Ascd: 352 books
Authentic Learning in the Digital Age
Engaging Students Through Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
How can you create an authentic learning environment—one where students ask questions, do research, and explore subjects that fascinate them—in today’s standards-driven atmosphere? Author Larissa Pahomov offers insightful answers based on her experience as a classroom teacher at the Science...
by Robert J. Marzano, John L. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
How can I make certain that all my students achieve success in mastering learning goals—and play an active role in monitoring and adjusting their own learning process? How can I manage my classroom so that all students are engaged, challenged, and active members of my classroom's learning community?...
Transformative Assessment in Action
An Inside Look at Applying the Process
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
In this follow-up to the best-selling Transformative Assessment, W. James Popham takes you inside the classrooms—and inside the heads—of teachers who are using the formative assessment process to improve student learning. Instead of providing yet another collection of data-gathering techniques,...
by Carol Ann Tomlinson
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
We differentiate instruction to honor the reality of the students we teach. They are energetic and outgoing. They are quiet and curious. They are confident and self-doubting. They are interested in a thousand things and deeply immersed in a particular topic. They are academically advanced and "kids...
Complex Text Decoded
How to Design Lessons and Use Strategies That Target Authentic Texts
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
In Complex Text Decoded, educational consultant and former master teacher Kathy T. Glass presents strategies, activities, and assessments that target students’ ability to comprehend complex text—whether presented as traditional written text or in multimedia formats—in grades 5–10. You’ll...
Instructional Coaching in Action
An Integrated Approach That Transforms Thinking, Practice, and Schools
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Unlike “fix-it” strategies that targeted teachers are likely to resist, educator-centered instructional coaching—ECIC—offers respectful coaching for professionals within their schoolwide community. Evidence-based results across all content areas, authentic practices for data collection and...
Differentiated Literacy Coaching
Scaffolding for Student and Teacher Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2007
Making sure that all students read well is a top priority for schools, and literacy coaches are playing an increasingly important role in the effort. Their challenge? To deliver the kind of instruction and support best suited to the teachers they work with and most likely to help those teachers improve...
Educational Coaching
A Partnership for Problem Solving
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Educational coaches—whether math, literacy, instructional, or curriculum coaches—vary in the content of the work they do and in the grade range of the teachers with whom they work. But "good coaching is good coaching," as coaching expert Cathy A. Toll affirms in this, her newest book....
Insights into Action
Successful School Leaders Share What Works
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Do you ever wonder whether researchers and professional developers really know what it’s like to be a school leader? Do you sometimes struggle to connect articles and conference presentations with the challenges you face day to day? For award-winning educator William Sterrett, the answer to those...
Fast and Effective Assessment
How to Reduce Your Workload and Improve Student Learning
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
What if teachers could dramatically reduce the amount of time they spend reviewing and correcting student work and actually see better results in terms of student learning? That's the goal of Glen Pearsall, who shares dozens of classroom-tested strategies that lessen teachers' workload while increasing...
You're the Principal! Now What?
Strategies and Solutions for New School Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
A principal's job is astonishingly complex, and its competing demands can be overwhelming, especially in the first few years. In this book, Jen Schwanke, a principal herself, provides a mentor's guidance to steer new principals through the period of adjustment and set the foundation for a long and...
The Highly Effective Teacher
7 Classroom-Tested Practices That Foster Student Success
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
What are the secrets to unlocking student success? And what can teachers do to get better at helping students develop deep understanding of content, attain higher-order thinking skills, and become secure, confident, and capable learners?
In this book, teacher and professor Jeff Marshall showcases...
The Power of the Adolescent Brain
Strategies for Teaching Middle and High School Students
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Moody. Reckless. Impractical. Insecure. Distracted. These are all words commonly used to describe adolescents. But what if we recast these traits in a positive light? Teens possess insight, passion, idealism, sensitivity, and creativity in abundance--all qualities that can make a significant positive...
The Art and Science of Teaching
A Comprehensive Framework for Effective Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2007
Though classroom instructional strategies should clearly be based on sound science and research, knowing when to use them and with whom is more of an art. In The Art and Science of Teaching: A Comprehensive Framework for Effective Instruction, author Robert J. Marzano presents a model for ensuring...