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About Just ASK

Just ASK Publications &

Professional Development (Just

ASK) is based in Alexandria,

Virginia, USA. Established in 1989,

Just ASK provides products and

services for educators in formats that

facilitate a shared understanding and

use of best practice in teaching,

learning, and leading in classrooms,

schools, and districts in the 21st

century.

The products developed and

distributed by Just ASK are designed

not only to stand alone but to

support professional development initiatives led by district personnel, to

serve as the texts for workshops led by Just ASK Consultants, and for

college courses. These comprehensive resources are designed to meet the

needs of new teachers, mentors, experienced teachers, and administrators

in a way that ensures that all stakeholders are using the same language to

plan, implement, and assess student learning.

What’s Inside

What are people saying about Just ASK?

Just ASK Publications & Professional Development has provided materials and professional learning

experiences to our administrators and teachers that are researched-based and results-driven. If it weren’t for

Just ASK and the exemplary planning and expertise of Just ASK Consultant, Brenda Kaylor, our district

could well have looked at trying to purchase a “quick fix” to remedy our achievement concerns. Instead, we

have been focused on improving instructional practices by providing ongoing, high-quality, job-embedded

professional development to our staff. Just ASK taught our staff to facilitate effective teaching and learning

and promote the continuous use of student data (formative and summative) to inform and differentiate

instruction to meet the needs of individual students. Denise Hoctor

Principal, Orchard Avenue Elementary School

Mesa County Valley School District #51

Grand Junction, Colorado

Induction and Mentoring

Resources

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Supervision and Evaluation 6

Creating a Culture for

Learning

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Best Practice in Teaching

and Learning10

Meeting the Needs of Diverse

Learners

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Building In-House Capacity 16

Results-Based Professional

Development19

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Standards-Based

Instruction

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Instructional Leadership

Leading the Learning™

Teacher Incentive Fund

Creating a C

ulture for Learning™

Revision of

Making

Using Data to Inform Instruction

Walk-Throughs

Keynotes

Coaching New Principals

Building

Certified Local Trainers

ARRA

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Title II

Differentiation

AssessmentNew

Louise Thompson

Theresa West

Harriet Hopkins

John Elwell

Paula Rutherford

Lau Kan HowSarah Hartman

Brenda Kaylor

Julie McVicker

Kathi Ruh

Sherri Stephens-Carter

Bruce Oliver

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Becoming an Effective Coach

Race to the Top

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the Needs of Diverse Learners™

Why Didn’t I Learn This in College?®

21st Century

Classrooms

Teacher Induction

In-House Capacity

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Supervision and Evaluation

Systems

Assessment a Learning

Experience

Contact Just ASK to schedule on-site professional development focused onteaching, learning, and leading in the 21st century.


Induction and Mentoring On-Site Workshops and Institutes

Mentoring in the 21st Century ® Workshops and InstitutesThis acclaimed professional development series is designed for all who play a role in the new teacher induction process.Participants work collaboratively to explore the information and tools they need to work directly with novice teachers andto serve as program directors. Formats for identifying needed areas of support, determining interaction options, andbuilding a repertoire for providing feedback are popular topics in this series.


This multi-day workshop series is designed for educators with 0-3 years ofexperience. Based on the construct that a strong instructional program is the bestmanagement program, this series helps new teachers create learning-centeredenvironments, use the standards-based planning process, build a repertoire ofactive learning strategies, and develop organizational skills.

eBookavailable

The 21st Century Mentor’sHandbookby Paula RutherfordThis handbook includes a mentoringcalendar, needs assessments, tools for goalse�ing and reflection, and instructionaldesign templates.ISBN 978-0-9663336-6-4 | Order #11003$34.95 | 380 pages

Why Didn’t I Learn This in College?by Paula RutherfordThis resource for teachers new to the profession isbased on the construct that the best classroommanagement program is a good instructionalprogram. ISBN 978-0-9797280-1-3 | Order #11002$29.95 | 330 pages

Now you can provideyour mentors with The21st Century MentorsHandbook that is cross-referenced to thebest-selling new teacherresource Why Didn’t ILearn This in College?and provides extensiveguidance on how tosupport novice teachers.

Order both books togetherand save 20%Order #11029 | $50

eBook coming soon

Why Didn’t I Learn This in College?has been named a must read for newteachers by the NEA.

BooksOver

500,000 in print!



Mentoring in the 21st Century® Resource KitThis kit, named in 2007 by District Administration as one of the Readers’ Choice Top 100 Products of the year,provides the tools you need to design and implement a comprehensive mentor training program. It offers over 30 hoursof professional development learning experiences that have been field-tested in our national mentoring institutes andon-site in schools and districts like yours. The facilitator’s handbook and the participant’s manual of handout mastersare included in hard copy and on CD-ROM. To further enhance your training program, a selection of DVD clips, a CD-ROM of visual tools to use in PowerPoint presentations, and What Do You Do When… Cards are included. Use the kitwith copies of The 21st Century Mentor’s Handbook and Why Didn’t I Learn This in College? to ensure that yourmentors are well prepared to work with your novice teachers.

Order #11028$985

New Teacher Professional Development KitThis kit, recently named by District Administration as one of the 2010 Readers’Choice Top 100 Products, provides resources that can greatly enhance the likelihoodyour new teachers will experience success. The materials are appropriate for noviceteachers, alternative certification teachers, and experienced teachers new to the district.The facilitator’s handbook and handout masters are included in hard copy and on CD-ROM, coupled with a collection of DVD clips, a CD-ROM of visual tools to use inpreparing PowerPoint presentations, and six sets of What do You Do When… Cardsthat address challenges and concerns o�en faced by new teachers. These tools provideyou with sufficient resources to put into place a three-year induction program.

Order #11046$795

Our Award-Winning Kits

Just ASK has beenproviding professionaldevelopment servicesin districts and schoolsfor over 20 years.



3rd Grade ScienceThis DVD includes an uninterruptedclassroom episode, an in-depthinterview with the teacher, and asecond version of the lesson withextensive commentary and play-by-play analysis of the planning,teaching, and learning involved inthis episode.ISBN 978-0-9777796-7-3 | Order #11047$95 | 41 minutes

Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century DVD Collection

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2nd Grade Writer’s WorkshopFollowing a brief introductory lesson, this DVD features studentsworking in collaborative writing teams where they provide each othersupport and growth-producing feedback and complete sophisticatedself-assessments of their writing and their efforts. In addition to anuninterrupted classroom episode, a play-by-play analysis of the lessonand a reflective interview with the featured teacher are included. ISBN 978-0-9797280-6-8 | Order #11053$95 | 28 minutes

4th/5th Grade Writer’s WorkshopThis DVD includes a 14 minute uninterrupted classroom episode followed byan in-depth interview with the featured teacher providing thoughtful andprovocative responses to the reflective questions asked.ISBN 978-0-9777796-9-7 | Order #11048$95 | 30 minutes

Mentoring andSupervision ScenariosThese cards present over 40 realworld scenarios. Mentors andadministrators can worktogether to discuss how toapproach the problemspresented.Order #11032$49.95 | Six sets of 48 cards

New Teacher Challengesand ConcernsThese cards describe 50 scenarios thatpose challenges and concerns for newteachers. They can be used by newteacher-mentor pairs, groups of newteachers, school-based teams, or forrole plays in multiple se�ings.Order #11050$49.95 | Six sets of 50 cards

What Do You Do When... Card Sets



View SneakPeeks of DVDsand books onour website.

Just ASK is approved as a vendor by theTexas Education Agency for the TexasBeginning Teacher Induction andMentoring (BTIM) Program, designedto establish and enhance induction andmentoring programs to increase theretention of new teachers. Just ASK hasthe resources your district needs tosupport your mentoring programs.

www.justaskpublications.com/texas

Collegial ConversationsThis DVD features four highly skilled coachesconferencing with the novice teachers withwhom they have been working for the pasteight months. Listen in as they demonstrate inauthentic and unscripted sessions their use ofreflective coaching, collaboration, andconsulting. Also included are brief interviewswith the coaches who describe how they maketheir decisions and with the protégées in whichthey explain the impact their coaches have ontheir success as novice teachers.

Access the viewing guide and Sneak Peek atwww.justaskpublications.com/ccISBN 978-0-9797280-0-6 | Order #11031$195 | 41 minutes

Helping New TeachersSucceedProduced by the New TeacherCenter, this DVD describes thephases of first-year teaching andoffers a wide-variety of formats fornew teacher professionaldevelopment.Order #11021$60 | 20 minutes

Points to PonderThe three five-minute videos on this DVDfeature thought-provoking and humorousquotes set to music. The third video featuresauthentic advice for new teachers from teacherswho have just finished their first year ofteaching. This is the perfect ending for yournew teacher orientation program. ISBN 978-0-9777796-0-4 | Order #11016$29.95 | 15 minutes

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On-Site WorkshopsLeading the Learning®

This six-day workshop series for school leaders is designed to supportschool leaders in their work as instructional leaders as they strive to createthe conditions in which the supervision and evaluation process can bedirectly linked to teacher professional growth and to student learning.This series is philosophically aligned with the ISLLC Standards forEducational Leaders.

eBook coming soon

Leading the Learning A Field Guide for Supervision and Evaluation by Paula RutherfordThis text, which is philosophically aligned with the ISSLC Standards forEducational Leaders, explores the collaborative contexts in which educationalleaders work to ensure that student learning is the central focus of all stakeholders.It provides in-depth information about best practices to note, suggestions to make,and reflective questions to ask around six commonly used standards for teacherperformance. Strategies for gathering and analyzing data from multiple sourcesare accompanied by clearly explained feedback options. A CD-ROM of templatesis included.ISBN 978-0-9663336-7-1 | Order #11005$34.95 | 300 pages

eBook coming soon

Instruction for All Studentsby Paula RutherfordThis companion text is a valuable resource for supervisors and evaluators to use whenwriting reports or holding conferences with teachers following classroom observations.Paired with the Instruction for All Students Facilitator’s Handbook, it provides lessonplans for principals to use in faculty meetings and other professional developmentevents.ISBN 978-0-9777796-8-0 | Order #11027$34.95 | 298 pages

Contact Just ASK to learn about ourexpertise inmentoringprincipals.

Just ASK works with districts to facilitate therevision and implementation of supervision andevaluation systems. Districts with whom wehave worked include:• Prince William County Public Schools,

Manassas, Virginia • St. Vrain Valley School District, Longmont,

Colorado • Monson Public Schools, Massachuse�s • Barrington Central Unified School District 220,

Illinois • West Irondequoit Central School District,

Rochester, New York

Revision of Supervision and Evaluation Systems

Just ASK can assist you in the revision of your supervision and evaluation systems so that they are data-driven and student-centered. Helping districts use multiple sources of data is a hallmark of our work.

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Success Factors in a Standards-Based Classroom This DVD, produced by Fairfax County Public Schools, Virginia, answersthe question, "What do schools look like when they organize around thecommitment to the achievement of high standards by all students?" Order #11017$75 | 50 minutes

Principles in Action High-quality professional development leading to increased studentachievement is the subject of this engaging documentary-style video,which explores the real-life experiences of four winners of the U.S.Department of Education’s National Award for Model ProfessionalDevelopment. Order #11019$19.95 | 50 minutes

Just ASK cross-references our publications with the professionalperformance standards of districts and states. These resources provideadministrators, professional developers, mentors, and teachers easyaccess to an array of research-based best practices aligned with thestandards.

See examples from California, New York, and Virginia atwww.justaskpublications.com/resourcecenter.

Contact Just ASK to have us cross-reference your standards to ourresources.

DVDs

Cross-Referenced Documents

Teaching and Learning in the21st Century DVD Collection• 2nd Grade Writer’s Workshop

ISBN 978-0-9797280-6-8 | Order #11053$95 | 28 minutes

• 3rd Grade ScienceISBN 978-0-9777796-7-3 | Order #11047$95 | 41 minutes

• 4th/5th Grade Writer’s WorkshopISBN 978-0-9777796-9-7 | Order #11048$95 | 30 minutes

See page 4 for product descriptions.

This free e-newsle�er providesinformation, insights, and suggestions forall who strive to be instructional leaders.Access over 70 archived issues on the Just ASK website. Categories include:• Instructional Leadership• Supervision and Evaluation• Creating a Culture for Learning• Best Practice in Instruction • Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners

Subscribe at www.justaskpublications.com/newsle�ers.htm

Collegial ConversationsISBN 978-0-9797280-0-6 | Order #11031$195 | 41 minutes

See page 5 for product description.

Contact Just ASK toschedule keynotesand conferencesessions on Leadingthe Learning in aStandards-BasedEnvironment.


Creating a Culture for LearningOn-Site Workshops and SummitsCreating a Culture for Learning™

This professional development opportunity is based on the Just ASK Non-Negotiables for Creating a Culture for Learning displayed below.Participants are provided opportunities to self-assess their individual andcollective knowledge and skillfulness around advancing student learningas members of collaborative teams as well as opportunities to addressthese questions:• What would our school look like when it is organized around the

commitment to the achievement of high standards by all students?• What is my role in planning, implementing, and maintaining such a school?• How do we ensure that the ideals of professional learning communities are

integrated into our belief systems, systemic structures, and every day practices?

Creating a Culture for LearningPaula Rutherford and the Just ASK Consultants are pooling their collectedexperience and expertise in a new book titled Creating a Culture for Learning. Just ASKConsultants contributing to the book include Theresa West, a highly successfulprincipal who turned around two schools within a five-year period, Sherri Stephens-Carter, a former executive director of assessment and evaluation, Julie McVicker whohas experience directing Title I programs and supervising underperforming schools,Bruce Oliver, a sixteen-year middle school principal, and Brenda Kaylor, a highlyacclaimed professional developer and change agent. A spring 2011 release date isscheduled.

Read more about Just ASK Non-Negotiables for Creating a Culture for Learning inthe October issue of the free Just for the ASKing! e-newsle�er. Not subscribed? Visitwww.justaskpublications.com/newsle�ers.htm today.ISBN 978-0-9830756-0-8 | Order #11055$34.95 | 270 pages

Just ASK goes beyond packagedsolutions and programs and usesdistrict data and documents todesign services and materialsaligned to school and district needs.

BooksAvailable

Spring 2011


Creating a Culture for Learning

185 educators from 35 Las Cruces Public Schools in New Mexico are shownhere participating in a Just ASK two-day summit. Each school team developedSMART Goals and action plans for the 2010-2011 school year.

Contact Just ASK toschedule a summit inyour school district.

Best Practice in Teaching and Learning


Instruction for All Students™

This six-day series is an in-depth study of instruction, assessment, and learning in a standards-based environment. Thegoals of the workshop series are for participants to become more skillful with the standards-based planning process and tobuild repertoires of ways to engage students in meaningful, active learning. Participants in Instruction for All Students™

work collaboratively to develop, teach, and present for peer review a standards-based unit of study.

Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners™

This multi-day workshop series is designed to help teachers focus on ways to recognize, respect, and respond todifferences in learners with practical and research-based approaches.

See page 14 for description.


This multi-day workshop series is designed for educators with 0-3 years of experience.See page 2 for description.

Making Assessment a Learning ExperienceThis one-day workshop or conference session focuses on thedesign and use of pre-assessments, task analyses, student self-assessments, as well as the power of growth-producing feedbackand the use of classroom assessment results to make instructionaldecisions. Participants learn at least 15 strategies that providestudents multiple formats and opportunities for demonstratingnot only their learning but how they can apply and use thatlearning.

Top Ten Tips for Teaching and Learning in the21st CenturyParticipants in this one-day workshop or conference sessionexplore 10 research-based and practical tips for creating andmaintaining a learning-centered classroom. Tips also focus onusing the Standards-Based Planning Process, ensuring thatlearning experiences are rigorous and relevant, and using data toadjust instructional delivery.

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Instruction for All Students PLC PackThis collection of resources provides the tools you needto lead a year-long study of best practice in teaching andlearning or to plan instruction-based faculty meetingsfocused on areas such as classroom assessment,standards-based planning, rigor and relevance. See page 16 for additional information.Order #11051$799

Our Work with Catholic Schools Just ASK is engaged in long-termmultifaceted work with theArchdiocese of Los Angeles (278schools) and the Archdiocese ofBoston (135 schools) in collaborationwith Emmanuel College. Schoolleaders, mentors, teacher leaders, andnovice teachers are working togetherto develop a common vocabulary andconcept system.

Meeting the Needs of Diverse LearnersPLC PackThis collection of resources provides the tools you need to leada year-long study of best practice in teaching and learning or toplan instruction-based faculty meetings focused on areas suchas classroom assessment, standards-based planning, rigor andrelevance.

See page 15 for additional information.Order #11052$799

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BooksInstruction for All Studentsby Paula RutherfordThis text provides strategies andresources for actively engaging studentsand multiple approaches to lesson andunit design. It also includes informationon technology integration, formativeassessment, 21st century thinking skillsthat promote rigor and relevance, andformats for job-embedded learning.ISBN 978-0-9777796-8-0 | Order #11027$34.95 | 298 pages

Facilitator’s Handbook forInstruction for All Students by Paula RutherfordThis 160-page facilitator’s handbook isdesigned to help educators structure theirreading and use of the strategies presented inthe book Instruction for All Students. It can beused for book clubs, study groups, and inteam, department, and faculty meetings.

ISBN 978-0-9797280-2-0 | Order #11043$59.95 | 160 pages

eBook coming soon

eBook available

Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners by Paula RutherfordISBN 978-0-9797280-4-4 | Order #11033$34.95 | 325 pages


Instruction for All Students is filledwith examples every teacher can useto meet the diverse needs of students.This book is a must-have for teacherswho know that they ma�er and thatwhat they do instructionally ma�ersmost. Paula has led multiple pre-conferences at the PEAK ParentConference on Inclusive Education inDenver and used Instruction for AllStudents as the text for these sessions.

Dr. Douglas FisherProfessor of Language and LiteracyEducationSan Diego State UniversitySan Diego, California

Strategies in Action: Volume IIApplications in Today’s DiverseClassroomsTeachers from across the country describehow they have used the instructional,assessment, and organizational strategiesfound in Meeting the Needs of DiverseLearners, Instruction for All Students, andWhy Didn’t I Learn This in College? ThesePreK-12 teachers point out the ways thatthey have scaffolded instruction for studentswith special needs, engaged resistant andreluctant learners, sheltered instruction forEnglish Language Learners and extendedthe learning of accelerated learners. ISBN 978-0-9797280-8-2 | Order #11054$19.95 | 140 pages


Strategies in Action: Volume IA Collection of ClassroomApplicationsThis amazing collection provides glimpses into theclassrooms of K-12 teachers across the spectrum ofcontent areas. It features descriptions of how teachershave used the instructional, assessment, andorganizational strategies found in Why Didn’t I LearnThis in College? and Instruction for All Students intheir own classrooms.

ISBN 978-0-9797280-3-7 | Order #11049$19.95 | 134 pages

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Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century DVD Collection• 2nd Grade Writer’s Workshop

ISBN 978-0-9797280-6-8 | Order #11053$95 | 28 minutes

• 3rd Grade ScienceISBN 978-0-9777796-7-3 | Order #11047$95 | 41 minutes

• 4th/5th Grade Writer’s WorkshopISBN 978-0-9777796-9-7 | Order #11048$95 | 30 minutes

See page 4 for product descriptions.

Standards-Based Classroom Operator’s Manualdesigned by Centennial BOCES, Longmont, ColoradoThis resource provides facilitator notes and timelines for use by professional developers asthey help teachers move from being standards-referenced to standards-based.

ISBN 978-0-9777796-6-6 | Order #11012$24.95 | 149 pages

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Why Didn’t I Learn This in College?by Paula RutherfordISBN 978-0-9797280-1-3 | Order #11002$29.95 | 330 pages


Use these DVDs produced by ASCD in professional development sessions asstrong exemplars of best practice in teaching and learning. Show them in staff meetingsor conferences as tools to identify your district’s teacher performance criteria in action.

Lesson Collection: Primary Math | Order #11025 | $95Lesson Collection: Biology Visual Learning Tools | Order #11026 | $95Lesson Collection: HS Reciprocal Teaching | Order #11035 | $95Lesson Collection: HS Geometry Surface Area and Volume | Order #11034 | $95

Lesson Collection Series DVDs

Online Resource CenterCheck out the standards-based units anddownload a template to use in unitdevelopment. Access and use the Standards-Based Classroom Self-Inventory.

Visit www.justaskpublications.com/resourcecenter

eBookavailable


eBookavailable

Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners by Paula RutherfordMeeting the Needs of Diverse Learners is designed to help teachers build skillfulness inrecognizing, respecting, and responding to the needs of the wide range of diverse studentsin today's classrooms. This book provides an array of strategies for use with acceleratedstudents, English language learners, and students with special needs. The author'sbackground as a general education teacher at the secondary and elementary levels, coupledwith a graduate degree in special education and years spent working with students withlearning disabilities, sets the stage for a clearly articulated belief in teachers and learners andfor realistic and practical approaches to our work. A CD-ROM of tools is included.ISBN 978-0-9797280-4-4 | Order #11033$34.95 | 325 pages

Meeting the Needs of Diverse LearnersOn-Site Workshops and InstitutesMeeting the Needs of Diverse Learners™

This multi-day workshop series is designed to help teachers focus on ways to recognize,respect, and respond to differences in learners with practical and research-basedapproaches. Participants explore ways to provide multiple pathways to learning so thatadvanced learners are challenged and learning is scaffolded for struggling learners,second language learners, and students with special needs. Strategies explored provide awide-range of Tier I Response to Intervention approaches.

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Facilitator’s Handbook for Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learnersby Paula RutherfordThis 150-page facilitator’s handbook is the perfect tool for principals, professional developers,and teacher leaders to use in planning a comprehensive year-long professional developmentprogram. It can also be used to plan focused data-driven discussions around specificchallenging issues that teachers are facing on a daily basis. Each of the 30 to 60 minute exercisesinclude the purpose, the time needed, the materials to use, the process to follow, andsuggestions for follow-up professional practice in the classroom. All handouts are included inhard copy and on a CD-ROM. See the description of the Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners PLC Pack on page 15. ISBN 978-0-9797280-9-9 | Order #11056$74.95 | 150 pages



Strategies in Action:Volume IIApplications in Today’sDiverse ClassroomsISBN 978-0-9797280-8-2 | Order #11054$19.95 | 140 pages

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Meeting the Needs of Diverse LearnersPLC PackIf your collaborative team members have identified the need toexpand and refine their repertoires of strategies for working withdiverse learners as a priority or you, as a teacher leader oradministrator, need to orchestrate focus discussions on this topic,then the Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners PLC Pack isjust what you need.

Each PLC pack includes multiple copies of the text Meeting theNeeds of Diverse Learners, a copy of the Facilitator’s Handbookfor Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners, copy of Strategies inAction Volume II: Applications in Today’s Diverse Classrooms,a CD-ROM of visual tools, and four sets of Meeting the Needs ofDiverse Learners Sort Cards.

The standard PLC Pack includes 25 copies of Meeting the Needsof Diverse Learners. Contact Just ASK if you need more copies ofthe text. In any case, when you purchase the PLC Pack you areguaranteed 20% off the retail price of the individual items.

Order #11052$799


Meeting the Needs of DiverseLearners is an awesome resource fordistricts like Beeville IndependentSchool District that are implementingResponse to Intervention at all levels.The book provides information foreducators who work with averagestudents, as well as English languagelearners, gi�ed, or strugglingstudents. The book also includesstrategies for all subjects and gradelevels. I especially liked the graphicorganizers and math strategies.

Nancy Jones, Ed. D.Assistant Superintendent forCurriculum and InstructionBeeville ISD, Texas

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Certified Local Trainer (CLT) ProgramJust ASK offers a Certified Local Trainer (CLT) program to promote sustainability andbuild in-house capacity in school districts or educational organizations such as BOCESor Education Service Centers. A�er prospective CLTs complete a rigorous certificationprocess, they are licensed to lead specific workshop series in the district or organizationwhich pays the licensing fee. Certification training is offered on site and, as demandrequires, in regional institutes.The certification process includes: • Workshop participation • Content training • Preparation and review • Co-teaching and feedback • Self-assessment and analysis • Continued online coaching and support provided

by Just ASK for CLTs for as long as they lead theworkshop series

Instruction for All Students PLC PackThis PLC Pack provides your Professional LearningCommunity with content to improve student learning. Thereare 24 one-hour interactive and action-oriented learningexperiences included. Based around the work in the bookInstruction for All Students by Paula Rutherford, the PLCPack will help you focus on learning and workingcollaboratively in no time!Order #11051$799

Just ASK iscommi�ed tobuilding in-house capacity sothat initiativescan be sustainedover time andprofessionaldevelopmentfunds can beused in more costeffective ways.


Meeting the Needs ofDiverse Learners PLC PackOrder #11052$799




Building In-House CapacityMentoring in the 21st Century® Resource KitThe Mentoring in the 21st Century® Resource Kit provides thetools you need to design and implement a comprehensive mentortraining program for your school or district. It offers over 30hours of professional development learning exercises that havebeen field-tested in our national Mentoring in the 21st Century®

Institutes and on-site in schools and districts like yours. Order #11028$985

Order #11046$795

Instruction for All Students™ Cards | Order #11044 | $10 One set of 30 Why Didn’t I Learn This in College?® Cards | Order #11045 | $10 One set of 30

New Teacher Professional Development KitProfessional development opportunities designed to addressthe needs of new teachers are an essential component ofinduction programs. The New Teacher ProfessionalDevelopment Kit provides the resources you need to design acomprehensive new teacher professional development programfor your school or district.

PostersThis Poster Pack contains six of the most popular posters used in ASKGroup workshops: Top Ten Questions, Standards-Based EducationPlanning Process, Yesterday & Today, Stars, Apple, and Bulls Eye. Theyare used by hundreds of districts to support their own professionaldevelopment and induction programs. Order #11006$16.95 |Set of 6| 18” x 24” posters

Scavenger Hunt CardsAssist your teachers in expanding and refining theirrepertoires of instructional strategies by using theseScavenger Hunt cards for the books Instruction for AllStudents and Why Didn’t I Learn This in College? Eachcard has a strategy and page number listed on it. Usethem in your professional development workshops andhave teachers share how they might use thesestrategies in their classrooms.

Just ASK Visual Tools CD-ROM SeriesAvailable separately or as a complete collection, each CD-ROM includes dozens ofhigh-quality, full color visuals in PDF and JPEG formats, as well as custom PowerPointtemplates specific to each book. The Visuals can be used to create PowerPoint orKeynote presentations, charts, and overhead transparencies.

Visual Tools: Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners™ | Order #11040 | $100Visual Tools: Instruction for All Students™ | Order #11036 | $100Visual Tools: Why Didn’t I Learn This in College?® | Order #11037 | $100Visual Tools: The 21st Century Mentor’s Handbook™ | Order #11038 | $100Visual Tools: Leading the Learning™ | Order #11039 | $100Visual Tools: The Complete Collection | Order #11041 | $375


Results-Based Professional Development

New Teacher Retention Just ASK provided four-day Why Didn’t I Learn This in College?®

summer institutes in St. Vrain Valley School District, Longmont,Colorado, as a significant component of the district’s new teacherinduction program. The district’s Office of Professional Developmentinitiated a series of studies conducted by an independent evaluator toprovide information on the effectiveness of the induction program.Of specific interest was whether the program led to teacher retention.This evaluation revealed that providing novice teacherscomprehensive professional development greatly increased theirretention rate compared to previous years. 100% of elementarynovice teachers and 93% of secondary novice teachers were retainedat the end of the 2002-2003 school year.

Students Achieve at High LevelsA Manha�an Institute Report based on 2006-2007 dataidentifies West Irondequoit Central School District,Rochester, New York, as the only Monroe County schooldistrict to deliver higher than expected academicachievement results. The distinction is based on higher thanexpected NYS test scores when per pupil expenditures, size,income, and demographic characteristics were taken intoaccount. Linda McGinley, Assistant Superintendent forInstruction, identifies Just ASK’s 21 years of continuousprofessional development partnership with WestIrondequoit as a significant contributing factor. The district’sunwavering focus on student learning, teacher capacitybuilding, and instructional leadership has led to record-breaking results. Contact Just ASK for specific informationabout this long-term professional development partnership.

Results-Based ProfessionalDevelopment Modelsedited by Brenda KaylorThis text provides all the tools professionaldevelopers need to introduce and implementfive results-based models: coaching/mentoring,independent study, inquiry, process, andtraining.ISBN 978-0-9797280-5-1 | Order #11058$24.95 | 380 pages

Just ASK’s professional development work is focused on helping schools and school districts,through long-term multifaceted work, to build in-house capacity and sustainability ofprofessional develop initiatives. The success stories highlighted on these pages featureexamples of schools and school districts that have accomplished just that. We are proud of ourrole in helping them on their journey toward excellence in teaching, learning, and leading.


Results-Based Professional Development

Students of Novice Teachers ExcelWhen Prince William County Schools, Manassas,Virginia, used Just ASK’s long-term multifacetedapproach to increasing student achievement, thestudents of a majority of the novice teachers in thedistrict’s underachieving schools matched or out-performed the students of veteran teachers in thoseschools on the Virginia Standards of Learning. Thesenovice teachers a�ended the four-day workshop seriesWhy Didn’t I Learn This in College?® and theirmentors participated in Mentoring in the 21st Century®.Additionally, their principals participated in Leadingthe Learning™ described on page 6. Over 30 educatorsin the district were trained as Certified Local Trainers(CLTs) to sustain the work over time. Contact Just ASKfor information about how to implement such aprogram in your district.

Award-Winning ResultsOrchard Avenue Elementary School in MesaCounty Valley District 51, Grand Junction,Colorado, has been so successful in closing theachievement gap that it received the first ColoradoDepartment of Education Commissioner’s Cup. In2010, Orchard Avenue was named a Blue RibbonSchool by the U. S. Department of Education. Asprincipal Denise Hoctor writes in the le�erexcerpted on the inside front cover of this catalog,she credits Just ASK Consultant Brenda Kaylor’sfive years of work with the district as having madea significant impact on teaching, learning, andleading. To see the school in action, view ourTeaching and Learning in the 21st Century DVDswhich feature Orchard Avenue students andteachers.

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