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In this era of increasing teacher accountability, helping novice and veteran teachers succeed in the classroom has never been more urgent or more c...

From state and Common Core tests to formative and summative assessments in the classroom, teachers are awash in data. Reviewing the data can be tim...

How do you align assessments to the content and rigor of your curriculum? What steps can you take to determine whether your assessments are both re...

How do you align assessments to the content and rigor of your curriculum? What steps can you take to determine whether your assessments are both re...

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...

What does it feel like to walk into your school? Is it a welcoming place, where everyone feels valued? Most school improvement efforts focus on aca...

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...

How do you determine whether your assessments are high-quality? How can you shift from assessing what is easy to assessing what is important? How t...

How do you determine whether your assessments are high-quality? How can you shift from assessing what is easy to assessing what is important? How t...

With new standards emphasizing higher-order thinking skills, students will have to demonstrate their ability to do far more than simply remember fa...

First published in 1995 as How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed-Ability Classrooms, this new edition reflects evolving best practices, practit...

Properly crafted and individually tailored feedback on student work boosts student achievement across subjects and grades. In this updated and expa...

How to Help Your School Thrive Without Breaking the Bank will help you improve your school without investing in externally developed, expensive, an...

Are you picking up all your students' work is trying to tell you? In this book, assessment expert Susan M. Brookhart and instructional coach Alice ...

In How to Make Decisions with Different Kinds of Student Assessment Data, best-selling author Susan M. Brookhart helps teachers and administrators ...

In this practical guide to designing and delivering interesting and effective presentations for adult audiences, Garmston and Wellman cover the fiv...

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...

If we want all our students to become better thinkers and learners, we must design rigorous learning experiences that go beyond helping them simply...

For every teacher it's different, but you know who they are for you—the students who are "hard to teach." Maybe they're reading far below grade lev...

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...

Memory is inextricable from learning; there's little sense in teaching students something new if they can't recall it later. Ensuring that the know...

Challenging times demand dynamic leadership. Schools rely on teachers to assume a variety of leadership roles, both formal and informal, including ...

How can assessment data help you improve your instructional practice? How can you interpret test scores and use standardized test information to sh...

How can assessment data help you improve your instructional practice? How can you interpret test scores and use standardized test information to sh...