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We can all remember how great we felt when our favorite teacher praised us for a job well done or a good instructor encouraged us during a tough as...

Are we missing the opportunity to reach struggling learners from the very beginning? Are we hastily—and unnecessarily— referring students to interv...

What does formative assessment look like, and when should I use it? What kind of planning does it require, and what kinds of data does it generate?...

Use this handy guide to get your PLC engaged, energized, and ready to implement differentiated instruction. Everything you need to organize and run...

Research confirms that the teacher makes the greatest difference in the learning success of students, so it's important that new teachers get off t...

English language learners (ELLs) often face the difficult challenge of learning both a new language and new subject matter at the same time. In Tea...

How can we create and sustain professional learning programs that actually lead to improved student achievement? In this thoughtful and informative...

In Effective Literacy Coaching: Building Expertise and a Culture of Literacy, literacy experts Shari Frost, Roberta Buhle, and Camille Blachowicz p...

Formative assessment is one of the best ways to increase student learning and enhance teacher quality. But effective formative assessment is not pa...

There's a lot more to being a teacher leader than any job description can capture. When action must be taken, new goals must be set, and new standa...

Take educational outcomes way beyond facts and information with this collection of tools for teaching students how to think and behave intelligentl...

Smartphones, videogames, webcasts, wikis, blogs, texting, emoticons. What does the rapidly changing digital landscape mean for classroom teaching? ...

We all remember our inspired teachers--the ones who made learning come alive and helped us break through to better and deeper understanding. In The...

How can teachers help students develop the literacy skills that are necessary for learning and retaining information in any subject? Traditional me...

Protocols for Professional Learning is your guide to helping PLCs successfully explore any topic. You'll find step-by-step instructions for impleme...

This series of more than 50 Habits of Mind tools helps secondary school teachers plan lessons and classroom activities for successful lifelong lear...

How can every teacher, school, and district improve the quality of their schools? The answer is to empower teachers to take charge of their own lea...

The benefits of collaborative learning are well documented—and yet, almost every teacher knows how group work can go wrong: restless students, uneq...

Creating and using curriculum maps is a lot faster and easier when you use this in-depth resource in workshops, curriculum teams, and professional ...

At a time when globalization and technology are dramatically altering the world we live in, is education reform in the United States headed down th...

One of the most vexing problems confronting educators today is the chronic achievement gap between black male students and their peers. In this ins...

Since the original publication of Enhancing Professional Practice: A Framework for Teaching in 1996, thousands of educators in the United States an...

Written by a leading expert on differentiated instruction, this resource contains more than 45 tools and activities that make it easier for staff d...

Distinguished educators Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick present this collection of stories by educators around the world who have successfully imp...