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Students need to connect to the real world, be engaged, and learn deeply. But how are teachers supposed to ensure that students meet these objectives in the current school system? In The Relevant Classroom, Eric Hardie presents six strategies to show teachers ways to foster real-world connections, genuine engagement, and deeper learning.

In their follow-up to School Culture Recharged and the bestselling School Culture Rewired, Steve Gruenert and Todd Whitaker go deep into the roots of culture change and explore how school leaders can positively shift their cultures in a sustainable way.

Integrates best practice in coaching for professional development with a detailed account of how teachers and other school professionals can use today's technologies to improve their practice and ensure their students are fully engaged and learning.

A one-stop shop to help teachers plan and differentiate literacy instruction for all students from pre-kindergarten to fifth grade. Beverly Tyner presents plans for small-group instruction that addresses elementary students' six developmental stages of reading and writing: emergent, beginning, fledgling, transitional, fluent, and independent.

Offers an holistic approach to school leadership, one that grounds education in the complexities of the real world and aims to prepare all students to understand, engage with, and influence what happens in that interconnected world.

It's time to say goodbye to "sit-and-get, one-size-fits-all" PD sessions and embrace professional learning that meets the needs of all teachers. Allison Rodman's Personalized Professional Learning provides a roadmap for transforming existing professional development programs into more effective and innovative learning experiences.

An engaging guide to becoming a successful teacher leader. Organised around five key tools - communication, collaboration, professional development, data, and advocacy - the book covers every aspect of what is involved in taking on leadership responsibilities.

To be effective, grading policies and practices must be based on trustworthy research evidence. By distilling the vast body of research evidence into meaningful, actionable findings and strategies, this book is the jump-start all stakeholders need to build a better understanding of what works - and where to go from here.

Often lighthearted, yet thoroughly grounded in research on social-emotional learning and positive psychology, The Burnout Cure explains how shifts in awareness, attitudes, and actions can be transformational for you and for your students.

How can educators leverage neuroscience research about how the human brain learns? How can we use this information to improve curriculum, instruction, and assessment so our students achieve deep learning and understanding in all subject areas? Upgrade Your Teaching answers these questions.

If you teach kids rather than standards, and if you want all kids to get what they need to thrive, Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, and Dominique Smith offer a comprehensive, five-part model of social and emotional learning that's easy to integrate into everyday content instruction, no matter what subject or grade level you teach.

The practical examples in this book show how anybody who works with young children can introduce the Habits of Mind in entertaining and concrete ways that are developmentally appropriate.

Provides teachers with the information and resources they need to build a strong classroom-based initiative to improve the attendance of all students, creating a classroom culture of attendance with easy-to-implement strategies.

Offers everything a teacher needs to teach, assess, and communicate with parents about basic maths fact instruction. This is an indispensable guide for any educator who needs to teach basic facts. The approach is grounded in research and will transform students' learning of basic facts and help them become more confident and successful at maths.

Details how top-performing school systems have met head-on the challenges facing school leaders today. You'll learn why our current system is obsolete, explore the knowledge and skills needed to design and build first-rate education systems, and gain a solid understanding of the key elements of high-performance school systems.

What teachers say to students - when they praise or discipline, give directions or ask questions, and introduce concepts or share stories - affects student learning and behaviour. In What We Say and How We Say It Matter, Mike Anderson digs into the nuances of language in the classroom to help teachers improve their classroom practice.

Shows how students can meet standards and express their individuality through digital badges and portfolios. Building off an essential question - What do schools want their students to know and be able to do? - David Niguidula then shows how schools can implement a proficiency-based approach to student learning.

"For students to be successful in school, they first have to be in school." With that simple statement, Jessica Sprick and Randy Sprick launch a compelling case for prioritizing student attendance. This comprehensive guide provides the background information, strategies, and tools needed to implement a multitiered approach to improving attendance.

In this stirring follow-up to the award-winning Fostering Resilient Learners, Kristin Van Marter Souers and Pete Hall take you to the next level of trauma-invested practice. To get there, they explain, educators need to build a ""nest"" - a positive learning environment shaped by three new Rs of education: relationship, responsibility and regulation.

In this latest instalment to his series of best-selling self-reflection guides, celebrated educator, author, and motivational speaker Baruti Kafele offers school leaders 35 thought-provoking questions to ponder from one fundamental overarching query: "Is my school a better school because I lead it?"

Argues persuasively for the continuing relevance of the School Development Program (SDP). Too many schools still operate in a high-pressure environment that emphasizes testing and standardized curricula while ignoring the importance of personal connections that make a profound difference for students. Fifty years on, the SDP is as powerful as ever.

Formative assessment is one of the best ways to increase student learning and enhance teacher quality. But effective formative assessment is not part of most classrooms. Connie Moss and Susan Brookhart define formative assessment as an active, continual process in which teachers and students work together to gather evidence of learning.

Project-based learning (PBL) offers a proven framework to help students be better equipped to tackle future challenges. This book and a related series of free videos provide a detailed look at what's happening in PBL classrooms from the perspective of the Project Based Teacher.

In this second edition of Summarization in Any Subject, Dedra Stafford joins Rick Wormeli in adding fresh depth and creative variations to the basics, including changes to all 50 techniques from the first edition and brand new summarizing techniques that can be differentiated for multiple disciplines and levels of student readiness.

Examines the role homework has played in the culture of schooling over the years; how such factors as family life, the media, and "homework gap" issues based on shifting demographics have affected the homework controversy; and what recent research as well as common sense tell us about the effects of homework on student learning.

What typically sets these 'star teachers' apart from other teachers? In What Makes a Star Teacher: 7 Dispositions That Support Student Learning, Valerie Hill-Jackson, Nicholas Hartlep, and Delia Stafford provide a framework that can help ensure that you are your students' greatest asset-and a star teacher in your classroom.

Shares the models and methods of ten brilliant leadership teams at urban, suburban, and rural schools in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Informed by these successes, the authors provide specific, sometimes audacious advice for navigating what they call the Change Leader Journey.

Time management is a complex and personal issue best addressed through deep self-reflection or caring and thoughtful coaching. This book offers a blueprint for both. It will help you better understand yourself and the behaviors of those you work with or lead, promoting more productive teaching and leadership - and greater peace of mind.

In this informative and comprehensive guide, school safety experts Amy Klinger and Amanda Klinger offer significant statistics on school safety, dispel common misunderstandings, and provide preK-12 school leaders with the specific information they need to prepare for and effectively respond to natural disasters, accidents, or violent events.

With characteristic humor and aplomb, assessment expert W. James Popham strips away the psychometrician-speak and condenses the complexities of educational testing to six practical and action-oriented understandings about validity, reliability, fairness, score reporting, formative assessment, and affective assessment.