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ASCD is a global education organization focused on empowering educators to advance and elevate learning to meet the needs of all students--equitably and wholly. ASCD is where educators come to learn about new instructional strategies, to grow as individuals, and to thrive as professionals. They are the preeminent global leader of professional learning resources for all classroom teachers, instructional leaders, principals, and superintendents. ASCD publications champion the most influential voices in education today, publishing diverse resources to help educators the world over. 

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ASCD books are influential, practical resources for educators and teachers the world over. For a deeper dive into ASCD titles published in previous years, check out these book guides curated and arranged by subject and interest area. 
​Assessments provide information about what students know or are able to do, and they help teachers improve learning by uncovering students’ areas of misunderstanding or lack of understanding. To report on assessment data, grading assigns values to the results as a record of students' ability, achievement, or progress.
​In education, discussions about culture and diversity involve recognizing a variety of student needs including those of ethnicity, language, socioeconomic class, disabilities, and gender. In addition, poverty and trauma impose social, cognitive, health-related, and stress-related challenges on students and affect their ability to learn. One such effort is inclusive instruction, an approach in which students with and without disabilities learn together.
​Differentiated instruction is an approach to teaching in which educators actively plan for students' differences so that all students can best learn. Teachers divide their time, resources, and efforts to effectively teach students who have various backgrounds, readiness and skill levels, and interests.
​Remote or distance learning requires educators to harness and implement the power of technology to transform learning. It embraces an array of technology tools that support and energize multiple forms of learning and teaching—including synchronous/asynchronous, blended, gamification, & more.
Instructional design is the systematic development of instructional specifications using learning and instructional theory to ensure the quality of instruction. It is the entire process that analyzes learning needs and goals and develops a delivery system to meet those needs. Curriculum development is the process of developing lessons, assignments, units, and projects to teach students knowledge and skills.
Brain-based learning refers to teaching methods, lesson designs, and school programs that are based on scientific research about how the brain learns—how students learn differently as they age, grow, and mature socially, emotionally, and cognitively.
​Professional development refers to a wide variety of specialized training, formal education, or advanced professional learning intended to help administrators, teachers, and other educators improve their professional knowledge, competence, skill, and effectiveness.
Far more than just setting policies or procedures, school leadership is about relationships—inspiring students and teachers alike and creating the conditions for learning to take place. Classroom management refers to the wide variety of skills and techniques that teachers use to keep students organized, orderly, focused, attentive, on task, and academically productive during a class.
​Social and emotional learning is the process through which children develop the skills, attitudes, and values necessary to acquire social and emotional competence, including self-awareness, control of impulsivity, working cooperatively, and caring about oneself and others.
Teaching can be defined as engagement with students to enable their understanding and application of knowledge, concepts, and processes of the topics being taught. Learning is the activity or process of gaining knowledge or skill by studying, practicing, being taught, or experiencing something. Learning is about what students do, not about what teachers do.
​Millions of educators around the globe use the Understanding by Design (UbD®) framework, created by Jay McTighe and the late Grant Wiggins, to manage standards, align programs to assessments, and guide teachers in implementing a curriculum that leads to student understanding and achievement.

New for 2024.

School leadership is messy,

​but coaching conversations can help.

​Simply put, school leadership is messy. Leadership experts Alyssa Gallagher and Rosie Connor explore the type of leadership that can thrive in uncertain and complex conditions. They help educators avoid falling into defensive, overly controlling, or “wait and see” stances and    instead embrace the five proactive mindsets of MESSY leadership (Multiplying perspectives, Emotional connection, Seizing momentum, Sensing the future, and Your ego) to achieve exceptional results. 

Intentional coaching conversations tap into the potential power of school leaders and develop them to their fullest. Embracing MESSY Leadership shows how to structure those conversations and create school leaders that matter. This book is a co-publication of ASCD and BTS Spark.
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The newest book from education

thought leader Marilee Sprenger.

​Every teacher has students who never finish homework, always interrupt, or can’t seem to pay attention. Too often, these behaviors
are assumed to be lack of discipline, when in fact they are executive function issues that teachers can easily address—and reverse—with a little guidance. Veteran educator and bestselling author Marilee Sprenger imparts that guidance with a wealth of practical,
research-based classroom strategies teachers can use to develop six core areas of executive function skills.

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Upgrade Your Teaching: Understanding by Design Meets Neuroscience

How can educators leverage neuroscience research about how the human brain learns? How can this information improve curriculum, instruction, and assessment so students achieve deep learning and understanding in all subject areas? Merging insights from neuroscience with Understanding by Design®, the framework used by thousands of educators to craft units of instruction and authentic assessments that emphasize understanding rather than recall, the authors translate research into practical how-to guidance that enables educators at all levels to design and implement units that empower teachers and students to capitalize on the brain's tremendous capacity for learning.

Mindfulness in the Classroom Strategies for Promoting Concentration, Compassion, and Calm

Today's students and teachers feel unprecedented—even alarming—levels of stress, but what can be done to create calmer classrooms? Veteran educator Thomas Armstrong believes that mindfulness in the classroom is the answer. He shows how mindfulness affects the structure and function of the brain; provides an overview of and the research behind mindfulness as a personal practice and a classroom methodology that aligns with models such as Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and others; and describes how to adapt it for different grade levels, integrate it into regular school subjects, and implement it school-wide. ​

Taking Social-Emotional Learning Schoolwide: 
The Formative Five Success Skills for Students and Staff

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Veteran educator and popular Education Leadership magazine (EL) columnist Thomas Hoerr explores how to create a positive school-wide culture for social-emotional learning, based on the five success skills the author outlined in his bestseller The Formative Five--empathy, grit, self-control, integrity, and embracing diversity. The complete blueprint includes real-life examples from the author’s many years as a school leader, relevant findings from the latest research, and effective, hands-on strategies for use at all levels and with all K−12 populations.

All Learning Is Social and Emotional: Helping Students Develop Essential Skills for the Classroom and Beyond

Children’s social and emotional development is too important to be an add-on or an afterthought. What teachers say, the values they express, the activities they choose, and the skills they prioritize all influence how students think, see themselves, and interact with content and with others. In this guide, teachers will learn how to help students build a sense of identity and confidence to learn and overcome challenge; identify and regulate their emotional responses; promote cognitive regulation skills critical to decision making and problem solving; and foster social skills, including teamwork and sharing. 

Your Students, My Students, Our Students
Rethinking Equitable and Inclusive Classrooms

Rising star Lee Ann Jung teams up with bestselling authors Doug Fisher & Nancy Frey and special education teacher Julie Kroener to explore the hard truths of current special education practice. They address the challenges, map out the solutions, and provide the tools and inspiration to help educators realize authentic and equitable inclusion in their classrooms. The authors include real-life examples of empowerment and success to illustrate what's possible when educators commit to the belief that all students deserve learning experiences that will equip them to live full and rewarding lives. 
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In Learning in the Making, Jackie Gerstein helps you plan, execute, facilitate, and reflect on maker experiences so both you and your students understand how the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of maker education transfer to real-world settings. She also shows how to seamlessly integrate these activities into your curriculum with intention and a clearly defined purpose.​
ISBN: 978-1-4166-2804-0
Publication Date: August 2019
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Coherent School Leadership will show you how to combine the components of Fullan's Coherence Framework (the Framework) with Kirtman's 7 Competencies for Highly Effective Leaders (The Competencies) to drive coherence—the shared depth of understanding about the nature of the work and how it impacts the results desired for student achievement—to change the culture in schools from reactive to proactive.
ISBN: 978-1-4166-2790-6
​Publication Date: August 2019
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In Navigating the Principalship, James P. Spillane and Rebecca Lowenhaupt look at the major challenges of the principal position, examining how new principals adapt to the role, set an instructional agenda, and build cooperation and collaboration. They focus in particular on the dilemmas that mark the principalship—the inevitable, complicated conflicts that arise from a clash of worthwhile values and resist simple solutions.
ISBN: 978-1-4166-2771-5
​Publication Date: August 2019
This practical volume includes advice on how to get started, vivid examples, reflection questions, and tips on how to overcome common obstacles. The Relevant Classroom is about recognizing that teachers who tap into students' capacities for creativity, collaboration, and innovation can create learning experiences that are truly meaningful for students.
ISBN: 978-1-4166-2767-8
Publication Date: August 2019
Literacy skills are the cornerstone upon which student' knowledge, self-esteem, and future educational opportunities are built. But far too many teachers lack the time, materials, and specialized knowledge required to address these skills adequately. To that end, Climbing the Literacy Ladder is a one-stop shop to help teachers plan and differentiate literacy instruction for all students from prekindergarten through 5th grade.
ISBN: 978-1-4166-2748-7
Publication Date: August 2019
While all students in your class, building, or school district need your support, the Black and Latino male students—the most underserved, suspended, and expelled students in education—need you to understand them as you support them so that they can thrive academically.
ISBN: 978-1-4166-2820-0
Publication Date: August 2019
Teachers today must prepare students for an increasingly complex, interconnected, and interdependent world. Being a globally competent teacher requires embracing a mindset that translates personal global competence into professional classroom practice. It is a vision of equitable teaching and learning that enables students to thrive in an ever-changing world.
ISBN: 978-1-4166-2751-7
Publication Date: July 2019
Do you sense that some students have mentally "checked out" of your classroom? Look closely and you'll probably find that these students are bored by lessons that they view as unchallenging and uninteresting. In this follow-up to The Highly Effective Teacher: 7 Classroom-Tested Practices That Foster Student Success, Jeff Marshall provides teachers with a blueprint for introducing more rigor to the classroom
ISBN: 978-1-41166-2798-2
Publication Date: July 2019
In today's schools, students and teachers feel unprecedented—even alarming—levels of stress. How can we create calmer classrooms in which students concentrate better and feel more positive about themselves and others? Author Thomas Armstrong offers a compelling answer in the form of mindfulness, a secular practice he defines as the intentional focus of one’s attention on the present moment in a nonjudgmental way.
ISBN: 978-1-4166-2794-4
Publication Date: July 2019
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Solving the Homework Problem by Flipping the Learning
By Jonathan Bergmann

Bestselling Flip Your Classroom author and educator Jonathan Bergmann shows readers how to move beyond an understanding of flipped learning to actual implementation, with a focus on student home-work. This short book addresses challenges, possibilities, and success stories and gives readers the strategies they need to make the best use of homework and in-class instructional time.

ISBN: 9781416623724
Publication Date: April 2017
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Teaching in the Fast Lane
How to Create Active Learning Experiences
By Suzy Pepper Rollins

The active classroom is about creating learning experiences differently so that students engage in exploration of the content and take responsibility for their own learning. This book details how to design, manage, and maintain an active classroom that balances autonomy and structure. It offers student-centered, practical strategies on sorting, station teaching, and cooperative learning that will help teachers build on stu-dents' intellectual curiosity, self-efficacy, and sense of purpose.

ISBN: 9781416623380
Publication Date: April 2017
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Peer Feedback in the Classroom
Empowering Students to Be the Experts
By Starr Sackstein
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Peer feedback gives students control over their learning, increases their engagement and self-awareness as learners, and frees up the teacher to provide targeted support where it's needed. Drawing on her successful classroom practices, Starr Sackstein helps teachers gain a deeper understanding of what meaningful feedback looks like and how it can be used as a tool for learning.
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ISBN: 9781416623663
Publication Date: April 2017
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Unpacking Fractions
Classroom-Tested Strategies to Build Students' Mathematical Understanding
By Monica Neagoy

Fractions are fundamental to school math and daily life. For years, teaching fractions has been associated with rote memorization. But this mechanical approach to instruction has resulted in a failure of understand-ing. This book draws on decades of research and teacher practice to address seven big ideas in teaching fractions in grades 2–6. Each idea includes a vignette from a real classroom, common misconceptions, a thorough unpacking of productive mathematical thinking, and many thought-provoking, multi-step problems.
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ISBN: 9781416623427
Publication Date: March 2017
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The Perfect Assessment System
By Rick Stiggins

Speaking from more than 40 years of experience in the field—and speaking for all learners who hope to succeed, the teachers who want them to succeed, and the local school leaders whose aspirations for success have been thwarted by assessment traditions—the author maps out the adjustments in practice and culture necessary to generate both accurate accountability data and the specific evidence of individual mastery that will support sound instructional decision making and better learning in the classroom.

ISBN: 9781416623816
Publication Date: March 2017
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How to Differentiate Instruction in Academically Diverse Classrooms,
3rd Edition
By Carol Ann Tomlinson

Written as a practical guide for teachers, this expanded edition of Tomlinson's groundbreaking work covers the fundamentals of differentiation and provides additional guidelines and new strategies for how to go about it. Teachers will learn how to help each and every student access challenging, high-quality curriculum; engage in meaning-rich learning experiences; and feel at home in a school environment that "fits."

ISBN: 9781416623304
Publication Date: March 2017
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Building on the Strengths of Students with Special Needs
How to Move Beyond Disability Labels in the Classroom
By Toby Karten

A must-have reference for busy teachers with little special education training, this book supplies classroom-tested instructional strategies that address the characteristics of and challenges faced by students with special needs. Dozens of differentiated strategies target teachers’ anxieties and provide responsive interventions that can be used to address specifics of IEPs and learning plans. The practical guidance focuses on specific disabilities and inclusive curriculum scenarios for learners in K–12 environments.

ISBN: 9781495472732
Publication Date: March 2017
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Bold Moves for Schools
How We Create Remarkable Learning Environments
By Heidi Hayes Jacobs and Marie Hubley Alcock

Packed with fresh ideas and strategies, this courageous book offers a compelling vision from the research and hands-on work of two internationally recognized educators, authors, and thought leaders. The authors propose a new approach to pedagogy as the basis for the bold moves teachers and leaders need to make to engage all learners. They examine every aspect of K–12 education, including teacher roles, curriculum, instruction, and assessment, as well as physical and virtual learning spaces.

ISBN: 9781416623052
Publication Date: February 2017
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 How to Give Effective Feedback to Your Students, 2nd Edition 
By Susan M. Brookhart

This second edition of Brookhart's bestselling ASCD title incorporates new research on feedback and new opportunities for students to use feedback formatively to demonstrate understanding. Here is a guide that helps teachers always know how to give the right feedback for all kinds of assignments, in every grade level and subject area.

Over 75,000 copies sold in the US!

ISBN: 9781416623069
Publication Date: February 2017
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School Culture Recharged
Strategies to Energize Your Staff and Culture
By Steve Gruenert and Todd Whitaker

Why do some schools succeed while others struggle? Finally, here is practical advice and strategies that education leaders at all levels can use to build positive energy to reinvigorate their school's culture and staff. This standalone guide clarifies the difference between culture and climate and zeroes in on key school improvement efforts.

ISBN: 9781416623458
Publication Date: February 2017
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Students at the Center
Personalized Learning with Habits of Mind
By Bena Kallick and Allison Zmuda

Educators’ mission is to help students develop the intellectual and social strength of character necessary to live well in the world. This book helps educators rethink traditional teacher and student roles and re-examine goal setting, lesson planning, assessment, and feedback practices. It maps out a transformative model of personalization that puts students at the center and asks them to employ the set of dispositions for engagement and learning known as the Habits of Mind.

ISBN: 9781416623243
Publication Date: January 2017
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2016

Leading an Inclusive School: Access and Success for ALL Students
by: Richard A. Villa and Jacqueline S. Thousand
Publication Date:  ​December 2016
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Inclusion experts Villa and Thousand share more than 20 years of fieldwork and provide a systems view for principals on how to be an instructional leader in inclusive settings, using the Inclusive Schoolhouse Model, Multi-Tiered Systems of Support, co-teaching, and UDL principles.
The Formative 5: Fostering Grit, Empathy, and Other Success Skills Every Student Needs
by: Thomas R. Hoerr
Publication Date: November 2016

Building on the popularity of Fostering Grit, a top-selling ASCD Arias title, Tom Hoerr shows educators how to foster the "Big Five" student attributes of empathy, diversity, self-control, integrity, and grit. By focusing on skills needed for success in school and life, Hoerr proposes a wider definition of student achievement.
Lesson Imaging in Math and Science: Anticipating Student Ideas and Questions for Deeper STEM Learning

by Michelle Stephan, David Pugalee, Julie Cline, and Christopher Cline
Publication Date: October 2016

From respected voices in math and STEM education comes an innovative lesson planning approach to help turn students into problem solvers. Dubbed “lesson imaging” by the authors, this approach involves a process of thinking through the structure and implementation of a lesson, discovering ways to elicit student thinking and foster collaboration, and becoming adept at techniques to avoid shutting down the discussion.
Cultivating Curiosity in K - 12 Classrooms 
How to Promote and Sustain Deep Learning

by Wendy L. Ostroff
​Publication Date: July 20, 2016

Award-winning educator Wendy Ostroff draws on relevant child development research to show K-12 teachers how to foster student curiosity. This title includes classroom techniques to try and insights on harnessing students' drive to explore, imagine, and learn.

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Now That's a Good Question! 
How to Promote Cognitive Rigor Through Classroom Questioning

by Erik M. Francis
Publication Date: July 29, 2016

This book explores how one of the most fundamental instructional strategies: asking questions, can provide a proper framework to deepen student thinking, understanding, and knowledge application. Francis offers good question examples across various content areas and grades, as well as structures to help teachers create and use different kinds of questions.

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The Power of the Adolescent Brain 
Strategies for Teaching Middle and High School Students

by Thomas Armstrong
Publication Date: July 2016

Bestselling author Armstrong explores eight key features of adolescence and related neuroscience research, and presents specific brain-based educational interventions to address each one. Includes 50+ strategies, reflection questions, and a step-by-step process for creating brain-friendly lessons across the content areas. 

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Teaching Students to Drive Their Brains Metacognitive Strategies, Activities, and Lesson Ideas

by Donna Wilson and Marcus Conyers
Publication Date: June 2016

Metacognition is a tool that helps students unlock their brains' amazing power and take control of their learning. Education researchers and professional developers, Donna Wilson and Marcus Conyers, who have many years' experience using the explicit teaching of metacognition. They share practical ways to teach pre K-12 students how to drive their brains by promoting these simple practices: adopt an optimistic outlook toward learning, set goals, focus attention, monitor progress, and engage in practices that enhance cognitive flexibility.Click here to read a sample from this book.

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A Teacher's Guide to Special Education

by David F. Bateman and Jenifer L. Cline
​Publication Date: June 2016

Co-published with the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), this practical reference title clarifies what general education teachers need to know about special education. It also provides  instructional best practices for the inclusive classroom. Topics  include pre-referral, referral, and evaluation processes; individualized education programs and accommodations for students who do not quality for special education; transition from pre-K to K-12 and from high school to post-school life; class-room management and student behavior, and assessment, grades, graduation, and diplomas. The breadth of coverage in this book, along with its practical examples, action steps, and appendixes covering key terms and definitions provide the foundation all teachers need to successfully instruct and support students receiving special education services. 

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​​Checking for Understanding
Formative Assessment Techniques for Your Classroom, 2nd Edition

by Douglas B. Fisher and Nancy A. Frey
Publication date:  December 2014
 
In this new 2nd edition, authors Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey show how to increase students' understanding with the help of creative formative assessments.  They explore a variety of engaging activities that check for and increase understanding, including interactive writing, portfolios, multimedia presentations, audience response systems, and much more.


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Authentic Learning in the Digital Age
Engaging Students Through Inquiry

by Larissa Pahomov
Publication date: November 2014
 
This new book by an English teacher at the prestigious Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, is a roadmap for teachers who want to facilitate personalized, authentic, student-driven learning in a technology-rich classroom. It provides a clear framework and how to implement it.

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Sparking Student Creativity
Practical Ways to Promote Innovative Thinking and Problem Solving
 
by Patti Drapeau
Publication date: September 2014

New author Patti Drapeau addresses the areas of imagination, innovation, and problem solving as she walks teachers and educators through the process of promoting problem solving in the classroom. Included within are rubrics, grab-and-go activities, and lesson plans that will help teachers develop the skills of fluency, flexibility, and originality to support creative thinking.

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Grading Smarter Not Harder
Assessment Strategies That Motivate Kids and Help Them Learn

by Myron Dueck
Publication date: July 2014

All the talk of closing the achievement gap in schools obscures a more fundamental issue: do the grades we assign to students truly reflect the extent of their learning? In this lively and eye-opening book, educator Myron Dueck reveals how many of the assessment policies that teachers adopt can actually prove detrimental to student motivation and achievement and shows how we can tailor policies to address what really matters: student understanding of content. In sharing lessons, anecdotes, and cautionary tales from his own experiences revamping assessment procedures in the classroom, Dueck offers a variety of practical strategies for ensuring that grades measure what students know without punishing them for factors outside their control, critically examining the fairness and effectiveness of grading homework assignments, designing and distributing unit plans that make assessment criteria crystal-clear to students and creating a flexible and modular retesting system so that students can improve their scores on individual sections of important tests.

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Memory at Work in the Classroom
Strategies to Help Underachieving Students
 
by Francis Bailey and Ken Pransky
Publication date: March 2014
 
Authors Francis Bailey and Ken Pransky expertly guide teachers through the aspects of human memory most relevant to teaching in the classroom. Real classroom examples help teachers gain a deeper understanding of how memory systems play a central role in the learning process. This book offers fresh insights into students' learning difficulties and encourages teachers to explore classroom practices that align with the functioning of memory and the ways students learn.

Translated into Korean and Spanish

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​Read, Write, Lead
Breakthrough Strategies For Schoolwide Literacy Success

by Regie Routman
Publication date: June 2014

Literacy is a skill for all time, for all people. It is an integral part of our lives, whether we are students or adult professionals. The focus of Read, Write, Lead is to give all educators the breadth of knowledge and practical tools that help students strengthen their literacy skills. Author Regie Routman draws on her experience as a mentor teacher, reading specialist, instructional coach, and staff developer to offer time-tested advice on how to develop a school-wide learning culture that leads to more effective reading and writing across the curriculum. This title will help school leaders and teachers implement instructional practices that lead to better engagement and achievement in reading and writing for all students, from kindergarten through high school, including second-language and struggling learners; reduce the need for intervention through daily practices that ensure success; and embed the language of productive feedback in responsive instruction, conferences, and observations to accelerate learning for students, teachers, and leaders. In their own voices, teachers, principals, literacy specialists, and students offer real-life examples of changes that led to dramatic improvement in literacy skills and—perhaps just as important—increased joy in teaching and learning. Scattered throughout the book are “Quick Wins”—ideas and actions that can yield positive, affirming results while tackling the tough work of long-term change.   

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​​The Differentiated Classroom
Responding To The Needs Of All Learners, 2nd Edition
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by Carol Ann Tomlinson
Publication date: May 2014

In this updated second edition of her best-selling classic work, Carol Ann Tomlinson offers teachers a powerful and practical way to meet a challenge that is both very modern and completely timeless: how to divide their time, resources, and efforts to effectively instruct so many students of various backgrounds, readiness and skill levels, and interests. With a perspective informed by advances in research and deepened by more than 15 years of implementation feedback in all types of schools, Tomlinson explains the theoretical basis of differentiated instruction, explores the variables of curriculum and learning environment, shares dozens of instructional strategies, and then goes inside elementary and secondary classrooms in nearly all subject areas to illustrate how real teachers are applying differentiation principles and strategies to respond to the needs of all learners.

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​Hanging In
Strategies For Teaching The Students Who Challenge Us Most

by Jeffrey Benson
Publication date: January 2014
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In Hanging In: Strategies for Teaching the Students Who Challenge Us Most, veteran educator Jeffrey Benson shows educators the value of tenacity and building connections in teaching the students who most need our help. These students often arrive at school with unique mixtures of family histories, traumatic experiences, and special needs that test educators’ teaching skills and patience. This essential guide includes detailed portraits based on real-life students whose serious challenges inhibited their classroom experience--and how they eventually achieved success. It also includes specific advice for administrators on constructing successful school systems to give all students the best chance for success. It also includes strategies for analyzing and developing plans to help students discover a sense of comfort with learning--with in-depth examples of plans in action. In this guide, teachers will find the inspiration and field-tested ideas necessary to create a patient and supportive environment for even the most demanding cases in the classroom.  

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​Upgrade Your Curriculum
Practical Ways To Transform Units And Engage Students

by Janet H. Hale and Michael Fisher
Publication date: March 2013

​Upgrade Your Curriculum: Practical Ways to Transform Units and Engage Students offers a solution vitalizing curriculum design and instructional practice by  providing students with meaningful, relevant units of study developed by the educators who actually teach them. The authors, both curriculum experts, advocate a gradual approach to transforming curriculum in which teachers work collaboratively to upgrade one unit at a time.

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