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Design in Five Essential Phases to Create Engaging Assessment Practice

By Nicole Dimich Vagle Foreword by Douglas Reeves

Fully engage learners in your classroom. Discover how to create high-quality assessments using a five-phase design protocol. Explore types and traits of quality assessment, and learn how to develop assessments that are innovative, effective, and engaging. Evaluate whether your current assessments meet the design criteria, and discover how to use this process collaboratively with your team. 176 pages • Create engaging assessments that accurately report students’ progress.

• Design assessments that help students learn from their mistakes and motivate them to improve.

• Work collaboratively to analyze standards and create common assessments.

51BCA–BKF604 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-95-2

On Your Mark Challenging the Conventions of Grading and Reporting

By Thomas R. Guskey Create and sustain a learning environment where students thrive and stakeholders are accurately informed of student progress. Clarify the purpose of grades, craft a vision statement aligned with this purpose, and discover research-based strategies to implement effective grading and reporting practices. Identify policies and practices that render grading inaccurate, and understand the role grades play in students’ future success and opportunities. 144 pages • Question traditional grading and reporting practices, and seek more accurate practices.

• Identify the purpose of grading, and ensure school and classroom visions, practices, and policies support it.

• Implement research-based grading and reporting practices that promote accurate, useful accounts of student learning.

51BCA–BKF606 $19.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-77-3

2-DAY WORKSHOPS On Your Mark Grading October 7–8 Sacramento, CA October 26–27 Baltimore, MD

Redefine effective grading and reporting The most effective grading practices provide accurate, specific, timely feedback designed to improve student performance. This workshop will challenge antiquated practices and provide you with research-based options for grading and reporting that are fair, motivating, and meaningful to both students and parents.

• Acquire strategies to ensure grading is based on clear standards or competencies.

• Understand how to use student data notebooks successfully.

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Bringing Homework Into Focus Tools and Tips to Enhance Practices, Design, and Feedback

By Eileen Depka In many classrooms, teachers assign homework out of habit. Learn to design quality, purposeful homework instead. The author urges educators to reflect on the purpose of student assignments to determine if and when homework is valuable.

Prepare students and measure their comprehension by assigning purposeful work, setting clear expectations, and providing feedback as the unit of study unfolds. 136 pages

• Recognize that different kinds of homework assignments advance students’ knowledge and promote their understanding during all stages of the learning process.

• Learn the components that influence quality homework design.

• Interpret examples of assignments for multiple school subjects to understand how to create impactful questions on any topic.

51BCA–BKF616 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-936763-23-8

Assessment and the Common Core State Standards Online Course

From Formative to Summative

By Kay Burke

Presenter: Kay Burke Construct a balanced set of assessment tools that improve instruction and gauge its success. Dr. Burke demonstrates how to repack the CCSS with a collaborative team, generate checklists and rubrics, share meaningful learning objectives with students, and craft performance tasks.

CEUs: 51BCA–KDS013 3 Semester Hours: 51BCA–KDS014

Balanced Assessment

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Learn how to integrate formative and summative assessments seamlessly into instruction. Research, rationale, strategies, and examples help teachers develop their own repertoire of assessments to monitor, grade, and gauge a student’s ability to meet standards and curriculum goals.

176 pages 51BCA–BKF272 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-52-9

Designing Quality Assessments When designed well, assessments reflect student learning in meaningful ways.

• Explore the characteristics of quality assessments and design tools to enhance assessment literacy.

• Learn how to design or revise current assessments to more effectively guide instruction, involve students, and communicate learning.

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Assessment Overview Get a comprehensive overview of effective assessment practices. Receive customized guidance and support for your team from an expert. Topics for this one-day on-site service include:

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• The Basics of Balanced Assessment • Developing Assessment Literacy • Ensuring a Common Language • Tenets of Effective Assessment Practices

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

By Damian Cooper Foreword by Michael Fullan

Learn how to define proficiency accurately and differentiate to help all students achieve it. With a focus on mixed-ability 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

• Review examples of ways to respond to resistance to new assessment methods.

• Learn instructional practices that engage, empower, and motivate students.

• Discover how to collect data through a variety of preassessments and diagnostic assessments to determine students’ needs, readiness to learn, and learning preferences.

51BCA–BKF412 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-14-8

Using Formative Assessment in the RTI Framework

By Kay Burke and Eileen Depka Understand the basics of RTI and its connection to formative assessment, and adjust instruction to increase levels of student understanding and achievement with the information, tools, and techniques presented in this practical guide. 144 pages 51BCA–BKF369 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935249-74-0

Grading and Learning Practices That Support Student Achievement

By Susan M. Brookhart Grades should reflect and motivate learning. This book is relatable, relevant, and effective in improving educators’ assessment and reporting processes and supporting students’ motivation to learn.

Clear, concrete examples help translate state standards into curriculum goals.

168 pages 51BCA–BKF457 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-84-1

Grading

Elements of Grading

A Guide to Effective Practice Online Course

A Guide to Effective Practice

By Douglas Reeves

Presenters: Kristine Nielsen and Douglas Reeves Ensure that your grading systems are accurate, fair, specific, and timely. Learn processes for evaluating your current grading system, discussing contentious grading issues with colleagues, and engaging all stakeholders in the feedback and grading process.

CEUs: 51BCA–KDS028 3 Semester Hours: 51BCA–KDS029

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Bestseller 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. 152 pages 51BCA–BKF410 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-12-4

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The Annual Conference on Gauge what they know.

Transform how they learn.

Standards & Assessment

April 13–15 | Phoenix, AZ Phoenix Convention Center Join our lineup of experts to discover how to create standards-based assessments that will monitor students’ progress and enrich the learning process.

• Experience how to map and build a standards-based curriculum.

Tim Brown

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• Use the principles of Understanding

by Design to design a standards-based curriculum aligned with the four Cs of 21st century learning.

• Gain strategies to ensure students own their learning.

Angela LaBounty

Jay McTighe

Meg Ormiston

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Susan Udelhofen

• Acquire the skills to effectively teach close reading of complex texts.

• Understand the myths about grading practices, and identify how to make grades meaningful and motivating.

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The Assessment Toolkit Transform your assessment practice into a powerful tool that inspires student learning. Find tips on how to involve students in the assessment process, integrate assessments into instruction, and ensure reporting practices that accurately measure student achievement. Help your team begin to build its own repertoire of assessments and make inferences about a student’s ability to meet standards and curriculum goals. 16 resources, including books, videos, and 1 registration to an online course 51BCA–KTF132

The Teacher as Assessment Leader Edited by Thomas R. Guskey

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

Bestseller Meaningful examples, expert research, and real-life experiences illustrate the capacity and responsibility every educator has to ignite positive change. Packed with practical strategies for designing, analyzing, and using assessments, this book shows how to turn best practices into usable solutions.

280 pages 51BCA–BKF345 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-49-9

Edited by Thomas R. Guskey

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

Filled with firsthand experiences from expert practitioners, this book delivers the motivation needed to ignite a shift toward formative assessment and overall school improvement. Topics include building teacher literacy, providing targeted professional development, acquiring appropriate technology, and more.

288 pages 51BCA–BKF344 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-48-2

The School Leader’s Guide to Grading

By Sandra Herbst and Anne Davies

By Ken O’Connor

Equip yourself with research-based strategies to execute effective classroom assessment. This book is organized around four quadrants: determining the learning destination, researching the expected quality level, planning to collect reliable evidence of learning, and collecting baseline evidence of learning. 112 pages

Ensure your school’s grading procedures are supportive of learning, accurate, meaningful, and consistent. Discover how the “seven essential Ps” can improve your effectiveness in supporting assessment and communicating student achievement.

Learn how to avoid inaccurate grades and what causes them. 112 pages; grades K–8

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The Principal as Assessment Leader

A Fresh Look at Grading and Reporting in High Schools

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

By Kim Bailey and Chris Jakicic Foreword by Richard DuFour and Rebecca DuFour

Bestseller 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.

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• Gain strategies for how to identify and unwrap power standards to use as the basis for learning targets and common formative assessments.

• Use protocols and reproducibles to facilitate the formative assessment process.

• Get tools to create pacing guides and to design units for conducting and responding to assessments.

51BCA–BKF538 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-936765-14-0

2-DAY WORKSHOPS Building Common Assessments Build a framework for high-quality assessments Learn how to work as collaborative teams to develop common formative assessments.

Leave with a framework for working interdependently to create high-quality assessments and to collect meaningful instructional data that informs interventions and enrichment planning.

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April 27–28

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• Understand the rationale for using common formative assessments.

September 30–October 1

• Learn the common formative assessment process from beginning to end.

San Antonio, TX

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October 19–20

Seattle, WA

• Focus on the keys to accurate design and effective use of assessments.

• Gain supportive tools, such as planning templates and protocols.

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Embedded Formative Assessment

By Dylan Wiliam Bestseller 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 selfregulated learning to engineer effective learning environments for students. 200 pages

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

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

Bestseller Leaders in education contribute their perspectives on effective assessment design and implementation, sending out a call for redirecting assessment to improve student achievement and inform instruction. 280 pages; hardcover

• Discover five key strategies with research evidence to show the impact of each.

• Find over 50 practical techniques for classroom formative assessment.

• Learn why educational achievement matters now more than ever.

• Witness how minor changes in instruction can affect powerful changes in achievement.

51BCA–BKF418 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-30-7

Formative Assessment & Standards-Based Grading

By Robert J. Marzano Bestseller Learn everything you need to know to implement an integrated system of assessment and grading. The author explains how to design, interpret, and systematically use three different types of formative assessments and how to track student progress and assign meaningful grades. 184 pages 51BCA–BKL003 $29.95 ISBN 978-0-9822592-2-1

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51BCA–BKF232 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-06-2

Formative Assessment and Standards-Based Grading Online Course Presenters: Robert J. Marzano and Tammy Heflebower Dr. Marzano and Dr. Heflebower walk you through the research and theories that support what kind of feedback, assessment, and grading enhance student learning. You’ll also learn how to construct assessments, create rubric-based scales to inform both formative and summative assessments, and monitor and affect students’ progress.

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• Design multiple assessments that inform instructional design.

• Clarify learning goals for your students.

• Develop rubrics, or proficiency scales, to guide students’ learning.

• Track students’ progress through researchtested methods.

• Assess students for grades with consistent, reliable, and valid methods.

CEUs: 51BCA–KDS007 3 Semester Hours: 51BCA–KDS008

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DeVos Place Convention Center Quality classroom assessments need to be both accurate and valid in order to provide educators with the information they need to assess student understanding. Explore frameworks for rigor and relevance in assessment design that are fair and motivating to all students.

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Angela LaBounty

• Experience how to make curriculum meaningful, coherent, and relevant.

• Gain tools and quality sample assessments that will support learning and ensure readiness for standardized tests.

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• Design assessments that help students learn from their mistakes and motivate them to improve.

• Determine the cognitive level of assessment items and tasks.

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The Five Dimensions of Engaged Teaching A Practical Guide for Educators

By Laura Weaver and Mark Wilding Foreword by Ari Gerzon-Kessler

Engaged teaching recognizes that educators need to offer more than lesson plans and assessments for students to thrive in the 21st century. Equip your students to be resilient individuals, able to communicate effectively and work with diverse people. The authors contend that students must develop their emotional and social skills as thoroughly as their academic skills, and that teachers must cultivate this growth. 224 pages • Gain practical, classroom-ready teaching techniques that are supported by research.

• Discover how to incorporate meaningful classroom practices that support each of the five dimensions.

• Learn to collaborate with fellow educators to optimize engaged teaching outcomes.

51BCA–BKF601 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-48-8

You’ve Got to Reach Them to Teach Them Hard Facts About the Soft Skills of Student Engagement

By Mary Kim Schreck Navigate the hot topic of student engagement with a true expert. The author explores the many factors involved in bringing out the best in students, such as relationships, emotions, environment, and expectations. Become empowered to demand an authentic joy for learning in your classroom. Real-life notes from the field, detailed discussions, practical strategies, and space for reflection complete this essential guide to student engagement. 232 pages • Gain practical strategies for increasing student engagement and achievement.

• Learn how to create a safe environment that nurtures confidence.

• Find a chapter on cultural awareness by Dr. Bonnie Davis of Educating for Change.

51BCA–BKF404 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-05-6

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Unstoppable Learning Seven Essential Elements to Unleash Student Potential

By Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey

Discover how systems thinking can enhance teaching and learning schoolwide. Examine how to use systems thinking—which involves distinguishing patterns and considering short- and long-term consequences—to better understand the big picture of education and the intricate relationships that impact classrooms. Identify strategies and tools to create clear learning targets, prepare effective lessons, and successfully assess instruction.

• Learn how to become an effective systems thinker.

• Examine the seven elements of the Unstoppable Learning model necessary for systems thinking.

• Incorporate the four overarching principles of systems thinking into the classroom.

• Prompt discussion and reflection using the driving questions and chapter takeaways.

• Gather helpful sample surveys, unit plans, analysis forms, rubrics, templates, and pull-out questions to develop systems-thinking learning environments.

51BCA–BKF662 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-73-5

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Pair it with an Unstoppable Learning on-site service for a high-impact PD experience.

Partner with experts Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey to ensure every individual on your team is a systems thinker who understands the big picture of education and the intricate relationships that affect teaching and learning.

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RTI at Work

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Daily Differentiation for Tier 1

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Differentiation and the Brain How Neuroscience Supports the Learner-Friendly Classroom

By David A. Sousa and Carol Ann Tomlinson Bestseller 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

• Discover ways to better meet the needs of increasingly diverse students.

• Learn more about how the brain learns and about approaches to differentiation.

• Understand the science behind teaching the best content in the best possible way.

• Design and implement strategies for effective differentiated teaching.

• Create a positive and productive learning environment.

51BCA–BKF353 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-935249-59-7

Differentiation and the Brain

Think Big, Start Small

Online Course

How to Differentiate Instruction in a Brain-Friendly Classroom

Presenters: David A. Sousa and Carol Ann Tomlinson

By Gayle Gregory and Martha Kaufeldt

Discover the major components of a brain-friendly quality curriculum; explore effective practices for assessing student achievement to inform instruction; learn how to respond to student readiness, interests, and learning profiles; and investigate effective management techniques for the differentiated classroom.

CEUs: 51BCA–KDS024 3 Semester Hours: 51BCA–KDS025

You don’t have to be a neuroscientist to understand how your students absorb knowledge. This easy-to-understand guide pares down the vast field of neuroscience and provides simple brain-compatible strategies that will make a measurable difference in your differentiated classrooms. 168 pages 51BCA–BKF471 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935543-06-0

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2-DAY WORKSHOP Daily Differentiation for Tier 1 Nurture every student’s boundless potential When learners struggle, teachers must know how to identify roadblocks and provide alternatives—to differentiate their teaching and instructional strategies. At this workshop, you’ll explore the elements that collaborative teams must consider to create powerful Tier 1 instructional programs.

December 1–2 Pasadena, CA

• Create brain-friendly classrooms that offer optimal learning environments.

• Concentrate instruction by identifying essential knowledge and skills that all students must master to learn at high levels.

• Use daily differentiation to enhance engagement based on students’ learning needs, preferences, interests, and knowledge.

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Supporting Beginning Teachers

By Tina H. Boogren Foreword by Robert J. Marzano

Give new teachers the time and professional guidance they need to become expert teachers.

Investigate key research, and examine the four types of support—physical, emotional, instructional, and institutional—that are crucial during a teacher’s first year in the classroom.

Discover essential strategies for K–12 mentors, coaches, and school leaders to develop an effective mentoring program schoolwide.

• Review research related to high teacher turnover rates.

• Consider the important components and new-teacher supports that school leaders should have at the forefront of mentoring programs.

• Learn how to ascertain which teachers have the skills and experience to be effective mentors and how these mentors can form prosperous relationships with their mentees.

Published by Marzano Research 51BCA–BKL023 $19.95 ISBN 978-0-9838152-3-5

Becoming a Reflective Teacher Online Course

Becoming a Reflective Teacher

By Robert J. Marzano

Presenter: Robert J. Marzano Develop teaching expertise by implementing reflective processes to examine your practice, set growth goals, and use focused practice and feedback to achieve those goals. Dr. Marzano shows how to reflect on your teaching strengths and weaknesses in relation to nine critical questions, provides methods to systematize your reflection process, and explains how to use focused strategies to achieve your goals.

CEUs: 51BCA–KDS022 3 Semester Hours: 51BCA–KDS023

$279.00 $499.00

With Tina H. Boogren, Tammy Heflebower, Jessica Kanold-McIntyre, and Debra J. Pickering

Bestseller Learn how to combine a model of effective instruction with goal setting, focused practice, focused feedback, and observations to improve your instructional practices. Included are 280 strategies related to the 41 elements of effective teaching proven to enhance student achievement. 256 pages 51BCA–BKL011 $34.95 ISBN 978-0-9833512-3-8

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Questioning Sequences in the Classroom

Coaching Classroom Instruction

By Robert J. Marzano and Julia A. Simms

With Tom Roy, Tammy Heflebower, and Phil Warrick

Ask targeted questions to enhance students’ reasoning skills and increase rigor in classrooms. You’ll discover a four-phase questioning sequence that helps students make claims, build sound arguments, and provide evidence to support their points.

160 pages 51BCA–BKL018 $24.95 ISBN 978-0-9858902-6-1

Published by Marzano Research

By Robert J. Marzano and Julia A. Simms

Find advice on how to offer targeted feedback to teachers, empowering them to identify specific steps to improve their knowledge and skill. Coaches can use the step-by-step guidelines to help teachers improve their performance on the 280 research-based strategies introduced in Becoming a Reflective Teacher. 272 pages 51BCA–BKL013 $34.95 ISBN 978-0-9833512-6-9

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Teaching Reasoning Activities and Games for the Classroom

By Laurel Hecker, Julia A. Simms, and Ming Lee Newcomb Foreword by Robert J. Marzano

Teach students essential skills with engaging activities. Explore key reasoning skills from the Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards and strategies for teaching them to students. Then, discover fun, research-based games and activities to reinforce students’ reasoning skills. This practical text provides clear guidance for incorporating these tools into your classroom to prepare students for academic and lifetime success.

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• Help students develop the ability to critically analyze evidence and draw valid conclusions.

• Refine students’ reasoning skills—using a combination of analytical and intuitive reasoning—to help them prosper in 21st century colleges and workplaces.

• Gain classroom games and activities to support reasoning lessons.

• Provide students with the tools to reinforce their reasoning and relay complex information.

51BCA–BKL027 $34.95 ISBN 978-0-9903458-1-7

Teaching Argumentation

The Highly Engaged Classroom

Activities and Games for the Classroom

By Katie Rogers and Julia A. Simms

By Robert J. Marzano and Debra J. Pickering

Foreword by Robert J. Marzano

With Tammy Heflebower

Discover 10 fun, engaging activities and games for teaching argumentation that align with the CCSS. Incorporate these tools into your instruction to help students develop the ability to present and support claims, distinguish fact and opinion, identify errors in reasoning, and debate constructively. 256 pages

Bestseller Gain an in-depth understanding of how to generate high levels of student attention and engagement. Using the suggestions in this book, every teacher can create a classroom environment where engagement is the norm, not the exception. 240 pages

51BCA–BKL021 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-935249-30-6

51BCA–BKL005 $29.95 ISBN 978-0-9822592-4-5

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Motivating and Engaging Students Online Course

By Robert J. Marzano

Presenters: Robert J. Marzano and Debra J. Pickering Dr. Marzano and Dr. Pickering show you how to raise students’ energy levels, facilitate constructive emotions, demonstrate a positive demeanor, express enthusiasm, and use humor to create a classroom culture in which all students are accepted and challenged.

CEUs: 51BCA–KDS010 3 Semester Hours: 51BCA–KDS011

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Designing & Teaching Learning Goals & Objectives

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Bestseller Design and teach effective learning goals and objectives by following strategies based on the strongest research available. This first book in The Classroom Strategies Series summarizes key research behind best practices and translates that research into step-by-step hands-on strategies. 152 pages 51BCA–BKL001 $24.95 ISBN 978-0-9822592-0-7

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Enriched Learning Projects A Practical Pathway to 21st Century Skills

By James A. Bellanca Translate standards-based content into enriched learning projects that build 21st century skills.

A valuable tool for teachers, this book uses an enriched learning projects model to develop student skills in communication, collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, and global and crosscultural awareness. It highlights e-tools that enhance projects and presents research-based instructional strategies that engage students.

248 pages

• Gain strategies that maximize student chances for higher achievement while meeting standards.

• Enrich your instruction with electronic tools that facilitate collaboration, communication, critical and creative thinking, and problem solving.

• Get a template and examples for designing and assessing enriched learning experiences.

51BCA–BKF296 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-74-1

Motivating Students 25 Strategies to Light the Fire of Engagement

By Carolyn Chapman and Nicole Dimich Vagle Learn why students disengage and how to motivate them to achieve success with a five-step framework. Research-based strategies and fun activities, along with tips and troubleshooting advice, show how to instill a lasting love of learning in students of any age. 240 pages 51BCA–BKF371 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-935249-78-8

Successful Techniques for Educators

By Allen N. Mendler Bestseller Spark enthusiasm in your classroom. Proven strategies and five effective processes (emphasizing effort, creating hope, respecting power, building relationships, and expressing enthusiasm) empower you to reawaken motivation in students who aren’t prepared, don’t care, and won’t work. 80 pages 51BCA–BKF360 $17.95 ISBN 978-1-935249-67-2

From Rage to Hope

Teaching for Diversity

Strategies for Reclaiming Black & Hispanic Students

A Guide to Greater Understanding

By Crystal Kuykendall Foreword by Asa G. Hilliard III

Bestseller Get an authentic view of academic underachievement, apathy, and rage among America’s Black and Hispanic youth. Become an empowered Merchant of Hope armed with positive strategies for reaching these students and sparking motivation toward achievement.

304 pages; 2nd edition 51BCA–BKF157 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-932127-15-7

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By Ricardo L. García Explore the demographic shifts in American life and schools throughout the late 20th and early 21st centuries, and examine the impact of these shifts on education. This book provides a powerful theoretical framework for thinking about and fostering acceptance of diversity and difference. 216 pages; 3rd edition 51BCA–BKF400 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-01-8

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21st Century Skills & Technology

Deeper Learning Beyond 21st Century Skills Edited by James A. Bellanca

By Suzie Boss, Stacey Caillier, Barbara Chow, David T. Conley, Arthur L. Costa, Ben Daley, Linda Darling-Hammond, Rebecca DuFour, Richard DuFour, Deborah Rosalia Esparza, Charles Fadel, Michael Fullan, Valerie Greenhill, Bena Kallick, Ken Kay, Steven Paine, James W. Pellegrino, Rob Riordan, Helen A. Soulé, Bernie Trilling, Tony Wagner, Yong Zhao, and Steven Zipkes

Education authorities from around the globe draw on research as well as their own experience to explore deeper learning, a process that promotes higher-order thinking, reasoning, and problem solving to better educate students and prepare them for college and careers. 416 pages; hardcover • Discover the vital importance of deeper learning to students’ future success.

• Effectively prepare teachers for deeper learning in the classroom.

• Successfully promote deeper learning with technology.

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51BCA–BKF622 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-936763-35-1

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 • Learn why innovation is an essential skill for 21st century learners’ success.

• Discover the diverse ways innovation can be implemented in the classroom.

• Explore innovative examples from outside education to stir creativity.

• Understand how innovation can coexist with standards-based instruction.

51BCA–BKF546 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-936765-26-3

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Contemporary Perspectives on Literacy series Edited by Heidi Hayes Jacobs

By Marie Alcock, Frank W. Baker, Nitasha Chaudhuri, Verneda Edwards, Michael L. Fisher, Steve Hargadon, Madeleine Maceda Heide, Anthony W. Jackson, Ann Ward Johnson, Jennie L. Johnson, Holen Sabrina Kahn, Emily Keating, William Kist, Shabbi Luthra, Veronica Boix Mansilla, Jane McGee, Fiona Reynolds, Kristy Sailors, Mark Schulte, Bill Sheskey, Homa Sabet Tavangar, Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano, Jeanne Tribuzzi, and Brandon L. Wiley

Today’s students must be prepared to compete in a global society in which cultures, economies, and people are constantly connected. The authors explain three “new literacies”—digital, media, and global—and provide practical tips for incorporating these literacies into the traditional curriculum.

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• Work to inform policymakers and decision makers on the impact of the transition from traditional to modern learning environments.

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

By James A. Bellanca, Robin J. Fogarty, and Brian M. Pete Bestseller Empower your students to thrive across the curriculum. 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. 240 pages

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. 104 pages 51BCA–BKF437 $19.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-57-5

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Integrating Technology Into the Classroom To have a meaningful impact in classrooms, educators must carefully define the essential skills that students must master before investing in digital tools.

• Examine how traditional instructional practices such as classroom conversations, persuasive writing assignments, and independent research projects can be enhanced by digital tools.

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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 Reeves, Will Richardson, and Elliott Seif Foreword by Ken Kay

Bestseller Examine the Framework for 21st Century Learning from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills as a way to re-envision learning in a rapidly evolving global and technological world.

Learn why these skills are necessary, which are most important, and how to best help schools include them. 408 pages; hardcover

• Obtain theories, strategies, and methods of change from a diverse group of leading researchers.

• Increase rigor by infusing 21st century skills into core subjects.

• Realize the importance of students mastering content and skills, moving beyond the old standards of memorized information.

51BCA–BKF389 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-935249-90-0

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Classroom Habitudes

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Teaching Habits and Attitudes for 21st Century Learning

Presenters: James A. Bellanca and Ken Kay

By Angela Maiers

Help your students learn the skills they need for the 21st century. Gain perspectives and strategies from a variety of experts on how to re-envision learning and prepare students for a globally connected world that must adapt to evolving technology.

CEUs: 51BCA–KDS036 3 Semester Hours: 51BCA–KDS037

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Enhancing the Art & Science of Teaching With Technology

Teaching & Assessing 21st Century Skills

By Sonny Magaña and Robert J. Marzano

By Robert J. Marzano and Tammy Heflebower

Bestseller Successfully leverage technology to enhance classroom practices with this practical resource. Included are over 100 organized classroom strategies, vignettes that show each section’s strategies in action, and a glossary of classroom-relevant technology terms. Key research is summarized and translated into classroom recommendations. 216 pages 51BCA–BKL017 $29.95 ISBN 978-0-9858902-4-7

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Learn how to use the content you already teach to challenge students to think critically, collaborate with others, solve new problems, and adapt to change across new learning contexts. Help students build the seven habitudes they need to succeed.

160 pages; grades K–8; revised edition

21st Century Skills & Technology

In this clear, practical guide, the authors present a model of instruction and assessment based on a combination of cognitive skills (skills students will need to succeed academically) and conative skills (skills students will need to succeed interpersonally) necessary for the 21st century. 264 pages 51BCA–BKL009 $34.95 ISBN 978-0-9833512-0-7

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Teaching the iGeneration Five Easy Ways to Introduce Essential Skills With Web 2.0 Tools

By William M. Ferriter and Adam Garry

Find the natural overlap between the work you already believe in and the digital tools that define today’s learning. Each chapter introduces an enduring skill: information fluency, verbal persuasion, visual persuasion, collaborative dialogue, and problem solving.

Then, the authors present a digital solution that can be used to enhance traditional skillbased instructional practices. A collection of handouts and supporting materials tailored to each skill and tool type ends each chapter.

2nd edition

• Find a wealth of handouts and activities focused on each skill and digital tool discussed.

• Explore practical methods to connect the enduring skills taught for generations with the technology that students are using every day.

• Understand concrete ways that students can make a difference around the world.

• Learn step-by-step directions for each digital tool.

51BCA–BKF671 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936765-32-4

The Connected Educator

Using Web 2.0 in Teaching and Instruction

Learning and Leading in a Digital Age

Online Course

By Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Lani Ritter Hall

Presenters: William M. Ferriter and Adam Garry

Create a connected learning community through social media and rediscover the power of being a learner first. The authors show you how to take advantage of technology to collaborate with other educators and deepen the learning of your students. 208 pages

Discover how you can use today’s technology to create classroom experiences that encourage your students to learn.

Through teacher workshops and middle school classroom demonstrations, the presenters provide practical suggestions for using new technology to teach “old school” skills.

51BCA–BKF478 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-935543-17-6

CEUs: 51BCA–KDS026 3 Semester Hours: 51BCA–KDS027

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Personal Learning Networks

Why Social Media Matters

Using the Power of Connections to Transform Education

School Communication in the Digital Age

By Will Richardson and Rob Mancabelli

By Kitty Porterfield and Meg Carnes

Follow this road map for using the web for learning. Learn how to build your own learning network. Use learning networks in the classroom and make the case for schoolwide learning networks to improve student outcomes. 168 pages

Foreword by Daniel A. Domenech

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DEEPENING LEARNING USING 1:1 AND BYOD Integrate technology-rich learning into your school or district. Through this interactive event, you’ll learn how to incorporate BYOD, 1:1, and blended learning practices into classrooms to energize and engage students. Your team will observe real classrooms in the Collier County Public Schools system that are using technology to deepen student learning.

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Using Technology to Enhance Reading Innovative Approaches to Literacy Instruction Edited by Timothy V. Rasinski, Kristine E. Pytash, and Richard E. Ferdig

Enhance students’ reading abilities with technology. Discover how technological resources can improve the effectiveness and breadth of reading instruction to build student knowledge.

Read real-world accounts from literacy experts, and learn how their methods can be adapted for your classroom. Explore how to foster improvement in student learning using a variety of tools, including interactive whiteboards, tablets, and social media applications.

• Gain insight into ways to incorporate technology into reading instruction.

• Obtain guidance on choosing progress-monitoring tools to best address your students’ needs.

• Discover strategies to engage students in vocabulary instruction, and help students interpret informational texts.

• Learn how to use various tools to spark group discussions about literature.

• Determine how to continually assess students’ connections with the assigned reading material.

51BCA–BKF608 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-99-0

Using Technology to Enhance Writing Innovative Approaches to Literacy Instruction Edited by Richard E. Ferdig, Timothy V. Rasinski, and Kristine E. Pytash Sharpen your students’ communication skills while integrating digital tools into writing instruction. Loaded with techniques for helping students brainstorm, plan, and organize their writing, this handbook troubleshoots issues students face when writing in a printed versus digital context and teaches them how to read in multiple mediums. You’ll find tips for sharing writing, getting interactive feedback, incorporating grammar instruction, and more.

272 pages • Leverage digital technology to facilitate grammar instruction, prewriting and brainstorming exercises, editing, revising, peer review, assessment, and more.

• Discover how the natural interplay between reading and writing can strengthen both of these processes.

• Help students move writing through multiple storage locations and technologies— from school computers and smartphones to laptops and tablets.

• Develop students’ understanding of voice, audience, and the responsibilities of authorship.

• Examine the process of not just fixing mistakes, but also understanding the root issues that drive errors.

51BCA–BKF607 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-97-6

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Teaching Common Core English Language Arts Standards 20 Lesson Frameworks for Elementary Grades

By Patricia M. Cunningham and James W. Cunningham Ensure students develop proficiency in reading, speaking and listening, writing, and language.

Explore 20 lesson frameworks to help teach the Common Core State Standards for English language arts. Discover targeted lessons to help students master critical skills, including how to organize ideas from informational texts, identify similarities and differences, scrutinize words to gain deeper meaning of readings, and write with gradeappropriate language. 208 pages; grades K–5

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Literacy 2.0 Reading and Writing in 21st Century Classrooms

By Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, and Alex Gonzalez Students in the 21st century must incorporate traditional literacy skills into a mastery of technology for communicating and collaborating in new ways. This book offers specific teaching strategies for developing students’ skills related to acquiring, producing, and sharing information. 152 pages; grades 6–12 51BCA–BKF373 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935249-80-1

Teaching Students to Read Like Detectives Comprehending, Analyzing, and Discussing Text

By Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Diane Lapp Bestseller Prompt students to become the sophisticated readers, writers, and thinkers they need to be to achieve higher learning. Explore the important relationship between text, learner, and learning, and gain an array of methods to establish critical literacy in a discussion-based and reflective classroom. 176 pages 51BCA–BKF499 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935543-52-7

Bringing the Common Core to Life in K–8 Classrooms 30 Strategies to Build Literacy Skills

By Eric Jensen and LeAnn Nickelsen Discover strategies to promote student mastery of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts across the curriculum. Develop the know-how to activate students’ background knowledge to prepare them for learning and effectively structure teaching to empower all students. 240 pages

• Understand the components of engaged classrooms, and create an environment where students are active participants in their learning.

• Structure learning that encourages students to work smarter, not harder.

• Teach students to engage emotionally with text and to retain and explain what they read.

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

By Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Cynthia L. Uline 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 WorkTM process. Teachers will discover the fundamental learning targets necessary for college and career readiness and how students can master them for each grade level.

• Master the CCSS for English language arts, and develop common understandings to strengthen instructional practice.

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Leader’s Guide; 144 pages 51BCA–BKF578 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-13-6

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What Principals Need to Know About Teaching and Learning Writing

By Ruth Culham Discover practical strategies for supporting and assessing writing instruction in all content areas while equipping teachers with instructional practices that emphasize this critical skill, which students need to adapt to the demands of the CCSS and thrive in the 21st century. 136 pages; grades K–8 A Joint Publication With the National Association of Elementary School Principals and Scholastic

• Assess the teaching and learning of writing in your school or district.

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What Principals Need to Know About Teaching and Learning Reading

Rebuilding the Foundation

By Patricia M. Cunningham and James W. Cunningham

Edited by Timothy V. Rasinski

Principals will discover strategies for improving reading programs using the foundation established by the six truths of reading instruction. Explore comprehensive techniques, troubleshoot problems your teachers may face, and gain valuable approaches to topics such as reading comprehension, vocabulary and literacy, and phonics and fluency. 128 pages; grades K–8; 2nd edition 51BCA–BKF563 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-936765-53-9

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Vocabulary Games for the Classroom

By Lindsay Carleton and Robert J. Marzano Bestseller Make direct vocabulary instruction fun and successful with this simple, straightforward, and easy-to-use book. Hundreds of vocabulary terms handpicked by Dr. Marzano cover four content areas and all grade levels.

272 pages 51BCA–BKL007 $34.95 ISBN 978-0-9822592-6-9

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Effective Reading Instruction for 21st Century Literacy

By Peter Afflerbach, Richard L. Allington, Rita M. Bean, Donald R. Bear, Camille L. Z. Blachowicz, Ruth Culham, Patricia M. Cunningham, Peter J. Fisher, Linda B. Gambrell, James V. Hoffman, Lesley Mandel Morrow, Maureen McLaughlin, Maryann Mraz, P. David Pearson, Timothy V. Rasinski, Timothy Shanahan, William H. Teale, Shane Templeton, Richard T. Vacca, Susan Watts-Taffe, and Junko Yokota

This book presents a deep and thoughtful conversation about what is meant by effective reading instruction for all students. 352 pages; hardcover 51BCA–BKF399 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-00-1

Power Tools for Adolescent Literacy Strategies for Learning

By Jan Rozzelle and Carol Scearce Teachers need the right resources 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 51BCA–BKF261 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-35-2

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Elementary Reading Intervention Strategies, Grades K–6 Online Course Presenter: Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins Prepare yourself to intervene immediately and effectively at the first signs of students’ struggles by building a personal menu of research-based strategies. From phonics to comprehension, Dr. McEwan-Adkins shows how to help your students develop essential reading skills.

• Implement proactive strategies to prevent literacy problems.

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40 Reading Intervention Strategies for K–6 Students

20 Literacy Strategies to Meet the Common Core

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Increasing Rigor in Middle & High School Classrooms

By Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins Bestseller This well-rounded collection of reading intervention strategies, teacherfriendly lesson plans, and adaptable miniroutines will support and inform your RTI efforts. Many of the strategies motivate all students as well as scaffold struggling readers. Increase effectiveness by using the interventions across grade-level teams or schoolwide. 352 pages

By Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins and Allyson J. Burnett With the advent of the Common Core State Standards, some secondary teachers are scrambling for what to do and how to do it. This book provides 20 researchbased strategies designed to help students meet those standards and become expert readers. 328 pages; grades 6–12 51BCA–BKF588 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-28-0

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By Thomasenia Lott Adams, Diane J. Briars, Juli K. Dixon, Jessica Kanold-McIntyre, Timothy D. Kanold, Matthew R. Larson, Edward C. Nolan, and Mona Toncheff

Designed to go well beyond the content of your state’s standards, this series offers K–12 mathematics instructors and other educators in PLCs an action-oriented guide for developing a focused curriculum that significantly impacts student achievement.

Your team will gain targeted support, uncover research-based strategies, and learn 10 high-leverage team actions they can take to ensure students achieve top levels of mathematics performance.

Joint Publications With the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

• Identify and cultivate the elements of mathematics instruction and assessment that yield the greatest impact on student learning.

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What Principals Need to Know About Teaching and Learning Mathematics

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

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

This must-have resource offers support and encouragement for improved mathematics achievement across every grade level. 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

These teacher guides illustrate how to sustain successful implementation of the Common Core State Standards for mathematics.

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• Use and design daily lesson-planning protocols and instruction that reflect the expectations of rigorous more complex reasoning and highly engaged and efficient student learning experiences.

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Mathematics Vision, Implementation, and Focus Implement systematic change in your district. This service integrates the lessons from Dr. Kanold’s The Five Disciplines of PLC Leaders and the Common Core Mathematics in a PLC at Work series to significantly improve sustainable districtwide results in mathematics.

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Mathematics Teaching and Learning Impact student learning using the Mathematics at Work 10 high-leverage team actions for effective instruction and assessment. Learn to teach mathematics based on the Standards for Mathematical Practice, and discover how to create and use high-quality assessments, homework, and formative assessment processes in the classroom.

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Coaching Academy: Deep Mathematics Teaching, Assessing, and Learning in a PLC Learn to design high-quality instruction and formative assessment processes based on the Common Core’s eight mathematical practices and the Mathematics at Work 10 highleverage team actions. The coaching academy—a train-the-trainer model—uses the PLC at Work teaching-assessing-learning cycle to achieve the necessary rigor, coherence, and focus of CCSS-M-type assessments.

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Embedded On-Site Coaching: Deep Mathematics Teaching, Assessing, and Learning in a PLC Engage in job-embedded real-time coaching and feedback on how to effectively teach, assess, and align mathematics instruction and formative assessment processes in and out of the classroom. Teachers engage one-to-one with an expert both at their school building site and through virtual interactive coaching about their unit-by-unit work for effective lesson design, homework, and common assessment protocols.

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Build a solid mathematics program by emphasizing prioritized learning goals and integrating RTI into your curriculum. Prepare students to move forward in mathematics learning, and ensure their continued growth in critical thinking and problem solving.

With this series, you’ll discover an RTI model that provides the mathematics instruction, assessment, and intervention strategies necessary to meet the complex, diverse needs of students.

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Help all students become high-achieving mathematics learners. Discover best practices to fully align instruction with the CCSS for mathematics, and develop a strong understanding of mathematics culture. You’ll gain practical strategies for creating an environment that supports mathematics learning. 104 pages

Explore common student difficulties in math, and see a three-tier RTI model in action. The authors provide an overview of research, detailed guidance through each stage of implementation, tools for reflection and growth, and discussion of support strategies beyond the classroom.

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• Learn how to use assessments for universal screening and benchmarking in mathematics.

• Understand how differentiated instruction strengthens Tier 1 instruction for all grade levels.

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• Make sense of teaching for depth through the Standards for Mathematical Practice.

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Cultural Literacy for the Common Core Six Steps to Powerful, Practical Instruction for All Learners

By Bonnie M. Davis Foreword by Mary Kim Schreck

Build your cultural literacy while inspiring deep, thoughtful, unbiased thinking in students.

Discover a six-step framework for becoming culturally literate that complements the Common Core and encourages students to be at the center of learning. Explore how to develop teacher-student relationships, engage in collaborative conversations, and encourage feedback to give voice to the increasingly diverse student body found in today’s classrooms. 224 pages • Motivate students to take renewed ownership of their learning.

• Stimulate creative thinking with culturally responsive instruction.

• Cultivate reflective dialogue through diverse lesson materials.

• Harness technology to connect to learners in other geographic locations.

• Break down cultural barriers, and support a classroom community poised for learning.

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Building a Common Core–Based Curriculum Mapping With Focus and Fidelity

By Susan Udelhofen Discover your road map for creating a curriculum based on the Common Core State Standards. Explore various stages of curriculum development, from the preliminary work of building academic support to creating Common Core curriculum maps and tracking school improvement goals. Learn to effectively share information during the curriculum-building process, and engage in significant, collaborative conversations around the curriculum.

128 pages • Develop a curriculum founded on the Common Core State Standards.

• Learn the three essential structures for curriculum building: active administrative involvement, focused curriculum conversations, and effective assessments.

• Foster a collaborative environment in which teachers can share their teaching and learning expectations.

• Introduce an ongoing curriculum-mapping process that welcomes continuous conversation and revision.

• Access dozens of tools and examples to support curriculum mapping and track school improvement.

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Teaching Common Core English Language Arts Standards 20 Lesson Frameworks for Elementary Grades

By Patricia M. Cunningham and James W. Cunningham Explore 20 lesson frameworks to help teach the Common Core State Standards for English language arts. Discover targeted lessons to help students master critical skills, including how to organize ideas from informational texts, identify similarities and differences, and write with gradeappropriate language. 208 pages; grades K–5

• Pair the gradual release of responsibility model with several lesson frameworks that support the CCSS for English language arts.

• Access a variety of tools and resources to help students master the CCSS for English language arts.

• Support the CCSS for English language arts goals to improve students’ reading comprehension, writing skills, and desire to read and write.

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Bringing the Common Core to Life in K–8 Classrooms

20 Literacy Strategies to Meet the Common Core

30 Strategies to Build Literacy Skills

Increasing Rigor in Middle & High School Classrooms

By Eric Jensen and LeAnn Nickelsen Discover strategies to promote student mastery of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts across the curriculum. Develop the know-how to activate students’ background knowledge to prepare them for learning and effectively structure teaching to empower all students.

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By Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins and Allyson J. Burnett With the advent of the Common Core State Standards, some secondary teachers are scrambling for what to do and how to do it. This book provides 20 researchbased strategies designed to help students meet those standards and become expert readers. 328 pages; grades 6–12 51BCA–BKF588 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-28-0

Assessment and the Common Core State Standards Online Course Presenter: Kay Burke Construct a balanced set of assessment tools that will improve instruction as well as gauge its success. Dr. Burke demonstrates how to repack the Common Core State Standards with a collaborative team, generate checklists and rubrics, share meaningful learning objectives with students, and craft performance tasks that will motivate students in every grade. Gain tools and strategies you can use immediately.

• Identify power standards.

• Repack the Common Core State Standards as part of a collaborative team.

• Collaborate with grade-level or subject-area teams to create common assessments.

• Create performance tasks, checklists, and rubrics appropriate to your grade level or subject area.

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

By Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Cynthia L. Uline 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.

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• Master the CCSS for English language arts, and develop common understandings to strengthen instructional practice.

• Learn the five fundamental shifts in literacy instruction necessary to enhance students’ language development.

• Plan successful collaborative team meetings with a variety of reproducibles to examine the standards.

Leader’s Guide; 144 pages 51BCA–BKF578 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-13-6

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The CCSS for English language arts demand that students learn to justify their responses with evidence and to read increasingly complex text. Learn what changes to curriculum and instruction are necessary to meet the standards and ensure student achievement.

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• Identify the conceptual shifts in the CCSS for English language arts.

• Enumerate the anchor standards in reading, writing, speaking and listening, language, and foundational skills.

• Comprehend the components of text complexity, text-dependent questions, and close reading.

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Online Courses Presenters: Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey Through this series of self-paced online courses, you’ll discover how to successfully integrate the CCSS for English language arts. Each course, tailored to specific grade levels, explores how to implement the CCSS within the powerful PLC at WorkTM process. Study instruction, curriculum, assessment, intervention, and more while receiving personalized feedback from Common Core and PLC at WorkTM experts.

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Common Core Mathematics in a PLC at Work series TM

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

Leader’s Guide; 176 pages 51BCA–BKF559 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-936765-47-8

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.

Joint Publications With the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

• Discover the five essential paradigm shifts necessary to implement the CCSS for mathematics.

• Receive guidance on forming and sustaining collaborative teams in a Professional Learning Community at Work™ culture.

• Develop a “less is more” content mindset: fewer standards will result in the opportunity of time needed for deeper rigor and conceptual understanding work with students.

• Gain helpful formative assessment strategies for development of student proficiency in the Standards for Mathematical Practice.

Grades K–2; 216 pages Grades 6–8; 248 pages 51BCA–BKF566 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936765-97-3

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Common Core State Standards in Mathematics, Grades 3–8 Online Course Presenters: Diane J. Briars and Timothy D. Kanold Dr. Kanold and Dr. Briars explain both the whys and the how-tos for implementing the CCSS for mathematics in this timely and practical course. You’ll gain strategies for teaching for understanding, tools for planning lessons and evaluating assessments, and classroom-ready tasks that put theory into practice. You’ll also visit classrooms where educators are piloting the CCSS to see their results.

• Support the eight mathematical practices.

• Maintain high cognitive demand.

• Include assessing and advancing questions for formative assessment.

• Meet the needs of all learners.

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

By James A. Bellanca, Robin J. Fogarty, and Brian M. Pete Bestseller Packed with examples and tools, this

• Explore phase I, Talk-Through, during which teachers explicitly teach students a critical thinking skill.

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 standardsbased performance tasks that will strengthen students’ ability to learn across the curriculum.

240 pages

• Utilize the content-based lessons included in phase II, Walk-Through, when specific guidance will ensure proper application of the skill.

• Learn how to make a direct connection between the selected thinking skill and the new standards with the CCSS performance tasks modeled in phase III. 51BCA–BKF576 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-07-5

Teaching Students to Think Like Scientists

School Leader’s Guide to the Common Core

Strategies Aligned With Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards

Achieving Results Through Rigor and Relevance

By Maria C. Grant, Douglas Fisher, and Diane Lapp

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

Using these instructional methods and lesson scenarios, teachers of all disciplines will gain the tools needed to offer students a richer, lasting understanding of science, its concepts, and its place in their lives and the global community. 232 pages

Implement the Common Core State Standards with downloadable reproducibles, lists of resources to support the topics affected, discussion questions, and relevant information to share with your colleagues. Explore the background of the standards and the changes necessary to meet them. 176 pages

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Collaborating for Success With the Common Core A Toolkit for Professional Learning Communities at Work

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By Kim Bailey, Chris Jakicic, and Jeanne Spiller Leverage teamwork to integrate the CCSS into your curriculum, and build on a foundational knowledge of PLCs. You’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of the shifts required to implement the standards in core content areas and find valuable tips and strategies for creating strong collaborative practices. Identify the essential standards, determine learning targets, define proficiency, learn how to design rigorous assessments, and more. 232 pages

• Gain a comprehensive understanding of the CCSS for English language arts and mathematics.

• Navigate the shifts required by the CCSS for curriculum, instruction, assessment, and intervention.

• Learn how collaborative teams within a PLC provide the support necessary for successful transition to the CCSS. 51BCA–BKF556 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-72-3

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Vocabulary for the New Science Standards

By Robert J. Marzano, Katie Rogers, and Julia A. Simms

Impact science education with direct vocabulary instruction. With this three-part resource, you’ll discover a six-step process for successfully incorporating vocabulary from the science standards into student learning. Identify the crucial aspects of vocabulary education, and learn targeted strategies to actively engage students.

Gain access to lists of essential scientific terms that will help you establish an effective, organized vocabulary program. 240 pages Published by Marzano Research

Using Common Core Standards to Enhance Classroom Instruction & Assessment

By Robert J. Marzano, David C. Yanoski, Jan K. Hoegh, and Julia A. Simms With Tammy Heflebower and Phil Warrick

Bestseller Discover how to weave an in-depth understanding of the Common Core into successful classroom practice with this two-part resource. 304 pages 51BCA–BKL015 $34.95 ISBN 978-0-9833512-9-0

• Recognize the importance of vocabulary instruction on student reading ability and academic achievement.

• Gain access to self-evaluation scales that students can use to score their degree of understanding.

• Select from a menu of vocabulary words related to crosscutting practices and concepts, cognitive processes, and domainspecific science terms to enhance student learning from grade to grade.

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Vocabulary for the Common Core

By Robert J. Marzano and Julia A. Simms

Bestseller The Common Core State Standards present unique demands on students’ ability to learn vocabulary and teachers’ ability to teach it. The authors address these challenges in this resource, helping you create a successful vocabulary program. 280 pages 51BCA–BKL014 $34.95 ISBN 978-0-9858902-2-3

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Assessing the Common Core With Performance Assessments Performance assessments are one way to gauge levels of integration of the CCSS. • Explore frameworks and recommended criteria to help educators design and use rigorous and relevant assessment processes to prepare students for a technical, global, and information-rich world.

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• Identify criteria for quality performance assessments, and explore options for assessment design that lead to higher levels of rigor and relevance.

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Rigor is about creating an environment of high expectations and then building a system of support to ensure all students succeed.

• Acquire questioning strategies that continually scaffold deeper and more complex thinking.

• Discover how to develop authentic opportunities that engage students in increasingly rigorous demonstrations of their learning.

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English Learners

Teaching Reading & Comprehension to English Learners, K–5

By Margarita Calderón As more English learners enroll in school each year, teachers and administrators are concerned with the large gap in reading and academic standing between ELs and students performing at grade level. This book addresses the language, literacy, and content instructional needs of ELs and frames quality instruction within effective schooling structures and the implementation of RTI. 176 pages • Understand RTI in relation to ELs. • Gain literacy strategies that are beneficial for not only ELs, but also for all struggling or reluctant readers.

• Explore the use of cooperative learning to motivate and engage all students as well as to accelerate ELs’ language, literacy, and knowledge base while learning social skills.

51BCA–BKF402 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-03-2

Teaching Reading and Comprehension to English Learners, Grades K–5 Online Course Presenter: Margarita Calderón Align instructional practice for English learners with the Common Core! Dr. Calderón outlines techniques for elementary teachers seeking to improve the reading and comprehension skills of ELs in their classrooms. You will be led through the steps needed to select vocabulary for reading, preteach this vocabulary, and model comprehension strategies like think-alouds and partner reading. Writing and editing strategies complete the picture.

• Learn a seven-step process to preteach vocabulary.

• Implement strategies to teach reading comprehension, including think-alouds and partner reading.

• Create strategies to teach writing and editing.

• Reflect on your own practices with the goal of improving the reading, writing, and editing skills of ELs. CEUs: 51BCA–KDS019 3 Semester Hours: 51BCA–KDS020

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Edited by Margarita Calderón

By Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Carol Rothenberg

By Barbara D. Acosta, Laura Alvarez, Kristina Anstrom, Margarita Calderón, Sarah Capitelli, Jim Cummins, Claude Goldenberg, Joel Gómez, Margo Gottlieb, Elena Izquierdo, Okhee Lee, Liliana Minaya-Rowe, Alba A. Ortiz, Charlene Rivera, Robert E. Slavin, Maria N. Trejo, and Guadalupe Valdés

Learn why RTI is the ideal framework for supporting English learners. Follow the application and effectiveness of RTI through classroom examples and the stories of four representative students of varying ages, nationalities, and language proficiency levels. 160 pages

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Utilizing research and field studies, this book outlines a whole-school approach to helping English learners achieve. Discover how integrating language, literacy, and subject matter instruction leads to greater success for this growing student population. 288 pages; hardcover

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Common Language Assessment for English Learners

The School Leader’s Guide to English Learners

By Margo Gottlieb

By Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey

Learn how to plan, implement, and evaluate common language assessments for your English learners. With this stepby-step guide, teachers, school leaders, and administrators will find organizing principles, lead questions, and action steps all directing you toward collaborative assessment. 192 pages

English learners face a difficult challenge: learning in English. How, then, do you set reasonable expectations for developing proficiency? School leaders will learn how to assess the individual needs of ELs, how to create a quality instructional program, and how to evaluate performance.

96 pages; grades K–8

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A Joint Publication With the National Association of Elementary School Principals

Teaching ELs in a Professional Learning Community Discover the components of a PLC that teacher leaders utilize to help close the achievement gap for students who are learning English as a second language.

• Learn how to listen to the needs of ELs and change your expectations and behavior for more effective learning results.

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• Determine how district and school leaders can work collaboratively to create policies and practices that ensure ELs excel.

Essentials for Teaching Reading and Comprehension to ELs Determine how to effectively close the learning gap for ELs.

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• Gain practical instructional strategies and assessment processes for developing academic vocabulary.

• Acquire lesson templates that will help integrate vocabulary, reading comprehension skills, and writing strategies into math, science, social studies, and language arts.

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Professional Learning Communities at Work

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Are We a Group or a Team?

Moving From Coordination to Collaboration in a PLC at Work

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Featuring Mike Mattos Build a powerful PLC to meet the needs of every student. Based on Mike Mattos’s 1-5-10 team-evaluation activity, this unscripted video will give your team the know-how to transition from a low- to high-performing team. Explore the three foundational elements to build strong teams: forming the right teams that share learning outcomes, providing dedicated time to collaborate, and collaborating professionally. 43-minute DVD; 32-page Facilitator’s Guide (in print and on CD) • Gain advice from real PLC teams that identify the key elements of a high-performing team.

• Access practical activities and tools necessary to improve team function and collaboration.

• Explore the process for creating a 10 Team through activities provided in the Facilitator’s Guide.

• Weave the short format into your busy schedule and view the video all at once, alone, or with a team.

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Cultures Built to Last Systemic PLCs at Work

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By Richard DuFour and Michael Fullan Bestseller Take your professional learning community to the next level! Discover a systemwide approach for re-envisioning your PLC while sustaining growth and continuing momentum on your journey. You’ll move beyond isolated pockets of excellence while allowing every person in your school system—from teachers and administrators to students— the opportunity to be an instrument of lasting cultural change. 104 pages • Determine how a systemic approach to PLCs is essential to a collaborative culture.

• Achieve the coherence and clarity necessary to maintaining a healthy PLC. • Find a balance between maintaining focus and generating creativity.

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Learning by Doing A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work

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By Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker, and Thomas W. Many Bestseller 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; 2nd edition

• Build a shared knowledge of critical vocabulary and the concepts underlying key PLC terms.

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• Make honest assessments of your school by examining conventional practices from a fresh, critical perspective.

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Common Formative Assessment A Toolkit for Professional Learning Communities at WorkTM

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Bestseller Teachers love this plan book!

This great organizer, with 40 weekly planning pages and space for eight class periods, is also a process book packed with creative ideas, activities, and inspirational success stories that address crucial, teacher-specific PLC concepts. 103 pages; spiral-bound

Foreword by Richard DuFour and Rebecca DuFour

Bestseller The catalyst for real student improvement begins with a decision to implement common formative assessments. 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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Raising the Bar and Closing the Gap Whatever It Takes

By Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker, and Gayle Karhanek Bestseller 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 WorkTM 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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• Learn from real challenges experienced by educators throughout North America.

• Use the reproducibles and tools with your staff and team members.

• Assess your understanding with a free, downloadable study guide.

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By Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, and Robert Eaker Bestseller This 10th-anniversary sequel to the authors’ best-selling book Professional Learning Communities at WorkTM: 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

• Discover specific, practical recommendations for transforming schools into PLCs so that students learn at higher levels.

• Connect descriptions of the PLC framework with real-life examples from educators who have implemented the concept.

• Reinforce core beliefs of the PLC concept while tackling the misconceptions and common problems educators face during the transition to a PLC. 51BCA–BKF252 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-32-1

Professional Learning Communities at WorkTM Best Practices for Enhancing Student Achievement

By Richard DuFour and Robert Eaker Bestseller The book that launched a school improvement movement offers research-based recommendations drawn from best practices still found in schools nationwide. Readers gain specific, practical how-to information about transforming schools into learning-focused, resultsoriented PLCs. 358 pages

Getting Started Reculturing Schools to Become Professional Learning Communities

By Robert Eaker, Richard DuFour, and Rebecca DuFour Bestseller Get answers to the most common question posed by educators seeking to build and sustain a PLC: Where do we begin? Readers access a solid conceptual framework and concrete illustrations of how schools operate when they are functioning as PLCs. 200 pages 51BCA–BKF120 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-879639-89-8

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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

• Get a compelling, accessible narrative to grasp PLC problems and solutions.

• Read the book cover to cover or select chapters for minilessons.

• Gain reproducible tools you can use in your own school.

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Leading Difficult Conversations

Bringing the Big Ideas to Life

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Featuring Richard DuFour, Robert Eaker, and Rebecca DuFour

Bestseller Gain strategies for addressing the conflicts that can result from transforming a school into a professional learning community. Learn how to hold conversations that lead staff to understand that best practice is to work collaboratively and collectively in high-performing teams.

30-minute DVD with presentation; 32-page Facilitator’s Guide (in print and on CD)

Bestseller This four-program video series takes you inside eight diverse schools, where teachers and administrators engage in candid conversations and collaborative team meetings. See how successful schools radically improve student learning, and learn the fundamentals of PLCs with this powerful, fun staff development tool. Four 20-minute programs on 4 DVDs; CD with presentations; 70-page Facilitator’s Guide (in print and on CD)

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Leadership in Professional Learning Communities at WorkTM Learning by Doing Featuring Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker, and Thomas W. Many Bestseller Watch leaders in action within a PLC. This short program for PLC leaders uses unscripted interviews and footage from schools to illustrate the role of effective leadership, particularly from the principal, in embedding PLC practices and values in a school. 32-minute DVD; 32-page Facilitator’s Guide (in print and on CD)

Passion and Persistence How to Develop a Professional Learning Community

By Richard DuFour Bestseller Motivate staff with the inspirational video featured in many of Dr. DuFour’s keynote presentations. A display of memorable quotes, calls to action, and quips set to music, Passion and Persistence serves as a reflective pause on the PLC journey. 7-minute DVD 51BCA–DVF008 $24.95 UPC 811796010117

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Through New Eyes Examining the Culture of Your School Featuring Richard DuFour Bestseller Explore the differences between a traditional school and a professional learning community from a student’s perspective. Perfect for constructing a four-hour training session, this engaging video includes step-by-step instructions, guiding questions, and group activities. 30-minute DVD; 44-page Facilitator’s Guide 51BCA–DVF007 $174.95 UPC 811796010018

Collaborative Teams in Professional Learning Communities at WorkTM Learning by Doing Featuring Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker, and Thomas W. Many Bestseller This short program shows exactly what collaborative teams do.

Aligned with the best-selling book Learning by Doing, the video features unscripted footage of collaboration in action. Learn how teams organize, interact, and find time to meet; what products they produce; and more. 30-minute DVD; 40-page Facilitator’s Guide (in print and on CD) 51BCA–DVF023 $174.95 UPC 811796010285

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• Understand the real work that districts must do to ensure that every school implements PLC practices.

• Explore how to build excitement and commitment to the PLC mission.

• Build shared knowledge of PLC practices with school board members, principals, teams, individual teachers, and the broader community.

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Treat yourself to daily moments of reflection with inspirational quotes collected from a decade of work by renowned PLC experts. The uplifting wisdom inside this book will fuel your passion to be a leader in your PLC. 136 pages; hardcover

By Roland Barth, Rebecca DuFour, Richard DuFour, Robert Eaker, Barbara Eason-Watkins, Michael Fullan, Lawrence W. Lezotte, Douglas Reeves, Jonathon Saphier, Mike Schmoker, Dennis Sparks, and Rick Stiggins

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Though this self-paced online course, you’ll explore how educators are applying proven, research-based strategies and protocols to transform their schools into high-performing professional learning communities. Come to a better understanding of the PLC at WorkTM process, and discover how teachers and administrators are redefining their roles and responsibilities in ways that lead to a collaborative, results-oriented culture that enhances both student and adult learning.

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The Journey to Becoming a Professional Learning Community

By Janel Keating, Robert Eaker, Richard DuFour, and Rebecca DuFour

This unique resource is designed to keep schools transforming into PLCs on track. Just like students, adults learn in different ways—for visual learners, a tool that depicts the PLC journey graphically can help clarify the process of transformation. This road map banner and accompanying booklet literally show the way. 1 color 7-foot vinyl banner; 2 black-and-white 7-foot paper banners; 3 process booklets

• Discover appropriate activities and the order in which they need to be accomplished to become a successful PLC. • Decide who will have the primary responsibilities for each activity along the way.

• Develop a timeline for tasks to be accomplished.

• Identify necessary resources such as time, money, and training.

51BCA–BKF260 $89.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-39-0

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Focus on developing people—not just improving test scores. The authors examine how staffing decisions can strengthen professional learning communities and explore actions that can help school leaders safeguard their schools against complacency. 128 pages 51BCA–BKF548 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-936765-29-4

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Leading by Design An Action Framework for PLC at Work™ Leaders

By Cassandra Erkens and Eric Twadell Foreword by Richard DuFour

By focusing on what students learn rather than what they are taught, schools can redefine their mission and begin the transition to a professional learning community. After interviewing and observing principals, administrators, and teachers, the authors identify seven leadership practices that effective PLC leaders share, along with the techniques that have led them to sustainable success. 216 pages

• Examine the seven leadership practices of highly effective PLC leaders.

• Build a clear and effective leadership framework.

• Gain insight from teachers, principals, and administrators.

• Face the challenges of unhealthy and unproductive collaborative teams.

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The Collaborative Teacher Working Together as a Professional Learning Community

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

Bestseller 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.

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• Define and implement best practices for collaborative teacher leadership in a PLC. • Discover how to work together for student learning and how to create a guaranteed and viable curriculum.

• Explore the many ways data can be utilized to inform instruction.

• Use common assessments to bridge the gap between teaching and learning.

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The Collaborative Administrator Working Together as a Professional Learning Community

By Austin Buffum, Cassandra Erkens, Charles Hinman, Susan B. Huff, Lillie G. Jessie, Terri L. Martin, Mike Mattos, Anthony Muhammad, Peter Noonan, Geri Parscale, Eric Twadell, Jay Westover, and Kenneth C. Williams Foreword by Robert Eaker

Introduction by Richard DuFour

Bestseller In a culture of shared leadership, the administrator’s role is more important than ever. How do you maintain the right balance of loose and tight leadership? How do you establish profound, lasting trust? What principles strengthen principal leadership? This book answers these questions and more in compelling chapters that deliver the strategies and heartfelt inspiration essential to being the best administrator you can be. 264 pages

• Understand the administrator’s role in a culture of shared leadership.

• Learn how administrators can maintain the right balance of loose and tight leadership to build profound, lasting trust.

• Explore the principles that strengthen principal leadership.

51BCA–BKF256 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-37-6

The PLC Toolkit Powerful Tools for Improving Your School The Essential Resources of Richard DuFour, Robert Eaker, and Rebecca DuFour The PLC Toolkit contains all the tools educators need for producing the structural and cultural changes necessary to transform their schools into PLCs. PLCs help students achieve at higher levels and make teaching a more rewarding and satisfying profession.

Research on best practices has shown that a key to improving schools and sustaining that improvement is developing the capacity to function as a PLC. 18 resources, including books, videos, and 1 registration to an online course 51BCA–KTF129

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year 1 Preparatory phase Document the work you’ve already done, and develop a plan for districtwide implementation.

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Build a PLC foundation.

Create a district guiding coalition. Introduce the PLC at WorkTM process to all of your stakeholders. Develop a shared mission, vision, collective commitments, and goals.

Build a sustainable infrastructure and communication process.

Identify essential student outcomes.

Develop teams and a collaborative culture.

Ensure high levels of learning for all students. Focus on the four critical questions that will drive your PLC at WorkTM process. Create a districtwide blueprint for achieving your learning outcomes.

Build a collaborative culture that is committed to collective inquiry, action research, and continuous improvement. Help all students achieve at high levels by working in teams, not in isolation.

Assess student learning.

Develop a shared understanding of assessments, implement common formative assessments, analyze evidence of student learning, and use that evidence to learn from one another and respond to the individual needs of students.

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Drive the PLC process deeper.

Build a systematic process to provide additional time and support for students who are experiencing difficulty. Use this process to ensure every student has a clear path to deeper learning.

Work with a PLC at WorkTM associate to analyze your progress on district SMART goal attainment, alignment of resources, and evidence of a focus on results.

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U.S. GRANT HIGH SCHOOL

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123 Teachers 1,640 Students 89% Free and reduced lunch 30% Limited English proficient 15% Special education

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U.S. Grant High School is the largest school in Oklahoma City Public Schools, a multicultural district serving approximately 43,000 students.

Implementation Under the leadership of former Principal Tamie Sanders (currently director of secondary Turnaround Schools), U.S. Grant began its journey to become a professional learning community. The staff have focused their efforts on monitoring student learning on a timely basis, creating systems of intervention, and building teacher capacity to Read our success stories at work as members of high-performing collaborative teams. solution-tree.com/ Leaders and administrators regularly monitor the protocols of the department Success collaborative teams. Protocols include: 1. Establish and review SMART goals.

2. Focus on the four critical PLC questions in an effective and efficient manner.

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4. Analyze data to the student level.

5. Monitor for conflicts and barriers that get in the way of student learning.

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By Héctor García, Katherine McCluskey, and Shelley Taylor

Create a uniform game plan to foster a collaborative community of learners, develop a shared focus, and meet growth goals. Examine new concepts of leadership, and learn how to effectively assemble schoolwide commitment to PLC principles. Explore coaching points and tools you can use to customize strategies for teachers and leaders, who must share collective responsibility to drive lasting change.

• Discover why a well-defined game plan is necessary for schools and districts to build solid collaborative relationships.

• Explore strategies for keeping key stakeholders involved and committed to your PLC. • Examine how collaborative teams can improve student learning through reviewing and refining curriculum and assessment.

• Learn how to collect data to monitor your effectiveness.

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Creating a Coaching Culture for Professional Learning Communities

By Jane A. G. Kise and Beth Russell This practical resource provides activities designed to meet a wide variety of needs so you can choose the ones that fit your leadership style, the learning styles of team members, and the particular needs of the school. 232 pages 51BCA–BKF350 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-935249-41-2

By Mark Van Clay, Perry Soldwedel, and Thomas W. Many Foreword by Michael Fullan

In order for a professional learning community to achieve its full potential across an entire district, central office staff, building leadership, and teachers must all align their work to each other and the three big ideas of a PLC. 168 pages 51BCA–BKF493 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935543-39-8

Protocols for Professional Learning Conversations Cultivating the Art and Discipline

By Catherine Glaude Collegial conversations focused on improving student learning may be the most powerful professional development an educator will experience. Examine four collections of protocols to support professional learning conversations, and use them with your colleagues or with students in the classroom. 96 pages 51BCA–BKF516 $19.95 ISBN 978-1-935543-82-4

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The Handbook for SMART School Teams Revitalizing Best Practices for Collaboration

By Anne E. Conzemius and Jan O’Neill Foreword by Stephanie Hirsh

Bestseller Prepare your students for the future while juggling the expectations of multiple stakeholders! A fresh take on the classic first edition, this guide defines and advocates SMART goals—goals that are Strategic and specific, Measurable, Attainable, Results oriented, and Time bound. Gain a schoolwide understanding of how to cultivate a productive collaborative culture, and engage every member of your team in the process. 352 pages; 2nd edition • Gain a schoolwide understanding of what success is, how to assess it, and when it should be measured.

• Engage every member of the school team to reach common expectations and priorities.

• Plan and execute effective team meetings.

• Learn to make well-informed decisions using group planning processes and data tools.

• Prepare students, staff, and other stakeholders for school improvement plans.

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More Than a SMART Goal Staying Focused on Student Learning

By Anne E. Conzemius and Terry Morganti-Fisher 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 with 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 • Learn multiple strategies and processes designed to bring coherence and measurement to instructional planning.

• Discover five effective guidelines for total system improvement.

• Acquire a SMART process for professional learning.

• Gain practical tools for sustained focus throughout professional development.

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The Power of SMART Goals Using Goals to Improve Student Learning

By Jan O’Neill and Anne E. Conzemius With Carol Commodore and Carol Pulsfus

Bestseller Help staff focus on results, and implement SMART (Strategic and specific, Measurable, Attainable, Results based, and Time bound) goals to transform your school into a place where every student meets or exceeds standards.

The authors present four success stories from real SMART schools and several frameworks for adult and student goal setting that lead to real results.

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• Learn about the barriers to goal setting and monitoring.

• Discover how to keep goals alive through supportive systems, policies, structures, and skill building.

• Examine case studies from real schools that are turning challenges into opportunities for learning and improvement.

• Understand the roles of assessment and professional development practices in goal setting and improvement.

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Developing Expert Teachers Featuring Robert J. Marzano Gain a blueprint for how schools and districts can develop teacher expertise.

Beginning with the premise that excellent teachers are made, not born, Dr. Marzano walks through research-based techniques on how districts and schools can emphasize professional growth, with ties to teacher evaluation. 130-minute DVD with presentation; CD with presentation handouts and supporting resources 51BCA–DVF051 $195.00 UPC 811796010469

Redefining the Norm Learning for ALL Featuring Anthony Muhammad Dare to confront the status quo with Dr. Muhammad as he reviews the achievement gap problem, the challenges of reform—both cultural and technical— and the historical, sociological, and psychological aspects of school cultures that make implementing PLCs a challenge.

90-minute DVD with presentation; CD with presentation handouts and supporting resources 51BCA–DVF062 $195.00 UPC 811796010599

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Got Data? Now What?

Creating and Leading Cultures of Inquiry

By Laura Lipton and Bruce Wellman 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

• Apply each chapter’s content with the Exercise Your Learning sections.

• Learn more about each chapter’s topic in the Extend Your Learning sections, which suggest additional websites and resources.

• Discover relevant, team-related anecdotes in each chapter’s Data Story.

51BCA–BKF530 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-936765-03-4

Data-Based Decision Making

Data Dynamics

By Edie L. Holcomb

Aligning Teacher Team, School, & District Efforts

You’re ready to start collecting school data, but what data? How will you find it, and how will you use it once you have it? An informative resource for elementary school principals, this book takes an in-depth look at best data collection practice for schoolwide improvement. 120 pages; grades K–5; 3rd edition 51BCA–BKF469 $19.95 ISBN 978-1-935543-02-2

By Edie L. Holcomb Examine the ways your school can better use student achievement data, nonacademic student data, staff data, and parent/community data to identify areas for improvement. Designed to help administrators and leaders, this book also details how teachers can use good data to monitor and motivate students. 224 pages

A Joint Publication With the National Association of Elementary School Principals

51BCA–BKF424 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-23-0

What Effective Schools Do Re-Envisioning the Correlates

By Lawrence W. Lezotte and Kathleen McKee Snyder 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

• Understand the background information about the historical, political, and conceptual development of the effective schools concept.

• Construct a framework for using the correlates as leading indicators of learning and creating a data dashboard for monitoring results.

• Use knowledge of the correlates in a systematic way to achieve ongoing school improvement.

51BCA–BKF336 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935249-51-1

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Building a Culture of Hope Enriching Schools With Optimism and Opportunity

By Robert D. Barr and Emily L. Gibson Research demonstrates that children of poverty need more than just academic instruction to succeed. Discover a blueprint for turning low-performing schools into Cultures of Hope!

The authors draw from their own experiences working with high-poverty, high-achieving schools to illustrate how to support students with an approach that considers social as well as emotional factors in education. 288 pages

• Understand the relevance of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs to K–12 education.

• Discover tested strategies behind the success of high-poverty, high-achieving schools.

• Access surveys that gauge the temperature of your school’s culture.

• Integrate the world of jobs and professional careers into academic curriculum.

• Support students with tools to envision and plan for the future.

51BCA–BKF503 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-62-4

Turning Your School Around

Delivering on the Promise

A Self-Guided Audit for School Improvement

The Education Revolution

By Richard A. DeLorenzo, Wendy J. Battino, Rick M. Schreiber, and Barbara B. Gaddy Carrio

By Robert D. Barr and Debra L. Yates Learn a step-by-step protocol for the self-guided audit that focuses on the most crucial areas of school improvement identified in The Kids Left Behind, the nationally recognized work by Robert D. Barr and William H. Parrett.

224 pages

Learn how a team of visionary educators abandoned traditional time-based education to develop the Re-Inventing Schools Coalition (RISC) Approach to Schooling. This performance- and standards-based system can be replicated anywhere, by anyone, for any student, under any set of circumstances.

224 pages

51BCA–BKF295 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-72-7

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Change Wars Edited by Andy Hargreaves and Michael Fullan

By Michael Barber, Linda Darling-Hammond, Richard Elmore, Michael Fullan, Andy Hargreaves, Jonathan Jansen, Ben Levin, Pedro Noguera, Douglas Reeves, Andreas Schleicher, Dennis Shirley, James Spillane, and Marc Tucker

What can organizations do to create changes that are both profound and enduring? This anthology explores why traditional change strategies have failed and examines constructive alternatives.

International experts prove successful change can be a realistic goal. Real examples of pilot projects, model schools, and other groundbreaking endeavors illustrate precisely how theory translates into practice. 304 pages; hardcover

• Discover why the purposeful pursuit of a democratic and professional approach to change is essential for meeting the goals of education systems.

• Study the relationship between the government and teaching profession, a central issue in education reform.

• Understand the complexity and contours of change and the roles of leaders within racially polarized institutions.

51BCA–BKF254 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-31-4

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Leadership Score to Soar Moving Teachers From Evaluation to Professional Growth

By John F. Eller and Sheila A. Eller Discover how to guide and enhance the job performance of teachers in your school or district. The authors share highly practical strategies for providing teachers meaningful feedback and encouraging their improvement. You’ll discover how to evaluate teacher effectiveness, use multiple forms of data for evaluation, and communicate evaluation findings to teachers in a way that fosters their professional growth.

• Learn the importance of and reasons for teacher supervision.

• Access strategies to improve the teacher evaluation process.

• Acquire skills to accurately assess and communicate teacher effectiveness.

• Gain tips for holding productive conferences with teachers that offer clear direction for improvement.

• Foster and maintain high-quality teacher performance that promotes student success.

51BCA–BKF625 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-936763-44-3

Stop Leading Like It’s Yesterday!

Key Concepts for Shaping Today’s School Culture

By Casey Reason Leadership practices from the Industrial Revolution are no longer effective in 21st century classrooms. Explore the Leading for Excellence and Fulfillment model, and discover practical, research-based strategies that will be relevant to school leaders today and tomorrow.

Integrate ready-to-use techniques into your current leadership practices to maximize innovation and open up an unprecedented world of opportunities for both students and teachers. 200 pages • Learn to recognize educational practices that are outdated and irrelevant to today’s students.

• Understand how leadership practices influence students’ academic achievement and future success.

• Explore critical conversations leaders must have with their staff.

• Discover how to inspire team collaboration and innovation.

• Read success stories from actual educators.

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Shifting the Monkey The Art of Protecting Good People From Liars, Criers, and Other Slackers

By Todd Whitaker Poor employees get a disproportionate amount of attention. Why? Because they complain the loudest, create the greatest disruptions, and rely on others to assume the responsibilities that they shirk. Learn how to focus on your good employees first, and help them shift these “monkeys” back to the underperformers. Through a simple but brilliant metaphor, the author helps you reinvigorate your staff and transform your organization. 128 pages; hardcover

• Find out how and why responsible, hardworking employees often get saddled with too many monkeys—the responsibilities, obligations, and problems of unmotivated peers—and how that imbalance can undermine organizational success.

• Learn how leaders can put monkeys back where they belong and focus on supporting and cultivating the best employees.

• Discover the critical issue at the heart of many dysfunctional organizations—a culture and workflow dominated by the complaints, excuses, and poor performance of a few.

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The Ball

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The Neuroscience Behind How We Lead Others

When a veteran teacher and former student reunite, they confront the separate and unique challenges that have knocked them off course. Through each other, they find their way back on track with a message that will resonate with everyone.

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By David A. Sousa Through engaging stories and studies, the author shows you how to leverage the most provocative brain research to increase your productivity, expand your creative vision, and become a stronger leader.

144 pages; hardcover 51BCA–BKN008 $19.95 ISBN 978-0-9833020-3-2

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A Handbook for High Reliability Schools The Next Step in School Reform

By Robert J. Marzano, Phil Warrick, and Julia A. Simms With David Livingston, Pam Livingston, Fred Pleis, Tammy Heflebower, Jan K. Hoegh, and Sonny Magaña

Transform your schools into organizations that take proactive steps to ensure student success. Using a research-based five-level hierarchy along with leading and lagging indicators, you’ll learn to assess, monitor, and confirm the effectiveness of your schools. 152 pages 51BCA–BKL020 $24.95 ISBN 978-0-9833512-7-6

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A School Leader’s Guide to Standards-Based Grading

By Tammy Heflebower, Jan K. Hoegh, and Phil Warrick With Mitzi Hoback, Margaret McInteer, and Bev Clemens Foreword by Robert J. Marzano

Assess and report student performance with standards-based grading rather than using traditional systems that incorporate nonacademic factors. Learn to assess and report performance based on prioritized standards, and gain effective strategies for offering students feedback on their progress. 144 pages 51BCA–BKL019 $24.95 ISBN 978-0-9858902-8-5

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

By Richard DuFour and Robert J. Marzano Bestseller 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. 248 pages

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Becoming an Authentic Learning Leader

Supervising the Art and Science of Teaching

Whatever You Do, Inspire Me

A New Approach to Lesson Observation and Lesson Design

Featuring Timothy D. Kanold Encourage your skeptics, cynics, and rebels with Dr. Kanold’s eight fundamental disciplines of inspirational leadership.

Practical yet challenging, this humorous and motivational session provides the support and focus needed to sustain effective leadership over time. 71-minute DVD with presentation; CD with presentation handouts and supporting resources 51BCA–DVF063 $195.00 UPC 811796010605

Featuring Robert J. Marzano This fully loaded presentation delivers Dr. Marzano’s best and most effective strategies for lesson design and observation. After outlining 10 critical areas of instructional practice, he guides you through practical design questions, fundamental segments of classroom instruction, and a protocol for monthly reflective practice meetings. 90-minute DVD with presentation; CD with presentation handouts and supporting resources 51BCA–DVF041 $195.00 UPC 811796010384

Leadership and Learning Sustainable Changes for 21st Century Learning Featuring Douglas Reeves Everyone talks about the need for 21st century skills, but too many assessments are indistinguishable from those administered 50 to 100 years ago. If educators want 21st century learning, they need 21st century assessment.

Dr. Reeves suggests three fundamental shifts that must take place. 63-minute DVD with presentation; CD with presentation handouts and supporting resources 51BCA–DVF049 $195.00 UPC 811796010445

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What Principals Need to Know About Teaching and Learning Writing

By Ruth Culham Discover practical strategies for supporting and assessing writing instruction in all content areas while equipping teachers with instructional practices that emphasize this critical skill, which students need to adapt to the demands of the CCSS and thrive in the 21st century. This guide offers the pedagogical expertise every administrator needs to serve as an effective leader.

136 pages; grades K–8 A Joint Publication With the National Association of Elementary School Principals and Scholastic

• Assess the teaching and learning of writing in your school or district.

• Acquire best practices for step-by-step assessment to evaluate students and staff.

• Align your current practices with the Common Core State Standards.

• Understand the importance of writing for students’ academic and lifelong success.

• Explore the link between reading skills and students’ writing skills.

51BCA–BKF557 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-936765-43-0

Creating Physical & Emotional Security in Schools

Working With Difficult & Resistant Staff

By Kenneth C. Williams

By John F. Eller and Sheila A. Eller

Give your students a physically and emotionally safe learning environment.

Learn how you and your teachers can nurture supportive relationships with students, develop conflict management strategies, prevent different forms of bullying, develop student initiative and resilience, and encourage celebration.

80 pages; grades K–8; 2nd edition

Identify, confront, and manage all of the difficult and resistant staff you encounter.

This book will help school leaders understand how to prevent and address negative staff behaviors to ensure positive school change. 144 pages 51BCA–BKF407 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-07-0

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A Joint Publication With the National Association of Elementary School Principals

District Leadership That Works Striking the Right Balance

By Robert J. Marzano and Timothy Waters Bestseller 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. 176 pages A Joint Publication With McREL

• Initiate second-order change to promote student achievement.

• Set nonnegotiable district-defined goals for achievement and instruction through a collaborative process with stakeholders.

• Create defined autonomy that allows teachers creative freedom while ensuring student achievement.

• Monitor progress through formative assessment tools.

51BCA–BKF314 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935249-19-1

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Leadership Deeper Learning Beyond 21st Century Skills Edited by James A. Bellanca

By Suzie Boss, Stacey Caillier, Barbara Chow, David T. Conley, Arthur L. Costa, Ben Daley, Linda Darling-Hammond, Rebecca DuFour, Richard DuFour, Deborah Rosalia Esparza, Charles Fadel, Michael Fullan, Valerie Greenhill, Bena Kallick, Ken Kay, Steven Paine, James W. Pellegrino, Rob Riordan, Helen A. Soulé, Bernie Trilling, Tony Wagner, Yong Zhao, and Steven Zipkes

Education authorities from around the globe draw on research as well as their own experience to explore deeper learning, a process that promotes higher-order thinking, reasoning, and problem solving to better educate students and prepare them for college and careers. 416 pages; hardcover

• Discover the vital importance of deeper learning to students’ future success.

• Effectively prepare teachers for deeper learning in the classroom.

• Successfully promote deeper learning with technology.

• Explore ways to foster students’ creativity, problem solving, and sense of entrepreneurship.

51BCA–BKF622 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-936763-35-1

Mind, Brain, & Education Neuroscience Implications for the Classroom Edited by David A. Sousa

By Daniel Ansari, Joanna A. Christodoulou, Donna Coch, Stanislas Dehaene, Keith Devlin, Marianna D. Eddy, Matthias Faeth, Kurt W. Fischer, John Gabrieli, Mariale M. Hardiman, Katie Heikkinen, Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Tricia O’Loughlin, Michael I. Posner, David A. Sousa, Diane L. Williams, and Judy Willis

Understanding how the brain learns helps teachers do their jobs more effectively.

Primary researchers share the latest findings in neuroscience, as well as applications, examples, and innovative strategies.

312 pages; hardcover

Change Wars Edited by Andy Hargreaves and Michael Fullan

By Michael Barber, Linda Darling-Hammond, Richard Elmore, Michael Fullan, Andy Hargreaves, Jonathan Jansen, Ben Levin, Pedro Noguera, Douglas Reeves, Andreas Schleicher, Dennis Shirley, James Spillane, and Marc Tucker

What can organizations do to create profound, enduring changes? International experts prove successful change can be a realistic goal and then explore constructive alternatives to traditional change strategies. 304 pages; hardcover 51BCA–BKF254 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-31-4

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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 Reeves, Will Richardson, and Elliott Seif Foreword by Ken Kay

Bestseller Education luminaries reveal why 21st century skills are necessary, which skills are most important, and how to help schools include them in curriculum and instruction. 408 pages; hardcover

On Excellence in Teaching Edited by Robert J. Marzano

By Barrie Bennett, David Berliner, Jere Brophy, Lynn Erickson, Thomas Good, Heidi Hayes Jacobs, Jana Marzano, Robert J. Marzano, Richard Mayer, Jay McTighe, Matthew Perini, Debra J. Pickering, Harvey Silver, Carol Ann Tomlinson, and Grant Wiggins

The world’s best education researchers, theorists, and staff developers provide a comprehensive view of instruction from a theoretical, systemic, and classroom perspective. 392 pages; hardcover 51BCA–BKF278 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-58-1

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Overcoming the Achievement Gap Trap Liberating Mindsets to Effect Change

By Anthony Muhammad

Ensure learning equality in every classroom.

Investigate previous and current policies designed to help close the achievement gap. Examine predominant mindsets that contradict school missions to promote equal academic opportunities, and consider the psychological impact this has on students. Explore strategies for adopting a new mindset that frees educators and students from negative academic performance expectations.

• Consider the importance of mindsets and frameworks related to the achievement gap.

• Discover real-world case studies from three schools that have achieved great results from embracing principles of the liberation mindset.

• Examine the indicators that can help you assess whether your school has fostered the values of responsibility, advocacy, and equality.

51BCA–BKF618 $19.95 ISBN 978-1-936763-27-6

Transforming School Culture

Transforming School Culture

How to Overcome Staff Division

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Explore the root causes of staff resistance to change, and learn immediate, accessible strategies that improve school culture.

Dr. Muhammad provides the framework for understanding dynamic relationships within a school culture and ensuring a positive learning environment.

Bestseller 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. 144 pages

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

By Anthony Muhammad and Sharroky Hollie Bestseller 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 51BCA–BKF443 $19.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-54-4

2-DAY WORKSHOP Transforming School Culture Lay the foundation for success Learn strategies that address staff cohesion issues and maximize human potential in schools and districts. Explore the root causes of staff resistance to change, and leave with concrete strategies that will improve school culture and lay the foundation for a powerful learning environment.

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Uniting Academic and Behavior Interventions Solving the Skill or Will Dilemma

By Austin Buffum, Mike Mattos, Chris Weber, and Tom Hierck Ensure students acquire the academic skills, dispositions, and knowledge necessary for long-term success. The authors examine effective academic and behavior supports and offer a step-by-step process for determining, targeting, and observing academic and behavior interventions. You’ll discover how to work in collaborative teams using a research-based framework to provide united and simultaneous interventions to students at risk. 176 pages • Realize the role behavior plays in students’ academic performance.

• Identify the academic skills and knowledge, academic behaviors, and social behaviors necessary to developing a successful learner.

• Learn to simultaneously administer academic and behavior interventions to students at risk.

• Understand the need to make sure students are prepared to work independently and cooperatively and possess the academic skills and creativity to compete in the future job market.

• Gain intervention strategies to foster lifelong learners.

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It’s About Time Carve out effective intervention and extension time at all three tiers of the RTI pyramid.

Explore more than a dozen examples of creative and flexible scheduling, and gain access to tools you can use immediately to overcome implementation challenges. These books are full of examples from real schools that have achieved these results without using additional resources or extending the school day.

• Learn to build time into the school day to support students who need intervention.

• Read accounts of school educators who have successfully implemented response to intervention practices.

• Understand the challenges of creating intervention time, and gain tips to overcome them.

• Access resources to support your school’s or district’s intervention policies.

Planning Interventions and Extensions in Elementary School Edited by Austin Buffum and Mike Mattos Foreword by Rebecca DuFour and Richard DuFour

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Planning Interventions and Extensions in Secondary School Edited by Mike Mattos and Austin Buffum Foreword by Richard DuFour

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Making Time at Tier 2 Creating a Supplemental Intervention Period in Secondary Schools Featuring Mike Mattos Give every student the help and enrichment they need. Take a look inside two schools to discover the innovative ways they developed systematic interventions programs. Discover practical strategies to build Tier 2 intervention and enrichment periods into the school day, and learn how to work in collaborative teams to create targeted interventions and overcome implementation challenges to ensure all students are successful. 49-minute DVD; 40-page Facilitator’s Guide (in print and on CD)

• Learn how to revise schedules to build intervention periods without extending the school day.

• Understand the challenges to creating intervention time, and gain tips to overcome them.

• Recognize the elements that define an effective intervention program.

• Observe educators discussing and developing systematic interventions to guarantee that all students learn at high levels.

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Proven techniques to close learning gaps Learn why bureaucratic, paperwork-heavy, compliance-oriented, test-score-driven approaches fail—and then learn how to create an RTI model that works. Acquire four essential guiding principles and a simple process for implementation to help your school make RTI efficient, effective, and equitable.

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Simplifying Response to Intervention Four Essential Guiding Principles

By Austin Buffum, Mike Mattos, and Chris Weber Bestseller 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, complianceoriented, test-score-driven approaches fail. Then learn how to create a focused RTI model that works. 232 pages

• Use the four guiding principles to guide thinking and implementation.

• Shift to a culture of collective responsibility, and build team structures for collaboration.

• Define essential learnings in a program of concentrated instruction.

• Develop a system of convergent assessment to identify students for intervention, determine their unique needs, monitor their progress, and revise or extend learning based on their progress.

51BCA–BKF506 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-935543-65-7

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Pyramid Response to Intervention Four Essential Guiding Principles Featuring Austin Buffum, Mike Mattos, and Chris Weber Bestseller 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 and guide you to build efficient team structures. Four 20-minute DVDs; 88-page Facilitator’s Guide (in print and on CD) 51BCA–DVF057 $595.00 UPC 811796010575

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

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

Bestseller 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, this book details three tiers of interventions—from basic to intensive—and includes implementation ideas. 248 pages Austin Buffum

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• Develop a comprehensive understanding of the three tiers of RTI: the core program, the supplemental program, and the intensive program.

• Learn why RTI is most successful when built on the foundation of a PLC. • Discover the role of behavioral interventions and their effects.

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What does successful response to intervention look like when all the pieces come together? With access to recognized experts, you’ll discover how to lead the RTI process at the site and district levels. Learn how to create a proactive process to identify students who need help, place them in the proper intervention, monitor their progress, and determine when they no longer need additional support.

• Create a school or district culture that focuses on student learning.

• Build a highly effective, collaborative core program.

• Focus core instruction on rigorous core curriculum.

• Unpack the CCSS into focused student learning targets.

• Design, analyze, and utilize common assessments to improve core instruction and guide interventions.

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RTI

A Practical Guide to Planning Interventions & Monitoring Progress

By Lee Ann Jung Learn innovative strategies to design and measure effective classroom interventions. The author offers teachers, individualized education program coordinators, and administrators research-based strategies and tools to create and document highly individualized plans that support response to intervention efforts and IEPs. Each chapter includes examples and case studies of students representing various grade levels and needs. 136 pages

• Learn a process to plan practical, meaningful interventions and measure student progress.

• Understand the need for intervention and progress monitoring.

• Identify the critical skills students need to develop, and design interventions and IEPs around those skills.

• Design long-term goals and short-term benchmarks that track educator and student efforts to address students’ intervention needs.

51BCA–BKF599 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935249-50-4

Using Formative Assessment in the RTI Framework

Implementing RTI With English Learners

By Kay Burke and Eileen Depka

By Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Carol Rothenberg

Understand the basics of RTI and its connection to formative assessment, and adjust instruction to increase levels of student understanding and achievement with the information, tools, and techniques presented in this practical guide. 144 pages 11WINNER 20

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51BCA–BKF369 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935249-74-0

Learn why RTI is the ideal framework for supporting English learners. Follow the application and effectiveness of RTI through classroom examples and the stories of four representative students of varying ages, nationalities, and language proficiency levels. 160 pages

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51BCA–BKF397 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935249-97-9

Beyond the RTI Pyramid Solutions for the First Years of Implementation

By William N. Bender This book helps schools deepen the RTI experience by extending the processes beyond initial implementation. Examples from real schools show how to apply RTI in reading, math, and behavior at elementary and secondary schools. All critical stakeholders in the school community will get a clear sense of their contribution to successful implementation. 232 pages

• Review research and case studies of implementation challenges and solutions from real schools.

• Understand the supporting role of a schoolbased task force, and get a planning tool to guide faculty discussions.

• Find possible resources for time and personnel to support RTI implementation.

• Learn how to implement RTI across content areas.

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The RTI Toolkit Whether you’re just beginning to build or working to fine-tune a system of intervention, this collection of resources guarantees to extend your knowledge even further. Learn how to control the intensity of the interventions while addressing learning gaps and meeting the needs of individual students. Loaded with dynamic strategies, this toolkit will keep your school culture healthy for years to come. 16 resources, including books, videos, and 1 registration to an online course 51BCA–KTF133

How RTI Works in Secondary Schools

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RTI in the Early Grades

Building a Framework for Success

Intervention Strategies for Mathematics, Literacy, Behavior & Fine-Motor Challenges

By Holly Windram, Kerry Bollman, and Sara Johnson

By Chris Weber

After addressing the unique response to intervention challenges faced by those working in a secondary school, the authors outline three imperative components of a successful RTI program and then provide action steps and examples illustrating how to incorporate each within the different RTI tiers. 240 pages; grades 6–12

Explore why intervention and support for struggling students in the early grades are essential to student success. Teachers and support personnel will discover how to implement RTI-based supports in the early grades and learn what this prevention looks like. 208 pages; grades K–3 51BCA–BKF572 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-04-4

51BCA–BKF459 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-87-2

RTI in Math

RTI in Middle and High Schools

Practical Guidelines for Elementary Teachers

By William N. Bender

By William N. Bender and Darlene Crane Explore common student difficulties in math, and see a three-tier RTI model in action. The authors provide an overview of research, detailed guidance through each stage of implementation, tools for reflection and growth, and discussion of support strategies beyond the classroom.

216 pages; grades K–5

This targeted resource discusses the innovations of RTI, differentiated instruction, and instructional technologies specifically for middle and high schools.

Based on numerous real-world case studies, this book explores solutions for the complex challenges the RTI implementation process brings. 248 pages; grades 6–12 51BCA–BKF271 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-51-2

51BCA–BKF279 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-54-3

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Youth at Risk

Youth at Risk

Boys in Poverty

Teaching Boys in Poverty

A Framework for Understanding Dropout

Online Course

By Ruby K. Payne and Paul D. Slocumb Foreword by Michael Gurian

Examine risk factors for dropout among boys living in poverty, especially generational poverty. The book structures issues according to boys’ physical, emotional, cognitive, and social development and also explores the unique problems of sensitive, gay, gifted, ADHD, and postadolescent males. 160 pages

Presenters: Jim Littlejohn and Ruby K. Payne Ruby K. Payne and Jim Littlejohn provide invaluable insight about boys who grow up in poverty and how to reach them in school, based on research about their physical, cognitive, and emotional development.

CEUs: 51BCA–KDS030 3 Semester Hours: 51BCA–KDS031

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51BCA–BKF383 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-22-3

Breaking the Poverty Barrier

Reclaiming Youth at Risk

Changing Student Lives With Passion, Perseverance, and Performance

Our Hope for the Future

By Ricardo LeBlanc-Esparza and William S. Roulston

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Strong leadership, parent involvement, mentoring, data-based intervention, and high expectations are known factors in student success. This book illustrates the specific strategies and critical steps that transformed a school with shockingly low proficiency into a National Showcase School. 216 pages 51BCA–BKF476 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-935543-14-5

By Larry K. Brendtro, Martin Brokenleg, and Steve Van Bockern Foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Bestseller A balance of wisdom drawn from Native American philosophies and Western psychology, this book offers a unique perspective for connecting with troubled students. It challenges educators to see youth at risk through new eyes and offers compelling, concrete alternatives for reclaiming them. 174 pages; revised edition 51BCA–BKF116 $19.95 ISBN 978-1-879639-86-7

Closing the RTI Gap

Why Culture Counts

Why Poverty and Culture Count

Teaching Children of Poverty

By Donna Walker Tileston

By Donna Walker Tileston and Sandra K. Darling

Get a clear understanding of poverty and culture, and learn how RTI can close achievement gaps related to these issues.

Learn how you can achieve successful implementation in your school. Examine common pitfalls to avoid in the process.

168 pages 51BCA–BKF330 $19.95 ISBN 978-1-935249-38-2

A Joint Publication With the National Association of Elementary School Principals

Foreword by Belinda Williams Afterword by Rosilyn Carroll

Learn a four-step research-based program for differentiating instruction based on the cultural needs, beliefs, and values of diverse learners. The authors show you how to build teacher background knowledge; plan for differentiation; and differentiate context, content, process, product, and assessment. 216 pages 51BCA–BKF255 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-24-6

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Special Needs

Critical Conversations in Co-Teaching A Problem-Solving Approach

By Carrie Chapman and Cate Hart Hyatt In this practitioner’s guide to building a quality collaborative relationship through critical conversations, the authors explain three co-teaching models and how co-teaching fits within school improvement initiatives. Next, they present the critical conversations framework designed to foster dramatic improvements in the way educators communicate with their colleagues.

The authors use practical examples and real-life stories to show how co-teaching strategies make a positive difference for students. 176 pages

• Follow step-by-step instructions for the activities and conversations within the framework, along with reproducible materials available online.

• Apply the critical conversations matrix to particular activities within the framework, based on the focus questions and anticipated outcomes.

• Align efforts with several school improvement initiatives, including response to intervention, professional learning communities, differentiated instruction, and universal design for learning.

51BCA–BKF428 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-32-2

When Actions Speak Louder Than Words

The School Leader’s Guide to Special Education

Understanding the Challenging Behaviors of Young Children and Students With Disabilities

By Margaret J. McLaughlin and Kristin Ruedel

By Kim Davis and Susan D. Dixon Build your understanding of behavior as communication, and learn to interpret the messages behind the actions. This book provides information and tools to support all children whose primary way to communicate is through challenging behaviors. 216 pages; grades K–6 51BCA–BKF274 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-60-4

You have IEPs and BIPs in place, but are they really working? Find a refresher on the key legal rights of students with disabilities, along with methods for designing and implementing IEPs and BIPs that work, approaches to creating effective instruction and assessment practices, and more.

112 pages; grades K–8; 3rd edition 51BCA–BKF453 $19.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-81-0

A Joint Publication With the National Association of Elementary School Principals

A Practical Guide to Planning Interventions & Monitoring Progress

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By Lee Ann Jung Learn innovative strategies to design and measure effective classroom interventions.

The author offers teachers, individualized education program coordinators, and administrators research-based strategies and tools to create and document highly individualized plans that support response to intervention efforts and IEPs. 136 pages 51BCA–BKF599 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935249-50-4

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Classroom Management & Behavior

Classroom Management & Behavior

Friendly Schools Plus series

By Donna Cross, Shane Thompson, and Erin Erceg Discover how to effectively use an evidencebased, schoolwide program to reduce bullying and foster a caring school culture. Explore tools to support students academically and socially, help students practice healthy interpersonal behaviors, and encourage parent and stakeholder school involvement.

• Develop a safe school environment that supports learning and promotes healthy social skills among students.

• Explore the relationship between school culture and students’ learning and health.

• Discover strategies to help bullied students and discourage bullying.

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Evidence for Practice 248 pages 51BCA–BKB006 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936763-18-4

Early Childhood Ages 4–6; 232 pages 51BCA–BKB001 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936763-13-9

Middle Childhood Ages 8–10; 256 pages

Early & Middle Adolescence Ages 11–14; 272 pages

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Early Childhood Ages 6–8; 264 pages

Middle Childhood Ages 10–11; 240 pages

Friendly Families 64 pages

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Classroom Management for Academic Success

Succeeding With Difficult Students®

By Lee Canter

New Strategies for Reaching Your Most Challenging Students

This groundbreaking resource details effective management strategies you can implement from day one so that all students achieve in the classroom. Teachertested, research-based strategies create a classroom in which children learn free from the distraction of disruptive behavior.

304 pages 51BCA–BKF624 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-936763-42-9

By Lee Canter and Marlene Canter Turn your students’ lives around and reduce your own stress with practical techniques that focus on building positive relationships and shaping constructive classroom behavior. 256 pages 51BCA–BKF505 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-935543-64-0

Succeeding With Difficult Students® Workbook

By Lee Canter 128 pages 51BCA–BKF244 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-18-5

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Assertive Discipline®

Assertive Discipline®

Positive Behavior Management for Today’s Classroom

Positive Behavior Management for Today’s Classroom

By Lee Canter

Featuring Lee Canter

This book contains the best concepts and teacher-tested strategies by the author.

New content includes a special emphasis on the needs of new and struggling teachers.

The author also introduces a real-time coaching model and explains how to establish a schoolwide Assertive Discipline ® program. 176 pages; 4th edition

Aligned with the fourth edition of the book Assertive Discipline ®, this DVD set features classroom scenes with teachers modeling the Assertive Discipline ® program. The DVDs contain five training sessions and the Facilitator’s Guide in electronic format.

Five 20-minute DVDs; 56-page Facilitator’s Guide (in print and on CD)

51BCA–BKF246 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-15-4

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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

• Explore specific strategies with real-life examples and current research.

• Implement a behavior matrix that identifies specific settings, expected behaviors, and application strategies.

• Build data-driven dialogue within collaborative teams.

• Support schoolwide efforts with a detailed five-step approach.

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Motivating Students Who Don’t Care

What Do I Do When . . . ?

Successful Techniques for Educators

How to Achieve Discipline With Dignity in the Classroom

By Allen N. Mendler

By Allen N. Mendler

Bestseller Spark enthusiasm in your classroom. Proven strategies and five effective processes (emphasizing effort, creating hope, respecting power, building relationships, and expressing enthusiasm) empower you to reawaken motivation in students who aren’t prepared, don’t care, and won’t work. 80 pages

Understand the principles that place dignity at the core of classroom management, and explore what motivates misbehavior. This book also provides unique, effective strategies for dealing with power struggles, working with parents, and making a positive impact on schoolwide discipline. 192 pages

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Discipline With Dignity for Challenging Youth

By Allen N. Mendler and Richard L. Curwin Create positive change in your most challenging students with the help of practical strategies found in this resource.

The authors share proven practices for classroom discipline, reveal reasons why students misbehave, and offer 21 effective drug-free ways to help students with ADHD. 192 pages 51BCA–BKF229 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-25-3

51BCA–BKF230 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-07-9

The Four Keys to Effective Classroom and Behavior Management Building Community, Motivation, Responsibility, and School Safety Featuring Richard L. Curwin and Allen N. Mendler Explore four skill areas essential to establishing a safe, supportive learning environment. In this video series, Dr. Curwin and Dr. Mendler demonstrate proven, research-based strategies in dramatized scenes and actual classroom settings. Deliver the material over a two-day in-service period or in extended intervals. Four 20-minute DVDs; 80-page Facilitator’s Guide (in print and on DVD) 51BCA–DVF064 $595.00 UPC 811796010612

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Plan Books

Professional Learning Communities at Work Plan Book

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By Rebecca DuFour, Richard DuFour, and Robert Eaker Bestseller This at-a-glance plan book includes tips, activities, and 40 weeks of planning pages designed to keep you organized and focused on the daily strategies that drive PLCs. It’s oversized with space for eight class periods—the perfect way to plan a great year. 103 pages; spiral-bound

• Get an overview of the three big ideas that shape a PLC, cultural shifts that schools can expect, and keys to building high-performing collaborative teams.

• Use forms and reproducibles to work with teams more effectively and to collect and organize information about students and classes.

51BCA–BKF217 $12.95 ISBN 978-1-932127-95-9

The School of Belonging Plan Book

Record Book Plus

By David A. Levine

By Lee Canter

Quickly establish classroom values and principles that guide students to make prosocial choices. This plan book is your foundation for creating a culture of caring in which student achievement soars and antisocial behaviors plummet. 104 pages; spiral-bound; grades 3–8

Bestseller Parents need to be involved in their children’s education every step of the way. Record Book Plus includes open-ended and traditional grading sheets, behavior-management documentation sheets, and parent communication resources with helpful tips and guidelines.

168 pages; spiral-bound; grades K–8

51BCA–BKF218 $12.95 ISBN 978-1-932127-94-2

51BCA–BKF190 $12.95 ISBN 978-1-932127-59-1

Teacher’s Plan Books Plus #1–7 112 pages, spiral-bound, and recommended for grades K–8

By Lee Canter Teacher’s Plan Book Plus #1

Teacher’s Plan Book Plus #4

Teacher’s Plan Book Plus #7

Assertive Discipline ®

Parents on Your Side ®

Reading and Literacy A to Z ®

Bestseller Strengthen your discipline efforts with weekly behaviormanagement tips and reminders.

Gain the parental support you need for your school’s behavior and academic programs.

Bestseller Improve your students’ reading and literacy skills with practical guidelines and activities.

51BCA–BKF194 $12.95 ISBN 978-1-932127-68-3

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Teacher’s Plan Book Plus #2

Teacher’s Plan Book Plus #5

Assertive Discipline ®

Motivating Today’s LearnerTM

Bestseller Integrate advanced behavior-management ideas into your curriculum.

Motivate your students with activities for stimulating lessons and homework assignments.

51BCA–BKF195 $12.95 ISBN 978-1-932127-71-3

51BCA–BKF198 $12.95 ISBN 978-1-932127-72-0

Teacher’s Plan Book Plus #3

Teacher’s Plan Book Plus #6

Homework Without Tears ®

Practical Tips for New Teachers ®

Develop the most effective homework assignments to complement your lesson plan.

Become a more successful teacher with dozens of practical preparation strategies.

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Online Course Index 21st Century Skills ..............................................................................................22 Presenters: James A. Bellanca and Ken Kay Help your students learn the skills they need for the 21st century.

Gain perspectives and strategies from a variety of experts on how to re-envision learning and prepare students for a globally connected world that must adapt to evolving technology.

Assessment and the Common Core State Standards .................................................................................................5, 37

Grading

A Guide to Effective Practice .............................................................................6 Presenters: Kristine Nielsen and Douglas Reeves Ensure that your grading systems are accurate, fair, specific, and timely. Learn processes for evaluating your current grading system, discussing contentious grading issues with colleagues, and engaging all stakeholders in the feedback and grading process.

Motivating and Engaging Students ........................................................ 17

Presenter: Kay Burke

Presenters: Robert J. Marzano and Debra J. Pickering

Construct a balanced set of assessment tools that improve instruction and gauge its success. Dr. Burke demonstrates how to repack the CCSS with a collaborative team, generate checklists and rubrics, share meaningful learning objectives with students, and craft performance tasks.

Discover how to raise students’ energy levels, facilitate constructive emotions, demonstrate a positive demeanor, express enthusiasm, and use humor to create a classroom culture in which all students are accepted and challenged.

Becoming a Reflective Teacher ............................................................. 16

The PLC at WorkTM Process Today .......................................................54

Presenter: Robert J. Marzano Dr. Marzano shows how to reflect on your teaching strengths and weaknesses in relation to nine critical questions, provides methods to systematize your reflection process, and explains how to use focused strategies to achieve your goals.

Presented by Marzano Research

Common Core English Language Arts in a PLC at WorkTM series .....................................................................................................39 Presenters: Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey Through this series of self-paced online courses, you’ll discover how to successfully integrate the CCSS for English language arts. Each course, tailored to specific grade levels, explores how to implement the CCSS within the powerful PLC at WorkTM process.

Common Core State Standards in Mathematics, Grades 3–8 ..................................................................................................................40 Presenters: Diane J. Briars and Timothy D. Kanold Dr. Kanold and Dr. Briars explain the whys and how-tos for implementing the CCSS for mathematics in this course. You’ll gain strategies for teaching for understanding, tools for planning lessons and evaluating assessments, and classroom-ready tasks that put theory into practice.

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Presenters: Richard DuFour and Rebecca DuFour Come to a better understanding of the PLC at Work™ process, and discover how teachers and administrators are redefining their roles and responsibilities in ways that lead to a collaborative, resultsoriented culture that enhances both student and adult learning.

RTI at WorkTM series...............................................................................................76 Presenters: Mike Mattos, Austin Buffum, and Chris Weber Learn how to develop timely, targeted interventions at all three tiers of the RTI pyramid for grades K–12. Explore the rationale and strategic steps needed to design a successful plan, and discover a user-friendly framework for overcoming implementation challenges.

Teaching Boys in Poverty ............................................................................82 Presenters: Jim Littlejohn and Ruby K. Payne Ruby K. Payne and Jim Littlejohn provide invaluable insight about boys who grow up in poverty and how to reach them in school, based on research about their physical, cognitive, and emotional development.

Teaching Reading and Comprehension to English Learners, Grades K–5 .......................................................................................44

Differentiation and the Brain ................................................................. 15

Presenter: Margarita Calderón

Presenters: David A. Sousa and Carol Ann Tomlinson

Dr. Calderón outlines techniques for elementary teachers seeking to improve the reading and comprehension skills of ELs in their classrooms. You will be led through the steps needed to select vocabulary for reading, preteach this vocabulary, and model comprehension strategies.

Discover the major components of a brain-friendly quality curriculum; explore effective practices for assessing student achievement to inform instruction; learn how to respond to student readiness, interests, and learning profiles; and investigate effective management techniques for the differentiated classroom.

Elementary Reading Intervention Strategies, Grades K–6 .................................................................................................................30 Presenter: Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins Prepare yourself to intervene immediately and effectively at the first signs of students’ struggles by building a personal menu of research-based strategies. From phonics to comprehension, Dr. McEwan-Adkins shows how to help your students develop essential reading skills.

Formative Assessment and Standards-Based Grading .......................................................................................................................... 10 Presenters: Robert J. Marzano and Tammy Heflebower Dr. Marzano and Dr. Heflebower walk you through the research and theories that support what kind of feedback, assessment, and grading enhance student learning. Learn how to construct assessments, create rubric-based scales to inform assessments, and monitor students’ progress.

Transforming School Culture .................................................................. 71 Presenter: Anthony Muhammad Explore the root causes of staff resistance to change, and learn immediate, accessible strategies that improve school culture.

Dr. Muhammad provides the framework for understanding dynamic relationships within a school culture and ensuring a positive learning environment.

Using Web 2.0 in Teaching and Instruction .............................23 Presenters: William M. Ferriter and Adam Garry Discover how you can use today’s technology to create classroom experiences that encourage your students to learn. Through teacher workshops and middle school classroom demonstrations, the presenters provide practical suggestions for using new technology to teach “old school” skills.

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Building Common Assessments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

March 24–25 Sacramento, CA

April 27–28 Pasadena, CA September 30–October 1 San Antonio, TX October 12–13 Orlando, FL October 19–20 Seattle, WA November 16–17 St. Louis, MO

Presenter: Cassandra Erkens, Angela LaBounty, or Sarah Schuhl

Presenter: Nancy Frey

March 9–10 Seattle, WA April 21–22 San Diego, CA October 14–15 Orlando, FL

Learn how to work as collaborative teams to develop common formative assessments. Leave with a framework for working interdependently to create high-quality assessments and to collect meaningful instructional data that informs interventions and enrichment planning.

Common Core for English Language Arts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14, 38 The CCSS for English language arts demand that students learn to justify their responses with evidence and to read increasingly complex text. Learn what changes to curriculum and instruction are necessary to meet the standards and ensure student achievement.

Daily Differentiation for Tier 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

December 1–2 Pasadena, CA

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Presenters: Gayle Gregory and Martha Kaufeldt When learners struggle, teachers must know how to identify roadblocks and provide alternatives—to differentiate their teaching and instructional strategies. At this workshop, you’ll explore the elements that collaborative teams must consider to create powerful Tier 1 instructional programs.

Mathematics at Work

April 29–30 September 28–29

October 5–6 October 28–29

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Presenters: Timothy D. Kanold, Juli K. Dixon, Sarah Schuhl, and/or Mona Toncheff Achieving excellence in mathematics teaching and learning begins by understanding the thousands of instruction and assessment decisions teachers and teacher teams make. Gain a deeper understanding of the hope for student learning provided by the 10 high-leverage actions of teacher teams.

On Your Mark Grading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Presenters: Tim Brown and/or Tom Hierck The most effective grading practices provide accurate, specific, timely feedback designed to improve student performance. This workshop will challenge antiquated practices and provide you with research-based options for grading and reporting that are fair, motivating, and meaningful to both students and parents.

Response to Intervention in Math . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14, 34

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April 23–24

April 27–28 September 2–3 October 21–22 November 18–19 December 3–4

Presenters: William N. Bender and Darlene Crane When planning multitiered interventions, students who struggle with mathematics often get overlooked. Learn why implementing RTI in mathematics is critical. Gain usable solutions and processes based on practical issues and emerging research.

RTI at Work San Antonio, TX Sacramento, CA Minneapolis, MN San Diego, CA Halifax, NS Abbotsford, BC Seattle, WA St. Louis, MO Pasadena, CA

October 23–24 Vancouver, BC

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Presenters: Austin Buffum and/or Mike Mattos Learn why bureaucratic, paperwork-heavy, compliance-oriented, test-score-driven approaches fail—and then learn how to create an RTI model that works. Acquire four essential guiding principles and a simple process for implementation to help your school make RTI efficient, effective, and equitable.

Transforming School Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Presenter: Anthony Muhammad Learn strategies that address staff cohesion issues and maximize human potential in schools and districts. Explore the root causes of staff resistance to change, and leave with concrete strategies that will improve school culture and lay the foundation for a powerful learning environment.

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Presenters: Tim Brown, Cassandra Erkens, Douglas Fisher, Thomas R. Guskey, Timothy D. Kanold, Angela LaBounty, Jay McTighe, Meg Ormiston, Mary Kim Schreck, and Susan Udelhofen

April 13–15 Phoenix, AZ

Learn how to use systems thinking in the classroom to ensure every student progresses. Discover how to dispel meaningless instructional and grading practices that do more harm than good. You’ll hear dynamic keynotes packed with tools, tips, and templates for successful assessment.

Assessment NOW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Presenters: Cassandra Erkens, Thomas R. Guskey, Tom Hierck, Chris Jakicic, Angela LaBounty, Maria Nielsen, Tom Schimmer, Sarah Schuhl, Eric Twadell, and Nicole Dimich Vagle

August 17–19 Grand Rapids, MI

Quality classroom assessments need to be both accurate and valid in order to provide educators with the information they need to assess student understanding. Explore frameworks for rigor and relevance in assessment design that are fair and motivating to all students.

Common Core NOW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Presenters: Luis F. Cruz, Juli K. Dixon, Maria C. Grant, LeAnn Nickelsen, Maria Nielsen, Douglas Reeves, and Sarah Schuhl

July 28–29 Sacramento, CA

Transform Common Core stress into success at this empowering event. Prepare students and staff to persevere from first results to lasting achievement. Learn how to tackle specific content-area requirements, reach English learners, enlist parental support, and measure progress every step of the way.

Digital Learning Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Presenters: Michael Fullan, Mark Edwards, William M. Ferriter, Adam Garry, Ron Nieto, Meg Ormiston, Kamela Patton, Will Richardson, and Kipp D. Rogers

May 4–6 Naples, FL

Integrate technology-rich learning into your school or district. Through this interactive event, you’ll learn how to incorporate BYOD, 1:1, and blended learning practices into classrooms to energize and engage students. Your team will observe real classrooms in the Collier County Public School system.

Leadership NOW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Presenters: Luis F. Cruz, Rebecca DuFour, Richard DuFour, John F. Eller, Sheila A. Eller, Heidi Hayes Jacobs, Anthony Muhammad, Douglas Reeves, Phil Warrick, Todd Whitaker, and Kenneth C. Williams

April 27–29 Las Vegas, NV

Get top-to-bottom training on everything from the key elements of effective leadership to techniques necessary for transforming student learning. Ensure collaborative learning through shared leadership and accountability, and gain tools, tips, and templates proven to impact team effectiveness and student learning.

PLC at Work Institutes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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The Professional Learning Communities at WorkTM process is increasingly recognized as the most powerful strategy for sustained, substantive school improvement. These institutes give you and your team the knowledge and tools to implement this powerful process in your school or district.

RTI at Work Institutes TM

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Presenters: Austin Buffum, Mike Mattos, Luis F. Cruz, and/or Janet Malone Learn how to create a proactive process to identify students who need help, place them in the proper intervention, monitor their progress, revise interventions as needed, and determine when students no longer need additional support.

The Summit on PLC at Work

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Presenters: Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker, Mike Mattos, Margarita Calderón, Luis F. Cruz, Juli K. Dixon, Douglas Fisher, Thomas R. Guskey, Timothy D. Kanold, and Casey Reason Whether you are just beginning to build a PLC or need to regroup for your next steps, this summit provides practical knowledge based on the three big ideas that drive a PLC, delivered by experts who know the process best.

Speakers vary by event and are subject to change.

October 5–7 New Orleans, LA October 26–28 Minneapolis, MN

March 4–6 Phoenix, AZ

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Book & Video Index 20 Literacy Strategies to Meet the Common Core . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30, 37 21st Century Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22, 70 40 Reading Intervention Strategies for K–6 Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

A Ahead of the Curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Aligning School Districts as PLCs . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Are We a Group or a Team? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Assertive Discipline® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Assessment Toolkit, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

B Balanced Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Ball, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Becoming an Authentic Learning Leader . . . . . 68 Becoming a Reflective Teacher . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Beyond the Common Core series . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Beyond the RTI Pyramid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Boys in Poverty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Brainwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Breaking the Poverty Barrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Breaking Through . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Bringing Homework Into Focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Bringing Innovation to School . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Bringing the Common Core to Life in K–8 Classrooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27, 37 Building a Common Core–Based Curriculum . . 36 Building a Culture of Hope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Building a Professional Learning TM Community at Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

C Change Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65, 70 Classroom Habitudes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Classroom Management for Academic Success . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Closing the RTI Gap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Coaching Classroom Instruction . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Collaborating for Success With the Common Core . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Collaborative Administrator, The . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Collaborative Teacher, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Collaborative Teams in Professional Learning TM Communities at Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Common Core English Language Arts TM in a PLC at Work series . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28, 38 Common Core Mathematics TM in a PLC at Work series . . . . . . . . . . . . 32, 40 Common Formative Assessment . . . . . . . . . 9, 48 Common Language Assessment for English Learners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Connected Educator, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Contemporary Perspectives on Literacy series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Creating a Coaching Culture for Professional Learning Communities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Creating Physical & Emotional Security in Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Critical Conversations in Co-Teaching . . . . . . . 83 Cultural Literacy for the Common Core . . . . . . 36 Cultures Built to Last . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

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Data-Based Decision Making . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Data Dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Deeper Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20, 70 Delivering on the Promise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Design in Five . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Designing & Teaching Learning Goals & Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Developing Expert Teachers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Differentiation and the Brain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Discipline With Dignity for Challenging Youth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 District Leadership That Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Leader’s Companion, A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Leadership and Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Leadership in Professional Learning TM Communities at Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Leaders of Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Leading by Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Leading Difficult Conversations . . . . . . . . . . . .

Leading the New Literacies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Learning by Doing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Literacy 2.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

E Elements of Grading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Embedded Formative Assessment . . . . . . . . . . 10 Enhancing the Art & Science of Teaching With Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Enriched Learning Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Every School, Every Team, Every Classroom . . . 53

F Five Dimensions of Engaged Teaching, The . . . 12 Five Disciplines of PLC Leaders, The . . . . . . . . . 53 Formative Assessment & Standards-Based Grading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Four Keys to Effective Classroom and Behavior Management, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Fresh Look at Grading and Reporting in High Schools, A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Friendly Schools Plus series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 From Rage to Hope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

G Game Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Got Data? Now What? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Grading and Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

H Handbook for High Reliability Schools, A . . . . . 67 Handbook for SMART School Teams, The . . . . . 62 Highly Engaged Classroom, The . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 How RTI Works in Secondary Schools . . . . . . . . 81 How to Teach Thinking Skills Within the Common Core . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21, 42

I Implementing RTI With English Learners . . 45, 80 It’s About Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 It’s TIME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

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M Making Teamwork Meaningful . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Making Time at Tier 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Mastering Digital Literacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Mastering Global Literacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Mastering Media Literacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Mind, Brain, & Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 More Than a SMART Goal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Motivating Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Motivating Students Who Don’t Care . . . . . 18, 85

O On Common Ground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 On Excellence in Teaching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 On Your Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Overcoming the Achievement Gap Trap . . . . . . 71

P Passion and Persistence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Personal Learning Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 TM PLC at Work Cartoon Book, The . . . . . . . . . . . 53 PLC Toolkit, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Power of Professional Learning TM Communities at Work , The . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Power of SMART Goals, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Power Tools for Adolescent Literacy . . . . . . . . . 29 Practical Guide to Planning Interventions & Monitoring Progress, A . . . . . . . . . . . 80, 83 Principal as Assessment Leader, The . . . . . . . . . . 8 Professional Learning Communities TM at Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Professional Learning Communities TM at Work Plan Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48, 86 Protocols for Professional Learning Conversations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Pyramid of Behavior Interventions . . . . . . . . . . 85 Pyramid Response to Intervention . . . . . . . . . . 78

Q Questioning Sequences in the Classroom . . . . 16

J Journey to Becoming a Professional Learning Community, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

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Raising the Bar and Closing the Gap . . . . . . . . 48 Rebuilding the Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Reclaiming Youth at Risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Record Book Plus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Redefining Fair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Redefining the Norm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Revisiting Professional Learning TM Communities at Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 RTI in Math . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 81 RTI in Middle and High Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 RTI in the Early Grades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 RTI Toolkit, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Uniting Academic and Behavior Interventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Unstoppable Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Using Common Core Standards to Enhance Classroom Instruction & Assessment . . . . . . 43 Using Formative Assessment in the RTI Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 80 Using Technology to Enhance Reading . . . . . . . 26 Using Technology to Enhance Writing . . . . . . . 26

S School Leader’s Guide to English Learners, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 School Leader’s Guide to Grading, The . . . . . . . . 8 School Leader’s Guide to Professional Learning TM Communities at Work , The . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 School Leader’s Guide to Special Education, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 School Leader’s Guide to Standards-Based Grading, A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 School Leader’s Guide to the Common Core . . 42 School of Belonging Plan Book, The . . . . . . . . . 86 Score to Soar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Shifting the Monkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Simplifying Response to Intervention . . . . . . . . 78 Stop Leading Like It’s Yesterday! . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Strategies for Mathematics Instruction and Intervention series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 ® Succeeding With Difficult Students . . . . . . . . . 84 Supervising the Art and Science of Teaching . . 68 Supporting Beginning Teachers . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

V Vocabulary for the Common Core . . . . . . . . . . 43 Vocabulary for the New Science Standards . . . 43 Vocabulary Games for the Classroom . . . . . . . 29

W What Do I Do When . . . ? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 What Effective Schools Do . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 What Principals Need to Know About Teaching and Learning Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 What Principals Need to Know About Teaching and Learning Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 What Principals Need to Know About Teaching and Learning Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29, 69 When Actions Speak Louder Than Words . . . . . 83 Who Owns the Learning? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Why Culture Counts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Why Social Media Matters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Will to Lead, the Skill to Teach, The . . . . . . . . . 71 Working With Difficult & Resistant Staff . . . . . 69

Y You’ve Got to Reach Them to Teach Them . . . . 12

T Teacher as Assessment Leader, The . . . . . . . . . . 8 Teacher’s Plan Books Plus #1–7 . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Teaching Argumentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Teaching & Assessing 21st Century Skills . . . . . 22 Teaching Common Core English Language Arts Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . 27, 37 Teaching for Diversity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Teaching Reading & Comprehension to English Learners, K–5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Teaching Reasoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Teaching Students to Read Like Detectives . . . 27 Teaching Students to Think Like Scientists . . . . 42 Teaching the iGeneration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Think Big, Start Small . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Through New Eyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Transforming School Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Turning Your School Around . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

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