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For too long, educators have focused only on getting students ready for the next test, for the next grade, for graduation, or maybe for college. St...

Even in an education system driven by the Common Core State Standards and high-stakes testing, teachers must adapt their methods to the styles of t...

How can we keep students attentive, thoughtful, and inquisitive about learning in language arts? It certainly takes more than new standards and ass...

Whether students leave the classroom confident and goal-directed or frustrated and aimless depends on our ability to do two things: diagnose their ...

In this galvanizing follow-up to the best-selling Teaching with Poverty in Mind, renowned educator and learning expert Eric Jensen digs deeper into...

Language has always been the medium of instruction, but what happens when it becomes a barrier to learning? In this book, Jane Hill and Kirsten Mil...

In this updated 2nd edition of the ASCD best-seller, Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey dig deeper into the hows and whys of the gradual release of resp...

Any teacher can be a master teacher.So says Robyn R. Jackson, author of the best-selling Never Work Harder Than Your Students and Other Principles ...

Thinking critically. Communicating effectively. Collaborating productively. Students need to develop proficiencies while mastering the practices, c...

In this essential new book, best-selling author and researcher Robert J. Marzano and teacher-effectiveness expert Michael D. Toth lay out a framewo...

What is a rubric? A rubric is a coherent set of criteria for student work that describes levels of performance quality. Sounds simple enough, righ...

This book is a road map for teachers and school leaders who need to meet the needs of increasing numbers of Newcomers and other English Learners (E...

Carol Ann Tomlinson and Tonya R. Moon take an in-depth look at assessment and show how differentiation can improve the process in all grade levels ...

Effective principals run effective schools--this much we know. Accurately measuring principal effectiveness, however, has long been an elusive goal...

Your students may recognize words like determine, analyze, and distinguish, but do they understand these words well enough to quickly and completel...

Engaging Teachers in Classroom Walkthroughs is a practical guide to planning and implementing brief but focused classroom observations that involve...

Amid a confluence of messages regarding accountability, the Common Core State Standards, teacher effectiveness, and student performance, educators ...

In this inspiring and thought-provoking follow-up to his 2009 best-seller Motivating Black Males to Achieve in School and in Life, Baruti Kafele ma...

Want to make your students more responsible for their own learning? Want to create an academic environment in which students thrive and develop a g...

What are "essential questions," and how do they differ from other kinds of questions? What's so great about them? Why should you design and use ess...

Smart implementation of the Common Core State Standards requires both an overall understanding of the standards and a grasp of their implications f...

A new concept on human diversity has emerged over the past 10 years that promises to revolutionize the way educators provide services to students w...

Data. Does the word make you cringe? Does it evoke feelings of guilt? Are you unsure how to distill it and use it effectively?Grab this book and le...

Odds are, your state has adopted the Common Core State Standards. You know how the standards emerged, what they cover, and how they are organized. ...