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How can teachers meet the challenges of engaging and educating all students, from those who are gadget-toting and plugged-in to those who are langu...

Everyone agrees that what we do in schools should be based on what we know about how the brain learns. Until recently, however, we have had few clu...

What we call "motivation" in school is really a decision students make to invest in our classrooms. It's our responsibility to show students the va...

In this book, Johnnie McKinley presents the results of her in-depth study of a group of teachers in grades 3 thru 8 who managed to radically narrow...

Is there a way to get students to love math? Dr. Judy Willis responds with an emphatic yes in this informative guide to getting better results in m...

This second edition of an ASCD best-selling Action Tool gives you more than 60 tools (with tips and implementation steps) for creating and using fo...

"What the teacher wants me to say is more important than what I want to say." "If I get too far behind, I will never catch up." "What I'm learning ...

Learning for Keeps answers the questions teachers frequently ask about how to provide the explicit strategy instruction that supports the higher-le...

Today's teachers are responsible for a greater variety of learners with a greater diversity of needs than ever before. When you add in the ever-cha...

You've probably heard the advice "put on your own oxygen mask before assisting others." This is true both in airplanes and in classrooms—you have t...

If we want our students to succeed, we cannot afford to leave to chance what happens when they do not learn.In this guide, Robyn R. Jackson and Cla...

How can educators create a collective method of professional development that results in the genuine, sustained teacher learning essential to impro...

When you want to implement the ideas from our ultimate guide to teaching strategies, The Strategic Teacher, here's the tool you need for mastering ...

Educators know it's important to get students to engage in "higher-order thinking." But what does higher-order thinking actually look like? And how...

Creating and sustaining a classroom where every learner succeeds is a challenge for any teacher—especially when the elements of diversity and inclu...

"What year are you preparing your students for? 1973? 1995? Can you honestly say that your school's curriculum and the program you use are preparin...

It's much faster and easier to implement Charlotte Danielson's renowned framework for teaching from Enhancing Professional Practice when you have t...

What is Response to Intervention and why should we care? With this question, Margaret Searle begins her exploration of the RTI approach to classroo...

You know that repeating the same words and the same instructions—or simply announcing the answers to questions—doesn't help students learn. How do ...

Today's multilingual classrooms challenge even the best teachers' skills. As teachers strive to help all students reach their full potential, the n...

Here's the perfect tool for implementing the ideas from our best-selling ultimate guide to teaching strategies, The Strategic Teacher. Developed in...

In Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids' Brains and What Schools Can Do About It, veteran educator and brain expert Eric Jen...

Motivation and hope are two items in short supply in many urban schools. But it doesn't have to be that way, according to Richard L. Curwin. Based ...

How can teachers connect with and motivate students to embrace learning? According to Jonathan C. Erwin, the secret lies in forging positive relati...