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

Thanks to initiatives like the Common Core and Race to the Top, accountability requirements continue to be a reality for educators. Yet many are st...

Even under ideal conditions, teaching is tough work. Facing unrelenting pressure from administrators and parents and caught in a race against time ...

Although much has changed in schools in recent years, the power of differentiated instruction remains the same—and the need for it has only increas...

Looking for advice and guidance on how to implement differentiated instruction throughout your school? Learn from the experts. Administrators and t...

In this book, eCoaching pioneer Marcia Rock draws on best-practice research and decades of experience to offer a blueprint for professional develop...

As every educator knows, even the best-performing schools have occasional discipline issues. In The Educator's Guide to Assessing and Improving Sch...

What can you do to keep students from fighting in the hallways and acting out in class? When they break the rules, what disciplinary actions can yo...

A one-stop shop to answer your most pressing questions about what it takes to facilitate.Workshops, committees, teams, and study groups are a regul...

The EQ Way is a reflection tool for leaders navigating difficult times—and difficult emotions—in their schools.In education, challenges surround yo...

ASCD Bestseller! Baruti K. Kafele offers 50 timely and important questions on equity and social justice education for educators to reflect on and d...

"Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text." Your students may recognize the words deter...

Where is U.S. secondary-level science education heading today? That's the question that The Essentials of Science, Grades 7-12 sets out to answer. ...

How can elementary school teachers—the proverbial jacks-of-all-trades—feel more confident in their knowledge of science and teach science more effe...

In today's climate of accountability and high-stakes testing, many U.S. schools are choosing to focus on the three Rs to the exclusion of other sub...

We live in a global community, and to be a full member of this community often requires speaking more than one language. Educators and policymakers...

What are the First Amendment rights? How do you resolve questions about the rights of students, educators, and parents in a school setting?The Firs...

Want to make your instruction more equitable and effective, more interesting, and more fun? It's time to try flexible grouping.Unlike traditional g...

Join Nancy Frey and Douglas Fisher as they outline a clear-cut, realistic, and rewarding approach to formative assessment. They explain how four di...

Formative assessment is a process, acted out in a formative learning cycle, that partners the teacher and the student to regularly gather evidence ...

Formative assessment is a process, acted out in a formative learning cycle, that partners the teacher and the student to regularly gather evidence ...

For success in school and life, students need more than proficiency in academic subjects and good scores on tests; those goals should form the floo...

Creating a peer literacy coaching program from scratch is no easy task. Making it focused, dynamic, and effective is even harder. In this inspiring...

Millions of teachers worldwide use the Understanding by Design® (UbD) curriculum planning framework to create units of instruction that develop and...