding by making connections between and among physical, visual, symbolic, verbal and ......
Math is not rote-memorizable. Math is not random-guessable. Math is figure-out-able. Author Pam Harris argues that teaching real math-math that is free of distortions-will reach more students more effectively and result in deeper understanding and longer retention. This book is about teaching undistorted math using the kinds of mental reasoning ......
Unleashing Your Potential to Inspire and Retain New Teachers
Be the best mentor for early career teachers Mentors are critical to the success of new and aspiring teachers. In a time when so many teachers are leaving the profession within the first few years of their career, empowering mentorship can make a world of difference-not only for teacher retention, but instructional quality and positive student ......
Start your teaching journey with your best foot forward Within your classroom walls, seeds of curiosity, creativity, and resilience are sown, and your impact will ripple far beyond and into the future with each lesson you teach and every heart you touch. As you embark on your teaching journey, let this book be your guide. Written by ......
A Human-Centered Approach to Using Artificial Intelligence in Grades 6-12
Discover strategies to use AI thoughtfully in every stage of the writing process-without compromising creativity or critical thinking Feeling conflicted about integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into your writing instruction? You're not alone. In a world where AI-generated text can seem like a writing teacher's enemy, incorporating it into ......
