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Parents Assuring Student Success Workbook Module 4: Homework & Learning Expediters

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

These workbooks are another option for those who want to implement the PASSport to Success program. The PASS workbook is divided into eight individual modules. You can use these individual modules to focus on one topic at a time. Individual modules are great for parent nights, back-to-school nights, open houses, and parent orientations.

Parents Assuring Student Success Workbook Module 3: Study Skills (Spanish)

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

Collaborative Action Research for Professional Learning Communities

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

Constant, high-quality collaborative inquiry sustains professional learning communities (PLCs). Become disciplined and deliberative with data as you design and implement program improvements to enhance student learning with the five habits of inquiry in this book.

Leadership 180: Daily Meditations on School Leadership

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

Get your daily dose of empowerment with 180 meditations perfect for busy leaders. These short reflections contain a quote, discussion on the meaning, and final translation into a powerful “Today I will…” statement that integrates the reflection into daily practice. These core leadership practices enable transformational change that begins with leaders and radiates throughout the organization. The meditations can be read in any order. An index of quotes makes it easy to reference sources.

What We Know About Mathematics Teaching and Learning

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

Despite the noble efforts of national legislation, the United States still ranks behind nearly a dozen other nations in overall mathematics achievement. In a world where problem solving is a necessity, students need to know how to access, evaluate, and use information, all skills that are part of mathematics literacy. Widening mathematics instruction beyond education research and practice drills is important to achieving improved student success. The third edition of What We Know About Mathematics Teaching and Learning provides a starting place by summarizing education research and surveys of best classroom practices and offering implications for improved teaching and learning.

Vocabulary Games for the Classroom

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

Direct vocabulary instruction is fundamental to effective teaching in all subject areas. Unfortunately, learning vocabulary is not always easy or enjoyable for students. Make this important instruction something you and your students will enjoy with 13 vocabulary games designed for grades K—12. Marzano Research Laboratory has conducted roughly 60 studies that show academic games in the classroom have a positive impact on student achievement. While these games add energy and excitement to your class, they are also part of a systematic approach to direct vocabulary instruction.

Balanced Assessment: From Formative to Summative

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

Learn how to integrate formative and summative assessments seamlessly into instruction. The research, rationale, strategies, and examples provided in this book will help teachers develop their own repertoire of formative and summative assessments to monitor, grade, and make inferences about a student’s ability to meet standards and curriculum goals. Exercises at the end of each chapter provide opportunities to reflect and plan action steps.

School Improvement for the Next Generation

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

At least one generation of talented, informed educators has invested a great deal of time and hard work in school improvement in its current form. Unfortunately, such widespread efforts have not created widespread results. While this first generation of school improvement established a foundation for change, now is the time to take it to the next level with a deeper, more focused process that holds even greater promise for achieving substantial, sustainable improvement.

Enriched Learning Projects

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Translate standards-based content in one subject area or across several into enriched learning projects that build 21st century skills. A valuable tool for teachers, this book draws from the 21st Century Enriched Learning School model designed to meet standards and develop skills in communication, collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, and global and cross-cultural awareness.

21st Century Skills: Rethinking How Students Learn

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John Barell, Linda Darling-Hammond, Chris Dede, Rebecca DuFour, Richard DuFour, Douglas Fisher, Robin Fogarty, Nancy Frey, Howard Gardner, Andy Hargreaves, David W. Johnson, Roger T. Johnson, Cheryl Lemke, Jay McTighe, Alan November, Bob Pearlman, Brian M. Pete, Douglas Reeves, Will Richardson, Elliott Seif

Edited by James Bellanca and Ron Brandt

When Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Understanding the Challenging Behaviors of Young Children and Students With Disabilities

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

Build your understanding of behavior as communication and learn to interpret the messages behind the actions. This book provides information and tools to support all children whose primary way to communicate is through challenging behaviors. The authors address what behaviors children use to communicate, what kinds of messages they may be sending, and how adults can ask six critical questions to better understand and meet children’s needs.

Turning Your School Around: A Self-Guided Audit for School Improvement

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

No Child Left Behind has created an increasing sense of urgency, especially among high-poverty, low-performing schools, which face severe sanctions if they fail to improve. Research over the past decade has identified specific factors and tools that work to significantly improve achievement specifically in these struggling schools. Turning Your School Around examines how one of these tools, the school improvement audit, can be used to achieve dramatic gains. This self-guided audit provides a step-by-step protocol for both low-performing and moderately successful schools, focusing on the most crucial areas of school improvement.

Raising the Bar and Closing the Gap: Whatever It Takes

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

This expansion of the best-selling Whatever It Takes: How Professional Learning Communities Respond When Kids Don’t Learn expands on original ideas and presses further with new insights on the pyramid of interventions strategy. The authors explore the following questions:

Formative Assessment

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

Learn everything you need to know to implement an integrated system of assessment and grading that will enhance your teaching and your students’ learning. Dr. Robert J. Marzano details the specific benefits of formative assessment—assessment that is used during instruction rather than at the end of a course or unit. He explains how to design and interpret three different types of formative assessments, how to track student progress, and how to assign meaningful grades, even if a school or district continues to use a traditional grading system. Detailed examples brings each concept to life, and exercises help reinforce the content.

Classroom Strategies That Work library

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This series offers in-depth treatment of research-based instructional strategies that can be used in the classroom to enhance student achievement. Classroom teachers as well as building- and district-level administrators will benefit from sharing the knowledge in this library and building capacity as a staff to implement strategies for school improvement.

40 Reading Intervention Strategies for K-6 Students: Research-Based Support for RTI

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

This well-rounded collection of research-based reading intervention strategies will support and inform your RTI efforts. The book includes teacher-friendly sample lesson plans and miniroutines that are easy to understand and adapt. Citations and descriptions of current research help educators substantiate their strategy choices.

Assertive Discipline®: Positive Behavior Management for Today's Classroom 4th Edition

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

The fourth edition of Lee Canter’s teacher-tested classic Assertive Discipline® addresses how to become a successful classroom manager, set high expectations, and teach responsible behavior. The best concepts and strategies from the previous edition, as well as those from Classroom Management for Academic Success, have been validated by teachers and incorporated in this book.

Leading a Learning Organization: The Science of Working With Others

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

Improve the quality of organizational learning in your school. Leading a Learning Organization examines the role that emotion plays in school cultures and how current demands for rapid change and accountability contribute to levels of fear and stress. Dr. Reason draws on educational, psychological, and neuroscientific research to show how leaders can change the prevailing emotional climate or tone of a school to promote deeper learning at all levels. Principals and teacher leaders learn how to overcome obstacles to improve the emotional climate of schools, as well as explore the benefits of collaboration in building deep organizational learning. Practical strategies for enhancing organizational learning include change, analysis, and reframing; purpose-driven inquiry; the creation of a defined learning culture; conscious use of current scientific knowledge about the way memory works; and frequent, effective collaboration.

Differentiated Professional Development in a Professional Learning Community

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

Schools and districts that function as professional learning communities (PLCs) have a keen understanding of the connection between professional development and student learning. So, if differentiated instruction is known to be essential for student learning, why not apply it to teacher learning? The authors suggest that one-size-fits-all professional development cannot provide success for all. Just as classroom teachers are challenged to meet the needs of the diverse learning styles of their students, professional development specialists need to incorporate learning styles into their work with adult learners.

Building a Professional Learning Community at Work™: A Guide to the First Year

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

Foreword by Richard DuFour and Rebecca DuFour Get a play-by-play guide to implementing PLC concepts. Each chapter begins with a story focused on a particular challenge. A follow-up analysis of the story identifies the good decisions or common mistakes made in relation to that particular scenario. The authors examine the research behind best practice and wrap up each chapter with recommendations and tools you can use in your school.

On Excellence in Teaching

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Learn from the world’s best education researchers, theorists, and staff developers as they present recommendations on effective instruction. The book provides a comprehensive view of instruction from a theoretical, systemic, and classroom perspective. The authors’ diverse expertise delivers a wide range of ideas and strategies.

Head of the Class: The Collected Kappan Cartoons for Educators

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

A joint publication of Solution Tree and Phi Delta Kappa International A compilation of the most humorous cartoons published in the Phi Delta Kappan over the years, Head of the Class: The Collected Kappan Cartoons for Educators offers school administrators, teachers, staff, and parents witty glimpses of life in education. From the wisdom of sage school personnel and parents to astute observations by students, this classic collection presents a lighthearted commentary on such topics as curriculum, assessment, leadership, discipline, technology, and the changing trends in education today.

Beyond the RTI Pyramid: Solutions for the First Years of Implementation

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

Go beyond the definitions and process talk of response to intervention (RTI) and find straightforward strategies for successful implementation. This book addresses the need to deepen RTI efforts based on practical implementation issues and emerging research. Dr. Bender analyzes how RTI is implemented, how it functions, and its implications for general and special education teachers and students. He shows how to extend the RTI process to apply not just to reading, but also to math and behavior. Using his experience in workshops with real schools, he outlines typical implementation issues and provides clear guidance to classroom teachers on documenting the process, contacting parents, complying with the law, and preparing for meetings to determine a student’s eligibility for special services.

"Unwrapping" the Standards: A Simple Process to Make Standards Manageable

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

“Unwrapped” standards clarify what students must know and be able to do. When educators analyze each standard and identify its essential concepts and skills, the result is more effective instructional planning, assessment, and learning.

A Leader's Companion: Inspiration for Professional Learning Communities at Work™

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

Fuel your passion as you focus on the daily work that drives a PLC. This collection of inspirational quotes provides daily inspiration for teachers and administrators on their PLC journey. Accessible, active language captures the “big ideas” of PLC in a beautifully simple and powerful format. Quotes are distilled from a decade of work by the “3 Rs” of professional learning communities.

Accountability in Action: A Blueprint for Learning Organizations

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

Second Edition! Now includes updated research on 90/90/90 schools and a new introduction by the author.Accountability in Action is a practical, step-by-step guide to help educators create a comprehensive accountability system that is fair and rigorous and meets the needs of schools and districts. This book provides a bridge between standards and implementation and the systems that allow schools to assess the effectiveness of their efforts.

Adventure Education for the Classroom Community: Over 90 Activities for Developing Character, Responsibility, and the Courage to Succeed

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

Revised Edition! Adventure Education for the Classroom Community is now more convenient, with a new appendix and spiral binding—and a more affordable price.

Ahead of the Curve: The Power of Assessment to Transform Teaching and Learning

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

Ahead of the Curve is written by the most influential, leading-edge luminaries on assessment and brings their ideas and recommendations into a single resource, illustrating the range of effective assessment design and implementation. From involving students in the assessment process to ensuring accuracy to applying assessments to English language learners and special needs students, you will find compelling insights and proven strategies.

Anger Management for Youth

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Classic Revisited!Teach youth how to identify their personal anger triggers and responses; find personal motivators for change; use control strategies when anger is first triggered; express anger constructively; and deal with crisis by taking the appropriate intervention steps. Intended for groups that train youth to improve anger management, Anger Management for Youth can also be integrated into groups with a larger life-skills training or psychoeducational focus. Grades 9-12

Assembly Required: A Continuous School Improvement System

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This step-by-step guide starts with the basics: building an inclusive, collaborative process; assembling an effective leadership team; identifying and clarifying your school’s core beliefs and values; ensuring that everyone’s efforts are focused on the common goal of improving student performance. Assembly Required then leads you through the continuous improvement cycle, teaching you the hands-on strategies you’ll need to make judicious, effective, and lasting changes that truly impact student learning. Learn what data to collect, how to identify and evaluate the leading indicators of learning based on the Correlates of Effective Schools, what constitutes a useful and usable plan, the obstacles to change, and much more.

Assertive Discipline® Elementary Workbook

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Classic Revisited!Launch a successful Assertive Discipline program with practical ideas for planning beginning-of-the-year lessons, promoting a cooperative learning environment, and gaining support from parents. This workbook includes a variety of time-saving, age-appropriate reproducibles and teacher worksheets that complement the program and motivate students to behave appropriately.

Assessment FOR Learning: An Action Guide for School Leaders

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Second Edition! The foundation of any vision for excellence in assessment requires certain conditions be in place. This action guide is designed to help educational leaders review and refine their vision of excellence in assessment, examine what conditions are already in place, and determine what conditions are still lacking that are necessary to achieve that vision. Leaders will learn the skills and knowledge needed to support that vision and then chart a path designed to turn that vision into reality.Published by Educational Testing Service

Assessment Leaders set

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Be a leader in your field, whether you’re a classroom teacher or a building-level administrator. Best practices for balanced systemwide assessments require collaboration and strong leadership at every level. Add these two anthologies to your professional library and create a united team of school leaders focused on powerful assessments that inform instruction and raise achievement levels. Order these two books as a set and save $4.95!

Behave Yourself! Helping Students Plan to Do Better

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Behave Yourself! explains how to develop sound behavior change plans for both general and special education students. You will learn specific strategies for developing behavior intervention plans (BIPs) that lead to long-term, positive change. You will also gain the tools required to do this important work. An entire chapter is dedicated to reproducibles that will facilitate the information gathering process so vital to developing your BIPs.Free Resources: Reproducibles

Beyond the Numbers: Making Data Work for Teachers & School Leaders

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

In today’s world of accountability, data analysis is essential to measuring student progress and ensuring that true gains are being made. Beyond the Numbers is one of the first books to really examine the process of data analysis for practitioners.

Building Classroom Communities: Strategies for Developing a Culture of Caring

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Building Classroom Communities brings theory and practice together to guide you in creating a unified and caring classroom where all students feel a sense of belonging. Developed from the author’s experiences in a variety of school settings, this resource provides specific strategies for:

Change Wars

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

What can organizations do to create changes that are both profound and enduring? The third anthology in the Leading Edge™ series explores traditional change strategies and examines constructive alternatives. Each author examines research and practice to offer practical strategies for:

Classroom Assessment FOR Student Learning: Doing It Right—Using It Well

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Classroom Assessment for Student Learning: Doing It Right-Using It Well is grounded in the research shown to improve student motivation and learning through improved classroom assessment. This combination text and workbook:

Classroom Management for Academic Success

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The next generation of classroom management is here from the developer of Assertive Discipline, Lee Canter! Classroom Management for Academic Success is the first management program designed to specifically address the first priority for today's educator: improving the achievement of all students. This groundbreaking work will take you beyond simply managing student behavior to quickly and effectively establishing an environment that promotes academic success. This unique comprehensive handbook will show you how to:

Classroom Management: The Educators’ Cartoon Guide to Survival

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

To celebrate our new partnership with Phi Delta Kappa International, we’re making this PDK resource available for a limited time.

Clear and Focused Mission & Opportunity to Learn/Time on Task

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

Successful learning for all students is the new mission of public education. In effective schools, this mission is clear, and all programs, initiatives, and instructional strategies are focused on its accomplishment. In addition, every student is given adequate opportunity to master the required material, and those who struggle are given additional time as needed. But doing so is a far more complex task than it sounds.

Collaboration set

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

A new Solution Tree series begins with two powerful anthologies. These books address the benefits and challenges of collaboration within professional learning communities from the perspective of administrators and teachers who have experienced it firsthand. Order these two books as a set and save $4.95!

Compelling Conversations: Connecting Leadership to Achievement

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Creating & Recognizing Quality Rubrics

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Quality rubrics are vital for both teachers and students to achieve success in the classroom. This resource will help you to develop sound criteria for effective assessment, use rubrics effectively with students to maximize learning, convert rubric scores to grades, and communicate with parents about the use of these measurement tools in the classroom.

Creating Successful Inclusion Programs: Guidelines for Teachers and Administrators

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

Gain specific strategies for creating and managing inclusive classrooms and guidelines for navigating the complicated legal and educational landscape of special education. This book includes historical information on special education and explores how inclusion programs fit in with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

Creating the Total Quality Effective School

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This program integrates the principles of the effective schools process with the principles of total quality and continuous improvement. Both frameworks are based on solid research and proven practices. Together, these powerful approaches have helped countless schools and districts meet the challenges associated with the mission of Learning for All. Many educators have told us that this program is the best explanation ever presented on the integration of the total quality concepts and school reform. Book only

Delivering on the Promise: The Education Revolution

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

Delivering on the Promise is the compelling story of how a team of visionary educators put their careers on the line to turn the traditional education system inside out and create a dramatically different approach to schooling that would serve every child—not just children with dedicated parents or systems with tremendous financial resources. It is a story about people who did not simply talk about education reform; they actually did it. The result is the Re-Inventing Schools Coalition (RISC) Approach to Schooling, a new paradigm in education that can be replicated anywhere, by anyone, for any student, under any set of circumstances.

Designing & Teaching Learning Goals & Objectives

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

Design and teach effective learning goals and objectives by following strategies based on the strongest research and theories available. This first book in the Classroom Strategies That Work library includes a summary of key research behind these classroom practices and shows how to implement them using step-by-step hands-on strategies. Short quizzes help readers assess their understanding of the instructional best practices explained in each section.

Discipline With Dignity for Challenging Youth

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

Classic Revisited!Create positive change in your most challenging students with the help of practical strategies found in this resource. The authors share proven practices for classroom discipline, reveal reasons why students misbehave, and offer 21 effective drug-free ways to help students with ADHD.

District Leadership That Works: Striking the Right Balance

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

A joint publication of Solution Tree and McREL Bridge the great divide between distanced administrative duties and daily classroom impact. This book introduces high-level leaders to a top-down power mechanism called “defined autonomy,” a concept that focuses on district-defined, nonnegotiable, common goals and a system of accountability supported by assessment tools. Defined autonomy creates an effective balance of centralized direction and individualized empowerment that allows building leaders and classroom teachers to maintain stylistic freedom to respond quickly and effectively to student failure.

Educating Language-Minority Students: An Administrator’s Guide to the Legal Issues

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To celebrate our new partnership with Phi Delta Kappa International, we’re making this PDK resource available for a limited time.

Evaluating Principals: Issues and Practices

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To celebrate our new partnership with Phi Delta Kappa International, we’re making this PDK resource available for a limited time.

Five Big Ideas: Leading Total Instructional Alignment

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

In this sequel to Total Instructional Alignment, Lisa Carter peels back complex layers of the change process to reveal the five big ideas at the core of successful schools. Focus on these foundational ideas to simplify decision-making and eliminate distractions from your efforts to promote effective teaching and learning. Teachers and administrators alike will appreciate this straightforward approach to solid leadership for school improvement.

Focused Assessment: Enriching the Instructional Cycle

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

Focused Assessment: Enriching the Instructional Cycle uses a research-based design that promotes an ongoing “check for understanding” throughout the learning process.The focused assessment model teaches the use of purposeful and relevant assessment, from preassessment to the completion of a final student product. It involves students in the process of gaining a clear understanding of their skill and knowledge proficiency and takes into account different learning styles, so that students may demonstrate evidence of competence in ways that make sense to them. In addition, focused assessment is a consistent reflection of content standards— the objectives that were actually taught—and student data.

Focused Instruction: An Innovative Teaching Model for All Learners

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Focused Instruction: An Innovative Teaching Model for All Learners explains how to differentiate learning content, course of action, and final student product while maintaining a student-centered classroom. Each of its 11 steps is based on practices proven to enhance student achievement. With specific tools and sample lessons for supporting diverse learners, this highly systematic process includes how to:

For the Love of Reading: Books to Build Lifelong Readers

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

Whether you are a parent, teacher, administrator, aunt, grandpa, or Mom’s best friend, in For the Love of Reading you will find books to strike your fancy and the fancies of all the children in your life.

Frequent Monitoring of Student Progress

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

Frequent monitoring means more than just state or national standardized testing. It is the ongoing review of student work accompanied by timely corrective feedback - a critical component in student success. This compendium of research explores how schools can transform into proactive, learner-centered educational communities by using authentic forms of assessment that translate into higher student achievement. Published by Effective Schools

From Rage to Hope: Strategies for Reclaiming Black & Hispanic Students

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

New edition! A compelling and informative examination of academic underachievement, apathy, and rage among America’s Black and Hispanic youth. In an attempt to spark motivation toward achievement in Black and Hispanic students, Dr. Kuykendall provides you with:

Getting By or Getting Better: Applying Effective Schools Research to Today’s Issues

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Is your school getting by or getting better? Learn how 14 schools rose above the status quo to become exemplary. Each school is attached to a lesson that refers to specific challenges and achievements inherent to the improvement process. Each lesson affirms a featured Correlate of Effective Schools research. The authors investigated more than 40 schools to find the best planning processes and action steps for total school improvement. The book offers powerful proof that the Seven Correlates of Effective Schools are still as applicable in today’s world as they were when first identified.

Getting Started: Reculturing Schools to Become Professional Learning Communities

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

This book answers the question that many schools ask when seeking to transform themselves into Professional Learning Communities: “Where do we begin?” The authors offer suggestions for finding the time for transformation, lessons learned from one school’s transition, a conversation with the authors that answers many of your questions, and a section with tools and samples. grades K-12

Gifted Education: Promising Practices

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To celebrate our new partnership with Phi Delta Kappa International, we’re making this PDK resource available for a limited time.

Grant Writing for Educators: Practical Strategies for Teachers, Administrators, and Staff

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Grant Writing for Educators: Practical Strategies for Teachers, Administrators, and Staff provides educators with an abundant amount of information for dramatically improving their grant writing skills and for increasing their odds of receiving much-desired grant awards. The chapters are filled with expertise, encouragement, and solutions for educators who ask, “How can we get this done?” Readers will learn how to:

Harbors of Hope: The Planning for School and Student Success Process

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Foreword by Lawrence Lezotte Harbors of Hope: The Planning for School and Student Success Process offers a proven way for schools to deal effectively with the “white waters” of change and to create a culture of hope in which students receive the support they need to achieve success. This resource offers practical solutions for improving student achievement, attitudes, attendance, and behavior through a proven planning model. Harbors of Hope combines the authors’ extensive experience with effective school research and the power of the professional learning community to create a uniquely hopeful approach that results in schools that are effective, efficient, and excellent.

Hazing in High Schools: Causes and Consequences

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To celebrate our new partnership with Phi Delta Kappa International, we’re making this PDK resource available for a limited time.

High Expectations

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Developing a climate of high expectations means more than setting high standards. It is a core belief that all children can learn, and that the teacher has the capacity to teach all students. The abstracts in this book explore how expectations affect learning and how successful students create a climate of learning where everyone achieves his or her potential.

Implementation Guide for Assembly Required

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Designed as a companion piece to Assembly Required: A Continuous School Improvement System, each module of the Implementation Guide provides hands-on activities and exercises, many with reproducible forms and worksheets, to guide busy instructional leaders and leadership teams step-by-step through the Continuous School Improvement Process. Each module of the Implementation Guide corresponds to a chapter in the book, with an additional module dedicated to helping you assemble a formal written school improvement plan.

Improving Classroom Questions: A Teacher’s Guide to Increasing Student Motivation, Participation, and Higher-Level Thinking

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

To celebrate our new partnership with Phi Delta Kappa International, we’re making this PDK resource available for a limited time.

Instructional Leadership

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Today’s leaders must be willing, ready, and able to empower others to act on the basis of shared values and goals. The abstracts in this new book explore the changing role of the educational leader and delve into what the research says about what works and what doesn’t. Topics in this book include: Managing the Climate of the School; Leading the Vision and Driving the Mission; and Managing the Mission through Resource Allocation.

Kids Who Outwit Adults

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New! With the penetrating wisdom found in this book, readers will: * Get beyond the bravado to build a solid trust connection * Uncover each youth’s unique potentials * Build on strengths instead of dwelling on deficit and deviance * Remain positive in the face of hostility * Gain greater understanding of protective strategies, including fight/flight/fool, conceal and confuse, and sabotage * Avoid the pitfalls of the 10 myths of detachment * Calmly navigate antagonistic encounters, control contests, and manipulation games * Work positively with all kids-even those whose behavior is depressed/hopeless/suicidal, oppositional defiant, or hypervigilant

Laughing Matters: Strategies for Building a Joyful Learning Community

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

This engaging, easy-to-read resource for teachers and administrators offers practical strategies for bringing fun and humor into your school’s classrooms, culture, leadership, and professional development. You will learn the personal benefits of laughter, including its physiological, psychological, and sociological benefits. This book will show you how to nurture and express your sense of humor to become healthier, happier, and more productive in your personal life and at school.

Leading With Trust: How to Build Strong School Teams

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

What are the causes of distrust? How do members of school teams discuss traditionally taboo topics? This field guide begins with personal exercises designed for leaders to use before they engage with staff. A variety of team exercises and a progressive series of strategies follow, designed to move the community toward a more trusting environment. The book covers the spectrum from deep distrust to high levels of trust and offers examples of two corporate cultures that have achieved model trust environments. Inspirational quotes, tables, graphs, and activities enhance this research-based manual for high-trust teams. Free, downloadable reproducibles are available at go.solution-tree.com/leadership.

Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work™

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work helps educators close the knowing-doing gap as they transform their schools into professional learning communities (PLCs). This handbook is a guide for action that will: * Help educators develop a common vocabulary and consistent understanding of key PLC concepts. * Present a compelling argument that the implementation of PLC concepts will benefit students and educators alike. * Help educators assess the current reality in their own schools and districts. * Convince educators to take purposeful steps to develop their capacity to function as PLCs.

Learning for All

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Written in an uplifting, informative style, this book moves beyond simply meeting state and federal mandates to the vision behind and moral imperative for “learning for all.” Larry Lezotte also identifies the high-yield strategies that positively impact student achievement based on the Correlates of Effective Schools - one of the most well-researched and widely practiced frameworks for school reform. Multiple copies are a great idea for building community consensus!

Making Math Accessible to English Language Learners: Practical Tips and Suggestions (Grades 3-5)

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Using this practical tool, teachers can accelerate English language learners’ (ELLs’) acquisition of academic English and proficiency in meaningful mathematics.

Making Math Accessible to English Language Learners: Practical Tips and Suggestions (Grades 6-8)

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

Using this practical tool, teachers can accelerate English language learners’ (ELLs’) acquisition of academic English and proficiency in meaningful mathematics.

Making Math Accessible to English Language Learners: Practical Tips and Suggestions (Grades 9-12)

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

Using this practical tool, teachers can accelerate English language learners’ (ELLs’) acquisition of academic English and proficiency in meaningful mathematics.

Making Math Accessible to English Language Learners: Practical Tips and Suggestions (Grades K-2)

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

Using this practical tool, teachers can accelerate English language learners’ (ELLs’) acquisition of academic English and proficiency in meaningful mathematics.

Making Math Accessible to Students With Special Needs: Practical Tips and Suggestions (Grades 3-5)

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Increase your capacity to make mathematics accessible to all students. This manual offers tools and guidance that everyone in mathematics education can use to increase confidence and competence. Chapters address critical topics such as federal and state legislation, research-based instructional best practices, and alternative instruction and assessment practices. Reflective questions and tasks make this a perfect book for self-guided or group study. Appendices offer sample answers and additional supports.

Making Math Accessible to Students With Special Needs: Practical Tips and Suggestions (Grades 9-12)

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Making Math Accessible to Students With Special Needs: Practical Tips and Suggestions (Grades K-2)

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Making Standards Work: How to Implement Standards-Based Assessments in the Classroom, School, and District

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In this Third Edition, Dr. Reeves updates and expands his influential work on assessments. Making Standards Work provides step-by-step guidance on how to design and implement standards-based performance assessments to make improved teaching and learning a reality in the classroom.

Media Relations for School Crises

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This booklet prepares you ahead of time for media relations during both more ordinary events and those of major dimensions. Media can be your greatest support or your most irritating distraction, and you can influence much of that. Media coverage can make or break your community’s perception of the adequacy of your response no matter how well you do what needs to be done. This is one terrific and essential piece of your overall response plan.

Media Relations for Schools: Including Crisis Communications

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This resource will help you establish proactive, positive media relations to minimize negative press coverage of sensitive issues and build community support. When crisis hits, the local media can be a valuable source of support—if you are prepared to meet the press with a solid action plan. Clear, step-by-step instructions can be adapted to meet the needs of any school or district, regardless of their budget or size.

MORE What Do I Do When...? Powerful Strategies to Promote Positive Behavior

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MORE What Do I Do When…? is a practical and easy-to-use resource that addresses the need for strategies to effectively handle challenging students, and contains an ample supply of tips for handling a wide variety of challenging situations that virtually every educator will face. The proven strategies and methods of prevention and intervention preserve the dignity of the student while promoting positive behavior.

Motivating Students Who Don’t Care: Successful Techniques for Educators

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You can use these proven strategies from the classroom for reawakening motivation in students who aren’t prepared, don’t care, and won’t work. If your ongoing challenge is finding ways to reconnect with the natural learner that exists in each of us so that your students are reawakened with excitement and enthusiasm, this is the resource to provide the solution.

My Homework Ate My Dog: Great Cartoons from the Phi Delta Kappan, 1991-1996

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

To celebrate our new partnership with Phi Delta Kappa International, we’re making this PDK resource available for a limited time.

My Homework Ate My Dog--Again: Cartoon Basics for the Successful Educator

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To celebrate our new partnership with Phi Delta Kappa International, we’re making this PDK resource available for a limited time.

No Disposable Kids

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In five chapters that lay the foundation for fostering resiliency in youths, readers will learn: * How to transition students from a self-image of “damaged goods” to one of “survivor’s pride” * Alternatives to “get tough” and “kick out” strategies * Techniques for boosting self-worth and dignity * Specific ways of enlisting youths in their own education and healing * How to form successful problem-solving alliances with youths * What to do to create a climate of mutual respect Foreword by Muhammad Ali; grades K-12

On Common Ground: The Power of Professional Learning Communities

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On Common Ground brings the ideas and recommendations of many of North America’s educational leaders into one resource for educators working to help their students achieve at ever-higher levels. Each chapter contributes to a sound conceptual framework and specific, practical strategies for developing professional learning communities. Hardcover

Parents Assuring Student Success Workbook Module 1: Parent Attitude

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These workbooks are another option for those who want to implement the PASSport to Success program. The PASS workbook is divided into eight individual modules. You can use these individual modules to focus on one topic at a time. Individual modules are great for parent nights, back-to-school nights, open houses, and parent orientations.

Parents Assuring Student Success Workbook Module 1: Parent Attitude (Spanish)

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Parents Assuring Student Success Workbook Module 2: The Home Environment

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Parents Assuring Student Success Workbook Module 2: The Home Environment (Spanish)

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Parents Assuring Student Success Workbook Module 3: Study Skills

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Parents Assuring Student Success Workbook Module 4: Homework & Learning Expediters (Spanish)

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Parents Assuring Student Success Workbook Module 5: Note-Taking Skills

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Parents Assuring Student Success Workbook Module 5: Note-Taking Skills (Spanish)

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Parents Assuring Student Success Workbook Module 6: Preparing for Tests

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Parents Assuring Student Success Workbook Module 6: Preparing for Tests (Spanish)

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Parents Assuring Student Success Workbook Module 7: Memory & Thinking Skills

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Parents Assuring Student Success Workbook Module 7: Memory & Thinking Skills (Spanish)

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Parents Assuring Student Success Workbook Module 8: Reading Skills

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Parents Assuring Student Success Workbook Module 8: Reading Skills (Spanish)

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Parents Assuring Student Success: Achievement Made Easy By Learning Together

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Learn how you can capitalize on the energy of parents to assist student learning at home with this family self-help manual. This resource is your tool to show parents what can be done to help their children succeed. With an easy-to-follow approach, PASS presents eight modules that can be used in the home or in a workshop setting. PASS will help parents:

Parents on Your Side: A Teacher's Guide to Creating Positive Relationships with Parents - 2nd Edition

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

Classic Revisited! This resource helps teachers gain parent support for their efforts and turn parents into partners. Parents On Your Side makes communication and collaboration with parents easy with the help of practical guidelines and dialogues.

PASSport to Success: A PASS Training Program

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PASSport to Success is a parent-training program based on the book Parents Assuring Student Success (PASS) by John R. Ban that is designed to train parents to help their children succeed in school. The curriculum covers each of the eight modules found in the PASS book. It can be taught in eight separate sessions that cover each module or combined into longer training sessions that cover multiple modules. The training kit’s four components are packaged in a sturdy, easy-to-carry clamshell binder:

Positive Home-School Relations

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The research is clear: active parent involvement yields higher student achievement, improves attitudes toward school, and promotes higher self esteem. This book explores how parents and staff can forge authentic partnerships to benefit all students. Abstract topics include:

Power Standards: Identifying the Standards That Matter the Most

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Feeling overwhelmed by state or district standards?

Power Struggles: Successful Techniques for Educators

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Part of a proven process, this resource shows you how to avoid and de-escalate disruptive behavior both inside and outside the classroom. grades K-12

Power Tools for Adolescent Literacy: Strategies for Learning

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

Are there students in your classroom who have hit the reading wall? Studies indicate comprehension regresses in many students once they reach middle school. Teachers need the right resources in their classrooms for engaging students in reading. Power Tools for Adolescent Literacy is a veritable encyclopedia of literacy strategies secondary teachers can apply to all content areas immediately. It integrates research on reading in core content areas and proven intervention practices. A comprehensive collection of best practices and powerful tools, this book belongs in every classroom and in every principal and staff developer’s professional library.

Professional Learning Communities at Work™ Plan Book

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

More than just a plan book, this fresh new resource brim with tips, activities, and 40 weeks of planning pages to guide you through a positive, productive year.

Professional Learning Communities at Work™: Best Practices for Enhancing Student Achievement

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

This resource guides you through recommendations drawn from the best practices found in schools nationwide for continuously improving school performance. The book provides specific, practical “how-to” information about transforming schools into results-oriented professional learning communities. Richard DuFour is the former Superintendent of Adlai Stevenson High School District and one of the nation’s foremost authorities on applying the principles of PLC. Robert Eaker is the former Dean of the College of Education at Middle Tennessee State University and a nationally known authority on instructional leadership.

Pyramid Response to Intervention: RTI, Professional Learning Communities, and How to Respond When Kids Don't Learn

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

Accessible language and compelling K–12 stories illustrate how RTI is most effective when built on the Professional Learning Communities at Work™ model. Written by award-winning educators from successful PLC schools, this book demonstrates how to create three tiers of interventions—from basic to intensive—to address student learning gaps. Over a dozen reproducible activities will guide teams in evaluating their current system, building strong interventions, and creating a successful and compliant pyramid response to intervention.

Reclaiming Life! A Workbook for Survivors of Trauma

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

This workbook takes the Lovre Model of Victim-Oriented Intervention and makes it available to adolescents and adults who are victims of trauma. It is designed to be used in conjunction with counseling. Both journaling and drawing are used to allow the survivor to process the event, put it into the context of life, give it meaning, and move beyond the symptoms of the traumatic reaction.

Reclaiming Youth at Risk: Our Hope for the Future

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

Second edition! This resource integrates Native American philosophies and Western psychology to provide you with a unique perspective on troubled youth. The authors challenge you to reassess your concepts of youth at risk as they present a clear, compelling alternative for reaching them. Reclaiming Youth at Risk explores:

Reconnecting Youth (Student Workbook)

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Make a positive impact on youth at risk in your school. Now in its second edition, this award-winning curriculum has been proven effective in helping high-risk youth achieve in school, manage their anger, and decrease their drug use, depression, and suicide risk. Perfect bound student workbook.

Reconnecting Youth Workbook (Pack of 10 Student Workbooks)

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This award-winning, research-based curriculum has been proven effective in helping high-risk youth achieve in school, manage their anger, and decrease drug use, depression, and suicide risk. It was piloted for 5 years with over 600 public high school students with funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute of Mental Health. It has been successful in over 2,000 schools, health clinics, mental health centers, juvenile detention centers, and private practices.

Reconnecting Youth: A Peer Group Approach to Building Life Skills (Leader's Set)

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

Second Edition! This award-winning, research-based curriculum has been proven effective in helping high-risk youth achieve in school, manage their anger, and decrease drug use, depression, and suicide risk. It was piloted for 5 years with over 600 public high school students with funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute of Mental Health. It has been successful in over 2,000 schools, health clinics, mental health centers, juvenile detention centers, and private practices. The second edition includes the research-based, proven content of the first edition along with significant changes to expand the curriculum, enhance content delivery, and hold student interest:

Record Book Plus

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Three books in one! An academic record, a behavior profile, and a parent communication resource. Traditional record book components plus innovative behavior documentation sheets. grades K-8

Rediscovering Hope: Our Greatest Teaching Strategy

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Classic Revisited! Burned out? Restore and enhance your sense of hope--and the likelihood of success in all your students--with this clear road map for reconnecting with alienated youth. Rediscovering Hope will invigorate your joy and confidence in the learning process. Understand and then implement techniques that reawaken children's hope and foster a sense of belonging.

Regaining Balance: Leading Your School Through Loss

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Every school is vulnerable to local tragedies that don’t make the national news, but still devastate a school community: the death of a beloved teacher from cancer, a child abducted over the weekend, or a drunken-driving accident that claims the lives of several students.

Revisiting Professional Learning Communities at Work™: New Insights for Improving Schools

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

This 10th-anniversary sequel to Professional Learning Communities at Work™: Best Practices for Enhancing Student Achievement provides much clearer insights regarding the transition from traditional schools to professional learning communities (PLCs). The authors set the record straight by responding to the work of educators who have unsuccessfully tried to implement or have misunderstood PLC at Work™ concepts. The authors examine organizational development, change processes, leadership, and successful practices outside of education to offer fresh perspectives.

Revisiting Professional Learning Communities at Work™: New Insights for Improving Schools (Hardcover)

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Look inside Revisiting Professional Learning Communities at Work™: New Insights for Improving Schools (Hardcover)!

Safe and Orderly Environment

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What can educators do to reduce the threat of physical harm in our schools? Creating a safe and orderly environment reaches beyond locker searches and security guards. This compendium of research explores how successful schools create a climate that is not only safe, but also conducive to teaching and learning.

Safe Passage: Leading Your School Through Crisis and Recovery

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Responsible leadership means being prepared for anything—even an unthinkable crisis. With Safe Passage: Leading Your School Through Crisis and Recovery, you will learn how to organize and train teams to effectively respond to critical incidents. The author draws on 30 years experience in responding to some of the nation’s most well-known school tragedies to guide you through the planning stages, the immediate response, and the essential long-term emotional recovery that is so often overlooked.

Show Me the Proof! Tools and Strategies to Make Data Work for You

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How do educators determine which analysis tools they should apply to which types of data for the right purposes?

Stepping Up: Leading the Charge to Improve Our Schools

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Whatever your position - central office or school level, a new or experienced leader - Larry Lezotte's new book will help you expand and hone your leadership skills as you pursue improved student learning and achievement in your school or district. Stepping Up identifies the leadership skills and behaviors that impact student achievement; offers you opportunities to assess your own attitudes, abilities, and skills; and creates a context and practical framework for initiating, managing, and monitoring positive change in your school or district.

Succeeding With Difficult Students: New Strategies for Reaching Your Most Challenging Students

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Turn your students' lives around and reduce your own stress! Practical techniques offered in this resource focus on building positive relationships with difficult students, and guiding those students toward more constructive behavior.

Sustainable School Reform: The District Context for School Improvement

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Teachers Plan Book Plus #1: Assertive Discipline

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Strengthen your discipline efforts with behavior management tips and reminders used by more than 500,000 teachers. Each week you’ll find an Assertive Discipline implementation tip, a motivating positive reinforcement idea, space for jotting daily reminders, and room to record specific discipline notes. Grades K-8

Look inside Teachers Plan Book Plus #2: Assertive Discipline!

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Integrate advanced behavior management ideas into your curriculum using strategies from the proven Assertive Discipline program. By mapping out the steps you will take each week to ensure a well-managed classroom, you will increase your effectiveness and the success of your students. grades K-8

Teachers Plan Book Plus #3: Homework Without Tears

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This plan book gives you a format for planning effective lessons and homework that supports student success. Reproducible tools, comprehensive guidelines, positive reinforcement ideas, and useful planning pages help you prepare yourself, your students, and parents for a successful year. grades K-8

Teachers Plan Book Plus #4: Parents on Your Side

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This 40-week plan book offers weekly tips and strategies for creating a powerful, positive parent involvement program. Introductory pages help teachers get started before the school year begins. The teacher-friendly design provides extra room to jot ideas and take notes. grades K-8

Teachers Plan Book Plus #5: Motivating Today's Learner

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Provides activities for stimulating lessons and homework assignments. grades K-8

Teachers Plan Book Plus #6: Practical Tips for New Teachers

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Dozens of practical tips and strategies that help new teachers become successful teachers. grades K-8

Teachers Plan Book Plus #7: Reading and Literacy A to Z

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Teaching Empathy: A Blueprint for Caring, Compassion, and Community

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The Teaching Empathy resource set (book and CD) focuses on teaching the pro-social skill of empathy by naming and practicing it, and by modeling and encouraging it. The four sections of this resource set will help you build a culture of caring in your school:

Teaching Our Children to Think

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This resource presents more than 200 exercises you can use to teach children to think for themselves. The exercises are designed to help you teach the fundamental and advanced problem-solving, decision-making, and thinking skills youth need to learn in order to go beyond rote memorization of content. grades 4-12

Teaching Self-Control: A Curriculum for Responsible Behavior

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New edition! This curriculum will help you minimize your classroom disruptions by teaching students self-control and responsibility. The ready-to-use lesson plans are easily integrated into your existing content areas and can be used in self-contained or inclusive classrooms to actively involve your students in learning 20 self-control skills. This second edition also includes Family and Student Self-Control Report Forms in Spanish. grades K-8

Teaching Your Secondary ELLs the Academic Language of Tests: Focusing on English Language Arts

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

Teach your English language learners unfamiliar language features before they encounter these words in core content areas and standardized test questions. Evidence-based, teacher-friendly lesson plans provide a practical framework for ensuring diverse learners have the same opportunity to achieve. This manual also supports English language arts teachers in providing instruction for content-specific language skills.

Teaching Your Secondary ELLs the Academic Language of Tests: Focusing on Language in Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

Teach your English language learners unfamiliar language features before they encounter these words in core content areas and standardized test questions. Evidence-based, teacher-friendly lesson plans provide a practical framework for ensuring diverse learners have the same opportunity to achieve. This manual also supports content-area teachers in providing instruction for content-specific language skills.

Teasing and Harassment: The Frames and Scripts Approach for Teachers and Parents

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

The renowned author of The Bullying Prevention Handbook offers this resource to prevent the development of bullying at an earlier stage. Based on social learning theory, this approach provides practical strategies for working with children and youth. You will find best practices and relevant information on child development and information on teasing, taunting, and community-wide violence prevention.

The Bullying Prevention Handbook: A Guide for Principals, Teachers, and Counselors

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The Bullying Prevention Handbook is a comprehensive, step-by-step bullying intervention model for understanding, preventing, and reducing the day-to-day teasing and harassment attributed to bullying.

The Collaborative Administrator: Working Together as a Professional Learning Community

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In a culture of shared leadership, the administrator's role is more important than ever. How do you maintain the right balance of "loose-tight" leadership? How do you establish profound, lasting trust? What principles strengthen principal leadership? This book answers these questions and more in compelling chapters that deliver the strategies and heartfelt inspiration essential to being the best administrator you can be.

The Collaborative Teacher: Working Together as a Professional Learning Community

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The time of exclusive top-down leadership is over! Only teachers can transform education from inside the classroom, and this book defines best practices of collaborative teacher leadership. Specific techniques, supporting research, expert insight, and real classroom stories illustrate how to work together for student learning, create a guaranteed and viable curriculum, and use data to inform instruction.

The Day That: A Workbook for Youth in the Aftermath of Trauma

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This workbook takes the Lovre Model of Intervention and makes it available to youth who are working with counselors who do not have expertise in trauma. The youth draw the continuum of life prior to the event, through the event, and on into life after some level of adjustment.

The Gift of Reading: A Guide for Educators and Parents

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Promoting literacy should be our focus from before our children are born until they leave secondary school. Teaching children to read and to love reading is the shared responsibility of every teacher, every administrator, and every parent. Together, David Bouchard and Wendy Sutton explore how we can turn our homes and schools into environments rich in literature and how we can model the love of reading for our children and students.

The Handbook for SMART School Teams

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This resource puts quality improvement at your fingertips by providing you with information covering all aspects of teaming-from types of teams, member roles, and team ground rules to data collection, data analysis, and data interpretation. You will also get a CD-ROM that includes reproducible tools for your quality-improvement efforts. This book will help you set the stage for collaboration and teamwork by teaching you how to become a SMART school and improve processes and systems.

The High-Performing School: Benchmarking the 10 Indicators of Effectiveness

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Get three books in one! First, learn what research has identified as the 10 indicators of high-performing schools. Then, use rubrics to track how closely your school reflects those practices, and learn what you can do to improve. Finally, tools and strategies help you create buy-in and involve all stakeholders, as well as monitor and report progress along the way.

The Journey to Becoming a Professional Learning Community

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You must take action, and you must move in the right direction. The Journey to Becoming a Professional Learning Community identifies key checkpoints that will keep you on track. This resource includes three 84 x 26 inch maps (one color vinyl and two black-and-white paper) and three copies of a process booklet to guide you on your journey.

The Kids Left Behind: Catching Up the Underachieving Children of Poverty

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Successfully reach and teach the underachieving children of poverty with the help of this comprehensive resource. The authors have compiled 18 timely research studies to reveal an abundance of practical, usable best-practice strategies you can implement at district, school, and classroom levels.

The Power of SMART Goals: Using Goals to Improve Student Learning

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

This comprehensive yet easy-to-read book by the authors of The Handbook for SMART School Teams shows readers how to transform their schools into places where each and every student is meeting and exceeding standards by shifting thinking to a focus on results. Four real stories from elementary, middle, and high schools that are implementing SMART goals give you a firsthand look at their “probletunities” -how they are turning challenges into opportunities for learning and improvement. The authors also provide templates and forms for implementing the SMART goals process in your own schools and classrooms.

The PRIME Leadership Framework: PRinciples and Indicators for Mathematics Education Leaders

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

If you’re a department chair, math coach, curriculum director, principal, or other leader in K–12 mathematics education, this book should be in your library. It reveals the four leadership principles and 12 action indicators essential to creating equity and excellence in math education. The NCSM leadership framework for dialogue and collaborative action includes reproducible summaries, reflective questions, and resources for further leadership development. Grades K-12

The Resilience Revolution: Discovering Strengths in Challenging Kids

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

The Resilience Revolution: Discovering Strengths in Challenging Kids will teach readers how to help at-risk children effectively overcome their “pain-based behavior.” Instead of focusing on punishment, this guide illustrates resourceful ways for achieving positive life objectives in challenging children through:

The School Board Fieldbook: Leading With Vision

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

Copublished by the American Association of School Administrators Take a reader-friendly tour through the responsibilities and challenges of being a school board member. Written by experienced, award-winning administrators, The School Board Fieldbook gives practical guidance on how to best work with school administrators and staff to create and fulfill a shared vision of school system excellence. This clear, concise book helps new board members understand the difference between their expectations and actual duties. It distinguishes the board’s strategic role in setting a vision from administration’s tactical role in creating a plan from the faculty and staff’s operational role in implementing the plan at the classroom level. The authors also outline some of the pitfalls boards encounter and offer useful strategies for collaborating without conflict, creating a system that values continuous improvement, communicating with the public on difficult issues, and monitoring progress. The School Board Fieldbook is not just a great resource for board members; it is a valuable tool for principals and superintendents to understand the roles and responsibilities of these important stakeholders in the school system.

The School of Belonging Plan Book

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

Building on Teaching Empathy, The School of Belonging Plan Book focuses on creating an emotionally and physically safe place where students are nurtured and encouraged toward their unique expression and achievement in the world.

Total Instructional Alignment: From Standards to Student Success

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

Are all students in your school or district actually learning what is expected of them? Total Instructional Alignment is a must-have resource for any educator envisioning ever higher levels of student success. This guide for teachers and administrators presents a three-step process for achieving alignment between standards, curriculum, classroom instruction, and assessment.

Understanding Response to Intervention: A Practical Guide to Systemic Implementation

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

For educators in Title I schools or other systems receiving grant money for improvement, RTI is the current reality. For all educators, the concepts of this initiative should make sense. At its core, RTI upholds the conviction that all students can learn. Whether you’re seeking a basic understanding of RTI or thorough knowledge for district-level implementation, you need this book.

Understanding School Assessment: A Parent and Community Guide to Helping Students Learn

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

The authors detail what assessment practices have been proven to increase student learning, and how to recognize if these practices are in place in your schools. Written for parents and community members, this guide clearly lays out what you need to know about standardized testing as well as assessment practices in the classroom that will help all children learn at higher levels. Published by Educational Testing Service

Virtual Schooling: Issues in the Development of E-Learning Policy

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

To celebrate our new partnership with Phi Delta Kappa International, we’re making this PDK resource available for a limited time.

What Do I Do When...? How to Achieve Discipline With Dignity in the Classroom

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

This practical, hands-on guide shows you how to apply the central principles from Discipline with Dignity while adding new approaches to handling difficult behavior in your school. grades K-12

What Schools Are For

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

To celebrate our new partnership with Phi Delta Kappa International, we’re making this PDK resource available for a limited time.

Whatever It Takes: How Professional Communities Respond When Kids Don't Learn (French)

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

This book examines the question, “What happens when, despite our best efforts in the classroom, a student does not learn?” In traditional schools, the response to this question has been left to individual classroom teachers to figure out.

Why Culture Counts: Teaching Children of Poverty

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

Poverty alone is not the cause of low achievement in our schools. Using careful research, Why Culture Counts shows why it is vital to take into account the needs, beliefs, and values that children of poverty and diverse learners bring to class every day. Find out:

Winning School Referenda: A Proven Strategy

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:21:10 -0700

Susan R Bauer, Debbie LeBoyer Croft, Wendy A Frost, Janice M Kellman, Judy Nidetz Navigate the referendum process with confidence and savvy. The authors of this detailed guide share winning strategies that will help convince voters to support your school or district’s funding initiatives at the polls. The authors’ straightforward step-by-step approach simplifies the process and makes it manageable for busy educators and inexperienced parent volunteers. The core to this strategy is building a neighborhood-based network that gets results. Learn how to analyze voting patterns, set up committee structures, run a phone bank, canvass and poll watch, and much more.

Susan R Bauer, Debbie LeBoyer Croft, Wendy A Frost, Janice M Kellman, Judy Nidetz

Navigate the referendum process with confidence and savvy. The authors of this detailed guide share winning strategies that will help convince voters to support your school or district’s funding initiatives at the polls. The authors’ straightforward step-by-step approach simplifies the process and makes it manageable for busy educators and inexperienced parent volunteers. The core to this strategy is building a neighborhood-based network that gets results. Learn how to analyze voting patterns, set up committee structures, run a phone bank, canvass and poll watch, and much more.

Getting Started: Reculturing Schools to Become Professional Learning Communities (French)

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FRENCH EDITION "I want to build a professional learning community, but where do I begin?" This PLC resource defines a clear starting point so that you can act on your PLC plans. With the help of the conceptual framework presented in this book, you will learn how to:

Build a solid foundation consisting of shared mission, vision, values, and goals.

Establish effective collaborative teams.

* Refocus your efforts on results to keep your school on a path of continuous improvement.

A question-and-answer session with the authors, useful handouts, and compelling case studies will guide you through the process of starting your own professional learning community. Premiers pas : transformation culturelle de l'école en communauté d'apprentissage professionnelle Les auteurs de ce livre offrent des suggestions pour l'établissement d'une communauté d'apprentissage professionnelle, notamment comment lancer le processus et trouver le temps nécessaire, et évoquent les leçons apprises dans différentes écoles pendant leur transformation.

Harbors of Hope: The Planning for School and Student Success Process (French)

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FRENCH EDITION Harbors of Hope: The Planning for School and Student Success Process offers a proven way for schools to deal effectively with the “white waters” of change and to create a culture of hope in which students receive the support they need to achieve success. This resource offers practical solutions for improving student achievement, attitudes, attendance, and behavior through a proven planning model. Harbors of Hope combines the authors’ extensive experience with effective school research and the power of the professional learning community to create a uniquely hopeful approach that results in schools that are effective, efficient, and excellent. Havres d'espoir : planification du processus de réussite scolaire offre une méthode éprouvée pour guider efficacement les écoles à travers les eaux turbulentes du changement et les aider à établir une culture d'espoir, au sein de laquelle les élèves obtiennent le soutien nécessaire à leur réussite.

Professional Learning Communities at Work™: Best Practices for Enhancing Student Achievement (French)

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FRENCH EDITION Transform your school into a professional learning community where all students succeed. Professional Learning Communities at Work shares best practices for school improvement. This resource provides specific, research-based recommendations for: * Initiating, implementing, and sustaining a change process * Working collaboratively to design an effective research-based curriculum * Choosing appropriate assessment models * Creating meaningful partnerships with parents * Establishing effective workplace-based professional development programs * Overcoming the common mistakes you may face as you work toward change Communautés d'apprentissage professionnelles : Méthodes d'amélioration du rendement scolaire Ce livre-ressource présente des recommandations pour une amélioration constante du rendement scolaire, à partir des meilleures méthodes actuellement employées dans les écoles. Il offre des moyens pratiques et éprouvés pour la transformation de l'école en une communauté d'apprentissage professionnelle axée sur les résultats.

Succeeding With Difficult Students Workbook

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Turn your students’ lives around and reduce your own stress! Practical techniques offered in this resource focus on building positive relationships with difficult students, and guiding those students toward more constructive behavior.

Whatever It Takes: How Professional Communities Respond When Kids Don't Learn (French)

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FRENCH EDITION What do you do when, despite your best efforts, a student does not learn? Through the case studies of an elementary school, a middle school, and two high schools, you will learn how professional learning communities respond. By working with what they already have, educators can provide all students with additional time and support when students face trouble in their learning. This book offers practical wisdom and inspiring stories of:

Raising student performance by focusing on student achievement

Building a collaborative culture

Implementing a school-wide system of interventions

Overcoming typical objections

Tous les moyens sont bons : La communauté d’apprentissage professionnelle face aux difficultés d’apprentissage abrode une problématique de premiére importance : que faire lorsque, malgré nos plus grands efforts en classe, certains élèves n’assimilent pas l’apprentissage ? Pour y répondre, une communauté d’apprentissage professionnelle établira un système d’intervention à l’échelle de l’école qui garantit à tous les élèves du temps et du soutien supplémentaires en cas de difficultés d’apprentissage.

Assertive Discipline® Secondary Workbook

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These workbooks serve as companion pieces to Lee Canter's Assertive Discipline: Positive Behavior Management for Today's Classroom, Third Edition. They help elementary, middle school, and secondary teachers implement Canter's Assertive Discipline behavior management program in their own classrooms. The easy-to-use format gives teachers the concise guidelines they need to succeed with the program. The workbooks also contain a variety of timesaving and age appropriate reproducibles and teacher worksheets that complement the program and will motivate students to behave appropriately. Teachers can learn practical ideas for launching a successful Assertive Discipline Program:

Plan beginning-of-the-year lessons that teach students to choose responsible behavior in all classroom situations.

Promote a positive, cooperative learning environment for all students.

Gain support from parents.

Document and organize your behavior management program.

grades 6-12

Ensuring Success in Math and Science: Curriculum and Teaching Strategies for At-Risk Learners

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Help students prepare for the 21st century workforce by making math and science accessible, relevant, and fun. analyzes the systemic and instructional problems that contribute to math and science failure, and presents powerful solutions to implement at the classroom, school, and district levels. This resource includes suggestions for curriculum redevelopment, design, and implementation, as well as teacher-tested K–8 lesson plans and engaging home exercises that strengthen critical thinking skills.

First-Class Teacher: Success Strategies for New Teachers

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This bestseller for new teachers offers hundreds of activities, strategies, and reproducibles to help them become first-class teachers. Topics include preparing for the beginning of school, developing strategies to manage student behavior, and communicating with parents.

Parents on Your Side® Resource Materials Workbook

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Lee Canter's Parents on Your Side Resource Materials Workbook helps teachers gain parent support through positive, effective communication, with an entire school year full of motivating messages, activities, incentives, awards, and guidelines.

Peacemakers: A Violence Prevention Program Leader's Guide

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An award-winning and research-based intervention, the Peacemakers program combines best practices from psychology and values education into experiences that will help you prevent youth violence and improve interpersonal behavior. The program, which includes a Leader’s Guide and Student Handbook, is written for students in grades 4-8, and can be implemented in schools, as well as in youth groups, after-school programs, residential treatment programs, or with other groups of children led by caring adults. The Leader’s Guide includes 18 step-by-step lessons. Each lesson includes an overview, scripted lesson plan, and handouts. Occasional features include quizzes and a series of original short stories.

Peacemakers: A Violence Prevention Program Student Handbook

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The Peacemakers Student Handbook consists of handouts and worksheets that students complete throughout the program. The handbook also includes copies of the original stories that are in the Leader’s Guide. All the pages from the Student Handbook appear in the Leader’s Guide and include original illustrations created specifically for children in the target age group.

Welcome to Middletown: A Reality-Based Program for Engaging Your Staff in Data Assessment for School Improvement

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Simulated Reality: An Exciting New Approach to Staff Development Middletown offers a cutting-edge instructional design that employs a reality-based simulation to engage workshop participants in “fictionalized” experiences during an 18-month period in the life of a school district. Participants role play school administrators, school board members, newspaper reporters, religious leaders and parents while experiencing simulated press conferences, school board meetings and planning teams. Participants review real-life school data, identify problems and successes, take votes, make recommendations and plan improvement efforts. Participants get involved, get angry, laugh and gain a significant set of new skills while working through the Middletown simulation.

The Safe Room: A Guide for School Crisis Responders

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The Safe Room Guide provides the guidelines and tools necessary to create a reassuring environment that allows students the opportunity to process, vent, and find meaning in the aftermath of tragedy, crisis, and loss. This resource provides clear guidelines for providing the additional support those who are most bereft after a school crisis need.

Write For Insight: Empowering Content Learning, Grades 6-12

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Middle and high school writing is not pointless! From one of the most respected writing professors in America, this book combines the insight - affective - for writing with writing as a learning tool in all content areas.

Words Their Way; Word Sorts for Syllables and Affixes Spellers, 2nd Edition

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This collection of word sorting activities is for students who are in the syllables and affixes stage of spelling development, typically intermediate or advanced readers and writers (Grades 3 to 8).

Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction, 4th Edition

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Words Their Way's developmentally-driven, hands-on instructional approach has been a phenomenon in word study, providing a practical way to study words with students.

Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Within Word Pattern Spellers, 2nd Edition Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Within Word Pattern Spellers, 2nd Edition

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Designed to help teachers working with transitional readers in the within word pattern stage of spelling development (Grades 1-4), the sorts in this companion volume help students begin contrasting long and short vowels and sorting words by grammatical and semantic features.

Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Letter Name - Alphabetic Spellers, 2nd Edition

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We believe that the hands-on word sorting approach to word study is invaluable to you and your students. Broaden your word study understanding and instruction with this expanded word sorting tool for week by week implementation with Letter Name-Alphabetic spellers (Grades K - 3).

Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Derivational Relations Spellers, 2nd Edition Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Derivational Relations Spellers, 2nd Edition

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This companion volume, the last in the series, provides word study for advanced readers and writers in the derivational relations stage of spelling development (Grades 5-12).

Words Their Way: Letter-Name Alphabetic Sorts for Spanish-Speaking English Learners Words Their Way: Letter-Name Alphabetic Sorts for Spanish-Speaking English Learners

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A new text providing strategic assistance for teachers working with native Spanish speakers. Based on the same solid research and using the same scope and sequence laid out in Words Their Way with English Learners, this companion volume begins with a series of picture concept sorts that teach students how to sort, providing guidance to help teachers make sorting meaningful.

Words Their Way: Letter and Picture Sorts for Emergent Spellers, 2nd Edition Words Their Way: Letter and Picture Sorts for Emergent Spellers, 2nd Edition

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Broaden your word study understanding and instruction with this expanded word sorting tool for week by week implementation with emergent spellers (ages 1 - 7). This stage-specific companion volume to Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction provides a complete curriculum of assessments, reproducible sorts, and detailed directions for the teacher working with students in the emergent stage of spelling.

Words Their Way: Emergent Sorts for Spanish-Speaking English Learners Words Their Way: Emergent Sorts for Spanish-Speaking English Learners

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One reality of today's classrooms is the limited supply of materials available to teachers trying to support English learners' literacy development. The educators and researchers who developed Words Their Way " with English Learners, a phenomenon in word study, understand this challenge. The cornerstone of the Words Their Way " approach to word study is the examination of students' word knowledge, so teachers can build language and literacy competence on that foundation. This approach is especially valuable for English learners. This text focuses on the specific needs of Spanish speakers just beginning to learn English. It provides you with the reproducible sorts and step-by-step directions you'll need to guide students through each sorting lesson. The week-by-week curriculum provided in this text will complement the use of any phonics, spelling, and reading curricula. Word study is a dynamic instructional approach for teachers and their English-learning students. Your students will feel empowered as they grasp new words in English, build skills to understand the commonalities and differences between Spanish and English, and make connections between oral and written words.

Words Their Way with English Learners: Word Study for Spelling, Phonics, and Vocabulary Instruction

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Words Their Way with English Learners will help you build vocabulary, spelling, and word recognition skills in your English learners, giving them the foundation to master their new language

What Really Matters in Writing: Research-Based Practices Across the Curriculum What Really Matters in Writing: Research-Based Practices Across the Curriculum

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This new entry in the best selling What Really Matters series turns its trademark "essentials and practices" treatment on the skill of writing. Filled with student examples, sample lessons, and activities, this is one all-around resource no teacher should be without!

What Really Matters in Vocabulary

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To Pat Cunningham vocabulary isn't just a predictor for comprehension it is a reminder of how much meaning vocabulary matters and how complex it is to teach children meanings for words. Features: Practical strategies teachers can use to build meaning vocabulary throughout the school day. Separate chapters for building vocabulary during math, science, social studies and the arts and physical education

What Really Matters in Fluency: Research-based Practices across the Curriculum What Really Matters in Fluency: Research-based Practices across the Curriculum

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To help teachers acquire a fuller understanding of the complexity of fluency development, literacy researcher and best-selling author Dick Allington offers clear recommendations to guide classroom teachers in fostering development with a few modest changes to their daily reading lessons that will strengthen every student's fluency development in his book What Really Matters in Fluency.

WHAT REALLY MATTERS FOR STRUGGLING READERS: DESIGNING RESEARCH-BASED PROGRAMS

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Nationally recognized scholar and author Dick Allington offers easy-to-understand interpretations of research that support three important principles of effective instructional design and shows teachers how to use a variety of best practices with children who are struggling readers.

WAYS OF WRITING WITH YOUNG KIDS: TEACHING CREATIVITY AND CONVENTIONS UNCONVENTIONALLY

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WAYS OF WRITING WITH YOUNG KIDS: TEACHING CREATIVITY AND CONVENTIONS UNCONVENTIONALLY

Vocabulary Their Way: Word Study with Middle and Secondary Students

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The author team that developed the research-rooted word study phenomenon Words Their Way turn their attention to the same kind of hands on, research based approach to developing vocabulary with students in intermediate, middle, and secondary grades.

The Teacher's Guide to Success

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The Teacher's Guide to Success: Teaching Effectively in Today's Classrooms is a quick and easy reference to support teachers at all grade levels, but particularly teachers experiencing their first years in the classroom.

The SIOP Model for Teaching Mathematics to English Learners The SIOP Model for Teaching Mathematics to English Learners

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This highly anticipated book, The SIOP Model for Teaching Mathematics to English Learners addresses the issues faced in teaching math to English learners (ELs) at each grade-level. SIOP techniques and activities organized around the eight SIOP components guide educators in promoting academic language development along with comprehensible mathematics content.

The SIOP Model for Teaching English-Language Arts to English Learners The SIOP Model for Teaching English-Language Arts to English Learners

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This highly anticipated book, The SIOP Model for Teaching English-Language Arts to English Learners addresses the issues faced in educating English learners (ELs) in ELA at each grade-level. SIOP techniques and activities organized around the eight SIOP components guide educators in promoting academic language development along with comprehensible content.

The SIOP Model for Administrators

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he first book to guide administrators on how to verify the proper implementation of the SIOP model for ALL English language learners in their schools!

The Reading/Writing Connection, 2nd Edition The Reading/Writing Connection, 2nd Edition

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Unique in its field, The Reading/Writing Connection provides student models at middle and high school levels in almost every chapter, illustrating actual student responses to reading and writing activities. The book is also rich with literary selections, giving teachers easy access to the literature featured in the activities and demonstration lessons.

The Principalship: New Roles in a Professional Learning Community

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This innovative first edition text presents a complete picture of the principal as school administrator, community builder, advocate, manager, mentor, supervisor, politician, leader and learner.

The Literacy Coach: Guiding in the Right Direction The Literacy Coach: Guiding in the Right Direction

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Grounded on the philosophy that literacy coaches are to provide professional development across a broad landscape of opportunities, ranging from facilitating a workshop to supporting school literacy leadership teams in conducting collaborative action research, this long-awaited book provides a comprehensive and broad view of job-embedded literacy coaching from elementary through high school.

The First Year Matters: Being Mentored.....in Action The First Year Matters: Being Mentored.....in Action

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The First Year Matters was written to be a companion to Mentoring in Action, also by Carol Pelletier. Organized in the same month-by-month format, The First Year Matters organizes the first hectic year of teaching so that new teachers and student teachers can have a ready reference for their thoughts and journal entries. It also provides topics of discussion for meeting with their mentor, activities for discussion, and goal setting for the coming month.

The Field Guide to Teaching: A Handbook for New Teachers

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The goal of The Field Guide to Teaching: A Handbook for New Teachers is to provide very specific and practical guidance for those who are entering the teaching profession.

The Essentials of Teaching Children to Read: The Teacher Makes the Difference

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Why is preparation so critical for reading teachers? Because research tells us that it's the teacher who makes the difference in effective reading instruction. Capable literacy teachers think about their teaching decisions, and they understand and meet the needs of individual students.

The Elementary Teacher's Guide to the Best Internet Resources The Elementary Teacher's Guide to the Best Internet Resources

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Are you ready to use the vast resources of the Internet in your teaching? The Elementary Teacher's Guide to the Best Internet Resources offers a contemporary approach to cataloging lesson plans and resources on the Internet, and criteria for you to use in selecting websites and lesson plans on the Internet.

THE ART OF TEACHING READING

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THe ART OF TEACHING READING is perhaps the one of the best books to gain a foundation on teaching reading k-8. ALRAN Books also carries many of Lucy's Heinemann titles not listed on the website. Call for specials on Lucy's titles.

The Allyn & Bacon Social Atlas of the United States

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Uses colorful maps, graphs, and some of the best social science data available to survey the leading social, economic, and political indicators of American society.

Teaching Vocabulary: 50 Creative Strategies, Grades 6-12 Teaching Vocabulary: 50 Creative Strategies, Grades 6-12

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This book fills the gap for specific learning needs. It is an entire volume devoted to the time-tested, classroom-proven ideas that really work with elementary, middle, and high school students - including ESL and other students who have a limited vocabulary and few literacy skills.

Teaching Vocabulary in All Classrooms

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Teaching Vocabulary in All Classrooms is an essential book for teachers - at all levels of experience and in every content area - who care about vocabulary development. This newest edition provides ample focus on the English language learner and includes a new, enriching chapter on spelling and word structure.

Teaching the Nature of Science Through Process Skills: Activities for Grades 3-8 Teaching the Nature of Science Through Process Skills: Activities for Grades 3-8

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With Teaching the Nature of Science through Process Skills, author and science educator Randy Bell uses process skills you'll recognize, such as inference and observation, to promote an understanding of the characteristics of science knowledge.

Teaching Student-Centered Mathematics: Grades 5-8

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Volume Three of the Van de Walle Professional Mathematics Series provides practical guidance along with proven strategies for practicing teachers of grades 5 through 8.

Teaching Student-Centered Mathematics grades k-3

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This volume is tailored to the specific needs of grades K to 3, allowing teachers to quickly and easily locate information to implement in their classes.

Teaching Student-Centered Mathematics grades 3-5

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The student-centered approach will result in successful math students, making this book indispensable for math teachers!

Welcome to Middletown:

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A Reality-Based Program for Engaging Your Staff in Data Assessment for School Improvement

The Safe Room:

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A Guide for School Crisis Responders

Regaining Balance:

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Leading Your School Through Loss

Peacemakers:

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A Violence Prevention Program Student Handbook

Peacemakers:

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A Violence Prevention Program Leader's Guide

Parents on Your Side® Resource Materials Workbook

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First-Class Teacher:

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Success Strategies for New Teachers

Ensuring Success in Math and Science:

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Curriculum and Teaching Strategies for At-Risk Learners

Teaching Science for Understanding: A Practical Guide for Middle and High School Teachers

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Teaching Middle and High School Science for Understanding: A Practical Guide for Teachers provides a theoretical and practical introduction to teaching science for understanding and application.

Assertive Discipline® Secondary Workbook

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Team School Improvement Kit

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Solutions series

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Teaching Science as Investigations: Modeling Inquiry Through Learning Cycle Lessons

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Written with reform in mind, this book combines the teaching and learning of science by integrating pedagogy within science content investigations. The first chapter in each unit includes investigations appropriate for K-4 learners and the subsequent chapters present investigations for Grades 5-8. Each investigation has one student version that can be reproduced for classroom use and one teacher version that includes the expanded content needed to teach the investigation in a constructivist way. Aligned with the NSES science content standards, the investigations are sequenced to build conceptual development of science concepts and are supported by the 5E learning cycle lesson format.

Focused Instruction:

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An Innovative Teaching Model for All Learners

Discipline and Motivation Set

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Whatever It Takes:

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How Professional Communities Respond When Kids Don't Learn (French)

Succeeding With Difficult Students Workbook

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Professional Learning Communities at Work™:

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Best Practices for Enhancing Student Achievement (French)

Teaching Learning Strategies and Study Skills to Students with Learning Disabilities, Attention Deficit Disorders, or Special Needs

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TEACHING STUDY SKILLS AND STRATEGIES TO STUDENTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES, ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDERS, OR SPECIAL NEEDS

Harbors of Hope:

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The Planning for School and Student Success Process (French)

Getting Started:

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Reculturing Schools to Become Professional Learning Communities (French)

Winning School Referenda:

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A Proven Strategy

Why Culture Counts:

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Teaching Children of Poverty

Whatever It Takes:

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How Professional Communities Respond When Kids Don't Learn

What Schools Are For

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What Do I Do When...? How to Achieve Discipline With Dignity in the Classroom

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Virtual Schooling:

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Issues in the Development of E-Learning Policy

Understanding School Assessment:

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A Parent and Community Guide to Helping Students Learn

Understanding Response to Intervention:

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A Practical Guide to Systemic Implementation

Total Instructional Alignment:

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From Standards to Student Success

The School of Belonging Plan Book

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The School Board Fieldbook:

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Leading With Vision

The Resilience Revolution:

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Discovering Strengths in Challenging Kids

The PRIME Leadership Framework:

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PRinciples and Indicators for Mathematics Education Leaders

The Power of SMART Goals:

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Using Goals to Improve Student Learning

The Kids Left Behind:

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Catching Up the Underachieving Children of Poverty

The Journey to Becoming a Professional Learning Community

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The Handbook for SMART School Teams

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The Gift of Reading:

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A Guide for Educators and Parents

The Day That:

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A Workbook for Youth in the Aftermath of Trauma

The Collaborative Teacher:

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Working Together as a Professional Learning Community

The Collaborative Administrator:

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Working Together as a Professional Learning Community

The Bullying Prevention Handbook:

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A Guide for Principals, Teachers, and Counselors

Teasing and Harassment:

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The Frames and Scripts Approach for Teachers and Parents

Teaching Self-Control:

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A Curriculum for Responsible Behavior

Teaching Our Children to Think

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Teaching Empathy:

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A Blueprint for Caring, Compassion, and Community

Teachers Plan Book Plus #7:

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Reading and Literacy A to Z

Teachers Plan Book Plus #6

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Practical Tips for New Teachers

Teachers Plan Book Plus #5:

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Motivating Today's Learner

Teachers Plan Book Plus #4:

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Parents on Your Side

Teachers Plan Book Plus #3:

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Homework Without Tears

Teachers Plan Book Plus #2:

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Assertive Discipline

Teachers Plan Book Plus #1:

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Assertive Discipline

Sustainable School Reform:

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The District Context for School Improvement

Succeeding With Difficult Students:

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New Strategies for Reaching Your Most Challenging Students

Stepping Up:

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Leading the Charge to Improve Our Schools

Show Me the Proof! Tools and Strategies to Make Data Work for You

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School Improvement for the Next Generation

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Safe Passage:

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Leading Your School Through Crisis and Recovery

Safe and Orderly Environment

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Revisiting Professional Learning Communities at Work™:

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New Insights for Improving Schools (Hardcover)

Revisiting Professional Learning Communities at Work™:

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Improving Schools

Rediscovering Hope:

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Our Greatest Teaching Strategy

Record Book Plus

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Reconnecting Youth:

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A Peer Group Approach to Building Life Skills (Leader's Set)

Reconnecting Youth Workbook (Pack of 10 Student Workbooks)

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Reconnecting Youth (Student Workbook)

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Reclaiming Youth at Risk:

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Our Hope for the Future

Reclaiming Life! A Workbook for Survivors of Trauma

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Pyramid Response to Intervention:

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RTI, Professional Learning Communities, and How to Respond When Kids Don't Learn

Professional Learning Communities at Work™:

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Best Practices for Enhancing Student Achievement

Professional Learning Communities at Work™ Plan Book

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Power Tools for Adolescent Literacy:

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Strategies for Learning

Power Struggles:

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Successful Techniques for Educators

Power Standards:

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Identifying the Standards That Matter the Most

Positive Home-School Relations

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PASSport to Success:

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A PASS Training Program

Parents on Your Side:

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A Teacher's Guide to Creating Positive Relationships with Parents - 2nd Edition

Parents Assuring Student Success:

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Achievement Made Easy By Learning Together

Parents Assuring Student Success Workbook Module 8:

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Reading Skills (Spanish)

Parents Assuring Student Success Workbook Module 8:

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Reading Skills

Parents Assuring Student Success Workbook Module 7:

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Memory & Thinking Skills (Spanish)

Parents Assuring Student Success Workbook Module 7:

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Memory & Thinking Skills

Parents Assuring Student Success Workbook Module 6:

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Preparing for Tests (Spanish)

Parents Assuring Student Success Workbook Module 6:

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Preparing for Tests

Parents Assuring Student Success Workbook Module 5:

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Note-Taking Skills (Spanish)

Parents Assuring Student Success Workbook Module 5:

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Note-Taking Skills

Parents Assuring Student Success Workbook Module 4:

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Homework & Learning Expeditors (Spanish)

Parents Assuring Student Success Workbook Module 4:

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Homework & Learning Expeditors

Parents Assuring Student Success Workbook Module 3:

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Study Skills (Spanish)

Parents Assuring Student Success Workbook Module 3:

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Study Skills

Parents Assuring Student Success Workbook Module 2:

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The Home Environment (Spanish)

Parents Assuring Student Success Workbook Module 2:

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The Home Environment

Parents Assuring Student Success Workbook Module 1:

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Parent Attitude (Spanish)

Parents Assuring Student Success Workbook Module 1:

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Parent Attitude

On Common Ground:

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The Power of Professional Learning Communities

No Disposable Kids

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My Homework Ate My Dog--Again:

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Cartoon Basics for the Successful Educator

My Homework Ate My Dog:

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Great Cartoons from the Phi Delta Kappan, 1991-1996

Motivating Students Who Don’t Care:

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Successful Techniques for Educators

MORE What Do I Do When...? Powerful Strategies to Promote Positive Behavior

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Media Relations for Schools:

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Including Crisis Communications

Media Relations for School Crises

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Making Standards Work:

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How to Implement Standards-Based Assessments in the Classroom, School, and District

Making Math Accessible to Students With Special Needs:

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Practical Tips and Suggestions (Grades K-2)

Making Math Accessible to Students With Special Needs:

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Practical Tips and Suggestions (Grades 9-12)

Making Math Accessible to Students With Special Needs:

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Practical Tips and Suggestions (Grades 6-8)

Making Math Accessible to Students With Special Needs:

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Practical Tips and Suggestions (Grades 3-5)

Learning for All By Lawrence Lezotte

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Learning by Doing:

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A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work™

Laughing Matters:

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Strategies for Building a Joyful Learning Community

Kids Who Outwit Adults

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Instructional Leadership

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Improving Classroom Questions:

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A Teacher’s Guide to Increasing Student Motivation, Participation, and Higher-Level Thinking

Implementation Guide for Assembly Required

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High Expectations

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Hazing in High Schools:

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Causes and Consequences

Harbors of Hope:

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The Planning for School and Student Success Process

Grant Writing for Educators:

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Practical Strategies for Teachers, Administrators, and Staff

Gifted Education:

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Promising Practices

Getting Started:

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Reculturing Schools to Become Professional Learning Communities

Getting By or Getting Better:

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Applying Effective Schools Research to Today’s Issues

From Rage to Hope:

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Strategies for Reclaiming Black & Hispanic Students

Frequent Monitoring of Student Progress

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For the Love of Reading:

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Books to Build Lifelong Readers

Focused Assessment:

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Enriching the Instructional Cycle

Five Big Ideas:

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Leading Total Instructional Alignment

Evaluating Principals:

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Issues and Practices

Enriched Learning Projects

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Educating Language-Minority Students:

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An Administrator’s Guide to the Legal Issues

Discipline With Dignity for Challenging Youth

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Delivering on the Promise:

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The Education Revolution

Creating the Total Quality Effective School

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Creating Successful Inclusion Programs:

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Guidelines for Teachers and Administrators

Creating & Recognizing Quality Rubrics

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Compelling Conversations:

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Connecting Leadership to Achievement

Collaboration set

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Clear and Focused Mission & Opportunity to Learn/Time on Task

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Classroom Management:

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The Educators’ Cartoon Guide to Survival

Classroom Management for Academic Success

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Classroom Assessment FOR Student Learning:

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Doing It Right—Using It Well

Change Wars

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Building Classroom Communities:

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Strategies for Developing a Culture of Caring

Beyond the Numbers:

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Making Data Work for Teachers & School Leaders

Behave Yourself! Helping Students Plan to Do Better

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Assessment FOR Learning:

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An Action Guide for School Leaders

Assertive Discipline® Elementary Workbook

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Assembly Required:

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A Continuous School Improvement System

Anger Management for Youth:

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Stemming Aggression and Violence

Ahead of the Curve:

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The Power of Assessment to Transform Teaching and Learning

Adventure Education for the Classroom Community:

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Over 90 Activities for Developing Character, Responsibility, and the Courage to Succeed

Accountability in Action:

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A Blueprint for Learning Organizations

A Leader's Companion:

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Inspiration for Professional Learning Communities at Work™

"Unwrapping" the Standards:

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A Simple Process to Make Standards Manageable

Transforming School Culture:

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How to Overcome Staff Division

Leading With Trust:

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How to Build Strong School Teams

District Leadership That Works:

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Striking the Right Balance

Teaching Your Secondary ELLs the Academic Language of Tests:

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Focusing on Language in Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies

Teaching Your Secondary ELLs the Academic Language of Tests:

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Focusing on English Language Arts

Designing & Teaching Learning Goals & Objectives

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The High-Performing School:

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Benchmarking the 10 Indicators of Effectiveness

Response to Intervention set

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Beyond the RTI Pyramid:

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Solutions for the First Years of Implementation

Assessment Leaders set

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The Teacher as Assessment Leader

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The Principal as Assessment Leader

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Making Math Accessible to English Language Learners:

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Practical Tips and Suggestions (Grades K-2)

Making Math Accessible to English Language Learners:

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Practical Tips and Suggestions (Grades 3-5)

Making Math Accessible to English Language Learners:

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Practical Tips and Suggestions (Grades 6-8)

Making Math Accessible to English Language Learners:

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Practical Tips and Suggestions (Grades 9-12)

Head of the Class:

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The Collected Kappan Cartoons for Educators

New Release Leading Edge set

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On Excellence in Teaching

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Building a Professional Learning Community at Work™:

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A Guide to the First Year

Differentiated Professional Development in a Professional Learning Community

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Leading a Learning Organization:

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The Science of Working With Others

Assertive Discipline®:

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Positive Behavior Management for Today's Classroom 4th Edition

40 Reading Intervention Strategies for K-6 Students:

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Research-Based Support for RTI

Classroom Strategies That Work library

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Formative Assessment & Standards-Based Grading :

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Raising the Bar and Closing the Gap:

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Whatever It Takes

Turning Your School Around:

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A Self-Guided Audit for School Improvement

When Actions Speak Louder Than Words:

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Understanding the Challenging Behaviors of Young Children and Students With Disabilities

Teaching Reading in Middle School

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A Strategic Approach to Teaching Reading That Improves Comprehension and Thinking

Your Classroom Library: New Ways to Give It More Teaching Power

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Great Teacher-Tested and Research-Based Strategies for Organizing and Using Your Library to Increase Students' Reading Achievement

Writing to Prompts in the Trait-Based Classroom: Literature Response

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Prompts That Provide All the Elements Students Need to Start Writing:￝A Role, Audience, Format, Topic, and Strong Verb (R.A.F.T.S.)

Writing to Prompts in the Trait-Based Classroom: Content Areas

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Prompts That Provide All the Elements Students Need to Start Writing: A Role, Audience, Format, Topic, and Strong Verb

Writing Lessons for the Overhead: Responding to Literature Writing Lessons for the Overhead: Responding to Literature

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A master writing teacher shares step-by-step lessons that guide students to analyze and respond thoughtfully to characters, conflict, theme, and other key elements of the literature they read.

Writing Lessons For The Overhead: Grades 5 And Up: 20 Transparencies That Show Models of Strong Writing With Companion Mini-Lessons

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These time-saving resources offer transparencies with multiple writing samples that showcase a particular element of writing. Help students recognize the strengths and weaknesses of each piece so they can see the qualities of good writing - and use them in their own work.

Writing Lessons for the Overhead: Grade 2-3: 20 Transparencies That Show Models of Strong Writing With Companion Mini-Lessons

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Writing Lessons for the Overhead: Grade 1: 20 Transparencies That Show Models of Strong Writing With Companion Mini-Lessons

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Mini-Lessons with ready-to-go models perfect for first grade! Offers transparencies with writing samples that showcase a particular element of writing, including focus, organization, word choice, details, leads, and revision. The author provides questions to ask that help students recognize the strengths and weaknesses of each piece so they can see the qualities of good writing - and use them in their own work.

Writing Lessons for the Interactive Whiteboard: 20 Whiteboard-Ready Writing Samples and Mini-Lessons That Show You How to Teach the Elements of Strong Writing Writing Lessons for the Interactive Whiteboard: 20 Whiteboard-Ready Writing Samples and Mini-Lessons That Show You How to Teach the Elements of Strong Writing

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These easy, step-by-step lessons show teachers how to use the interactive whiteboard to engage students in learning excellent writing craft techniques with models of strong writing

Writing Lessons for the Content Areas: Standards-Based Lessons That Help Students Plan, Organize, and Draft Their Nonfiction Writing in Social Studies and Science

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This collection of writing lessons is just what teachers need to help them meet the language arts standards while teaching important content. A great way to integrate the curriculum! Includes a complete integrated social studies unit.

Writing Extraordinary Essays: Every Middle Schooler Can!: Strategies, Lessons, and Rubrics - Plus Proven Tips for Succeeding on Tests

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How do you turn unmotivated students into eager and accomplished essay writers? In this powerful resource, a master teacher gives you the tools you need to make this happen.

Writing Above Standard: Engaging Workshop Lessons That Take Standards to New Heights and Help Kids Become Skilled, Inspired Writers

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Harness the power of a writing workshop that relies upon a standards-based foundation while still embracing active learning and student inquiry.

Workshops That Work

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30 Days of Mini-Lessons That Help Launch and Establish All-Important Routines for an Effective Reading and Writing Workshop

Word Family Tales Learning Library Box Set

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A Series of 25 Irresistible Storybooks That Build Early Phonics Skills & Teach the Top 25 Word Families

Word Family Tales Audio CD