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Describes a learning environment that begins with the idea of classroom as community, filled with students sharing common interests and joint participation. The necessity of beginning with an environment that values each member is emphasized, and creating a safe place where students can be free to learn from mistakes and disagree without being torn apart [...]
Integrating Differentiated Instruction
Discover how two of education’s most powerful frameworks can team up to provide your school with a comprehensive and in-depth approach to ensure all students are learning at maximum levels.
The leading experts on Differentiated Instruction and Understanding by Design explain how to connect these two approaches and use their combined power to:
Meet content standards and [...]
In Search of Understanding
Builds a case for the development of classrooms where students construct deep understandings of important concepts. Presents new images for educational settings: student engagement, interaction, reflection, and construction.
In Schools We Trust
A visionary look at trust and schools that takes on some of today’s hottest education issues-from testing to small schools-all grounded in stories of the innovative and hugely successful public schools Deborah Meier has famously founded.
“A rich, nuanced reflection on trust and schooling that examines trust’s many layers. . . . A terrific, important book.”
-Mike [...]
Improving Schools from Within
“A humane blueprint for school reform that–instead of starting with a ‘deficiency’ model of what teachers can’t do and giving them ‘inservice’ workshops ad infinitum–would build on the educational staff’s existing strengths.”
-The New York Times Book Review
Barth hows how communication, collegiality, and risk-taking among adults can create an atmosphere of learning and leadership for all.
Great Performances
“What grade did you give me?”…
Students often ask teachers this question, as if teachers randomly assign grades. Too many students do not understand the concept of connecting grades to an earned academic performance. Improving student understanding of what teachers expect of them, how well they should be able to do what is expected, and how [...]
Fulfilling the Promise of the Differentiated Classroom
Extend the benefits of differentiated teaching to virtually any kind of school situation and student population using the guidelines and strategies from this book.
Carol Ann Tomlinson takes you to the next level of differentiated curriculum and instruction with new insights, including
5 student needs that are at the heart of responsive teaching
5 teacher responses that [...]
Enhancing Student Achievement
While lots of books on school improvement help you focus on the details of standards alignment, assessments, or instruction, here’s a book that brings all the isolated components together into a comprehensive and sensible framework.
Using the four critical criteria for successful school improvement, Danielson outlines everything that educators have to do to ensure optimum student [...]
Building Academic Success on Social and Emotional Learning
In this groundbreaking book, nationally recognized leaders in education and psychology examine the relationships between social-emotional education and school success-specifically focusing on interventions that enhance student learning.
Offering scientific evidence and practical examples, this volume points out the many benefits of social emotional learning programs, including:
Building skills linked to cognitive development
Encouraging student focus and motivation
Improving relationships [...]
Brain Matters
Winner of a 2002 EdPress Distinguished Achievement Award!
While you don’t have to be a scientist to understand brain-compatible teaching, you’ll be far more effective when you base teaching practices on the very best scientific information. This thorough and in-depth resource, written by a renowned educator, delivers all the essential information you need, including:
How the brain [...]
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