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In this book, Erik M. Francis explores how one of the most fundamental instructional strategies—questioning—can provide the proper scaffolding to d...

This specially priced set contains two must-have books that offer powerful and practical ways for teachers to meet the challenge of how to divide t...

Are your students excited about writing? Do you want them to be? Do you want them to ask for more writing opportunities and assignments? Do you wan...

What type of questioning invigorates and sustains productive discussions? That's what Jackie Acree Walsh and Beth Dankert Sattes ask as they begin ...

What makes a great school leader? Contrary to what many believe, the answer is not tied to a certain kind of personality but to specific behaviors ...

To differentiate instruction is to act on the belief that all kids deserve access to the richest, most compelling learning experiences and to provi...

Students following directions, dutifully completing assignments, and quietly cooperating. For some teachers, this kind of compliance is a goal wort...

Packed with strategies, tips, and activities you can quickly put into practice, this book shows how to build productive teams and intentionally cre...

ASCD Bestseller! Classroom management is traditionally a matter of encouraging good behavior and discouraging bad by doling out rewards and punishm...

Grading systems often reward on-time task completion and penalize disorganization and bad behavior. Despite our best intentions, grades seem to ref...

K-12 schools in the United States are suffering from an epidemic of teacher attrition: nearly half of all new teachers leave the field within their...

What really motivates students to learn? What gets them interested—and keeps them interested—in pursuing knowledge and understanding? Recent neuros...

Curriculum design experts Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins have reviewed thousands of curriculum documents and unit plans across a range of subjects a...

Project based learning (PBL) is gaining renewed attention with the current focus on college and career readiness and the performance-based emphases...

In The Freedom to Fail, veteran educator Andrew K. Miller explains the many benefits of intentionally designing opportunities for students to "fail...

In Complex Text Decoded, educational consultant and former master teacher Kathy T. Glass presents strategies, activities, and assessments that targ...

In this book, project-based learning expert Suzie Boss explains how real-world projects engage and motivate students while teaching relevant, rigor...

As digital natives, our students are certainly at home online, but how much do they know about using the Internet as a research tool? Do they know ...

How can educators work together more effectively to improve professional practice in a way that enhances student performance? The answer, says auth...

In this one-stop resource for middle and high school teachers, Kristina J. Doubet and Jessica A. Hockett explore how to use differentiated instruct...

"Why do I lead?" With this deceptively simple question, best-selling author Baruti K. Kafele begins a powerful examination of what it takes to make...

"It's not the doing that matters; it's the thinking about the doing," said John Dewey. As a teacher, you work hard to make a positive difference in...

The Common Core State Standards have put close reading in the spotlight as never before. While middle and high school teachers want and need studen...

Most educators are skilled at planning instruction and determining what they will do during the course of a lesson. However, to truly engage studen...