Relate, Innovate, and Invigorate for Real Educational Change
Future Focused Leaders concentrates on three areas, Relate, Innovate, and Invigorate, that will engage and empower school leaders to effectively prepare students and educators for the future. This book provides best practices, practical tools, and research-based strategies that educators can immediately apply for sustainable innovation in their leadership.
A Doable Approach to Teaching With Learning Differences in Mind
Through immediately actionable strategies, tools and tasks, this book helps K-5 teachers know and understand their students as learners, plan for differentiation at both the macro level and the day-to-day classroom level, assess learning as it occurs and revise teaching strategies responsively, and manage the ins and outs of facilitating the ideal differentiated learning space.
A Doable Approach to Teaching With Learning Differences in Mind
Through immediately actionable tools, tasks, and strategies, this book will help grades 6 through 12 teachers know and understand their students as learners, plan for differentiation at both the macro level and the day-to-day classroom level, assess learning as it occurs and revise teaching strategies responsively, and manage the ins and outs of facilitating the ideal differentiated learning space.
Maintaining well-disciplined schools is becoming more difficult in today's educational system, and problem behavior or lack of school discipline is reaching crisis proportions. Nationally recognized behavior experts Geoff Colvin and George Sugai provide the "what's," "why's," and "how's" for establishing an effective discipline program while promoting an overall positive and welcoming school climate.
Meaningful, Sustainable, and Scalable Formative Assessment With Technology
Formative assessment is a must for educators, but it can be difficult to juggle with all the demands on a busy teacher's to-do list. In this book teachers will find practical ideas for assessing project-based and inquiry-based approaches, how to evaluate data and communicate results with families. This book will help make formative assessment meaningful, sustainable and scalable.
This rich ELL resource helps content and ESOL teachers collaboratively help struggling ELs meet today's rigorous content standards using research-based scaffolding techniques, advocacy and more!
Students of color and those who are immigrants or LGBT face unprecedented levels of bullying and hate speech that pose significant obstacles to their readiness to learn. Such marginalized students can't help but be affected by rising tides of White Nationalism, Islamaphobia, anti Semitism, and similar expressions of intolerance. This book frames our current, post-election predicament in the greater context of historical change. Cultural Proficiency can help cut through the rancor and noise, become a rallying cry for action and, ultimately, provide school leaders with essential vocabulary and tools for acting on the promise of public schooling.
As Google Apps and Chromebooks become the #1 school LMS and device, more and more teachers need support with integrating this complex suite of tools soundlessly with instruction. This book will help 6-8 classroom teachers become familiar with the suite of Google tools, and help them learn how to use these tools to support student learning, integrate 21st century skills, and design standards-based lessons that thoughtfully integrate technology. The book will also provide meaningful lesson plans that will allow students to create, collaborate, and share their work.
