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  • Better Than Carrots or Sticks: Restorative Practices for Positive Classroom Management

    • ASIN: 1416620621
    • ISBN: 1416620621
    • Manufacturer: ASCD

    Classroom management is traditionally a matter of encouraging good behavior and discouraging bad by doling out rewards and punishments. But studies show that when educators empower students to address and correct misbehavior among themselves, positive results are longer lasting and more wide reaching. In Better Than Carrots or Sticks, longtime edu... [Read More]

  • Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

    • ASIN: 0345472322
    • ISBN: 9780345472328
    • Brand: Ballantine Books
    • Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

    The updated edition of the book that has changed millions of lives with its insights into the growth mindset. After decades of research, world-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., discovered a simple but groundbreaking idea: the power of mindset. In this brilliant book, she shows how success in school, work, sports, th... [Read More]

  • The Daily 5: Fostering Literacy in the Elementary Grades

    • ASIN: 1571109749
    • ISBN: 1571109749
    • Brand: Stenhouse Publishers
    • Manufacturer: Stenhouse Publishers

    The Daily 5, Second Edition retains the core literacy components that made the first edition one of the most widely read books in education and enhances these practices based on years of further experience in classrooms and compelling new brain research. The Daily 5 provides a way for any teacher to structure literacy (and now math) time to increas... [Read More]

  • The Wild Card: 7 Steps to an Educator's Creative Breakthrough

    • ASIN: 1946444529
    • ISBN: 1946444529
    • Manufacturer: Dave Burgess Consulting, Incorporated

    The Wild Card is your step-by-step guide to experiencing a creative breakthrough in your classroom with your students. "This book is a teacher wonderland of ideas, inspiration, and mind-blowing magic." --Ron Clark, New York Times bestselling author and cofounder, Ron Clark Academy. In this book, Wade and Hope King show you how to draw on your authe... [Read More]

  • Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth Through Age 8

    • ASIN: 1928896642
    • ISBN: 1928896642
    • Brand: Brand: NATIONAL ASSOC FOR EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN
    • Manufacturer: The National Association of Education of Young Children

    The book Developmentally Appropriate Practice has been an essential resource for the early childhood field since its first edition in 1987. This third edition is the most extensive yet, fully revised to align with the latest research on development, learning, and teaching effectiveness.In this book, early childhood practitioners and students will f... [Read More]

  • The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization

    • UPC: 884596142845
    • ASIN: 0385517254
    • ISBN: 9780385517256
    • Brand: Broadway Business
    • Manufacturer: Doubleday

  • Fostering Resilient Learners: Strategies for Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom

    • ASIN: 1416621075
    • ISBN: 9781416621072
    • Brand: Kristin Souers Pete Hall
    • Manufacturer: ASCD

    Winner of the 2017 Association of American Publishers Golden Lamp Judges award.In this galvanizing book for all educators, Kristin Souers and Pete Hall explore an urgent and growing issue--childhood trauma--and its profound effect on learning and teaching.Grounded in research and the authors' experience working with trauma-affected students and the... [Read More]

  • The Art of Coaching: Effective Strategies for School Transformation

    • ASIN: 1118206533
    • ISBN: 1118206533
    • Brand: Jossey-Bass
    • Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass

    Hands-on resources for new and seasoned school coaches This practical resource offers the foundational skills and tools needed by new coaching educators, as well as presenting an overview of the knowledge and theory base behind the practice. Established coaches will find numerous ways to deepen and refine their coaching practice. Principals and oth... [Read More]

  • Visible Learning for Teachers

    • UPC: 783324938357
    • ASIN: 0415690153
    • ISBN: 0415690153
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Routledge

    In November 2008, John Hattie’s ground-breaking book Visible Learning synthesised the results of more than fifteen years research involving millions of students and represented the biggest ever collection of evidence-based research into what actually works in schools to improve learning. Visible Learning for Teachers takes the next step and bri... [Read More]

  • Best Practice, Fourth Edition: Bringing Standards to Life in America's Classrooms

    • ASIN: 032504354X
    • ISBN: 032504354X
    • Brand: Heinemann Educational Books
    • Manufacturer: Heinemann

    "The single most powerful variable in student achievement is the quality of teaching. But what does quality mean? What does it look like in real classrooms? It looks like the teaching in this book." -Steven Zemelman, Harvey "Smokey" Daniels, and Arthur Hyde Best Practice is back, and with it Steve Zemelman, Smokey Daniels, and Arthur Hyde invite yo... [Read More]

  • The Art of Coaching Teams: Building Resilient Communities that Transform Schools

    • ASIN: 1118984153
    • ISBN: 9781118984154
    • Brand: Jossey-Bass
    • Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons

    The missing how-to manual for being an effective team leader The Art of Coaching Teams is the manual you never received when you signed on to lead a team. Being a great teacher is one thing, but leading a team, or team development, is an entirely different dynamic. Your successes are public, but so are your failures—and there's no specific rubric... [Read More]

  • Bold School: Old School Wisdom + New School Technologies = Blended Learning That Works

    • ASIN: 1328016269
    • ISBN: 1328016269
    • Manufacturer: Math Solutions

    Endorsed by John Hattie: “Bold School…needs to be an essential part of every educator’s toolbox.” Technology is awesome. Teachers are better. Blending new technologies into instruction is a non-negotiable if we are to help our students gain the skills they’ll need to thrive in careers. And so too is educators’ old school wisdom in plann... [Read More]

  • Disrupting Thinking: Why How We Read Matters

    • UPC: 078073132904
    • ASIN: 1338132903
    • ISBN: 1338132903
    • Brand: Scholastic
    • Manufacturer: Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching Strategies)

    In their hit books Notice and Note and Reading Nonfiction, Kylene Beers and Bob Probst showed teachers how to help students become close readers. Now, in Disrupting Thinking they take teachers a step further and discuss an on-going problem: lack of engagement with reading. They explain that all too often, no matter the strategy shared with students... [Read More]

  • Passionate Readers

    • ASIN: 1138958646
    • ISBN: 1138958646
    • Manufacturer: Routledge

    How do we inspire students to love reading and discovery? In Passionate Readers: The Art of Reaching and Engaging Every Child, classroom teacher, author, and speaker Pernille Ripp reveals the five keys to creating a passionate reading environment. You’ll learn how to… Use your own reading identity to create powerful reading experiences for al... [Read More]

  • The Essential 55: An Award-Winning Educator's Rules For Discovering the Successful Student in Every Child

    • ASIN: 0786888164
    • ISBN: 0786888164
    • Brand: Hyperion
    • Manufacturer: Hyperion

    Now in paperback, Ron Clark's New York Times bestseller that's changing America one child at a time! The runaway bestseller that's a must-have for every parent and teacher. How many authors would travel coast to coast on a bus to get their book into as many hands as possible? Not many. But that's just what Ron Clark, author of The Essential 55, did... [Read More]

  • The New Art and Science of Teaching (The New Art and Science of Teaching Book Series)

    • ASIN: 1943874964
    • ISBN: 1943874964
    • Brand: Ingramcontent
    • Manufacturer: Solution Tree

    This title is a greatly expanded volume of the original Art and Science of Teaching, offering a competency-based education framework for substantive change based on Dr. Robert Marzano's 50 years of education research. While the previous model focused on teacher outcomes, the new version places focus on student learning outcomes, with research-based... [Read More]

  • Implementing the Framework for Teaching in Enhancing Professional Practice: An ASCD Action Tool

    • ASIN: 1416609199
    • ISBN: 9781416609193
    • Brand: Brand: Heinle ELT
    • Manufacturer: ASCD

    With its clear definition of the elements of good teaching, the framework for teaching, designed by Charlotte Danielson, is used by educators around the world for professional preparation, recruitment and hiring, mentoring and induction, professional development, and performance appraisal. This action tool can guide you in applying the framework in... [Read More]

  • Empower: What Happens When Students Own Their Learning

    • ASIN: 194644443X
    • ISBN: 194644443X
    • Brand: IMPress, LP
    • Manufacturer: IMPress, LP

    Kids begin their learning journey as curious problem solvers who ask questions and create solutions. As they go through school, something happens to many of our students, and they begin to play the game of school, eager to be compliant and follow a path instead of making their own. As teachers, leaders, and parents, we have the opportunity to be t... [Read More]

  • From Novice to Expert: Excellence and Power in Clinical Nursing Practice, Commemorative Edition

    • ASIN: 0130325228
    • ISBN: 0130325228
    • Manufacturer: Pearson

    This coherent presentation of clinical judgement, caring practices and collaborative practice provides ideas and images that readers can draw upon in their interactions with others and in their interpretation of what nurses do. It includes many clear, colorful examples and describes the five stages of skill acquisition, the nature of clinical ju... [Read More]

  • Principles to Actions: Ensuring Mathematical Success for All

    • ASIN: 0873537742
    • ISBN: 0873537742
    • Brand: Unknown
    • Manufacturer: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

    What it will take to turn the opportunity of the Common Core into reality in every classroom, school, and district.Continuing its tradition of mathematics education leadership, NCTM has undertaken a major initiative to define and describe the principles and actions, including specific teaching practices, that are essential for a high-quality mathem... [Read More]

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