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LSI's publishing department offers a wide array of pedagogical titles from practical instructional guides for teachers to in-depth publications on the latest educational research for school and district leaders. Translation rights representation managed by RussoRights |
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In 2012, Barak Rosenshine wrote an article for the International Academy of Education that set out a series of 10 simple, research-based principles of instruction that make for more effective teaching. Tom Sherrington read that article, and he’s been talking about it ever since. And his new book on implementing Rosenshine's principles is shaping up to be the summer's runaway hit in education.
As a principal, coach, and educational consultant in schools across the UK, Sherrington has used his considerable experience and expertise to elaborate and build on Rosenshine's Principles of Instruction for use in the classroom. There are no gimmicks, no fads, nothing outlandish; he puts forth a set of ideas rooted authentically in classroom experience, with classroom examples, actionable strategies, and tested methods of implementation developed from real classrooms. |
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There is an endless list of authentic tasks that students will need to engage with every day of their professional lives—from making a phone call to fellow experts and presenting to nonexperts, to reading technical instructions or reports and writing proposals or emailing inquiries. The ability to communicate many ideas to a variety of audiences with an ever-increasing range of tools is critical to any path students end up following, but the way schools engage with literacy skills leaves an enormous gap between what students are confident in, and what real life will expect from them. Lapp, Grant, and Thayre want to eliminate this learning curve by expanding the narrow range of communication skills we empower students to become experts in. Using what you know about teaching language selection, tone, voice, audience, organization, and style, this guide will help you to broaden your students exposure and deepen their insights through: aample lessons, rubrics and notes, tools and activities, professional models, and dry-erase reusable outlines.
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Robert J. Marzano has spent over 50 years revolutionizing educational research and observation. Here, he brings that experience and expertise to one of the most complicated questions in education: What is rigor, and how can I use it to improve my student’s learning? Marzano provides a focused, yet comprehensive framework for enhancing rigor across grade levels and subject areas, making it possible for entire schools and school systems to create comprehensive and rigorous K–12 curriculums.
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Meredith and David Liben have been on the front lines of the reading wars since 1994, when their Harlem school's first cohort of students failed the NYC end-of-year reading exam. To fix the failing reading scores, they set out on a journey to find literacy practices and instructional materials that truly improve student learning outcomes. Their insights and ideas their school's reading scores to the highest of any non-gifted school in Harlem. This book captures what they learned and delivers real strategies for teachers to improve their students' reading levels.
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Brokenness—whether from violence, neglect, substance abuse, or countless other ways students can find themselves isolated and hurting—transcends race, age, religion, ethnicity, and zip code, and can be found in any classroom. Based on stories of growth and transformation from his experience working with these children of trauma, Dr. Bender shows any educator how to reach and teach these children who so desperately need inspiration and healing in their schools and in their lives.
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In this engageing new book, seasoned educators Toth and Sousa present an innovative pedagogical model called student-led academic teaming. In academic teams, students collaborate, peer coach, and peer teach while engaging in rigorous, standards-based tasks—blending the best we know about social and emotional learning (SEL) with cognitive learning (SECL) and delivering fresh solutions for the classroom. This groundbreaking take on learning includes a 10,000-student research study of a large urban district where teaming raised achievement across the board, and narrowed achievement gaps for African-American students, English Language Learners, and students with special needs.
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2018
The Gritty Truth of School Transformation
Eight Phases of Growth to Instructional Rigor By Amy Dujon Schools define themselves by metrics, but when we dig down into the numbers, questions remain. This book answers these questions and more by revealing how schools of all shapes, sizes, and socioeconomic and academic backgrounds can achieve real faculty and student growth. How? By implementing rigorous instruction in the classroom and empowering school leaders to establish and grow a vision of excellence that involves both teachers and students. ISBN: 9781943920808 Publication Date: April 2018 World Rights Available |
Classroom Techniques for Creating Conditions for Rigorous Instruction
By Jennifer A. Cleary, Terry A. Morgan, & Robert J. Marzano In today’s classrooms and schools, rigorous instruction and learning don’t just happen by accident. Teachers must be willing to pay close attention to their learning environments. Without the appropriate conditions in place, consistent levels of rigorous instruction, learning, and performance are unachievable. Therein lies the practical magic of this final Essentials guide. It provides activities, insights, and templates for five strategies for teachers of all grade levels and subjects. ISBN: 9781943920877 Publication Date: March 2018 World Rights Available |
The Power of We
Creating Positive and Collaborative Classroom Communities By Ron Nash Students have an endless capacity of positive energy that can be harnessed into deeper understanding. Renowned education expert Ron Nash shows how to harness this energy by involving students as active participants in their own learning. His humorous first-person narrative shows how to encourage face-to-face conversations among students, put students first, em-brace (and leverage) mistakes, create a habit to stay positive by monitoring one’s own energy levels, and more. ISBN: 9781943920266 Publication Date: March 2018 World Rights Available |
Creating the Schools Our Children Need
Why What We’re Doing Now Won’t Help Much (And What We Can Do Instead) By Dylan William There is no simple solution to school improvement that works in every classroom every time—but there are district-wide measures that can improve the odds of success. In this new book from the foremost authority on formative assessment, Dylan Wiliam analyzes the three improvements proven to be factors in school success: building a curriculum focused on developing knowledge, supporting a culture where every teacher improves, and applying a framework for evaluating new district initiatives. ISBN: 9781943920334 Publication Date: March 2018 World Rights Available except Swedish |
2017
20 Strategies for Increasing Student Engagement
By William N. Bender In today’s rigorous educational landscape, even the most effective teachers must work to polish their skills and practice. In this practical guide, leading education expert William N. Bender offers a wealth of ways to develop intensive, atten-tion-grabbing instructional techniques that foster high levels of student achievement. He provides practical examples, guidelines, and the research behind his teaching tips to help educators focus on specific strategies for engaging students in the classroom. ISBN: 9781941112793 Publication Date: October 2017 World Rights Available |
The Essentials for Standards-Driven Classrooms
A Practical Instructional Model for Every Student to Achieve Rigor By Carla Moore, Michael D. Toth, and Robert J. Marzano As a capstone to the Marzano Center Essentials for Achieving Rigor Series featured on the next page, this guide gives teachers a big-picture view of the Essentials model and its research-based strategies. Its valuable tips and guidance empower educators and leaders to increase classroom rigor and transform their schools into thriving, sustainable communities of practice. ISBN: 9781943920150 Publication Date: March 2017 World Rights Available except Chinese (Simplified) |
2016
20 Strategies for STEM Instruction
By William N. Bender Time constraints and heavy workloads can make the transition into STEM instruction difficult. This book offers practical advice, supported by research evidence, to help teachers integrate project-based learning with STEM, modify strategies to meet the needs of each learner, use engineering design principals to focus on real-world problems, and emphasize teamwork and collaboration around rigorous math and science content. Includes step-by-step guidelines for teaching strategies that strengthen STEM instruction. ISBN: 9781941112786 Publication Date: October 2016 World Rights Available except Turkish |
Cultivating Coaching Mindsets
An Action Guide for Literacy Leaders By Rita M. Bean and Jacy Ippolito This book provides a detailed framework to help school leaders promote literacy instruction to improve and deepen learning. The authors discuss ways to build trust with teachers to enhance school culture; help teachers use data to improve instruction; and ensure that everyone maintains a focus on lifelong learning. The authors explain the coaching observation cycle, explore facilitation techniques for providing meaningful feedback and supporting teachers as they improve literacy learning for all students. ISBN: 9781941112335 Publication Date: June 2016 World Rights Available |
Formative Assessment in a Brain-Compatible Classroom
How Do We Really Know They're Learning? By Marcia L. Tate Teachers tend to avoid assessments that are difficult to grade, but these assessments are often the only way to know how well students are learning. Tate describes the theories behind various assessment types and addresses ways to create brain-compatible learning environments that foster high achievement. She guides educators in identifying where to begin in the formative assessment process and how to proceed as they develop expertise in different assessment areas. ISBN: 9781941112311 Publication Date: April 2016 World Rights Available |
Leadership for Teacher Learning
Creating a Culture Where All Teachers Improve So That All Students Succeed By Dylan Wiliam Leading education authority Dylan Wiliam explains how formative assessment, when applied properly, helps to increase student achievement. He presents compelling research about changes in classroom practice that are likely to increase learning, differentiated instruction, response to intervention, group leadership’s role in ensuring productive collaboration, and integrating formative assessment into teacher evaluation. ISBN: 9781941112267 Publication Date: February 2016 World Rights Available |
2015
Engaging the Rewired Brain
By David A. Sousa Technology is transforming the human brain, and students are engaging with new information in different ways. Written for educators striving to understand technology's impact on the young brain and to prepare today's learners for an increasingly advanced future, this book by bestselling educational neuroscientist David A. Sousa looks at how technology changes the way young people's brains function and how educators can adapt instruction to keep them motivated to learn. ISBN: 9781941112250 Publication Date: December 2015 World Rights Available e xcept Spanish |
20 Disciplinary Strategies for Working with Challenging Students
By William N. Bender Effective disciplinary strategies are essential in every classroom so that all teachers can manage difficult situations. With an emphasis on recent issues and trends, Bender offers practical tips for putting advanced disciplinary strategies to immediate use in the modern classroom and describes the research foundation for each tactic. Teachers and administrators working in all subject areas and grade levels can quickly adapt these strategies to meet their needs and improve their classroom management practice. ISBN: 9781941112229 Publication Date: July 2015 World Rights Available |
Recording & Representing Knowledge
Classroom Techniques to Help Students Accurately Organize and Summarize Content
By Ria A. Schmidt and Robert J. Marzano
Students must know how to record and represent what they've learned to effectively interact with new knowledge. With this instructional guide, part of the Essentials for Achieving Rigor Series (see next page), teachers learn strategies to help students summarize what they've read, analyze text for specific charac-teristics, and write about the content succinctly to demonstrate their understanding.
ISBN: 9781941112045
Publication Date: January 2015
World Rights Available
Classroom Techniques to Help Students Accurately Organize and Summarize Content
By Ria A. Schmidt and Robert J. Marzano
Students must know how to record and represent what they've learned to effectively interact with new knowledge. With this instructional guide, part of the Essentials for Achieving Rigor Series (see next page), teachers learn strategies to help students summarize what they've read, analyze text for specific charac-teristics, and write about the content succinctly to demonstrate their understanding.
ISBN: 9781941112045
Publication Date: January 2015
World Rights Available
Embedding Formative Assessment: Practical Techniques for K-12 Classrooms
by Dylan Wiliam and Siobhán Leahy
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Effective classroom formative assessment helps educators make minute-by-minute, day-by-day instructional decisions. This clear, practical guide for teachers centers on five key instructional strategies, along with an overview of each strategy and practical formative assessment techniques for implementing it in K-12 classrooms:
ISBN: 9781941112298 World Rights Available except Czech, Danish, Dutch, Swedish |
Identifying Critical Content: Classroom Techniques to Help Students Know What is Important
by Deana Senn, Amber C. Rutherford, Robert J. Marzano
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Do your students know which content is most important to learn? To meet rigorous academic standards, students must become adept at determining which content is critical, why it is important, how it connects to their existing knowledge, and when it will inform their future learning. Based on the earlier work of Dr. Robert J. Marzano, Identifying Critical Content: Classroom Strategies to Help Students Know What is Important provides explicit steps for implementation and monitoring students’ ability to identify critical content. It includes adaptations for various student populations, examples and non-examples from classroom practice, and strategies to avoid making common mistakes.
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Creating & Using Learning Targets & Performance Scales: How Teachers Make Better Instructional Decisions
by Carla Moore, Libby H. Garst, and Robert J. Marzano
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Can your students understand and even generate performance scales?
Academic standards call for increased rigor, but simply raising complexity is not enough. Students need to be able to understand learning goals, embedded in performance scales, which include application of knowledge. They should even be capable of generating their own learning scales. In turn, teachers must become adept at providing rigorous learning goals and planning and scaffolding instruction to meet students’ needs. Creating & Using Learning Targets & Performance Scales: How Teachers Make Better Instructional Decisions explores explicit techniques for mastering this crucial strategy of instructional practice. It includes:
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Examining Similarities & Differences: Classroom Strategies to Help Students Deepen Their Understanding
by Connie Scoles West and Robert J. Marzano
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Academic standards call for increased rigor, but simply raising complexity is not enough. Students must also be able to examine similarities and differences within the critical content they are learning. They need to know how to use comparisons, classifications, metaphors, and analogies to generalize, draw conclusions, and refine schema, ultimately deepening their understanding of the content.
Based on the earlier work of Dr. Robert J. Marzano, Examining Similarities & Differences: Classroom Strategies to Help Students Deepen Their Understanding explores explicit techniques for mastering a crucial strategy of instructional practice: teaching students to examine similarities and differences. It includes:
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Leadership for Teacher Learning: Creating a Culture Where All Teachers Improve so That All Student Succeed
by Dylan Wiliam
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Leading education authority Dylan Wiliam explains how formative assessment, when applied properly, helps to create a structured and rigorous learning environment that increases student achievement. He also presents compelling research to give readers a clear picture of:
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Inclusion & CCSS Supports For Students & Staff
by Toby J. Karten
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Author Toby Karten summarizes the reasons and research behind Common Core State Standards and other initiatives and offers recommendations for using research-based inclusion strategies, instructional supports, monitoring, reflection, and collaborative practices to give all staff and students a step-by-step, outcome-based formula.
Karten highlights the ADMIRE strategic approach, focusing on ways to assess, activate, decide, delineate, model, monitor, instruct, involve, reflect, revise, engage, and enrich students and staff with the standards. |
iPads in the Classroom: From Consumption and Curation to Creation
by Tom Daccord & Justin Reich
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Many educators see iPads only as game stations or replacements for notebooks and textbooks. In iPads in the Classroom, authors Tom Daccord and Justin Reich explain how iPads present a tremendous opportunity for teachers to rethink the design of learning environments to best suit the needs of their students.
This book isn’t about how to click on apps; it’s about how to transform schools and change students’ lives with differentiated, meaningful, purposeful learning that helps them develop the real-world skills they’ll eventually need for the working world and civic life in the decades ahead. |
Leading School Improvement: A Framework for Action
by Joseph Murphy
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What does it mean to lead in a learning environment, as opposed to a system of knowledge transmission? A community, as opposed to a bureaucracy? A customer-oriented organization, as opposed to a public monopoly? To create truly powerful learning environments, school leaders must focus the lens on leadership, school improvement, and leadership for school improvement.
In Leading School Improvement: A Framework for Action, author Joseph Murphy pulls together 14 practitioner-based articles to present a cohesive narrative about the unique and critical role that leadership plays in school improvement. Murphy clearly identifies key factors that shape the future of any school and explains the work that leaders must do to ramp up academic press and foster a supportive culture for school improvement |
