Time-Saving Toold for Teachers that Make Learning More Engagin
Busy educators need tools that support their planning and provide them with more time with students. While artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a promising solution, it can only help if were willing to continuously learn how to use it in ways that improve upon what we already do well.
Practical Strategies for Building Responsive Teams
Support colleagues, inspire collaboration, and drive impactful school improvement.
Designed for instructional coaches, grade-level leaders, subject coordinators, and team leaders, Teachers Who Lead highlights proven strategies to enhance teaching practices, foster collaboration, and ......
Four Necessary Components for High-Impact Student Learning
How to Activate and Accelerate Student Learning Have you ever given instructions to your students, only to receive blank stares or confusion? Clarity is an essential part of teaching and learning, and every interaction we have with students is the foundation for moving learning forward-we must make every interaction count. Backed by the latest ......
A Video-Enhanced Flipbook to Promote Teacher Expertise in Relationship Building, Instruction, Goals, Organizations, and Relevance
This unique, hands-on flipbook is designed as a classroom observation tool that redefines RIGOR, with a focus on five key elements, or indicators, that form a framework to promote a rigorous, scaffolded learning environment.
There are many adolescent readers who, for a variety of reasons, find it difficult to connect with written words and have fallen behind on their foundational reading skills. Thankfully, its never too late to give these necessary skills a boost and help students find joy in reading and learning.
Engage, Empower, Educate: Unleash the Potential of Multilingual Learners What's your "why" for being a teacher? Unlike other professionals, teachers often have strong reasons for why they teach and a clear sense of purpose. Acknowledging and understanding this purpose helps educators to not just do what they do but do it well. This illustrated ......
Fuel student-driven success and enhance learning with better assessment
What if there was a better way to collect and interpret assessment data that could strengthen the link between teaching and learning? Student Assessment: Better Evidence, Better Decisions, Better Learning is the innovative guide to show ......
A Research-Based Approach Grounded in Honesty, Transparency, Accuracy, and Equity
Let evidence and integrity guide your grading practice If you want to ask a polarizing question in education, ask someone their thoughts on grading. Few topics have elicited more interest or opinions, even though grading practices have remained relatively unchanged for years. But opinions are not evidence. The time has come to get it right with a fresh approach grounded in research and the principles of integrity. Grading with Integrity introduces a measured approach to grading reform based on honesty, transparency, accuracy, and equity with recommendations backed by clear and trustworthy evidence. Addressing the many "whys'' involved, this thoughtfully organized book addresses central questions related to grading and reporting student learning, covering: An historical overview of grading and reporting practices A discussion of standards-based and competency-based grading Recommendations for reporting non academic learning goals separately from academic achievement, to accurately reflect students' performance Suggestions for reporting growth and improvement, using specific assessments and other reporting tools An infallible argument for grading with integrity This book is a must-read for K-12 classroom teachers and administrators who are looking to implement better and more defensible grading and reporting policies and practices. Let evidence and integrity be your guide to enhancing students' best interests and learning success.
