Centered on staff efficacy, this resource presents leaders with a variety of tools to improve school climate, community stakeholder engagement, and ultimately, student growth.
Rigorous and Engaging Tasks to Level Up Instruction
This book will help teachers use the Powerful Task Rubric using an easily digestible format to help them delve into the tool's design components. They'll be able to use technology to complete interactive tasks, and understand first-hand how technology is a critical design component in student task design that brings about more profound and relevant learning. It will also help them to identify opportunities for creating powerful tasks in the areas of engagement, academic strategies, questions, and cognition. Student performance has a direct correlation to the power of the learning task - this book will help positively impact both.
A Guide to Collaborative Planning, Instruction, Assessment, and Reflection
This books offers more explicit approaches to implementing co-teaching at the classroom level. It provides in-depth explanations of the various models of co-teaching, including the advantages and challenges of each configuration and clear accounts of each teacher's role and responsibilities.
Thousands of teachers and leaders have been trained by the author in establishing grading policies that are more reflective of true student achievement to standards. In this third edition of his bestselling book, the author shows how to link grades and standards and support student understanding and achievement of success. He updates his eight principles of good grading, shown with examples, which assist teachers in designing and adopting grading practices that help students feel more in control of their academic success, and provide parents a true picture.
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.
Written in an entertaining, teacher-friendly, easy to read style with classroom examples, boxed features, and detailed sample lessons, the book covers checking for understanding, lesson objectives, activating prior knowledge, concept and skills development, guided practice, and 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.
