Solution Tree Press: 340 books
Future of Schooling, The
Educating America in 2020
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
The actions you take now will help your school or district succeed in the future. McREL experts show you how to use scenario planning to prepare for the future world of education. By analyzing the content and discussing the implications of these scenarios, you can identify action steps today that will maximize your chance for success tomorrow
HEART!
Fully Forming Your Professional Life as a Teacher and Leader
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
This inspiring book presents the concept of a heartprint -- the distinctive impression that an educator's heart leaves on students and colleagues during his or her professional career. For teachers, understand how teacher motivation, teacher-student relationships, and collaborative teaching all affect...
Teaching Students to Think Like Scientists
Strategies Aligned With Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
It is essential that students learn to examine, review, and evaluate knowledge and ideas through a process of scientific investigation and argumentation. Using these instructional methods and lesson scenarios, teachers of all disciplines will gain the tools needed to offer students a richer, lasting...
by Diane J. Briars, David Foster
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
This teacher guide illustrates how to sustain successful implementation of the Common Core State Standards for mathematics, grades 6–8. Discover what students should learn and how they should learn it at each grade level. Comprehensive research-affirmed analysis tools and strategies will help you...
Power Struggles
Successful Techniques for Educators
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
It’s every educator’s worst fear: losing control of the classroom. Regain the focus of challenging and resistant students with this practical resource on classroom management, discipline, and motivation. The dedicated authors re-examine the root causes of student misbehavior and offer a range...
Teaching for Diversity
A Guide to Greater Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Explore the demographic shifts in American life and schools throughout the late 20th and early 21st centuries, and examine the impact of these shifts on education. This book provides a powerful theoretical framework for thinking about and fostering acceptance of diversity and difference. Utilizing...
Making Sense of Mathematics for Teaching Grades 3-5
(Learn and Teach Concepts and Operations with Depth: How Mathematics Progresses Within and Across Grades)
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Develop a deep understanding of mathematics. This user-friendly resource presents grades 3–5 teachers with a logical progression of pedagogical actions, classroom norms, and collaborative teacher team efforts to increase their knowledge and improve mathematics instruction. Focus on an understanding...
The Global School
Connecting Classrooms and Students Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Prepare students for an increasingly flat world—a place where diverse people from divergent cultures learn and work together rather than in isolation. Learn specific steps to globalize your classroom, and move beyond the call for students to memorize material to instead encourage higher-order thinking....
Beyond the RTI Pyramid
Solutions for the First Year of Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
This book helps schools deepen the RTI experience by extending the processes beyond initial implementation. Examples from real schools show how to apply RTI in reading, math, and behavior at elementary and secondary schools. All critical stakeholders in the school community will get a clear sense of their contribution to successful implementation.
How to Teach Thinking Skills Within the Common Core
7 Key Student Proficiencies of the New National Standards
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Packed with examples and tools, this practical guide prepares teachers across all grade levels and content areas to teach the most critical cognitive skills from the Common Core State Standards. Discover a doable three-phase model of explicit teaching, guided practice in content-based lessons, and...
(Re)designing Narrative Writing Units for Grades 5-12
(Create a Plan for Teaching Narrative Writing Skills That Increases Student Learning and Literacy)
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Teaching writing is a powerful and effective means for learning across all grade levels and disciplines. This user-friendly resource provides practical recommendations, strategies, and assessments for designing units of study that center on both narrative nonfiction and creative writing. Throughout...
Fundamentals of (Re)designing Writing Units, The
useful professional and student resources for classroom lesson design and writing units
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Prepare students to take on any writing challenge, including district- and state-mandated literacy tests. Perfect for teachers, curriculum designers, and literary coaches, this title provides guidance for designing new writing units and revising existing ones across content areas for grades 5–12....
by Gayle Allen
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Revamp the traditional pillars of pedagogy for the digital world. Using real-world examples and relevant stories, the author shares how educators can empower learners to design their instruction, curate their curriculum, and build feedback loops to assess their development. Acquire a deep understanding...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
This teacher guide illustrates how to sustain successful implementation of the Common Core State Standards for mathematics for high school. Discover what students should learn and how they should learn it. Comprehensive research-affirmed analysis tools and strategies will help you and your collaborative...