How to Escape Correcting Mode to Transform Student Writing
Patty McGee helps teachers transform student writers by demonstrating what to do to build tone, trust, motivation, and choice into daily lessons, conferences, and revision suggestions.
Helping Tweens and Teens Thrive in an Unbalanced Digital World
Students can quickly become overwhelmed trying to manage the daily confluence of online interactions with schoolwork, extracurricular activities, and family life. This is the first book to successfully decode the new language of social media for parents and educators and provide pragmatic solutions to help students become more organised and productive by managing distractions and focusing on what they need to prioritize. With fresh insights and a solutions-oriented perspective, this crucial guide will help parents, educators and students work together to promote healthy socialization, effective self-regulation, and overall safety and wellness.
Just because many students are raised communicating through technology doesn't mean they know how to use it effectively. Knowing how to share ideas is as crucial as the ideas themselves and unfortunately, many students don't get explicit opportunities to hone this skill. This book provides real world insights into how students will be expected to communicate in their future careers and education strategies for teaching communication skills throughout the curriculum.
The authors take the guesswork out of determining students' needs with a moment-to-moment guide focused on the decisions that make the biggest impact on readers' skill development. With this book's guidance, teachers can put the authors' next-step resources into action, learning to trust their instincts and students to provide them with information about the next steps that make the most sense for them. Teaching students to engage with and understand fiction becomes personal, purposeful, and a homegrown process that can be replicated from year to year and student to student.
Four Big, Inexpensive Ideas to Transform Education
Inspired by the culture of educational leadership in Finland, a consistent top-performer in international student assessment, this beneficial resource presents easy-to-adopt strategies to improve overall educational performance.
This K-5 book takes implementation and assessment to the next level by digging deeper into specific lessons and providing grade-level strategies, with an emphasis on planning and executing highly effective lessons supported by John Hattie's Visible Learning research.
Everyday Assessment Techniques for Every Math Classroom
In this book, the authors move away from the long lists of formative assessment techniques teachers have seen in the past. They have spent two years with teachers in real classrooms, boiling the practice down to five essential techniques that will move the needle in learning. These techniques are all realistic, manageable, can be built into lessons and applied every single day. They are: Observation, Interviews, "Show Me," Hinge Questions, and Exit Tasks. This book delves into each of these five techniques, offering particular tools to guide the use of each of the techniques, and suggested activities (at primary, intermediate, and middle grade levels) for their use. These activities will focus on the mathematics at each grade level and will co-reference Common Core State Standards for Mathematics and other similar standards.
Texts and Lessons for Spot-On Writing About Reading
With this text, excerpts from current nonfiction, lessons and activities will guide students to doing their best analytical writing about nonfiction texts. This is done through citing evidence about relationships, main idea, point of view, visuals, and words and structure.
The authors use the four forces of flight as a powerful metaphor for leadership, weight as self-discovery, lift by collaborating with stakeholders, thrust through encouragement of smart risks and creating momentum by unleashing imagination, resilience, and hope. With relevant case studies and tangible tools and techniques, Releasing Leadership Brilliance will show you how to make deep, lasting change in your school or district.
