Building and Sustaining PLC Systems That Improve Teaching and Learning
Use this indispensable guide to elevate your leadership practices to improve your school's teaching and learning. Designed to empower today's K-12 school leaders, this book will help you develop and implement a robust, systemwide approach to fostering structured and impactful Professional Learning Communities (PLCs). Grounded in extensive ......
Building a Winning Team to Improve Student Achievement
This book introduces the Clinical Literacy Coaching Framework (CLCF), an exciting new approach to literacy coaching and leadership that is aligned with the International Literacy Association's standards for literacy professionals. Grounded in research and experiences from the field, the CLCF includes coaching practices and techniques adapted from ......
From the authors of Powerful Literacy in the Montessori Classroom, this new book focuses on the practical implementation of Montessori teaching and assessment methods. The authors describe how reading research and Montessori's scientific pedagogy and language curriculum play out in actual classrooms through concrete examples of structured literacy ......
Dive into the transformative world of science education with this groundbreaking guide. Learn how to navigate the journey from traditional teaching to a dynamic, student-centered approach that emphasizes understanding over rote learning. Grounded in the latest educational research and aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), this ......
Designing Quality Learning Opportunities for Multilingual Learners
Expanded and revised to include four entirely new chapters, this thoroughly updated edition presents a model for how educators can design high-quality, challenging, and supportive learning opportunities for multilingual learners. Starting with the premise that conceptual, analytic, and language practices develop simultaneously as students engage ......
The contributors to this volume document and analyze the evolution of an international, organic network of collaborating teacher educators. Educators at the Stanford Teacher Education Program launched the iSTEP Institute, a professional learning and development program for teacher educators from across the globe. This international movement seeks ......
Dive into the transformative world of science education with this groundbreaking guide. Learn how to navigate the journey from traditional teaching to a dynamic, student-centered approach that emphasizes understanding over rote learning. Grounded in the latest educational research and aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), this ......
Facilitating Evidence-Driven Inquiry in PLCs to Improve Teaching and Learning
This guide provides K-12 educators with a structured, evidence-driven approach to Professional Learning Communities (PLCs), offering powerful tools and facilitation techniques to enhance both teaching and professional growth. Unlike typical approaches to data teams, the VITAL (Visibly Improving Teaching and Learning) Collaboration model uses ......
From the authors of Powerful Literacy in the Montessori Classroom, this new book focuses on the practical implementation of Montessori teaching and assessment methods. The authors describe how reading research and Montessori's scientific pedagogy and language curriculum play out in actual classrooms through concrete examples of structured literacy ......
