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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.

In this updated second edition of the best-selling Never Work Harder Than Your Students, Robyn Jackson reaffirms that every teacher can become a master teacher. The secret is not a specific strategy or technique, nor it is endless hours of prep time. It's developing a master teacher mindset.

Research on the brain has shown that emotion plays a key role in learning, but how can educators apply that research? Engage the Brain presents easy-to-understand explanations of the brain's emotion networks and how they affect learning, paired with specific suggestions for classroom strategies that can make a real difference.

Makes the case that our schools could be on the cusp of swift, unparalleled improvements. But we are stymied by a systemwide failure to simplify and prioritize; we have yet to focus our limited time and energy on the most essential, widely acknowledged, evidence-based practices that could have more impact than all other initiatives combined.

Drawing on the authors' vast experience working with administrators, this book provides practical advice and tools for improving math instruction. They guide you through the initial steps of establishing a strong math culture, developing common tasks, and then offer specific suggestions for monitoring, supporting, and sustaining improvement.

According to educator and creativity expert Ronald Beghetto, the best way to unleash students' problem solving and creativity - and thus prepare them to face real-world problems - is to incorporate complex challenges that teach students to respond productively to uncertainty.

How can today's teachers ensure that their students achieve at high levels? How can they design units and lessons that support English learners in language development and content learning - simultaneously? Amy Heineke and Jay McTighe provide the answers by adding a lens on language to the widely used Understanding by Design (R) framework.

Why aren't more schools seeing significant improvement in students' reading ability when they implement Response to Intervention (RTI) or Multitiered Systems of Support (MTSS) in their literacy programs? Susan Hall provides answers in the form of 10 success factors for implementing MTSS.

Covers the basics of effective mathematical communication and offers specific strategies for teaching students how to speak and write about maths. The book also presents useful suggestions for helping students incorporate correct vocabulary and appropriate representations when presenting their mathematical ideas.

Educational coaches - whether maths, literacy, instructional, or curriculum coaches - vary in the content of the work they do and in the grade range of the teachers with whom they work. But "good coaching is good coaching", as coaching expert Cathy Toll affirms in this, her newest book.

Emphasizing the importance of mutual respect and self-control, this book offers specific strategies and techniques for building strong relationships with disruptive students and countering the toxic social circumstances that affect many of them, including dysfunctional families, gangs, and poverty.

Presents a detailed model for developing a more reliable, standards-based grading system - including 30 steps to guide you through the process. In addition to identifying and addressing the barriers to change, Jonathan Cornue offers a concrete structure for changing the grading system.

With references to Star Trek, motorcycle daredevils, and near-classic movies of the '80s, developmental molecular biologist John Medina, author of the New York Times bestseller Brain Rules, explores the neurological and evolutionary factors that drive teenage behaviour and can affect both achievement and engagement.

Drawing upon decades of research and myriad authentic classroom experiences, Kathleen Budge and William Parrett dispel harmful myths, explain the facts, and urge educators to act against the debilitating effects of poverty on their students.

Ensuring that the knowledge teachers impart is appropriately stored in the brain and easily retrieved when necessary is a vital component of instruction. In How to Teach So Students Remember, Marilee Sprenger provides a proven, research-based, easy-to-follow framework for doing just that.

Drawing from his own experience as a teacher and coach, Glen Pearsall offers practical, real-world advice in the form of techniques that are both effective and sustainable in the everyday classroom. The result is smarter assessment-for both teachers and students.