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With foreword by Ellie Drago-Severson Acquire the knowledge and resources necessary to achieve true success as a leader and enact strategic change and school improvement. In Swimming in the Deep End, author Jennifer Abrams dives deep into the four foundational skills required of effective leadership and change management: (1) thinking before speaking, (2) preempting resistance, (3) responding to resistance, and (4) managing oneself through change and resistance. Throughout the book, readers receive ample guidance for building these vital skills and leading school initiatives and implementation plans that face 21st century challenges head-on. Develop the educational leadership skills needed to create real, strategic change in your school: Gain an understanding of the most pressing issues facing schools today, learn why they must be faced, and consider your implementation plan. Enhance your leadership and change-management abilities by mastering the four foundational skills. Learn how to utilize your new mastery of the foundational skills to have critical conversations, resolve conflict, respond to resistance, and manage yourself through change and resistance. Utilize an online appendix of quotes as a source of inspiration and motivation in guiding effective organizational change and strategic planning. Access a comprehensive self-assessment designed to assist you in your growth as a leader. Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Thinking Before You Speak Chapter 2: Preempting Resistance Chapter 3: Responding to Resistance Chapter 4: Managing Yourself Through Change and Resistance Epilogue Appendix A: Websites That Inspire and Support Resilience Appendix B: Additional Recommended Websites

When done right, small-group instruction is a powerful tool for facilitating student understanding in K-5 mathematics. Throughout the book, best practices for small-group math instruction are addressed in detail, from planning tasks that encourage deep understanding to asking effective questions to engaging learners in meaningful conversations. Readers will learn how teaching mathematics in small groups allows you to differentiate instruction for both remediation and enrichment. The included small-group instruction videos demonstrate the suggested strategies in a real-classroom setting, giving readers the opportunity to see best practice in action. Develop math-specific instruction strategies for teaching small groups in elementary school: Explore the benefits of small-group math activities and how these activities are unique compared to large-group instruction. Discover the teacher's and students' roles in small-group instruction and how teachers can help students develop the skills to fulfill their role. Learn how to apply the general tasks, questions, and evidence (TQE) process to small-group instruction in order to enhance student learning and improve your knowledge of teaching mathematics. View examples of small-group instruction, which provide both math intervention and math enrichment activities for different students. Contents: Acknowledgments Table of Contents About the Authors Introduction Chapter 1: Best Practices in Small-Group Instruction Chapter 2: The TQE Process in Small-Group Instruction Chapter 3: Discourse in Small-Group Instruction Epilogue: How to Tie It All Together References Index

"In Best Practices at Tier 3: Intensive Interventions for Remediation, Elementary, authors Paula Rogers, W. Richard Smith, Austin Buffum, and Mike Mattos provide grades K-5 educators research-based response to intervention (RTI) strategies to meet the needs of students who have fallen the furthest behind in the classroom. These students struggle with what is being taught currently in the classroom as well as the basic, foundational skills that are taught in previous school years. The best way educators can intervene when students struggle is by implementing an effective RTI process through a supportive professional learning community (PLC) framework. By reading Best Practices at Tier 3, educators will learn how to improve their school's Tier 3 intensive interventions so that students receive the support they need to learn at the highest levels"--