Addresses common defense mechanisms and rationalizations students use to avoid studying, and offers ready-to-use and easy-to-understand skills for middle and high school classrooms.
In easy-to-understand language, this resource presents engaging, ready-to-use learning experiences that address the "big ideas" in K-8 science education and help students make larger, real-world conn
These 80 easy to adapt strategiesAywork in five steps or fewer to help special educators feel confident about working with co-teachers, teacher aides, support staff, administrators, and families.
These 80 easy to adapt strategiesAywork in five steps or fewer to help special educators feel confident about working with co-teachers, teacher aides, support staff, administrators, and families.
Inspire students to construct their own learning experiences with research-based, easy-to-implement strategies for differentiated instruction across increasingly diversified student bodies.
Formerly published by Peytral PublicationsProven strategies for parents to help youngsters improve memory and organization, complete homework and chores more easily, deal with school bullies, build th
How to Differentiate Learning provides guidance for schools and districts to start or improve the effort to differentiate instruction. Based on what educators know about the differences among childre
Extensively revised, this new edition provides the theoretical underpinnings of practitioner action research as well as the "how-to" information necessary for classroom application.
ThisAyrevised edition of Multiple Intelligences in the Mathematics ClassroomAyprovides ready-to-use lessons aligned with NCTM content standards to help students gain meaningful understandings of key
Presents the newest research on the adolescent brain and offers a framework for linking brain-based teaching to students' social, emotional, and cognitive needs.
Presents the newest research on the adolescent brain and offers a framework for linking brain-based teaching to students' social, emotional, and cognitive needs.
Helps school leaders cultivate improvement-driven, cross-age learning communities by providing case studies, workplace alternatives, and easy-to-apply strategies to promote cross-generational collabo
Use these powerful training tools to help teachers develop effective instructional strategies for students with learning disabilities!Based on David A. Sousa's bestseller, this facilitator's guide fo
Easy-to-understand theories and nontechnical language help educators and parents understand how the teenage brain thinks, feels, learns, and changes on its journey to adulthood.
Easy-to-understand theories and nontechnical language help educators and parents understand how the teenage brain thinks, feels, learns, and changes on its journey to adulthood.
This new edition of the bestsellerAyfeatures more voices from first-year teachers and provides strategies for developing a first-year induction plan to help teachers become first-rate educators.
This guide is developed for general and special educators in Grade 1-8 to provide intervention and accomodations for student with special needs, ELL, at-risk students and those who are struggling in
Formerly published by Zephyr PressThis comprehensive guide explores how to use field trips to increase student learning and responsibility and covers practical issues such as safety, transportation,
Mentors will discover strategies for meeting the diverse needs of their mentor/mentee relationships, developing useful mentoring tools, and continuing to learn and grow professionally.
From easy-to-implement techniques to templates for planning lengthy curriculum units, this comprehensive resource offers K-12 teachers ready-to-use strategies that honor students' diverse learning st
This valuable handbook is packed with examples, questions, stories, and thought-provoking ideas linked to NSES to help teachers give students a strong start in science achievement.
Demonstrates practical ways to integrate assessments and instruction, and offers specific multiple assessment formats illustrated with rich examples, dialogues, scenarios, checklists, and student sam
This updated edition expertly guides teachers to be effective helpers when called upon to respond quickly and appropriately to students' interpersonal, social, and emotional needs.
In this second edition, leading experts in the field focus on how to change a school's organizational structure and culture to improve the quality of teaching and learning.
This easy-to-use guide to curriculum mapping and instructional planning for K-8 student-centered classrooms blends standards, rubrics, interdisciplinary units, and a "Teacher's Tool Chest" for succes
This facilitator's guide shows staff developers how to develop training for educators that examines the relationship between race and achievement and promotes academic parity.
This unique resource promotes the creation of productive learning contexts, which allow students to bring all that they are to the learning process, as essential to successful educational reform.
The author offers leaders practical tools and strategies to create legally based and ethically sound approaches to dealing with and preventing bullying in schools.
This expanded collection of letters is truly a time-saving starter kit, providing busy principals with easy-to-personalize templates on a PC- and Mac-compatible CD-ROM to revitalize your communicatio
The authors offer higher-level thinking and reading strategies that promote achievement for all students, with resources to build collaborative literacy, stimulate creativity, develop richer compre
This implementation guide demonstrates how to translate each step of the Japanese lesson study process to the U.S. educational environment using specific, evidence-based strategies.
This reader-friendly second edition provides step-by-step procedures for using data to facilitate effective decision making and focuses on strengthening educators' problem analysis and data interpr
This valuable resource provides more than 50 practical, step-by-step activities and strategies for helping groups collaborate to build consensus and accomplish their goals.
Discusses the basics of teaching three- to six-year-olds, covering such topics as lesson planning, creating daily schedules, arranging furniture, managing classroom activities, and using technology.
Used to successfully train thousands of teachers, the author’s mentoring framework provides a developmental approach to the mentoring process that ensures personal and professional growth.
Using a simple-to-follow matrix aligned with NCTM standards, this essential handbook for Grades PreK-5 provides detailed guidance and ready-to-use sample activities, problems, assessments, and more.
