Tools, Plans, and a Process That Works for Any Instructional Leader, Grades K-12
Using the Leading for Mathematical Proficiency Framework, the authors position student outcomes as the focus of all professional work and connect the Eight Mathematical Practices for students with NCTM's Eight Effective Teaching Practices to help you guide teachers toward growing mathematics proficiency in their classrooms. This hands-on resource details critical coaching and teaching actions, and offers nearly a hundred tools for shifting classroom practice in a way that leads to student math proficiency and understanding of mathematical concepts. It also hones in on key areas such as content knowledge, student engagement, questioning and discourse, analysis of student work, formative assessment, support for emergent language learners and students with special needs, and more.
The Flip-to Guide for Differentiating Academic Literacy
Much more than a resource for EL specialists, EL Excellence Every Day is written for every teacher, with a singular focus on improving the ways we all differentiate literacy instruction. It includes over 85 flip-to strategies plus 200+ prompts and linguistic scaffolds.
This expansion of the popular Common Core Mathematics Companions provides a Cross-Referencing Index for states implementing state-specific mathematics standards and shows which are the same as CCSS-M, which differ and how.
This book guides teachers to the right instructional approach to use at each learning phase so all students demonstrate more than a year's worth of science learning per school year.
Revitalizing Learning Cultures Through Teacher Leadership
This boundary-breaking professional-learning process - centered on teacher voice and grounded in collaboration and data-informed planning - challenges schools to move beyond accountability standards and toward innovative learning that ignites student engagement. The Transform Academy story is accompanied by action steps, strategies, inspiring vignettes,research connections, discussion questions, and activities and prompts.
Written for leaders who support teachers, this guide treats educational change as a process of renovation, rather than revolution, and emphasizes building upon, refining and sustaining the many good things happening in today's schools. Practical and user-friendly, it emphasizes five key principles for learning and teaching: Engaging students Sustaining inquiry Nurturing self-regulated learners Creating assessment-rich learning Enhancing learning through digital technology.
How can teachers generate those lightbulb "aha" moments of understanding for their students? This book helps to answer that question by showing Visible Learning strategies in action in high-impact mathematics classrooms.
Using Questions to Invite Wonder and Empathy Into the Classroom, Grades 4-12
Socrates believed in the power of questions rather than lecturing his students. But how did we get so far away from his method of inquiry? Shanna Peeples, 2015 National Teacher of the Year, will show you how teachers can create an engaging atmosphere that encourages student questions and honors their experiences.
Plenty of resources speak to the benefits of inquiry, the research behind it, and even subject-specific processes to follow. But that's not enough. Implementing inquiry is the tricky part, and involves changing beliefs about the teacher and student roles in the classroom. The strategies and experiences in this book improve your relationships with students and colleagues, reduce your workload by asking more of students, and breathe joyful curiosity back into your classroom.
