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Fall 2011
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LeadershipLeadership
By Richard DuFour and Robert J. Marzano
For many years, Dr. Richard DuFour and Dr. Robert J. Marzano have been cotravelers on the journey to help educators improve their schools.
In their first book together, Dr. DuFour and Dr. Marzano have combined their passions to articulate how effective leaders foster continuous improvement at the district, school, and classroom levels. The book focuses on district leadership, principal leadership, and team leadership, and addresses how individual teachers can be most effective in leading students—by learning with colleagues how to implement the most promising pedagogy in their classrooms. The authors argue that no single person has all the knowledge, skills, and talent to lead a district, improve a school, or meet all the needs of every child in his or her classroom. Instead, it will take a collaborative effort and widely dispersed leadership to meet the challenges confronting schools.
Benefits
• Combines the authors’ expertise and many years of experience into one comprehensive volume on leadership
• Provides proven strategies for school improvement based on the most up-to-date research
• Focuses on how district and school leaders create the conditions to support the collaborative culture of a PLC
• Examines the specifi c work that teachers undertake as members of a PLC
Contents
1 School Improvement Means People Improvement
2 The District’s Role in Supporting the PLC Process
3 The Principal’s Role in Leading a ProfessionalLearning Community
4 Creating the Collaborative Culture of a ProfessionalLearning Community
5 Developing a Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum
6 Ongoing Monitoring of Student Learning
7 Ensuring Effective Instruction
8 Responding When Kids Don’t Learn
9 Leadership Is an Affair of the Heart
248 pages1BBCa–BKf455 $24.95iSBn 978-1-935542-66-7
Authors are available for on-site workshops and video or web conferencing.
Don’t look for superman at the top of the organizational chart—look at leaders from the boardroom to the classroom to make the difference in the lives of our children. A must-read.
—Dan Domenech, executive director, American Association of School Administrators
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LeadershipLeadership
What Principals Need to Know Series
Solution Tree has collaborated with NAESP to deliver a series of books dedicated solely to K−8 principals. The What Principals Need to Know Series offers you the content-area and pedagogical expertise every administrator needs to serve as an effective instructional leader. Tailored to meet the needs of your busy schedule, each guide in the series focuses on instructional issues vital to inspired and successful leadership.
Joint Publications of Solution Tree and the National Association of Elementary School Principals
Coming Soon
What Principals Need to Know AboutTeaching Differentiated InstructionGayle Gregory
What Principals Need to Know AboutTeaching ScienceEric Sheninger and Keith Devereaux
What Principals Need to Know AboutTeaching WritingRuth Culham
What Principals Need to Know AboutTeaching ReadingPat Cunningham and James Cunningham
By timothy d. Kanold, diane J. Briars,and francis (Skip) fennell
Ensure a challenging mathematics experience
for every learner, every day. This must-have
resource offers support and encouragement for
improved mathematics achievement across every
grade level of your school. With an emphasis on
Principles and Standards for School Mathematics
and Common Core State Standards, you’ll cover
the importance of mathematics content, learning
and instruction, and mathematics assessment.Grades K–81BBCa–BKf501 $24.95iSBn 978-1-935543-55-8
By david a. Sousa
Understand the basics for creating brain-
compatible classrooms with this brief,
accessible guide customized for principals.
Explore an overview of educational
neuroscience designed to help principals
construct meaningful professional development
that enhances teachers’ knowledge and skills
about brain-compatible learning. The author
guides principals from the basics of brain
structure through applications of educational
neuroscience to build productive and
successful brain-compatible classrooms. 120 pages; grades K–81BBCa–BKf463 $19.95iSBn 978-1-935542-99-5
By John f. eller and Sheila a. eller
To move forward in the school-improvement
process, school leaders must address the
behaviors of diffi cult and resistant staff
members while sending the message that a
few people cannot halt change. This book will
help school leaders understand how to prevent
and address negative behaviors to ensure positive
school change.144 pages1BBCa–BKf407 $24.95iSBn 978-1-935542-07-0
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Leadership
By William M. ferriter, Jason t. ramsden,and eric C. Sheninger
Social media holds great potential benefi ts
for schools reaching out to our communities,
preparing our teachers, and connecting with our
kids. In this short text, the authors examine how
enterprising schools are using social media tools
to provide customized professional development
for teachers and to transform communication
practices with staff, students, parents, and
other stakeholders. 104 pages; grades K–81BBCa–BKf474 $19.95iSBn 978-1-935249-54-2
Leadership
By Mardale dunsworth and dawn Billings
2nd Edition Educators are increasingly coming
to realize the importance of making decisions
based on reliable, accurate data. This short guide
provides a blueprint for evaluating academic
programs, practices, or strategies within a simple,
effective framework. It includes a step-by-step
walkthrough of the program evaluation cycle
and an appendix that explains vital concepts and
vocabulary in accessible language.96 pages; grades K–81BBCa–BKf461 $19.95iSBn 978-1-935542-90-2
By Kipp d. rogers
Do you share doubts with parents about the
use of mobile learning devices (MLDs) in the
classroom? Learn exactly what mobile learning
is, how to introduce MLDs into your school,
and how to ensure that teachers and students
use them appropriately to enhance 21st century
learning. Logistical implementation tips and
examples of effective lesson plans are included. 96 pages; grades K–81BBCa–BKf445 $19.95iSBn 978-1-935542-69-8
Essentials for Principals Series
As a K–8 principal, you know that addressing everyone’s concerns takes leadership, management skills, and diplomacy. Explore a dynamic spectrum of education’s most relevant topics with the Essentials for Principals Series, created by Solution Tree in collaboration with NAESP. This collection of titles will keep you on the cutting edge of an ever-evolving list of trends, challenges, and concerns—all while helping you strike the administrative balance you need to lead successfully.
Joint Publications of Solution Tree and the National Association of Elementary School Principals
Coming Soon
Strengthening the Connection Between School & HomeRicardo LeBlanc-Esparzaand Kym LeBlanc-Esparza
The School Leader’s Guide to Special EducationMargaret McLaughlin
Data-Based Decision MakingEdie Holcomb
Creating Physical &Emotional SecurityKenneth C. Williams
How to Interview, Hire, & Retain High-Quality New TeachersJohn Dareshand Bridget Daresh
Professional Learning Communities at Work™
Richard DuFourand Rebecca DuFour
English Language LearnersDouglas Fisher
GradingKen O’Connor
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School ImprovementSchool Improvement
Benefits
• Refl ect on current practices and identify areasfor improvement.
• Spot the factors that can be harmful to school cultures.
• Identify your school as high will/low skill, high skill/low will, low will/low skill, or high will/high skill.
• Develop a blueprint for achieving skilled pedagogy and successful school improvement.
• Gain practical classroom management strategiesand activities.
Contents
Part 1—Will and Skill
1 Two Parts of a Positive School Environment
Part 2—The Will to Lead
2 Confl icting Wills
3 Frustration in a Toxic Culture
4 The School Culture Framework: Creating a Cultureof Collaboration
5 Leadership at Every Level
Part 3—The Skill to Teach
6 Developing a Responsive Pedagogy
7 The Steps to Responsive Pedagogy
8 Responsive Classroom Management
9 Responsive Academic Vocabulary
10 Responsive Academic Literacy
11 Responsive Learning Environments
School improvement begins with self-examination and honest dialogue about socialization, bias, discrimination, and cultural insensitivity. In The Will to Lead, the Skill to Teach, the authors acknowledge both the structural and sociological issues that contribute to low-performing schools, and describe how leaders can create a healthy school culture. They offer multiple strategies and activities to improve classroom management, increase literacy, establish academic vocabulary, and create an engaging learning environment.
After making a distinction between a staff’s will—that is, their belief in all students’ abilities along with their determination to make student learning and success a schoolwide priority—and a staff’s skill—their use of quality, responsive methods and activities—the authors submit that healthy school cultures grow out of a marriage of the two.
Examine four broad steps to developing a positive learning environment (aligning philosophies, managing frustration, creating a culture of collaboration, and institutionalizing a healthy culture) and uncover the components of responsive pedagogy—a skillful and balanced framework of traditional and culturally responsive activities used in the classroom.
1BBCa–BKf443 $19.95iSBn 978-1-935542-54-4
Authors are available for on-site workshops and video or web conferencing.
New Insights From Anthony Muhammad and Sharroky Hollie
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School ImprovementSchool Improvement
By ricardo leBlanc-esparzaand William S. roulston
Strong leadership, parent involvement, mentoring,
data-based intervention, and high expectations
are known factors in student success. This book
illustrates the specifi c strategies and critical steps
that transformed a school with shockingly low
profi ciency into a National Showcase School.216 pages1BBCa–BKf476 $29.95iSBn 978-1-935543-14-5
By edie l. holcomb
Examine the ways your school can better use
student achievement data, nonacademic student
data, staff data, and parent/community data to
identify areas for improvement. Designed to help
administrators and leaders, this book also details
how teachers can use good data to monitor and
motivate students.1BBCa–BKf424 $29.95iSBn 978-1-935542-23-0
School Improvement
By anne e. Conzemiusand terry Morganti-fisher
Successful school-improvement efforts not
only set SMART goals, but also align them to
the school-improvement process, curriculum,
instruction, assessment practices, mandates,
and professional development. Understand how
to properly use the SMART goal process to
effect change.160 pages1BBCa–BKf482 $24.95iSBn 978-1-935543-24-4
By Catherine glaude
Creating learning communities where all educators are focused on student
results requires new ways of learning together. This book looks at practical
and specifi c ways to use protocols to prompt and support new habits of
working together in collaborative teams.
A Joint Publication of Solution Tree and Connections Publishing
By Catherine glaude
Collegial conversations focused on improving student learning may be
the most powerful professional development an educator will experience.
Examine four collections of protocols to support professional learning
conversations, and use them with your colleagues or with students in
the classroom.
A Joint Publication of Solution Tree and Connections Publishing
112 pages1BBCa–BKf518 $19.95iSBn 978-1-935543-85-5
96 pages1BBCa–BKf516 $19.95iSBn 978-1-935543-82-4
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Professional Learning CommunitiesProfessional Learning Communities
Benefits
• Explains the real work that districts must do to ensure that every school implements PLC practices
• Explores how to build excitement and commitment to thePLC mission
• Shows how to build shared knowledge of PLC practices with school board members, principals, teams, individual teachers, and the broader community
• Provides strategies for district leaders to support and monitor the critical work of principals in creating collaborative teams
• Offers strategies and tools for principals to support and monitor the critical work of teacher teams focused on learning
• Suggests strategies and tools to help teacher teams focus their collaborative work on student learning
What would a learning community look like if we really meant it when we committed to ensuring the learning of each student? What would we consider good enough for our own children? In Every School, Every Team, Every Classroom, the authors suggest that these two questions drive PLC leaders to embed PLC at Work™ practices in their entire district.
With a focus on creating simultaneous top-down and bottom-up leadership, you’ll learn how to grow PLCs with concentrated direction and encouraging innovation at every level of the district. With many examples and reproducible tools, you’ll see how effective district leaders, principals, and teams can work together to create a guaranteed and viable curriculum.
240 pages1BBCa–BKf534 $29.95
iSBn 978-1-936765-09-6
Authors are available for on-site workshops and video or web conferencing.
Contents
1 A New Way to Lead Schools
2 Articulating a Moral Purpose
3 Building Shared Knowledge
4 Aligning Policies, Practices, and Procedures With the Learning Mission
5 Leading Collaborative Teams
6 Ensuring Student Learning
7 Ensuring Adult Learning
8 Assessing District Progress
A Powerful New PLC Resource From Robert Eaker and Janel Keating
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Professional Learning CommunitiesProfessional Learning CommunitiesProfessional Learning Communities
By Mark Van Clay, Perry Soldwedel, and thomas W. Manyforeword by Michael fullan
In order for a professional learning community to achieve its full potential,
all levels districtwide must align around the three big ideas: ensuring a
focus on learning, building a collaborative culture, and establishing a results
orientation. This book breaks down the complex process of aligning the
work of central offi ce staff, building leadership, and teachers to increase
student achievement.
By timothy d. Kanoldforeword by richard dufour
Outstanding leadership in a professional learning community requires
practice and patience. Simply trying harder will not yield results; leaders
must proactively train to get better at the skills that matter. This book
offers a framework to focus time, energy, and effort on fi ve key disciplines.
Included are refl ection exercises to help readers fi nd their own path toward
effective PLC leadership.
By Martha f. Campbellforeword by richard dufour and rebecca dufour
This collection of clever cartoons shows the humorous side of working in
a professional learning community. The book also features a foreword and
introductory text for each chapter by Richard DuFour and Rebecca DuFour,
who remind readers to keep a sense of humor along the journey
to becoming a PLC.
168 pages1BBCa–BKf493 $24.95iSBn 978-1-935543-39-8
210 pages1BBCa–BKf495 $29.95iSBn 978-1-935543-42-8
144 pages1BBCa–BKf473 $19.95iSBn 978-1-935543-09-1
Presenters: rebecca dufour and richard dufour
Begin with a general overview of the PLC process and explore specifi c ideas
and questions that drive the work of the members of a PLC. You’ll also
develop the common vocabulary essential to implementing the PLC concept;
examine and utilize strategies for building consensus; and engage in the
process of creating the shared mission, vision, collective commitments, and
goals that constitute the foundation of a PLC; and more.
Included Book: Revisiting Professional Learning Communities at Work™
1BBCa–otf010 $279.00
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LiteracyLiteracy
Benefits
• Investigates how to can establish an inquiry-based and refl ective classroom
• Presents methods to help students engage deeply with their own ideas
• Provides student and teacher dialogues, teacher modeling, and graphic organizers
• Includes sample assignments, organizational routines, and instructional strategies
• Illustrates how readers can build understanding of literary and expository texts
• Contains techniques to make classroom discussions productive and safe
Contents
Introduction: Comprehension Occurs Through Text-Based Analysis and Discussion
1 Readers and Texts: Why Both Are Necessaryfor Understanding
2 Argumentation: Gateway to Text-Based Analysisand Discussion
3 Analyzing and Discussing Narrative Texts
4 Analyzing and Discussing Expository Texts
5 Analyzing and Discussing New-Media Texts
By Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey and Diane Lapp
Empower students to take ownership of their reading and learning with Teaching Students to Read Like Detectives. In this compelling guide, the authors explore the relationship between text, learner, and learning through discussion and rhetorical writing at the elementary, middle, and high school levels.
Prompt students to become the sophisticated readers, writers, and thinkers they need to be to achieve higher learning. Clearly defined strategies will drive discussion-based learning. Examine the hidden dangers of controlling classroom discourse, foster critical literacy through questioning and instructional routines, and encourage students to find meaning and cultivate thinking from expository texts—even the most challenging ones. Finally, because all students learn differently, you’ll explore new-media texts and web 2.0 to accommodate learning differences amongyour students.
176 pages1BBCa–BKf499 $24.95iSBn 978-1-935543-52-7
Authors are available for on-site workshops and video or web conferencing.
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Literacy
Teaching reading is a complex task without a simple formula for developing
quality instruction. This book presents a deep and thoughtful conversation
about what is meant by effective reading instruction for all students. Rather
than build on or alter existing models, this book considers how educators
and policymakers might think about rebuilding and reconceptualizing
reading education, perhaps from the ground up.
352 pages; hardcover1BBCa–BKf399 $34.95iSBn 978-1-935542-00-1
By William n. Bender and laura Waller
Make the transition from traditional, whole-group reading instruction to
the 21st century classroom by integrating three innovations that will
dramatically improve elementary reading instruction: RTI, differentiated
instruction, and technology. Detailed explanations, helpful case studies,
and recommendations of current technologies bring these ideas to life.
208 pages; grades K–81BBCa–BKf363 $29.95iSBn 978-1-935249-68-9
By elaine K. Mcewan-adkins
Through the unique seven-step process outlined in Literacy Look-Fors,
administrators and literacy leaders will gain a solid understanding of how
to assess and build instructional capacity, overcome roadblocks, develop
professional growth opportunities, and create a balanced literacy program.
Learn how to identify the look-fors that provide evidence of effective literacy
instruction, and bring all students to grade level or well above.
184 pages; grades K–61BBCa–BKf422 $29.95iSBn 978-1-935542-18-6
edited by timothy V. rasinski
By Peter affl erbach, richard l. allington, rita M. Bean, donald r. Bear, Camille l. Z. Blachowicz, ruth Culham, Patricia M. Cunningham, Peter J. fisher, linda B. gambrell, James V. hoffman, lesley Mandel Morrow, Maureen Mclaughlin, Maryann Mraz, P. david Pearson, timothy V. rasinski, timothy Shanahan, William h. teale, Shane templeton, richard t. Vacca, Susan Watts-taffe, and Junko yokota
Selections From the Leading Voices of Literacy and Reading Instruction
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Assessment
Benefits
• Presents fi ve key strategies with research evidence toshow the impact of each
• Includes over 50 practical techniques for classroomformative assessment
Contents
1 Why Educational Achievement Matters
2 The Case for Formative Assessment
3 Clarifying, Sharing, and Understanding Learning Intentions and Success Criteria
4 Eliciting Evidence of Learners’ Achievement
5 Providing Feedback That Moves Learning Forward
6 Activating Students as Instructional Resources forOne Another
7 Activating Students as Owners of Their Own Learning
By Dylan Wiliam
If we are to maintain our status as one of the world’s leading economies and secure our economic futures, and if we want our students to thrive in the impossibly complex, unpredictable world of the 21st century, we must concentrate on increasing educational achievement by increasing the quality of the teachers in our schools. The author faces this challenge head-on by making a case for the important role of formative assessment in increasing teacher quality and student learning.
Formative assessment plays an important role in increasing teacher quality and student learning when it’s viewed as a process rather than a tool. Emphasizing the instructional side of formative assessment, this book explores in-depth the use of classroom questioning, learning intentions and success criteria, feedback, collaborative and cooperative learning, and self-regulated learning to engineer effective learning environmentsfor students.
200 pages1BBCa–BKf418 $29.95
iSBn 978-1-934009-30-7
Dylan Wiliam has done it again. With compelling evidence and more than three decades of research, Wiliam’s most recent work confirms his place in the front rank of global thought leaders in education.
—Douglas Reeves, The Leadership and Learning Center
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Assessment
By Damian Cooper
In Redefining Fair, the author confronts the resistance and obstacles schools experience when implementing differentiation and shows how to overcome them. Learn how to define proficiency accurately and differentiate to help all students achieve it. With a focus on mixed-ability classes, the author outlines instructional practices that engage, e mpower, and motivate students. Using stories, strategies, case histories, and sample documents, he explains how to implement equitable instruction, assessment, grading, and reporting practices for diverse 21st century learners.
The book explores the vital role of differentiation in ensuring student success as schools set goals of proficiency for all and discusses ways to create a culture of excellence in the classroom by focusing on student understanding rather than on outcomes achieved through memorization. The author takes on the “mythology of measurement” and draws a distinction between assessment designed to improve learning through feedback and assessment designed to measure learning through grades. The book concludes with recommendations on how educators may improve their reporting and examines the types of information a report card should contain to communicate an accurate, succinct, and easily understood summary of learning and behavior to students and parents.
Benefits
• Provides examples of ways to respond to resistance to new assessment methods
• Models instructional practices that engage, empower, and motivate students
• Shows how to collect data through a variety of preassessments and diagnostic assessments to determine students’ needs, readiness to learn, and learning preferences
• Examines guidelines to ensure report cards clearly convey essential information to parents and students
• Demonstrates an array of grading methods for mixed-ability classes and assessment and differentiation strategies that maximize learning for all students
• Explores strategies to facilitate the development of critical-thinking and problem-solving skills students need to navigate the vast amounts of information they encounter in thedigital world
Contents
Introduction: Why This Book Now?
1 Why Is Differentiation Essential Today?
2 What Does “Fair” Mean in the Mixed-Ability Class?
3 How Should Curriculum and Assessment Connect in the Mixed-Ability Class?
4 How Should I Assess Students’ Needs in theMixed-Ability Class?
5 What Does Excellence Look Like in the Mixed-Ability Class?
6 How Should I Assess Learning in the Mixed-Ability Class?
7 How Should Assessment and Instruction Connect in the Mixed-Ability Class?
8 How Should Assessment Be Matched to Students’ Needs?
9 How Do I Grade Learning in the Mixed-Ability Class?
10 How Can I Report Effectively to Students in the Mixed-Ability Class and to Their Parents?
200 pages1BBCa–BKf412 $29.95iSBn 978-1-935542-14-8
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Assessment
By Susan M. Brookhart
Grades should refl ect and motivate learning. This book is relatable, relevant,
and effective in improving educators’ assessment and reporting processes
and supporting students’ motivation to learn. Learn how to grade individual
assignments and give report card grades that accurately refl ect and clearly
communicate student achievement. Clear, concrete examples help translate
state standards into curriculum goals.
168 pages1BBCa–BKf457 $24.95iSBn 978-1-935542-84-1
144 pages1BBCa–BKf538 $24.95iSBn 978-1-936765-14-0
144 pages1BBCa–BKf369 $24.95iSBn 978-1-935249-74-0
By Kim Bailey and Chris Jakicicforeword by richard dufour and rebecca dufour
Teams that engage in designing, using, and responding to common
formative assessments are more knowledgeable about their own standards,
more assessment literate, and able to develop more strategies for helping
all students learn. In this conversational guide, the authors offer tools,
templates, and protocols to incorporate common formative assessments into
the practices of a PLC to monitor and enhance student learning.
By Kay Burke and eileen depka
RTI and formative assessment have the potential to positively impact student
achievement. Understand the basics of RTI and its connection to formative
assessment, and base instructional decisions on the results of effective
formative assessment practices. Learn how to adjust instruction to increase
levels of student understanding and achievement with the information,
tools, and techniques presented in this practical guide.
Presenters: robert J. Marzano and tammy hefl ebower
Dr. Robert J. Marzano and Dr. Tammy Hefl ebower walk course participants
through the research and theories that support what kind of feedback,
assessment, and grading students need to learn. You’ll also learn how to
construct assessments; how to create rubric-based scales to inform both
formative and summative assessments; and how to monitor and affect
students’ progress.
Included eBook: Formative Assessment & Standards-Based Grading1BBCa–otl004 $279.00
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Assessment
By Kathleen gregory, Caren Cameron,and anne daviesforeword by rick Stiggins
2nd Edition Learn practical ways to involve
students in the assessment process. The authors
share the 10 best ways to have students refl ect on
their learning, collect evidence of learning, share
that evidence with others, and ask for specifi c
feedback to support further learning.80 pages1BBCa–BKf512 $17.95iSBn 978-1-935543-79-4
By Kathleen gregory, Caren Cameron,and anne daviesforeword by heidi andrade
2nd Edition Self-assessment and goal setting
are key processes for helping students learn
how to self-monitor and self-regulate their way
to success. This book provides ways to motivate
students to work harder while engaging in
assessment for learning strategies that result
in higher achievement. The authors include
responses to commonly asked questions from
students, teachers, and parents.80 pages1BBCa–BKf514 $17.95iSBn 978-1-935543-76-3
By Kathleen gregory, Caren Cameron,and anne daviesforeword by Sandra herbst
2nd Edition Increase engagement, learning, and
achievement by involving students in the process
of classroom assessment. This book includes
strategies, classroom models, and 10 ways to
give students descriptive, specifi c feedback—all
designed to improve the quality of their work
while keeping them engaged and focused.80 pages1BBCa–BKf510 $17.95iSBn 978-1-935543-73-2
By anne davies
3rd Edition This book combines powerful ideas
with practical strategies to implement quality
classroom assessment. Use assessment for
learning to guide instruction, provide feedback,
collect evidence of learning, present evidence of
success, and produce accurate standards-based
report cards. The framework provides a guide
for teachers to follow—from involving students,
parents, and community members in the
assessment process to evaluating and
reporting progress.136 pages1BBCa–BKf520 $24.95iSBn 978-1-935543-88-6
By anne davies, Sandra herbst,and Beth Parrott reynoldsforeword by Jay Mctighe
2nd Edition Designed to support school and
system instruction leaders and full of examples,
this detailed guide offers a practical approach to
the challenges of meeting traditional evaluation
standards while assessing learning. Understand
how to involve learners—both students and
adults—in assessment for learning.184 pages 1BBCa–BKf524 $29.95iSBn 978-1-935543-94-7
Available November 2011!
By anne davies, Sandra herbst,and Beth Parrott reynoldsforeword by Paul leMahieu
2nd Edition Research shows that the single most
powerful solution to improving education today
is quality assessment for learning. Using stories
and samples, the authors illustrate the assessment
processes that enable leaders to successfully work
toward school transformation and identify trouble
before it happens.176 pages1BBCa–BKf522 $24.95iSBn 978-1-935543-91-6
Available 2012!
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Brain-Compatible Learning
By Gayle Gregory and Martha Kaufeldt
In Think Big, Start Small, the authors submit thatwhile differentiation is the core of the art and scienceof teaching, a teacher may not be effective in the classroom without a basic understanding of how the human brain grows, develops, and learns. This easy-to-comprehend guide pares down the vast field of neuroscience and covers the brain basics that affectyour classroom the most.
These brain basics will serve as a solid foundation for designing your classroom environments, curricula, and instructional strategies. Ultimately, you’ll learn to examine and consider learning preferences and the thoughts and behaviors of your students to create a classroom that enhances learning.
Benefits
• Provides neuroscience research on learning, attention, memory, emotions, and stress
• Explores how these layered factors manifest in the classroom
• Shows how to create a safe and secure brain-friendly environment that maximizes student learning
• Offers low-prep and high-yield strategies for assessing student knowledge, interests, and preferences
• Illuminates how simple changes in the presentation of your information can engage students more quickly
Contents
1 Using Educational Neuroscience to Differentiate Instruction
2 Creating a Brain-Compatible Environment
3 Engaging, Exciting, and Energizing the Learner
4 Exploring the Learning
5 Extending and Expanding Learning for Every Student
6 Evaluating the Learning
7 Think Big, Start Small
Brain-Compatible Learning
168 pages1BBCa–BKf471 $24.95
iSBn 978-1-935543-06-0
Brain-Compatible Learning
Clear, precise, well researched, and most important—absolutely practical! Combines and distills the potentially confusing fields of differentiated instruction and neuroscience into simple yet powerful strategies teachers can put to use immediately, creating a clear-cut, linear guide to success by all students. Finally, we may have the one book that realizes the potential of both fields and can serve as the definitive guide for implementation by teachers across all age levels.
—Rich Allen, Green Light Education
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English Learners
By Margo gottlieb
Learn how to plan, implement, and evaluate common language
assessments for your English learners. With this step-by-step guide,
teachers, school leaders, and administrators will fi nd organizing
principles, lead questions, and action steps all directing you toward
collaborative assessment. Yield meaningful information for and about
EL learning preferences, build student self-assessment, and inform your
instructional decision making based on reliable results.
By Margarita Calderón
As more English learners enroll in school each year, teachers and
administrators are concerned with the large gap in reading and
academic standing between ELs and students performing at grade
level. This book addresses the language, literacy, and content
instructional needs of ELs and frames quality instruction within
effective schooling structures and the implementation of RTI.
New instructional strategies and assessment processes energize and
motivate everyone—especially students. Dedicated educators who
want to generate passion, commitment, and energy in meeting the
challenge of quality instruction in every classroom can use this book to
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Benefits • Defi nes RTI in relation to ELs
• Offers literacy strategies that are benefi cial for not only ELs, but also for all struggling or reluctant readers
• Explores the use of cooperative learning to motivate and engage all students as well as to accelerate ELs’ language, literacy, and knowledge base while learning social skills
Contents 1 The Diversity of Students and Programs
2 RTI and Quality Instruction
3 The Educational Needs of Young ELs
4 The Most Critical Year: First Grade
5 Selecting Words to Teach
6 Teaching Vocabulary
7 Teaching Reading
8 Teaching Writing
9 Ensuring and Reinforcing Comprehension
10 Cooperative Learning
English Learners
Filled with useful tools, [this book] guides readers in developing a process for linking instruction and assessment…. With specific and intentional focus on English learners, Gottlieb ensures that school teams will be successful in improving achievement through the systematic collection and analysis of meaningful and relevant student data.
—Douglas Fisher, professor of language and literacy education, San Diego State University
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Response to Intervention
By Austin Buffum, Mike Mattos, and Chris Weber
In Simplifying Response to Intervention, the authors of Pyramid Response to Intervention pick up where they left off—advocating that RTI is not a series of implementation steps to cross off on a list, but a way of thinking about how educators can ensure each child receives the time and support needed to achieve success. They go on to submit that for RTI to be effective, work must be divided between collaborative teacher teams and two schoolwide teams (a leadership team and an intervention team). Together, the entire school assumes responsibility for the learning of every student.
Based on four essential guiding principles—collective responsibility, concentrated instruction, convergent assessment, and certain access—and with their experience working with hundreds of schools in North America, the authors explain why bureaucratic, paperwork-heavy, compliance-oriented, test-score-driven approaches fail—and then show how to create an RTI model that works. They address both academics and behavior in each chapter, and provide considerations for district leadership as well.
Benefits • Use the four guiding principles to guide thinking
and implementation.
• Shift to a culture of collective responsibility.
• Build team structures for collaboration.
• Defi ne essential learnings in a program ofconcentrated instruction.
• Create a toolbox of effective interventions.
• Develop a system of convergent assessment to identify students for intervention, determine their unique needs,monitor their progress, and revise or extend learning basedon their progress.
ContentsPreface: A Sense of Urgency
1 A New Way of Thinking
2 Collective Responsibility: Why Are We Here?
3 Building Structures for Collaboration
4 Concentrated Instruction: Where Do We Need to Go?
5 Convergent Assessment: Where Are We Now?
6 Creating a System of Interventions
7 Certain Access: How Do We Get Every Child There?
Epilogue: A New Vision of Special Education
Response to Intervention
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By holly Windram, Kerry Bollman, and Sara Johnson
Focusing on the unique response to intervention challenges faced by those
working in a secondary school—including larger student and educator
populations, curriculum specializations, a growing achievement gap, and
more—the authors outline three imperative components to a successful RTI
program, and then provide action steps and examples illustrating how each
component should surface within the different RTI tiers.
By William n. Bender
Perhaps more than any other single initiative, response to intervention is
likely to restructure how middle and high school teachers teach in a very
profound way. This timely and targeted resource discusses the innovations
of RTI, differentiated instruction, and instructional technologies. Based on
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featuring austin Buffum, Mike Mattos, and Chris Weber
Shift to a culture of collective responsibility, and ensure a path of
opportunity and success for your students. Focusing on the four Cs vital to
student achievement, this powerful four-part program will help you collect
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important learning leverage points. Perfect for self-hosted workshops, this
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An effective RTI model is based on four essential guiding principles: 1. Collective responsibility—A shared belief that
the primary responsibility of each member of the organization is to ensure high levels of learning for every child
2. Concentrated instruction—A collaborative process that focuses teacher teams on the skills and knowledge most important to the student and his or her future
3. Convergent assessment—An ongoing process of collecting targeted information to add depth and breadth to the understanding of each student’s individual needs, obstacles, and points of learning leverage
4. Certain access—A systematic process that guarantees every student will receive the time and support needed to learn at high levels
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Special Needs
By Carrie Chapman and Cate Hart Hyatt
This practitioner’s guide to building quality collaborative relationships through critical conversations explores three co-teaching models and how co-teaching fits within school-improvement initiatives. In Critical Conversations in Co-Teaching, the authors describe four sets of proven protocols that foster dramatic improvements in the way educators communicate with their colleagues for the benefit of student learning.
These protocols fit into three categories—nonnegotiable conversations (recommended for all partners), special occasion protocols (to use in specific situations), and “in a perfect world” protocols (to use as enrichment activities to extend learning). Designed to enhance shared practice using a simple structure and process of talking together, the framework can create profound differences in the way teachers work together, in the outcomes they can expect from their students, and in their feelings of connectedness to their profession.
The framework leads readers to intentionally focus on building adult relationships and targeting students in more meaningful ways. Authentic conversations from real teachers bring the framework to life. Many teachers who have used the framework report that the process re-energized them and reminded them of why they became educators in the first place.
Benefits
• Follow step-by-step instructions for the activities and conversations within the framework, along with reproducible materials available online.
• Apply the critical conversations matrix to particular activities within the framework, based on the focus questions and anticipated outcomes.
• Align efforts with several school-improvement initiatives, including response to intervention, professional learning communities, differentiated instruction, and universal design for learning.
• Ensure that all professionals involved are sharing their knowledge, skills, and talents to benefi t all students.
Contents
1 An Opening Invitation to Co-Teaching Conversations
2 Co-Teaching Models
3 The Critical Conversations in Co-Teaching Framework
4 Critical Conversations in Action
5 Expanding Co-Teaching Conversations
6 Critical Conversations Protocols: Set 1—Engage Partners
7 Critical Conversations Protocols: Set 2—Examine Data
8 Critical Conversations Protocols: Set 3—Enhance Instruction
9 Critical Conversations Protocols: Set 4—Expand Impact
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The Internet connects us in unprecedented ways. To prepare students
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Create a connected learning community through social media and
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By robert J. Marzano and tammy hefl ebower
As the 21st century unfolds, the pace of change in the world is accelerating.
The authors believe a combination of cognitive skills (skills students will
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Learn to facilitate emotions for students such as enthusiasm, interest,
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By allen n. Mendler and Brian d. Mendler
2nd Edition It’s every educator’s worst fear: losing control of the classroom.
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3rd Edition Explore the demographic shifts in American life and schools
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