Ascd: 352 books
by William H. Parrett, Ralph G. Leverett
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
Is it possible for high-poverty schools to be high achieving? Of course it is! Real schools with students living in poverty do post high levels of student achievement. Learn what these schools do to help students succeed--and how you and your school can adopt the same practices--no matter what socio-economic...
Connecting Leadership with Learning
A Framework for Reflection, Planning, and Action
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2006
What kind of leadership makes learning possible for all students? How can school leaders help teachers increase their knowledge and improve their instructional abilities? What actions should leaders take to ensure that learning occurs? In Connecting Leadership with Learning: A Framework for Reflection,...
Teaching Students to Drive Their Brains
Metacognitive Strategies, Activities, and Lesson Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
If the difference between a student's success and failure were something specific you could teach, wouldn't you?
Metacognition is exactly that—a tool that helps students unlock their brain's amazing power and take control of their learning. Educational researchers and professional developers...
Tests That Teach
Using Standardized Tests to Improve Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Now that the No Child Left Behind Act has left its mark on public education, educators across the United States are all the more invested in preparing their students for state and national assessments. In Tests That Teach: Using Standardized Tests to Improve Instruction, Karen Tankersley guides you...
Enhancing RTI
How to Ensure Success with Effective Classroom Instruction and Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Are we missing the opportunity to reach struggling learners from the very beginning? Are we hastily--and unnecessarily--referring students to intervention programs that substitute for high-quality core instruction? What if we could eliminate the need for intervention programs in the first place?Response...
The Essentials of World Languages, Grades K-12
Effective Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment (Priorities in Practice)
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2007
We live in a global community, and to be a full member of this community often requires speaking more than one language. Educators and policymakers must ask themselves: What does it mean to view language learning not as an elective but as a necessity for communicating and interacting with people around...
Taking Action on Adolescent Literacy
An Implementation Guide for School Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2007
Literacy lies at the heart of student understanding and achievement. Yet too many educators mistakenly assume that the reading, writing, speaking, and thinking skills that students developed in elementary school are sufficient for the sophisticated learning tasks they face in middle and high school....
The Better Writing Breakthrough
Connecting Student Thinking and Discussion to Inspire Great Writing
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Every teacher knows the challenge of trying to engage reluctant readers and struggling writers—students whose typical response to a writing prompt is a few sentence fragments scribbled on a sheet of paper followed by an elaborate shrug of the shoulders.
The best way to engage less confident...
Principals Who Learn
Asking the Right Questions, Seeking the Best Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2007
As a principal, you know how challenging it is to build a dedicated staff, encourage parental support, help students get excited about learning, and create a working school culture. You know that it takes a more than a few years (and surviving a few school events gone awry) to gain the trust of staff,...
Understanding How Young Children Learn
Bringing the Science of Child Development to the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Human beings are born to learn. During the last few decades, developmental science has exploded with discoveries of how, specifically, learning happens. This provides us with an unprecedented window into children’s minds: how and when they begin to think, perceive, understand, and apply knowledge....
Content-Area Conversations
How to Plan Discussion-Based Lessons for Diverse Language Learners
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2008
Teachers across the country are seeking ways to make their multicultural classrooms come alive with student talk about content. Content-Area Conversations: How to Plan Discussion-Based Lessons for Diverse Language Learners is a practical, hands-on guide to creating and managing environments that spur...
by Cheryl James-Ward, Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Data. Does the word make you cringe? Does it evoke feelings of guilt? Are you unsure how to distill it and use it effectively? Grab this book and learn how to empower yourself and your school community with information gleaned from your school’s data. Experienced educators and authors offer simple...
School Leadership That Works
From Research to Results
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2001
What makes a great school leader? Contrary to what many believe, the answer is not tied to a certain kind of personality but to specific behaviors and actions that have positive effects on student achievement—behaviors and actions that any school leader can learn and put into practice. Over the...
Building Background Knowledge for Academic Achievement
Research on What Works in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2004
In Building Background Knowledge for Academic Achievement, Robert J. Marzano shows how a carefully structured combination of two approaches—sustained silent reading and instruction in subject-specific vocabulary terms—can help overcome the deficiencies in background knowledge that hamper the achievement...