Solution Tree Press: 340 books
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How to Achieve Discipline With Dignity in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Understand the principles that place dignity at the core of classroom management, and explore what motivates misbehavior. With an updated look at the foundation of the Discipline With Dignity program, this book provides unique, effective strategies for dealing with power struggles, implementing unconventional...
From Rage to Hope
Strategies for Reclaiming Black and Hispanic Students
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Get an authentic view of academic underachievement, apathy, and rage among America’s Black and Hispanic youth. Through a deeper understanding of the cultural backgrounds of these students, you’ll learn powerful strategies to deal with discipline problems, as well as strategies for keeping parents...
Making Teamwork Meaningful
Leading Progress-Driven Collaboration in a PLC at Work™
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Focus on developing people—not just improving test scores. The authors examine how staffing decisions can strengthen professional learning communities and explore actions that can help school leaders safeguard their schools against complacency. Collect tips and strategies that every teacher can adopt, and apply the professional development techniques that prove most useful.
Messaging Matters
How School Leaders Can Inspire Teachers, Motivate Students, and Reach Communities
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Harness the power of messaging to create a positive school culture and increase school and community collaboration. Written for school leaders, this title is divided into three parts. Each part helps readers to maximize their role as chief communicators with different stakeholders: students, teachers,...
by W. Richard Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
Transform your district with thriving professional learning communities. Implementing high-performing PLCs can enhance educators’ outlooks and dramatically improve learning for all students. With this user-friendly guide, your team will discover practical, research-based strategies for committing to...
by Eric C. Sheninger, Keith Devereaux
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
This accessible resource offers practical strategies for increasing student achievement in science and fostering a school environment that supports the science curriculum. Assess your own science programs, and discover tools to evaluate teachers’ preparedness for science instruction. With checklists,...
Engage in the Mathematical Practices
Strategies to Build Numeracy and Literacy With K-5 Learners
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Increase student learning with engaging lesson plans and high-level tasks. In this user-friendly guide, mathematics teachers will discover more than 40 strategies for ensuring students learn critical reasoning skills and retain understanding. Each chapter is devoted to a different Standard for Mathematical...
Making Sense of Mathematics for Teaching the Small Group
(Small-Group Instruction Strategies to Differentiate Math Lessons in Elementary Classrooms)
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
When done right, small-group instruction is a powerful tool for facilitating student understanding in K-5 mathematics. Throughout the book, best practices for small-group math instruction are addressed in detail, from planning tasks that encourage deep understanding to asking effective questions to...
Time for Change
Four Essential Skills for Transformational School and District Leaders (Educational Leadership Development for Change Management)
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2019
Transformational leaders have four distinctive skills: strong communication, the ability to build trust, the ability to increase the skills of those they lead, and a results orientation. Time for Change offers powerful guidance for those seeking to develop and strengthen the educational leadership...
Harnessing Technology for Deeper Learning
(A Quick Guide to Educational Technology Integration and Digital Learning Spaces)
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Reshape educational technology integration in classrooms to build truly transformative learning spaces. This concise, reader-friendly guide outlines a clear approach for properly and skillfully using digital learning tools to promote deeper, personalized learning across subjects and grade levels....
FAST Grading
A Guide to Implementing Best Practices (Common Mistakes Educators Make with Grading Policies)
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Embrace effective grading procedures that have the power to reduce failure rates, improve student discipline, encourage learning, and enhance morale. In this three-part guide, the author presents practical strategies teachers and administrators can use to ensure their grading practices center on four...
Myth of the Muse, The
Supporting Virtues That Inspire Creativity (Examine the Role of Creativity in Your Classroom)
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Creativity is crucial in helping students achieve academic and professional success. The authors argue that creativity is not spontaneous or inborn but a process that can be cultivated by utilizing seven “virtues” that inspire creativity: curiosity, versatility, synthesis, discipline, collaboration,...
Designing Effective Assessments
Accurately measure students’ mastery of 21st century skills (Learn how teachers can better incorporate grading into the teaching and learning process)
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
Assessment is a critical component of effective teaching and learning. To gain valuable assessment data and make effective use of them, educators must have the right tools in place to create quality assessments. Designed specifically for K–12 educators, this title presents ten key assessment design...
Delivering on the Promise
The Education Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
This book shares the compelling story of how a team of visionary educators turned the traditional education system inside out and created a dramatically different approach to schooling that would serve every child. The result is the Re-Inventing Schools Coalition (RISC) Approach to Schooling, a new...