Professional eBooks

Professional Library eBooks
	Activating the Desire to Learn Provides an overview of the research on internal motivation. Includes strategies for activating internal motivation at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. Provides suggestions on how to assess degrees of student motivation and guidelines for integrating the principles of internal motivation with standards-based instruction.
	Align the Design : A Blueprint for School Improvement Presents the core processes that are essential for all school improvement efforts--from establishing a mission to differentiating supervision based on measures of success. Includes a nine-step curriculum planning and development process and the 5 phases of a practical cycle for data analysis.
	The Art and Science of Teaching : A Comprehensive Framework for Effective Instruction Presents a model for ensuring quality teaching that balances the necessity of research-based data with the equally vital need to understand the strengths and weaknesses of individual students.
	The Best Schools : How Human Development Research Should Inform Educational Practice Explores learning settings, pedagogical tools, and instructional approaches that any school can adopt to inspire students of all ages to discover their passion for learning.
	Better Learning Through Structured Teaching : A Framework for the Gradual Release of Responsibility Describes a purposeful classroom structure that relies on four phases. Included with the description of each phase are practical strategies that help teachers use this approach, plus tips on how to differentiate instruction, make effective use of class time, and plan backwards from learning objectives.
	Beyond Discipline : From Compliance to Community, 10th Anniversary ed. Instructs educators to create positive learning environments that prevent discipline problems from occurring. Explains why classroom management approaches that rely on rewards and punishments actually prolong behavior problems; how to turn misbehavior into teaching opportunities; and why changing curriculum can solve discipline problems.
	Brain-Friendly Strategies for the Inclusion Classroom : Insights from a Neurologist and Classroom Teacher Explains how educators can build safe and supportive classroom communities for students with learning disabilities; improve the focus of students with attention disorders; and create a rich and inviting learning environment for all students in an inclusive classroom.
	Building Background Knowledge for Academic Achievement : Research on What Works in Schools Explains why insufficient background knowledge is a chronic cause of low achievement, and describes how a carefully structured combination of two approaches--sustained silent reading and instruction in subject-specific vocabulary--can help rescue low achievers and boost the academic performance of all students.
	Building Literacy in Social Studies : Strategies for Improving Comprehension and Critical Thinking Provides research-based techniques that will motivate students to excel in social studies classes. Explains how to organize learning environments and student groups to reinforce literacy instruction and knowledge of democratic principles
	Checking for Understanding : Formative Assessment Techniques for Your Classroom Explores formative assessment techniques that work in any subject area and grade level. Includes types of oral language (speaking and listening) strategies; ways to use writing to check for understanding; student response techniques that increase participation and engagement; projects and performances that are easily integrated into daily classroom practice; and test items that help plan further instruction.
	Classroom Assessment & Grading That Work Provides educators with guidelines and steps for designing a comprehensive assessment program that ensures assessments and grades lead to timely, accurate feedback on specific, standards-based learning goals.
	Classroom Instruction That Works : Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement dentifies nine categories of instructional strategies that maximize student learning and explains the details of each including: studies in effect size and percentile gain units; guiding principles for using the strategies; and classroom examples of model instructional practice.
	Concept-Rich Mathematics Instruction : Building a Strong Foundation for Reasoning and Problem Solving Presents an instructional approach that helps students in every grade level understand math concepts so they can apply them on assessments, across the curriculum, and outside of school. Provides teaching practices and lesson ideas that give students a stronger foundation for reasoning and problem solving.
	The Differentiated Classroom : Responding to the Needs of All Learners Explains instructional approaches that meet the needs and interests of every student. Includes principles that guide a differentiated classroom; instructional strategies that make it easier to provide multiple learning paths for students; practical ways to give students options about how they learn required curriculum; and steps to get started with differentiation or take it to a higher level.
	The Differentiated School : Making Revolutionary Changes in Teaching and Learning Includes common misconceptions about differentiation; nonnegotiables that are essential to the implementation of differentiated instruction; factors that contribute to failure to change classroom practice; leadership lessons for accomplishing the change process; tools for monitoring and evaluating the change toward differentiation; and characteristics of staff development practices that support differentiated instruction.
	EdSpeak : A Glossary of Education Terms, Phrases, Buzzwords, and Jargon Provides a glossary of the terminology used in the education profession.
	Educating Everybody's Children : Diverse Teaching Strategies for Diverse Learners, Rev. and Expanded, 2nd ed. Provides educators with information on how to teach students from economically, ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse groups. Includes dozens of subject-specific strategies for math, science, reading, writing, and social studies. Also includes strategies for increasing the achievement of immigrant and refugee children.
	Enhancing Professional Practice : A Framework for Teaching Provides a framework for successful teaching practice. Includes applications for state standards, formative assessments, and school specialists.
	The Essentials of Mathematics K-6 : Effective Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment Explores how educators are tackling major challenges in math education including: emphasizing algebraic thinking, problem solving, and communication; connecting math activities to larger purposes and everyday experiences; differentiating instruction based on students' learning styles, interests, and readiness levels; and helping teachers use classroom assessment to guide instruction.
	The Essentials of Science, Grades K-6 : Effective Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment Provides program ideas and practices that will prepare school science programs for stricter new learning objectives and performance goals.
	Exemplary Practices for Secondary Math Teachers Provides educators with information on how to provide motivational and challenging math instruction for middle and high school students. Includes advice on setting up the classroom, planning learning experiences, and assessing results.
	The Fundamentals of Literacy Coaching Contains strategies for a successful literacy coaching initiative including: roles and responsibilities of literacy coaches; keys to building positive collaboration among literacy coaches, support staff, and faculty members; fundamentals of adult learning that apply in a coaching relationship; ideas to help you monitor the effectiveness of your initiative; and ways to communicate effectively to students and fellow teachers.
	Future-Focused Leadership : Preparing Schools, Students, and Communities for Tomorrow's Realities Instructs educators on how to be future-focused leaders. Includes trends that will affect education; ways to scan the environment and the world at large; a plan for setting priorities based on probabilities; a 4-step issue management process; steps to developing plausible scenarios for guiding strategic planning; and activities that make up a future-focused communications system.
	Getting to "Got It!" : Helping Struggling Students Learn How to Learn Explains the mental processes students need to gather, organize, and understand information, and describes how educators can infuse their lessons with new routines and teaching approaches that influence students to become better, more independent learners.
	How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed-Ability Classrooms Provides educators with ideas on matching instructional approaches to the readiness, interests, and talents of all students: learning centers, hands-on activities, contracts, and investigative projects. Describes ways of structuring lessons to provide "scaffolds" for the lesson content, the procedures used in learning, and the products of learning.
	Improving Student Learning One Teacher at a Time Explains the four critical areas of teaching and describes how educators can use an approach that increases student success. Offers step-by-step instructions for developing a curriculum document, planning your instructional activities, choosing a set of classroom assessment tasks, and recording meaningful feedback on student performance.
	Inspiring Active Learning : A Complete Handbook for Today's Teachers, Expanded 2nd ed. Provides practical options for handling the teachers' many tasks: from beginning a class to maintaining engagement, from motivating slackers to managing disrupters, from building efficient routines to cushioning student anxiety, and numerous other workable strategies.
	Integrating Differentiated Instruction & Understanding by Design : Connecting Content and Kids Explains how the combination of the Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design frameworks can ensure all students are learning at maximum levels. Describes how a curriculum built on the goal of student understanding, integrated with instructional approaches that emphasize reaching every learner, can provide teachers with more specific teaching targets and more flexible ways to reach them.
	The Learning Leader : How to Focus School Improvement for Better Results Provides school leadership actions and guideposts that will lead to higher student achievement.
	Learning on Display : Student-Created Museums That Build Understanding Provides educators with information on how to plan creative museum projects that target content standards and develop students' understanding of required subject matter.
	Learning-Driven Schools : A Practical Guide for Teachers and Principals Explores the research on learning and describes how teachers can work backwards from learning goals to ensure all students reach their maximum potential. Also describes how to extend this learning-driven approach beyond the classroom to ensure that teacher supervision and professional development programs emphasize learner outcomes.
	Making Standards Useful in the Classroom Provides educators with information that will ensure that state standards lead to higher student achievement. Describes how to sequence content and set up grading scales that help facilitate formative assessment and effective instruction. Provides steps for converting standards into guidelines that are more useful to classroom teachers.
	Managing Diverse Classrooms : How to Build on Students' Cultural Strengths Discusses some of the most powerful cultural differences that can lead to classroom conflict for many students and how educators can capitalize on these differences to make their classroom a harmonious, productive environment.
	Managing Your Classroom With Heart : A Guide for Nurturing Adolescent Learners Provides an approach to classroom management that deals with accepting teenage students as they are and recognizing what they need: a connection with the curriculum; a sense of order; and most essentially, a sense that someone cares.
	Mobilizing the Community to Help Students Succeed Describes how educators can collaborate with others to reverse poor motivation, reward student success, and realize higher achievement in even the most challenged school districts.
	Personalizing the High School Experience for Each Student Discusses the six most pervasive problem areas in high school education today, and what schools are doing to connect with students, personalize learning, differentiate instruction, and make high school curriculum more relevant.
	Principals Who Learn : Asking the Right Questions, Seeking the Best Solutions Provides school principals with information on how to keep on top of the human relationships and dynamics at work in their schools.
	Qualities of Effective Teachers Focuses on cultivating teacher qualities that are most apt to raise student achievement. Establishes definitive benchmarks for top-flight teacher education and professional development programs. This approach also includes teachers who work with at-risk and high-ability students.
	Reframing Teacher Leadership to Improve Your School Explores the essential elements of a teacher leader framework that promotes deep implementation of effective teaching practices. Provides practical ways to support networks of teacher leaders at the school, district, and state levels.
	Research-Based Strategies to Ignite Student Learning : Insights from a Neurologist and Classroom Teacher Explores how to enhance students' memory and test-taking abilities, based on brain research. Provides ways to captivate and hold students' attention and encourage their participation and progress.
	Results Now : How We Can Achieve Unprecedented Improvements in Teaching and Learning Discusses how schools can exceed expectations, swiftly reduce achievement gaps, and enhance the lifetime learning of all students. Describes simple actions that can swiftly and substantially improve education and provides a set of structures and practices for improving instruction in any school.
	School Leadership that Works : From Research to Results Explains critical leadership principles that every administrator needs to know including how school leaders can increase student achievement and which leadership practices have the biggest impact on school effectiveness.
	Schooling by Design : Mission, Action, and Achievement Describes how to start with the school's mission and goals and develop a powerful school improvement plan focused on desired results. Explains how to use Understanding by Design 's backward-design process to determine the evidence for the plan's success and to plan improvement steps in instruction and leadership roles. Provides action ideas for starting the school improvement process and keeping it going.
	The Strategic Teacher : Selecting the Right Research-Based Strategy for Every Lesson Provides teaching strategies for every grade and subject, with dozens of variations and steps and examples for how to implement them. Instructs teachers on how to choose the right strategy, matching strategy to instructional objectives
	Summarization in Any Subject : 50 Techniques to Improve Student Learning Explores numerous summarization strategies, including all of the steps and examples educators need to start using summarization to improve students' comprehension and boost their long-term memory.
	Supervision for Learning : A Performance-Based Approach to Teacher Development and School Improvement Provides information on how to transform a supervisory system into a performance-based model that connects to student achievement and teacher professional development.
	Taking Action on Adolescent Literacy : An Implementation Guide for School Leaders Provides a leadership plan and action steps that will build on students' literacy skills and intervene with students who falter. Includes strategies to integrate literacy and learning across the content areas; support structures that involve teachers, administrators, parents, and community members in your literacy program; and examples of school environments that sustain literacy development.
	Teacher Leadership That Strengthens Professional Practice Provides a foundation for developing and supporting highly committed teacher leaders. Including advice for administrators and practical tips for experienced and aspiring teacher leaders, this book presents a clear plan for ensuring that teacher leadership is a powerful force for school improvement.
	The Teacher Quality Index : A Protocol for Teacher Selection Provides a systematic structure and steps for conducting teacher interviews at district and school levels.
	Teachers as Classroom Coaches : How to Motivate Students Across the Content Areas Explains how proven coaching strategies can help teachers inspire students and boost their performance in any subject and grade level. Discusses why a coaching environment creates more student motivation and higher engagement, and provides the strategies and techniques that winning coaches use to help groups and individuals work more productively, overcome difficulties, and achieve meaningful and measurable goals.
	Teaching with the Brain in Mind, 2nd ed., Rev. and Updated Explores how to improve student achievement and create a more effective classroom by applying brain research to teaching. Includes insights on how students are wired for learning and how their learning behaviors change as they mature.
	Transformative Assessment Explains what formative assessment really is, and how to use this approach to improve teaching, learning, classroom climate, teacher professional development, and school performance.
	Understanding by Design, Expanded 2nd ed. Provides a framework for good design--of curriculum, assessment, and instruction--focused on developing and deepening understanding of important ideas. Explains how educators can design learning experiences that make it much more likely that students understand content and apply it in meaningful ways.
	Using Technology with Classroom Instruction that Works Presents new educational tools that support research-based instruction, and learn new ways to use educational technologies, such as word processing and spreadsheet applications, multimedia, data collection tools, communication software, and the Internet.
	What Works in Schools : Translating Research into Action Provides information for schools and teachers on how to improve student achievement. Discusses which instructional strategies really work; why data is a critical component to school improvement; how important collegiality and professional development are; and what types of parental and community involvement make a difference.