Spring Books 2015

Solutions Spring 2015

INSIDE Instruction resources for your 21st century classroom

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We understand that you’re facing a defining moment in education. Every day, you work to ensure your staff can develop successful learners in today’s tech-driven world. It’s a big challenge, but we’re here to guide you every step of the way. On these pages, you’ll find the latest and greatest from the leading authorities in education.

With the support of these resources, your team will discover research-based strategies and practical tips they can adopt to reinvigorate their instruction for the 21st century and unlock students’ learning potential.

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CONTENTS Collaborative Teams

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Solutions for Professional Learning Communities

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Intervention Strategies

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Unstoppable Learning

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Instruction With Technology

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21st Century Skills

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Solutions for Digital Learner–Centered Classrooms

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Mathematics Instruction

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Perfect for a leadership team book study

Game Plan A Playbook for Developing Winning PLCs at Work

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By Héctor García, Katherine McCluskey, and Shelley Taylor Foreword by Richard DuFour 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. 144 pages

• 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.

53BCB–BKF635 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-936763-64-1

Support collaborative teams

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.

53BCB–DVF065 $174.95 UPC 811796010629

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How to Coach Leadership in a PLC

By Marc Johnson Expand your leadership capacity.

Through this how-to guide, you’ll investigate why strong leadership is a crucial element of successful PLCs and delve deep into what leadership should involve at the district and site levels. Discover leadership strategies for creating a collaborative culture, learn how to build shared values among educators, and explore tools and techniques for monitoring progress on your PLC journey.

• Consider tools that can support capacity building in establishing a PLC. • Read the steps that Sanger Unified School District took on its PLC journey.

• Discover the big ideas and foundational questions that frame districtwide PLC work and leadership tasks.

• Interpret reflections from individuals who participated in and helped lead Sanger Unified’s PLC implementation.

53BCB–BKF667 $14.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-41-9

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Solutions for Professional Learning Communities NEW series

How to Cultivate Collaboration in a PLC

How to Launch PLCs in Your District

By Susan K. Sparks and Thomas W. Many

By W. Richard Smith

Collaborate for schoolwide success. Establishing a collaborative culture can significantly impact student achievement and professional practice. With this how-to guide, you’ll gain clarity on the work of teams in a PLC and uncover the elements of effective team development. Discover skills and behaviors that individuals and teams can improve regarding communication, facilitating data conversations, and managing consensus while working together.

53BCB–BKF678 $14.95 ISBN 978-1-942496-05-2

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Transform your district with thriving professional learning communities. Implementing high-performing PLCs can enhance educators’ outlooks and dramatically improve learning for all students. With this user-friendly guide, your team will discover practical, research-based strategies for committing to districtwide PLC implementation, navigating challenges along the way, and ensuring sustainable practices are in place for far-reaching, lasting results.

53BCB–BKF665 $14.95 ISBN 978-1-936765-39-3

How to Use Digital Tools to Support Teachers in a PLC

By William M. Ferriter Discover practical, applicable tips for infusing digital tools into your PLC. With this how-to guide, you’ll explore how technology has changed the way groups share, cooperate, and take collective action—the three strategies the author identifies as being instrumental to PLC success. Each chapter includes a targeted list of digital tools your team can use daily to support your strategic goals.

• Identify and understand the strategies needed for a successful PLC. • Use digital tools to make the most of team time, energy, and effort.

• Read examples of how the use of technology solved real-world dilemmas and supported PLCs. • Discover the best digital tools to support each of the three strategies.

• Access a continually updated list of tools and services that support the PLC strategies in the book.

53BCB–BKF675 $14.95 ISBN 978-1-942496-00-7

These how-to guides are packed with practical, easy-to-implement solutions for your leadership team.

How to Leverage PLCs for School Improvement

By Sharon V. Kramer Spark a culture of success. Building a professional learning community that fosters collaboration and collective responsibility can create lasting change and improve student learning schoolwide.

Investigate the five challenges to school improvement, and uncover research-based strategies to confront them. Read a true account of a school that experienced reform, reversed its culture of failure, and reaped lasting results.

53BCB–BKF668 $14.95 ISBN 978-1-936765-54-6

How to Develop PLCs for Singletons and Small Schools

By Aaron Hansen Ensure singleton teachers feel integrally involved in the PLC process. With this user-friendly guide, you’ll discover how small schools, full of singleton teachers who are the only ones in their schools teaching their subject areas, can build successful PLCs. Explore five methods for structuring PLC teams to better involve singletons, and read examples that highlight how real schools have made collaboration possible.

53BCB–BKF676 $14.95 ISBN 978-1-942496-02-1

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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.

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• Delve into the factors that impact achievement inequality.

• 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.

53BCB–BKF618 $19.95 ISBN 978-1-936763-27-6

Ensure success for all students

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-bystep 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

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• 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.

53BCB–BKF595 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-89-1

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.

Planning Interventions and Extensions in Elementary School Edited by Austin Buffum and Mike Mattos Foreword by Rebecca DuFour and Richard DuFour 304 pages; grades K–8 53BCB–BKF609 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-936763-03-0

Planning Interventions and Extensions in Secondary School Edited by Mike Mattos and Austin Buffum Foreword by Richard DuFour 344 pages; grades 6–12 53BCB–BKF610 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-936763-05-4

Carve out intervention time

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.

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

• Recognize the elements that define an effective intervention program.

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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. 208 pages

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• 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.

53BCB–BKF662 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-73-5

Set the stage for powerful learning

Unstoppable Learning Douglas Fisher

Nancy Frey

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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 skill-based 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.

53BCB–BKF671 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936765-32-4

Engage students with tech-fueled instruction

Mastering Digital Literacy Edited by Heidi Hayes Jacobs

By Marie Alcock, Michael L. Fisher, Steve Hargadon, Bill Sheskey, and Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano Teach your students to thrive both academically and in their personal lives in the 21st century. Understand the purpose and importance of digital literacy, and learn the value of digital, media, and global awareness. The authors provide practical, easy-toimplement strategies for incorporating digital literacy into the school curricula.

152 pages

• Merge digital media with traditional instruction to create a classroom for 21st century learners.

• Access research-based tips, strategies, and tools to implement digital technology into teaching practices.

• Learn to select, align, and connect video games to unit plans.

53BCB–BKF235 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-54-9

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Reinventing Learning for the Always-On Generation Strategies and Apps That Work

By Ian Jukes, Ryan L. Schaaf, and Nicky Mohan • Understand how the digital Foreword by Ted McCain generation’s exposure to Cultivate effective 21st century technology is rewiring their brains classrooms. Teachers and administrators and the challenge this rewiring must respond to the digital creates for educators. bombardment students face to ensure • Identify learning attributes unique their success in the 21st century world. to 21st century students, and Explore the differences in students’ gain strategies to support each neurological processing from previous attribute. generations, investigate the nine critical attributes of digital learners, and • Recognize the strengths and discover practical strategies for making weaknesses of different digital learning relevant, engaging, and fun tools, and learn to use each in through digital activities. teaching, learning, and assessing.

53BCB–BKF644 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-936763-81-8

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Prepare students for 21st century challenges

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 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.

Relying on research as well as their own experience, the authors show how to use intensive curriculum, instruction, assessment, and leadership practices to meet the needs of 21st century learners.

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.

53BCB–BKF622 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-936763-35-1

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Solutions for Digital Learner–Centered Classrooms NEW series

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Evaluating and Assessing Tools in the Digital Swamp

By Michael Fullan and Katelyn Donnelly Discover a powerful tool for navigating the ever-expanding digital swamp. The Digital Swamp Index will help educators wade through digital innovations in order to uncover tools that truly accelerate student achievement. Explore how to use the index to effectively implement technology and address the revolution occurring in education, which is generating a new nature of learning.

• Learn the main components and subcomponents of the Digital Swamp Index.

• Ask evaluative questions that correspond to each area of the index.

• Consider what it means to get a green, amber green, amber red, or red rating on the index scale, and read about examples of these color ratings across the spectrum.

• Distinguish the main forces of the Stratosphere agenda.

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Inspiring Creativity and Innovation, K–12

By Douglas Reeves Encourage a culture of innovation and creativity. Innovation and creativity are imperative to educational success and require the contributions of teachers, students, administrators, and policymakers. Explore the four essentials for developing a creative, mistaketolerant culture; investigate teaching and leadership beliefs and practices that undermine creativity; and discover strategies for successfully navigating challenges that your team may face along the way.

• Consider the four main challenges that educators and students face in pursuit of creativity.

• Read research and real-life examples documenting creativity in practice.

• Learn about the critical elements for developing creative environments.

• Discover how you can apply the presented meta-rubric (a rubric for rubrics), and practice creativity assessment with the provided reproducible composite rubrics.

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Solutions for Digital Learner–Centered Classrooms NEW series

Implementing ProjectBased Learning

By Suzie Boss Deepen learning experiences in every classroom. Project-based learning (PBL) has the potential to fully engage students of the digital age, changing student-teacher dynamics and giving students greater influence and agency in their learning. Discover user-friendly strategies for implementing PBL to equip students with essential 21st century skills, strengthen their problem-solving abilities, and prepare them for college and careers.

53BCB–BKF681 $14.95 ISBN 978-1-942496-11-3

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Using Digital Games as Assessment and Instruction Tools

By Ryan L. Schaaf Combine hard work and deep fun in classrooms with digital game–based learning. Students of the always-on generation gain information through different tools and learn differently than generations before them. Discover how to incorporate digital games and use them to craft engaging, academically applicable classroom activities that address content standards and revitalize learning for both teachers and students.

53BCB–BKF666 $14.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-53-7

Creating Purpose-Driven Learning Experiences

By William M. Ferriter Motivate and inspire students to learn at high levels. By bringing meaningful work to the classroom, students will develop curiosity, become actively engaged, and have a sense of purpose for their education. Discover strategies and tips for reshaping the traditional classroom environment to give modern students opportunities to exercise choice in their curriculum, master skills, and demonstrate what they’ve learned.

• Examine research and opinions from students and educators on which areas of education should be altered.

• Explore the work schools have done with project-based learning, and review what students have accomplished with microlending school projects.

• Discover the tenets of high-quality project-based learning and the impact they have on academic growth.

53BCB–BKF691 $14.95 ISBN 978-1-942496-31-1

These how-to guides are packed with practical, easy-to-implement solutions for your staff.

Designing TeacherStudent Partnership Classrooms

From Master Teacher to Master Learner

By Meg Ormiston

Seamlessly adapt to an everchanging culture. Educators must continually adjust to the present world and its digital technologies to create effective classrooms.

Investigate the qualities and roles you should adopt to grow into a master learner, and explore the tools and techniques necessary to coach students in gaining the skills and literacies they need to become successful learners.

Shift classroom structures to enhance student success. By becoming learning partners with their students, teachers can help them develop enthusiasm for learning and employ deep learning goals. Discover how to cultivate a classroom environment in which students can apply what they’ve learned, teach it to their teacher and fellow students, and understand how their knowledge will be useful beyond the classroom. 88 pages

By Will Richardson

53BCB–BKF679 $14.95 ISBN 978-1-942496-07-6

53BCB–BKF680 $14.95 ISBN 978-1-942496-09-0

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

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

Leader’s Guide 176 pages 53BCB–BKF634 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-936763-62-7

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 actionoriented 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

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

• Increase student learning through 10 steps known as high-leverage team actions for mathematics instruction and assessment.

• Understand teacher actions that develop student understanding and skill for lower- and highercognitive-demand mathematical tasks every day, every lesson, every unit, every year.

• Access reproducibles and appendices to gain instructional strategies aligned with your state’s standards.

Achieve mathematics greatness

Grades K–5

Grades 6–8

High School

184 pages

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Strategies for Mathematics Instruction and Intervention series 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.

Grades K–5

By Chris Weber and Darlene Crane 176 pages 53BCB–BKF620 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-936763-31-3

Grades 6–8

By Chris Weber, Darlene Crane, and Tom Hierck 53BCB–BKF621 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-936763-33-7

• Understand how teaching prioritized standards helps students become college and career ready and able to retain mathematics knowledge.

• Gain strategies to build the RTI framework into your mathematics program.

• Learn to teach mathematics in a way that helps learners gain conceptual understanding, procedural competency, and the ability to apply mathematics knowledge.

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