Powerful Pedagogy: Teach Better Quicker
by Ruth Powley
In Powerful Pedagogy, Ruth Powley, Love Learning Ideas blogger and experienced teacher and school leader, debunks teaching and learning myths and shows how the more we know about pedagogy, the more able we are to make informed and efficient choices about our practice, saving ourselves valuable time. Focusing on building sequences of learning rather than one-off lessons, it is an antidote to ‘quick fix’ books,... Details
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by Cathy Lassiter
Have you ever wondered how or where you find the inner strength and determination to stand up and lead fellow administrators, teachers, or students to meet ever-changing expectations?
Courage is a “must have” for effective leadership. Everyday Courage guides readers to develop Leadership Courage from within and become exceptional and resilient. In addition to expanding instructional leadership, practical elements and features... Details
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Leading Collaborative Learning: Empowering Excellence
by Lyn Sharratt and Beate Planche
Leadership, collaborative learning, and student achievement - discover what works! Today's improving school systems require educators who intentionally collaborate and co-learn in service of students to get expected results. This resource-rich book from experts Sharratt and Planche is a straightforward, strategic path to achieving sustainable communities of deep learners. ... Details
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Bright Ribbons: Weaving Culturally Responsive Teaching Into the Elementary Classroom
Lotus Howard
Weave culturally responsive teaching into every lesson and activity
Culturally responsive teaching practices are like bright ribbons: when you weave them into everything you teach, you create a beautiful tapestry for successful learning. Lotus Howard, who has spent four decades teaching in diverse classrooms, will show you how to build relationships ... Details
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FinnishED Leadership: Four Big, Inexpensive Ideas to Transform Education
by Pasi Sahlberg
Improve overall school performance from start to Finnish!
Finland’s consistent performance in international student assessments has caused much curiosity in recent years. Educators around the world are exploring what Finland does well and how they remain at the top.
Pasi Sahlberg has hosted multiple delegations of educators in Finland seeking... Details
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Teaching Kids to Thrive: Essential Skills for Success
Debbie Silver and Dedra Stafford
There’s more to student success than standards and test scores…
The modern view of student achievement focuses on high test scores, higher standards, and racing to the top. Thrive skills fit with new ESSA requirements to go beyond basic academic measurements in order to equip students for lifelong success.
Debbie Silver and Dedra Stafford present a... Details
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Teaching Literacy in the Visible Learning Classroom, Grades 6-12
Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, John Hattie and Marisol Thayre
It could happen at 10:10 a.m. in the midst of analyzing a text, at 2:00, when listening to a students’ debate, or even after class, when planning a lesson. The question arises: How do I influence students’ learning–what’s going to generate that light bulb Aha-moment of understanding?
In this sequel to their megawatt... Details
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Ready-to-Go Instructional Strategies That Build Collaboration, Communication, and Critical Thinking
Denise White and Alisa Braddy
As education consultants, the authors have been delivering professional development for many years. After every presentation, training, or instructional coaching session, someone approaches them and asks, “Is there a book where I can find all the instructional strategies you used?” The strategies in this book make lessons... Details
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Every Math Learner, Grades K-5: A Doable Approach to Teaching With Learning Differences in Mind
Nanci Smith
For busy classroom teachers, this theory-lite and practice-heavy book makes manageable the process of differentiating mathematics instruction to maximize each student’s learning potential, ultimately leading to improved test scores.
Features and Benefits:
• provides practical structures for assessing how students learn and manage the information;
• shows teachers how... Details
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Learning Science by Doing Science: 10 Classic Investigations Reimagined to Teach Kids How Science Really Works, Grades 3-8
Alan Colburn
Designed foremost for grades 3-8 teachers, this accessible, classroom-based primer gently introduces teachers to the NGSS' Science and Engineering Practices and helps teachers better understand and teach key ideas around the Nature of Science.
Each chapter walks teachers through time-tested, inquiry-based ... Details
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Feedback That Moves Writers Forward: How to Escape Correcting Mode to Transform Student Writing
Patty McGee
The number one challenge of student writers today isn’t word choice, logic, voice, or even grammar and spelling - it’s buy-in. In Feedback That Moves Writers Forward, Patty McGee shares how to’s for teaching that changes the writing-as-obligation vibe for good. She demonstrates the way feedback can inspire students to reach new heights as... Details
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All Together Now: How to Engage Your Stakeholders in Reimagining School
by Suzie Boss
This book prompts readers to make their own meaning by considering a series of questions. Abundant examples and case studies from the frontlines of school change provide inspiration and ideas you can adopt or adapt for your context. Discussion prompts are included to promote and provoke conversations - both inside and outside school - with everyone who has a stake in... Details
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What Do I Teach Readers Tomorrow? Nonfiction, Grades 3-8: Your Moment-to-Moment Decision-Making Guide
by Gravity Goldberg and Renee Houser
“Well, that was a great mini-lesson—now what?”
For every teacher who has uttered those words, this book is for you.
In What Do I Teach Readers Tomorrow? Nonfiction, educators Gravity Goldberg and Renee Houser take the guesswork out of determining students’ needs with a moment-to-moment guide focused... Details
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What Do I Teach Readers Tomorrow? Fiction, Grades 3-8: Your Moment-to-Moment Decision-Making Guide
Gravity Goldberg and Renee Houser
Focus On Decisions That Impact Readers’ Skill Development
In What Do I Teach Readers Tomorrow? Fiction, Gravity Goldberg and Renee Houser provide a daily protocol for deciding what to teach next. The simple secret? Focus on the thinking involved in what students write and say. Tools include:
Tips for what to... Details
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Unlocking English Learners' Potential: Strategies for Making Content Accessible
Diane Fenner and Sydney Snyder
A once-in-a-generation text for assisting a new generation of students
Content teachers and ESOL teachers, take special note: if you’re looking for a single resource to help your English learners meet the same challenging content standards as their English-proficient peers, your search is complete. Just dip into this toolbox of... Details
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Wonder Wall: Leading Creative Schools in an Age of Complexity
by Peter Gamwell and Jane Daly
Gamwell shares the keys to nurturing and fostering creativity, innovation, leadership, and engagement in classrooms, businesses, and even families in THE WONDER WALL. By creating a stimulating environment, you’ll learn to naturally nurture and foster the inborn creative capacities of every individual. This book shows readers how to build a school culture that... Details
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From Staff Room to Classroom: A Guide for Planning and Coaching Professional Development 2ed
Robin Fogarty and Brian Pete
The tips and tricks you need to know to make transfer happen!
We know that the most expensive in-service is the one that teachers do not apply in the classroom. From Staff Room to Classroom offers district-level leaders, staff developers, and instructional coaches sure-fire tools and strategies for delivering... Details
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Disruptive Classroom Technologies: A Framework for Innovation in Education
by Sonny Magana
Ensure your technological integration is leading to deeper learning!
Timely and precise, Disruptive Classroom Technologies provides a new model with which to evaluate technology usage in the classroom to maximise student learning. The T3 framework appraises technology as translational, transformational, or transcendent, thereby sorting through the low-value... Details
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Future Focused Leaders: Relate, Innovate & Invigorate for Real Change
Authors: Bill Ziegler and David Ramage
The latest from Bill Ziegler and David Ramage, Future Focused Leaders, provides school leaders with practical, relevant, and useable strategies for immediate application that promote sustainable innovation in leadership. Organized by three main overviews—Relate, Innovate, and Invigorate—each chapter ends with action steps for school leaders to take in ... Details
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Learning Challenge: How to Guide Your Students Through the Learning Pit to Achieve Deeper Understanding (International Edition)
by James Nottingham
Embrace challenge and celebrate eureka!
Challenge makes learning more interesting. That’s one of the reasons to encourage your students to dive into the learning pit—a state of cognitive conflict that forces students to think more deeply, critically, and strategically until they discover their... Details
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Inclusive Play: Practical Strategies for Children from Birth to 8 2ed
Theresa Casey
This extremely practical and child-focused book gives you the tools you need to make sure all the children in your care are included and involved in the play opportunities of your setting.
Inside the second edition, new content includes:
- consideration of the early years curricula across the whole of the UK
- a new chapter on risk and... Details
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Disability Studies in Education Readings in Theory and Method
By Susan Gabel
As a field of inquiry, disability studies in education stands at the broad intersection of disability studies and educational studies. This book introduces graduate students, educational researchers, and teacher educators to the range of scholarly inquiry emerging from this exciting new field. Susan L. Gabel pulls together a sampling of the vast array of available scholarship that includes readings that... Details
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Vital Questions Facing Disability Studies in Education - Second Edition
By Scot Danforth and Susan L. Gabel
Edited by the leading scholars in the field, Vital Questions Facing Disability Studies in Education provides an overview and introduction to the growing field of disability studies in education, including the application of the interdisciplinary field of disability studies to inclusive education, teacher education, educational research, and educational policy ... Details
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Disability and the Politics of Education: An International Reader
By Susan L. Gabel and Scot Danforth
Disability and the Politics of Education: An International Reader is a rich resource that deals comprehensively with the many aspects of the complex topic of disability studies in education.
For nearly two decades, global attention has been given to education as a human right through global initiatives such as Education for All (EFA) and the... Details
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Aligning IEPs to Common Core State Standards: for Students with Moderate to Severe Disabilities
by Ginerva Courtade, PhD, and Diane Browder, PhD.
A guide for writing meaningful IEP goals aligned with core content areas.
This current, practical resource explores the linkage between state and federal requirements, state standards, and general education curricula and shows how academic areas can be accessed while addressing the student’s IEP... Details
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