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RTI, Professional Learning Communities, and How to Respond When Kids Don’t Learn

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Resources to keep forever from experts you can trust As an educator, you know the ideas that sound best on paper don’t always translate well to real classrooms and schools. The question is, Who do you trust to know what really works?

Many of you turn to your peers—the ones who are finding success both with student achievement and professional fulfillment. For more than 20 years, educators around the world have looked to Solution Tree for knowledge, advice, and new ideas.

Our growing catalog of educational resources covers a well-rounded spectrum of professional development concerns. Here you’ll find the resources your peers have told us are their favorites.

Contents Professional Learning Communities 3 Common Core 6 Instruction 7 Assessment 8 Response to Intervention 10 Literacy 11 21st Century Skills 12 School Improvement 13 Leadership 14 2

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Professional Learning Communities

Learning by Doing Available June

Cultures Built to Last Systemic PLCs at Work™

By Richard DuFour and Michael Fullan

Powerhouse authors team up with the goal to rescue PLCs from the misperception that they are simply programs to be implemented. Instead the PLC process is a systemic cultural phenomenon with far-reaching, long-lasting positive effects that are instrumental in transforming the culture of the education system. PLCs must be approached systemically to achieve optimal student learning.

34BCC–BKF579 $19.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-74-7

Revisiting Professional Learning Communities at Work™

A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work™

By Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker, and Thomas W. Many

2nd Edition Through continuous work with educators, the authors have created a more powerful, practical resource for moving forward in the PLC process. This book is an action guide for closing the knowing-doing gap and transforming schools into PLCs. It also includes seven major additions that equip educators with essential tools for confronting challenges. 296 pages 34BCC–BKF416 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-09-4

Getting Started

New Insights for Improving Schools

Reculturing Schools to Become Professional Learning Communities

By Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, and Robert Eaker

By Robert Eaker, Richard DuFour, and Rebecca DuFour

This 10th-anniversary sequel to the authors’ best-selling book Professional Learning Communities at Work™: Best Practices for Enhancing Student Achievement merges research, practice, and passion. The most extensive, practical, and authoritative PLC resource to date, it goes further than ever before into best practices for deep implementation, explores the commitment/consensus issue, and celebrates successes of educators who are making the journey. 544 pages 34BCC–BKF252 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-32-1

Get answers to the most common question posed by educators seeking to build and sustain a PLC: Where do we begin? Access a solid conceptual framework and concrete illustrations of how schools operate when they are functioning as PLCs. Two case studies examine schools that have made the transformation, showcasing district- and curriculum-level efforts to focus on student learning.

200 pages 34BCC–BKF120 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-879639-89-8

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By Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker, and Gayle Karhanek

This expansion of Whatever It Takes sharpens the focus on the pyramid of interventions strategy. The authors examine case studies of schools and districts across North America to illustrate how PLC at Work™ is a sustainable and transferable process that ensures struggling students get the support they need to achieve. They address how to enrich and extend the learning of proficient students and explain how PLC intervention processes align with RTI legislation.

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The Five Disciplines of PLC Leaders

By Timothy D. Kanold Foreword by Richard DuFour

Outstanding leadership in a professional learning community requires practice and patience. Simply trying harder will not yield results; leaders must proactively train to get better at the skills that matter. This book offers a framework to focus time, energy, and effort on five key disciplines. Included are reflection exercises to help readers find their own path toward effective PLC leadership. 210 pages 34BCC–BKF495 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-935543-42-8

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The School Leader’s Guide to Professional Learning Communities TM at Work

By Richard DuFour and Rebecca DuFour

Are you a K–8 principal ready to implement the PLC at Work™ process? Two experienced practitioners show you how to explore the critical components needed to lay the foundation of a PLC, including how to develop a structure that supports collaborative teams, how to focus on effective monitoring strategies, how to reflect on your communication effectiveness, and more. 120 pages; grades K–8 34BCC–BKF489 $19.95 ISBN 978-1-935543-36-7 A Joint Publication With the National Association of Elementary School Principals

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Every School, Every Team, Every Classroom District Leadership for Growing Professional Learning Communities at Work™

By Robert Eaker and Janel Keating

The PLC journey begins by articulating a moral purpose: a dedication to ensuring that every student learns. Using many examples and reproducible tools, the authors explain the need to focus on creating simultaneous top-down and bottom-up leadership to align district- and school-level policies and procedures. Learn how to grow PLCs by providing direction and encouraging innovation at every level of the district. 240 pages 34BCC–BKF534 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936765-09-6

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Professional Learning Communities

The Collaborative Teacher Working Together as a Professional Learning Community

Building a Professional Learning Community at Work™ A Guide to the First Year

By Parry Graham and William M. Ferriter Foreword by Richard DuFour and Rebecca DuFour

Get a play-by-play guide to implementing PLC concepts. Each chapter begins with a story focused on a particular challenge.

A follow-up analysis of the story identifies the good decisions or common mistakes made in relation to that particular scenario. The authors examine the research behind best practice and wrap up each chapter with recommendations and tools you can use in your school. 240 pages 34BCC–BKF273 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-59-8

By Cassandra Erkens, Chris Jakicic, Lillie G. Jessie, Dennis King, Sharon V. Kramer, Thomas W. Many, Mary Ann Ranells, Ainsley B. Rose, Susan K. Sparks, and Eric Twadell Foreword by Rebecca DuFour Introduction by Richard DuFour

The time of exclusive top-down leadership is over! Only teachers can transform education from inside the classroom, and this book defines best practices of collaborative teacher leadership. Specific techniques, supporting research, expert insight, and real classroom stories illustrate how to work together for student learning, create a guaranteed and viable curriculum, and use data to inform instruction.

232 pages 34BCC–BKF257 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-36-9

Bring the experts to you with our PLC at Work videos!

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Leadership in Professional Learning Communities at Work™

The Power of Professional Learning Communities at Work™

Learning by Doing

Bringing the Big Ideas to Life

Featuring Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker, and Thomas W. Many

Featuring Richard DuFour, Robert Eaker, and Rebecca DuFour

This short program for PLC leaders uses unscripted interviews and action footage to illustrate the role of effective leadership, particularly from the principal. 32-minute DVD; 32-page Facilitator’s Guide (in print and on CD)

This video series explores eight diverse schools implementing PLC at Work™ concepts. Watch teachers and administrators engage in candid conversations and collaborative meetings to improve student learning. Four 20-minute programs on 4 DVDs; CD with presentations; 70-page Facilitator’s Guide (in print and on CD)

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Collaborative Teams in Professional Learning Communities at Work™ Learning by Doing Featuring Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker, and Thomas W. Many

This short program shows exactly what collaborative teams do. Aligned with the bestselling book Learning by Doing, the video features unscripted footage of collaboration in action.

30-minute DVD; 40-page Facilitator’s Guide (in print and on CD)

Leading Difficult Conversations Featuring Richard DuFour and Rebecca DuFour

Learn discussion strategies to address the conflicts that can result from transforming a school into a professional learning community.

30-minute DVD with presentation; 32-page Facilitator’s Guide (in print and on CD) 34BCC–DVF047 $174.95 UPC 811796010537

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Common Core Common Core Mathematics in a PLC at Work™ series Edited by Timothy D. Kanold

By Thomasenia Lott Adams, Harold Asturias, Diane J. Briars, John A. Carter, Juli K. Dixon, Francis (Skip) Fennell, David Foster, Mardi A. Gale, Timothy D. Kanold, Beth McCord Kobett, Matthew R. Larson, Mona Toncheff, Jonathan A. Wray, and Gwendolyn Zimmermann

NEW! These teacher guides illustrate how to sustain successful implementation of the Common Core State Standards for mathematics. Discover what students should learn and how they should learn it at each grade level. Comprehensive and research-affirmed analysis tools and strategies will help you and your collaborative team develop and assess student demonstrations of deep conceptual understanding and procedural fluency.

You’ll also learn how fundamental shifts in collaboration, instruction, curriculum, assessment, and intervention can increase college and career readiness in every one of your students.

Solution Tree is proud to partner with the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and distinguished mathematics experts to copublish this series aligned with the CCSS and PLC at WorkTM process.

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Common Core English Language Arts in a PLC at Work™ series

By Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Cynthia L. Uline NEW! These teacher guides illustrate how to sustain successful implementation of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts in K–12 instruction, curriculum, assessment, and intervention practices within the powerful Professional Learning Communities at Work™ process. Teachers will discover the fundamental learning targets necessary for college and career readiness and how students can master them for each grade level. Each book includes comprehensive and research-affirmed analysis tools and strategies to help collaborative teams develop and assess student understanding.

Solution Tree is proud to partner with the International Reading Association and distinguished English language arts experts to copublish this series aligned with the CCSS and PLC at WorkTM process.

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Instruction

Differentiation and the Brain How Neuroscience Supports the LearnerFriendly Classroom

By David A. Sousa and Carol Ann Tomlinson

Examine the basic principles of differentiation in light of what current research on educational neuroscience has revealed. This research pool offers information and insights that can help educators decide whether certain curricular, instructional, and assessment choices are likely to be more effective than others. Learn how to implement differentiation so that it achieves the desired result of shared responsibility between teacher and student. 216 pages 34BCC–BKF353 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-935249-59-7

Total Instructional Alignment From Standards to Student Success

How to Teach Thinking Skills Within the Common Core 7 Key Student Proficiencies of the New National Standards

By James A. Bellanca, Robin J. Fogarty, and Brian M. Pete

Packed with examples and tools, this practical guide prepares teachers across all grade levels and content areas to teach the most critical cognitive skills from the Common Core State Standards. Discover a doable three-phase model of explicit teaching, guided practice in content-based lessons, and authentic application in standards-based performance tasks that will strengthen students’ ability to learn across the curriculum. 240 pages 34BCC–BKF576 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-07-5

Creating a Digital-Rich Classroom

By Lisa Carter

Teaching & Learning in a Web 2.0 World

Foreword by Lawrence W. Lezotte

By Meg Ormiston

This book is a teachers’ and administrators’ guide for implementing and sustaining an educational system that ensures students are taught and learn what is required by benchmarks, assessments, and state standards, and to the learning needs of each individual student. This is accomplished by providing a tight alignment between the intended, taught, and tested curricula. 136 pages 34BCC–BKF222 $19.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-01-7

Instead of asking students to power down during class, power up your lesson plans with digital tools. Design and deliver lessons in which technology plays an integral role.

Engage students in solving real-world problems while staying true to standards-aligned curricula. This book provides a research base and practical strategies for using web 2.0 tools to create engaging lessons that transform and enrich content. 160 pages 34BCC–BKF385 $19.95 ISBN 978-1-935249-87-0

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Assessment

Common Formative Assessment A Toolkit for Professional Learning Communities at Work™

Embedded Formative Assessment

By Dylan Wiliam

Foreword by Richard DuFour and Rebecca DuFour

Formative assessment plays an important role in increasing teacher quality and student learning when it’s viewed as a process rather than a tool. Emphasizing the instructional side of formative assessment, this book explores in depth the use of classroom questioning, learning intentions and success criteria, feedback, collaborative and cooperative learning, and self-regulated learning to engineer effective learning environments for students. 200 pages

Teams that engage in designing, using, and responding to common formative assessments are more knowledgeable about their own standards, more assessment literate, and able to develop more strategies for helping all students learn. In this conversational guide, the authors offer tools, templates, and protocols to incorporate common formative assessments into the practices of a PLC to monitor and enhance student learning. 144 pages

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The Principal as Assessment Leader

The Teacher as Assessment Leader

Edited by Thomas R. Guskey

Edited by Thomas R. Guskey

By Cassandra Erkens, William M. Ferriter, Tammy Heflebower, Tom Hierck, Charles Hinman, Susan Huff, Chris Jakicic, Dennis King, Ainsley B. Rose, Nicole Vagle, and Mark Weichel

By Cassandra Erkens, William M. Ferriter, Michelle Goodwin, Tammy Heflebower, Tom Hierck, Chris Jakicic, Sharon V. Kramer, Jeffry Overlie, Ainsley B. Rose, Nicole Vagle, and Adam Young

This book explores the importance of effective classroom assessment to student achievement and the role of school leaders to model and spark positive change through building teacher literacy, providing targeted professional development, acquiring appropriate technology, and more.

With insights from expert practitioners, this book helps schools make the shift to best-practice assessment for districtwide improvements in student learning. 288 pages

Discover how to improve student learning through the power of effective assessment, and realize your power to transform education from inside the classroom. Meaningful examples, expert research, and real-life experiences illustrate the capacity and responsibility every educator has to ignite positive change. Packed with practical strategies from expert practitioners for designing, analyzing, and using assessments, this book shows how to turn best practices into usable solutions. 280 pages

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By Kim Bailey and Chris Jakicic

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Assessment

Redefining Fair How to Plan, Assess, and Grade for Excellence in Mixed-Ability Classrooms

Balanced Assessment

By Damian Cooper

From Formative to Summative

Foreword by Michael Fullan

By Kay Burke

Learn how to define proficiency accurately and differentiate to help all students achieve it. With a focus on mixedability classes, the author outlines instructional practices that engage, empower, and motivate students. Using stories, strategies, case histories, and sample documents, he explains how to implement equitable instruction, assessment, grading, and reporting practices for diverse 21st century learners. 200 pages 34BCC–BKF412 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-14-8

Learn how to integrate formative and summative assessments seamlessly into instruction. The research, rationale, strategies, and examples provided in this book will help teachers develop their own repertoire of formative and summative assessments to monitor, grade, and make inferences about a student’s ability to meet standards and curriculum goals. Exercises at the end of each chapter provide opportunities to reflect and plan action steps.

176 pages 34BCC–BKF272 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-52-9

Ahead of the Curve The Power of Assessment to Transform Teaching and Learning Edited by Douglas B. Reeves

By Larry Ainsworth, Lisa Almeida, Anne Davies, Richard DuFour, Linda Gregg, Thomas R. Guskey, Robert J. Marzano, Ken O’Connor, Douglas B. Reeves, Rick Stiggins, Stephen White, and Dylan Wiliam

Elements of Grading A Guide to Effective Practice

By Douglas B. Reeves

This anthology brings the ideas and recommendations of many of the world’s education leaders into one resource that illustrates the many perspectives on effective assessment design and implementation. From involving students in the assessment process to ensuring accuracy and applying assessments to English learners and students with special needs, you will find compelling insights and proven strategies. 280 pages; hardcover

Learn several strategies for improving grading practices, while examining the common arguments against reform.

With this practical guide, you can improve grading to meet four essential criteria—accuracy, fairness, specificity, and timeliness—and also make the process quicker and more efficient. Examples, case studies, and opportunities for reflection facilitate individual and schoolwide examination of grading practices. 152 pages

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Response to Intervention

Simplifying Response to Intervention Four Essential Guiding Principles

By Austin Buffum, Mike Mattos, and Chris Weber

The sequel to Pyramid Response to Intervention advocates that a successful RTI model begins by asking the right questions to create a fundamentally effective learning environment for every student. RTI is not a series of implementation steps, but rather a way of thinking.

Understand why bureaucratic, paperwork-heavy, compliance-oriented, test-score-driven approaches fail.

Then, learn how to create a focused RTI model that works.

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Pyramid of Behavior Interventions Seven Keys to a Positive Learning Environment

By Tom Hierck, Charlie Coleman, and Chris Weber

Students thrive when educators commit to proactively meeting their behavioral as well as academic needs. This book will help teachers and school leaders transform the research on behavior, response to intervention, and professional learning communities into practical strategies they can use to create a school culture and classroom climates in which learning is primed to occur. 132 pages 34BCC–BKF532 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-936765-06-5

Pyramid Response to Intervention RTI, Professional Learning Communities, and How to Respond When Kids Don’t Learn

By Austin Buffum, Mike Mattos, and Chris Weber Foreword by Richard DuFour

Accessible language and compelling stories illustrate how RTI is most effective when built on the Professional Learning Communities at Work™ process. Written by award-winning educators from successful PLC schools, this book demonstrates how to create three tiers of interventions—from basic to intensive—to address student learning gaps. You will understand what a successful program looks like, and the many reproducible forms and activities will help your team understand how to make RTI work in your school. 248 pages 34BCC–BKF251 $27.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-33-8

Pyramid Response to Intervention Four Essential Guiding Principles Featuring Austin Buffum, Mike Mattos, and Chris Weber

Shift to a culture of collective responsibility and ensure a path of opportunity and success for your students. Focusing on the four Cs vital to student achievement, this powerful four-part program will help you collect targeted information on each student’s individual needs, while offering important learning leverage points. Perfect for self-hosted workshops, this resource will help you create encouraging and efficient team structures in your school. Four 20-minute DVDs; 88-page Facilitator’s Guide (in print and on CD) 34BCC–DVF057 $595.00 UPC 811796010575

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Literacy

20 Literacy Strategies to Meet the Common Core Increasing Rigor in Middle & High School Classrooms

By Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins and Allyson J. Burnett

NEW! With the advent of the Common Core State Standards and high expectations with regard to content literacy, some secondary teachers are scrambling for what to do and how to do it. This book provides an accessible plan for implementing content literacy and offers 20 research-based literacy strategies designed to help students meet those standards and become expert readers.

328 pages; grades 6–12 34BCC–BKF588 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-28-0

Power Tools for Adolescent Literacy

40 Reading Intervention Strategies for K–6 Students Research-Based Support for RTI

By Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins

This well-rounded collection of research-based reading intervention strategies will support and inform your RTI efforts. The book also includes teacher-friendly sample lesson plans and miniroutines that are easy to understand and adapt. Many of the strategies motivate average and above-average students as well as scaffold struggling readers. Maximize the power of these interventions by using them across grade-level teams or schoolwide. 352 pages; grades K–6 34BCC–BKF270 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-50-5

Teaching Students to Read Like Detectives

Strategies for Learning

Comprehending, Analyzing, and Discussing Text

By Jan Rozzelle and Carol Scearce

By Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Diane Lapp

Are there students in your classroom who have hit the reading wall? Studies indicate comprehension regresses in many students once they reach middle school. Teachers need the right resources in their classrooms for engaging students in reading. This book is a veritable encyclopedia of literacy strategies secondary teachers can apply to all content areas immediately. It integrates key strategies, research from top literacy experts, and proven intervention practices. 232 pages; grades 6–12 34BCC–BKF261 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-35-2

Prompt students to become the sophisticated readers, writers, and thinkers they need to be to achieve higher learning. The authors explore the important relationship between text, learner, and learning. With an array of methods and assignments to establish critical literacy in a discussion-based and reflective classroom, you’ll encourage students to find meaning and cultivate thinking from even the most challenging expository texts. 176 pages 34BCC–BKF499 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935543-52-7

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21st Century Skills

Who Owns the Learning?

Preparing Students for Success in the Digital Age

By Alan November

Learn how to harness students’ natural curiosity to develop self-directed learners. Discover how technology allows students to take ownership of their learning, create and share learning tools, and participate in work that is meaningful to them and others. Real-life examples illustrate how every student can become a teacher and a global publisher. The embedded QR codes link to supporting websites. 104 pages 34BCC–BKF437 $19.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-57-5

The Connected Educator Learning and Leading in a Digital Age

By Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Lani Ritter Hall

Create a connected learning community through social media and rediscover the power of being a learner first.

After uncovering the theories and research behind the significance of learning through collaboration with other educators, the authors show you how to take advantage of technology to improve your own learning and ultimately the learning of your students. 208 pages 34BCC–BKF478 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-935543-17-6

21st Century Skills Rethinking How Students Learn Edited by James A. Bellanca and Ron Brandt

By John Barell, Linda Darling-Hammond, Chris Dede, Rebecca DuFour, Richard DuFour, Douglas Fisher, Robin J. Fogarty, Nancy Frey, Howard Gardner, Andy Hargreaves, David W. Johnson, Roger T. Johnson, Ken Kay, Cheryl Lemke, Jay McTighe, Alan November, Bob Pearlman, Brian M. Pete, Douglas B. Reeves, Will Richardson, and Elliott Seif Foreword by Ken Kay

This anthology introduces the Framework for 21st Century Learning from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills as a way to re-envision learning and prepare students for a rapidly evolving global and technological world. Highly respected education leaders and innovators focus on why these skills are necessary, which are most important, and how to best help schools include them in curriculum and instruction.

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Bringing Innovation to School Empowering Students to Thrive in a Changing World

By Suzie Boss Foreword by Chris Lehmann

Are you preparing a new generation of innovators? Activate your students’ creativity and problem-solving potential with breakthrough learning projects. Across all grades and content areas, student-driven, collaborative projects will teach students how to generate innovative ideas and then put them into action. You’ll take learning to new heights and help students master core content. 184 pages 34BCC–BKF546 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-936765-26-3

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School Improvement

Transforming School Culture How to Overcome Staff Division

By Anthony Muhammad Foreword by Richard DuFour

Got Data? Now What?

Creating and Leading Cultures of Inquiry

By Laura Lipton and Bruce Wellman

Busy administrators will appreciate this quick read packed with immediate, accessible strategies. This book provides the framework for understanding dynamic relationships within a school culture and ensuring a positive environment that supports the changes necessary to improve learning for all students. The author explores many aspects of human behavior, social conditions, and history to reveal best practices for building healthy school cultures. 144 pages

Explore three defining challenges that school teams face when gathering, interpreting, and utilizing school data.

Complete with survey questions for efficient data collection, group work structures, strategies, and tools—along with essential definitions and descriptions of data types—this compelling guide will help you confront data obstacles and turn struggling committees into powerful communities of learners. 144 pages

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What Effective Schools Do

More Than a SMART Goal

Re-Envisioning the Correlates

Staying Focused on Student Learning

By Lawrence W. Lezotte and Kathleen McKee Snyder

By Anne E. Conzemius and Terry Morganti-Fisher

This guide helps educators implement a continuous school improvement system through application of the seven correlates of effective schools. The authors discuss each correlate, update the knowledge base, and incorporate practical ideas from practitioners in the field. A comprehensive description of practices enables educators to build and sustain a school culture that accommodates the learning expectations and needs of all students. 176 pages

Setting data-informed, high-priority SMART goals is a critical step in school improvement that is widely acknowledged.

However, goals themselves don’t drive improvement; they must be aligned to the school improvement process, curriculum, instruction, assessment practices, mandates, and professional development. Understand how to properly use the SMART goal process to effect change and achieve real school improvement. 160 pages

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Leadership

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Leaders of Learning How District, School, and Classroom Leaders Improve Student Achievement

By Richard DuFour and Robert J. Marzano

For many years, the authors have been fellow travelers on the journey to help educators improve their schools.

Their first coauthored book focuses on district leadership, principal leadership, and team leadership and addresses how individual teachers can be most effective in leading students—by learning with colleagues how to implement the most promising pedagogy in their classrooms.

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The Will to Lead, the Skill to Teach Transforming Schools at Every Level

By Anthony Muhammad and Sharroky Hollie

School improvement begins with self-examination and honest dialogue about socialization, bias, discrimination, and cultural insensitivity. The authors acknowledge both the structural and sociological issues that contribute to low-performing schools and offer multiple tools and strategies to assess and improve classroom management, increase literacy, establish academic vocabulary, and contribute to a healthier school culture. 176 pages

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What Principals Need to Know About Teaching and Learning Mathematics

District Leadership That Works

By Timothy D. Kanold, Diane J. Briars, and Francis (Skip) Fennell

By Robert J. Marzano and Timothy Waters

Ensure a challenging mathematics experience for every learner, every day. This must-have resource offers support and encouragement for improved mathematics achievement across every grade level of your school.

With an emphasis on Principles and Standards for School Mathematics and Common Core State Standards, this book covers the importance of mathematics content, learning and instruction, and mathematics assessment. 136 pages; grades K–8 34BCC–BKF501 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935543-55-8 A Joint Publication With the National Association of Elementary School Principals

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Striking the Right Balance

Bridge the great divide between distanced administrative duties and daily classroom impact. This book introduces a top-down power mechanism called defined autonomy, a concept that focuses on district-defined, nonnegotiable, common goals and a system of accountability supported by assessment tools. Defined autonomy creates an effective balance of centralized direction and individualized empowerment that allows building-level staff the stylistic freedom to respond quickly and effectively to student failure. 168 pages 34BCC–BKF314 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935249-19-1 A Joint Publication With McREL

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