Ascd: 352 books
Engaging Minds in Social Studies Classrooms
The Surprising Power of Joy
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Tomorrow’s world-class citizens are in our schools today. Explore these unique research-based ideas to bring learning and joy into your social studies classroom.
by Linda Lambert
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1998
In this book, Linda Lambert takes a close look at leadership in schools, which today involves far more than a single leader. The author defines leadership as the learning processes among participants in a community--processes that lead toward a shared sense of purpose. Leadership capacity refers to...
How to Teach Now
Five Keys to Personalized Learning in the Global Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
In this book, William Powell and Ochan Kusuma-Powell provide a practical map to navigate some of today's most complicated instructional challenges: How do you help all students succeed when every classroom is, in effect, a global classroom? And what does a successful education look like in a world...
The Threads of Reading
Strategies for Literacy Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2003
How can teachers make sure that all students gain the reading skills they need to be successful in school and in life? In this book, Karen Tankersley describes the six foundational “threads” that students need to study in order to become effective readers: phonemic awareness, phonics and decoding,...
Engaging Minds in English Language Arts Classrooms
The Surprising Power of Joy
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
How can we keep students attentive, thoughtful, and inquisitive about learning in language arts? It certainly takes more than new standards and assessments. In this book, Mary Jo Fresch shows how you can use the joyful learning framework introduced in Engaging Minds in the Classroom to better engage...
Neurodiversity in the Classroom
Strength-Based Strategies to Help Students with Special Needs Succeed in School and Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
This book by best-selling author Thomas Armstrong offers classroom strategies for ensuring the academic success of students in five special-needs categories: learning disabilities, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism, intellectual disabilities, and emotional and behavioral disorders.
by Thomas Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 1998
"Every student is a genius," declares author Thomas Armstrong, and an educator's most important job is to discover and nurture the "genius qualities" that all students were born with but that may no longer be obvious. Urging readers to look beyond traditional understandings of...
by Thomas Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
In the decades since it was first introduced, Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences (MI) theory has transformed how people think about learning the world over. Educators using the theory have achieved remarkable success in helping all students, including those who learn in nontraditional ways,...
A Teacher's Guide to Special Education
A Teacher's Guide to Special Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Despite the prevalence of students with disabilities in the general education classroom, few teachers receive training on how to meet these students’ needs or how to navigate
Despite the prevalence of students with disabilities in the general education classroom, few teachers receive training...
Teaching the Brain to Read
Strategies for Improving Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008
Reading comes easily to some students, but many struggle with some part of this complex process that requires many areas of the brain to operate together through an intricate network of neurons. As a classroom teacher who has also worked as a neurologist, Judy Willis offers a unique perspective on...
Causes & Cures in the Classroom
Getting to the Root of Academic and Behavior Problems
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Whether students leave the classroom confident and goal-directed or frustrated and aimless depends on our ability to do two things: diagnose their needs and deliver support. This challenge can be daunting when students come to school with weak vocabulary, poor planning and organization skills, and...
Intentional and Targeted Teaching
A Framework for Teacher Growth and Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
What is FIT Teaching? What is a FIT Teacher?
The Framework for Intentional and Targeted Teaching®—or FIT Teaching®—is a research-based, field-tested, and experience-honed process that captures the essentials of the best educational environments. In contrast to restrictive pedagogical...
Brain Matters
Translating Research into Classroom Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
Everyone agrees that what we do in schools should be based on what we know about how the brain learns. Until recently, however, we have had few clues to unlock the secrets of the brain. Now, research from the neurosciences has greatly improved our understanding of the learning process, and we have...
Fighting for Change in Your School
How to Avoid Fads and Focus on Substance
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
In this indispensable book for K–12 leaders, Harvey Alvy offers a thoughtful roadmap and guidance to help educators select, implement, and assess school- or districtwide initiatives that actually work. The book is filled with a wealth of resources—action checklists, principles to guide educators,...