Evidence-informed summaries for busy educational professionals
Ask any teacher and they would say workload is one of the biggest blockers to their professional development. Simply put, most teachers are time-poor and too busy to engage with educational research to improve their classroom instruction. One-pagers are ultra-concise, A4-sized summaries that share important ideas about good teaching. In this ......
So much of what happens in the process of learning and instruction is obscured from view. Much like the effects of a convincing illusion, what we think we see when we observe instruction is often far from the reality.
142 Counting, Finger, Beanbag, Circle, Clapping, Skipping, Water, Singing, and Rainy Day Games
Waldorf Games Handbook for the Early Years - Games to Play and Sing with Children aged 3 to 7 offers a handy guide to playing games with young children.
A Hands-On Guide to Creating Learning Intentions and Success Criteria for Organized, Effective Instruction
Unlock the secrets to student achievement with purposeful learning and clear expectations On a clear day, you can learn forever- that's the adapted lyric you'll be happily humming once you've covered this playbook, because you will have mastered using learning intentions and success criteria, the twin engines of Teacher Clarity. This ......
Over the past two decades, school trusts have assumed an increasingly significant role as education providers. This book is about leadership, written from the perspective of the founding chief executive of the Confederation of School Trusts, which advocates for, connects and supports trusts in the English education sector. In his foreword to ......
What makes a school great? Studies into good schools are numerous, but there has been much less written about great schools. The former are more common, but with success comes complacency; good is the enemy of great. In 2009 the London Leadership Strategy established the Going for Great programme, creating a forum for leaders of schools rated ......
ELLCO was developed to measure classroom environments and their effects on early literacy and language development in pre-K through third grade. This work provides information on how to use and interpret the results, including guidelines for conducting classroom observations, limiting bias in scoring, scoring guidance, and providing feedback.
Essential, accessible guidance for using trauma-informed practices to relieve student and educator stress in schools In Reducing Stress in Schools, Mathew Portell, Ingrid L. Cockhren, Tyisha J. Noise, Julie Kurtz, and Julie Nicholson provide a toolkit of actionable, evidence-based practices for PreK-12 teachers, administrators, and staff to ......
