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Best Practices at Tier 1: Daily Differentiation for Effective Instruction, Secondary details key collaborative strategies to improve core instruction and ensure learning for all. Authors Gayle Gregory, Martha Kaufeldt and Mike Mattos offer 6-12 teachers proven response to intervention (RTI) strategies to differentiate instruction, engage students, increase success and avoid additional intervention. Using this book, teachers will discover effective practices to support student learning during core instruction.

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Growing Global Digital Citizens: Better Practices That Build Better Learners explore show teachers and administrators can transform education through the essential concept of global digital citizenship (GDC). Embraced by thousands of schools worldwide, GDC practices empower students to effectively and ethically participate in their online and offline communities. Authors Lee Watanabe Crockett and Andrew Churches provide F-12 teachers and administrators with a clear path for establishing a GDC program in their school, ensuring that their students grow into considerate, respectful and responsible global citizens.

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Coding, Robotics, and Engineering for Young Students builds foundational computer science and robotics skills and knowledge in bright Pre-K-grade 2 students. Originally developed as enrichment courses for Northwestern University’s Center for Talent Development, this curriculum emphasizes active, hands-on, and collaborative learning. Learn More

This informal and enlightening presentation offers in-depth ideas on how both learning approaches can work symbiotically to achieve targeted learning outcomes. The conversational style of this program delivers crucial information about these methodologies you won’t want to miss. This program also looks forward to how both DI and UbD approaches can meet the demands of a fast-changing education landscape of 21st century learning. Join in the conversation with Carol and Jay!

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Weaving Well-Being is a research-based mental health program that aims to enhance well-being in children aged 7-12. Each book in this series introduces students to age-appropriate concepts and skills drawn from the field of Positive Psychology, the science of well-being. Resilience is one of the key elements in maintaining positive mental health and well-being. The ten lessons in the Tools of Resilience program are designed to equip Year 4 students with six practical strategies to help them deal with the challenges of daily life and bounce back from disappointments and setbacks when they arise.

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Author Douglas B. Reeves illuminates the way forward to higher student achievement through a framework for teacher leadership. Learn why the best way to expand and extend the most powerful teaching strategies is for teachers to observe the practices of other teachers and school administrators to build teacher leader networks that encourage the sharing of effective instructional practice. Explore the essential elements of a teacher leader framework that promotes deep implementation of effective teaching practices. And get practical ways to support networks of teacher leaders at the school, district, and state levels.

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Powerful Writing Structures uses thinking structures to deepen student writing. The thinking strategies in this practical resource focus on using structural aspects of writing forms to inspire and inform students learning to write. Detailed lesson plans revolve around anchor books and include sample student work from real classrooms, book lists and assessment rubrics. Based on extensive classroom testing, this comprehensive approach to developing a balanced year-long writing program includes tips for implementing weekly writing practice and for using different forms of writing in the content areas.

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Like in his landmark book The Art and Science of Teaching, Robert Marzano and his co-authors once again make a definitive case based on extensive research. Find out what it takes to create a teacher supervision and evaluation system that’s more apt to lead to higher student achievement, including: *Five school-level conditions that are essential to systematically developing teacher expertise. *Four domains of teaching practice that provide a focus for instructional improvement. *Five ways to provide teacher feedback that avoids the pitfalls of a checklist approach. The authors open your eyes to broad principles of effective supervision that apply to all kinds of schools.

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The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) present unique demands on students to learn vocabulary and teachers to teach it. Authors Robert J Marzano and Julia A Simms address the need for CCSS-aligned vocabulary instruction in their three-part resource Vocabulary for the Common Core. They guide teachers and teams toward the creation of a successful vocabulary program while highlighting both general academic and domain-specific terms from the mathematics and English language arts standards. Marzano and Simms show P-12 educators how to achieve success for all students. Vocabulary for the Common Core is the ideal resource for teachers who wish to connect with curriculum standards on a deeper level.

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Filled with down-to-earth ideas, suggestions, strategies, and techniques, The Co-Teaching Book of Lists provides educators with a hands-on resource for making the co-teaching experience a success. Written by educator and popular teacher trainer Kathy Perez, this book gives educators a classroom-tested and user-friendly reference for the co-taught classroom. Topics covered include: roles and responsibilities; setting up the classroom; establishing classroom climate; effective accommodations and modifications for students; goal-setting; negotiating conflicts; scheduling issues; and more. This easily accessible reference presents numerous positive and ready-to-use tips, strategies, and resources for collaborative teaching and student success.

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Flipped learning empowers educators to engage students, personalise learning and reclaim valuable class time. But you may still be wondering, 'How can this model work for me?' While there's no step-by-step formula for flipped learning success, this workbook guides you through developing an approach to flipped learning that will serve you and your students. From the best-selling authors of Flip Your Classroom this companion workbook includes questions and activities to help you reflect on the why and how of flipping your classroom. You'll explore the flipped classroom and flipped-mastery models while delving into key elements of flipped learning, such as crediting or finding videos, designing a flipped lesson, preparing for change and working with administrators.

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Jacob’s Ladder is a reading comprehension program for gifted students that spans from early primary to early secondary instruction. Students progress through an inquiry process based on targeted reading passages that emphasise the progressive, ongoing development of higher-order thinking skills that are relevant across the curriculum. This book breaks into three sections. The Short Stories section in Jacob’s Ladder, Secondary (Years 8–9) includes works by famous authors, many classics, among them stories by Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolf. Poetry is drawn from selections by well-known poets, including Yeats, Wordsworth, Tennyson and Shelley. The four works in the Biographies section give details of the lives of Ada Lovelace, Marie Curie, Emily Dickinson and Margaret Mead.

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As a teacher, you work hard to make a positive difference in the lives of your students. But this kind of progress doesn't happen overnight, and it doesn't happen accidentally. It's the result of intentionality, planning, effort and thought. To help you deepen your thoughts and reflect on your capacity as an educator, Pete Hall and Alisa Simeral return to the Continuum of Self-Reflection and redesign its implementation so teachers can take charge of their own professional growth. In these pages, you'll find tool specifically made to enhance self-reflection of professional practice. You'll be able to assess your current self-reflective tendencies, identify opportunities to reflect on your instruction and begin to forge a path toward continuous growth and educational excellence.

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In I, You, Me, We, students explore essential questions such as "How does our environment shape our identity? What are the consequences of conforming to a group? When does social conformity go too far?" This unit, aligned to the Australian Curriculum, includes a major emphasis on rigorous evidence-based discourse through the study of common themes across rich, challenging non-fiction and fictional texts. Guide students to examine the fine line of individuality versus conformity through the related concepts of belongingness, community, civil disobedience, self-reliance and questioning the status quo by engaging in creative activities, Socratic seminars, literary analyses and debates.

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It is time to rethink the relationship between teaching and learning and assess the crucial skills students need to succeed in the 21st century. The authors assert that educators must focus assessment on mindfulness and feedback for improvement, framing assessment around six fluencies students need to cultivate. The book provides scenarios, lessons, activities and assessment rubrics.

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As Taking Action: A Handbook for RTI at Work emphasises, to ensure high levels of learning for both students and educators, school must first function as a professional learning community (PLC). With PLC as the foundation to their approach to RTI, Austin Buffum, Mike Mattos and Janet Malone offer powerful research and their own professional experiences to capture why the three tiers of RTI best help prevent students from falling behind in their learning. The thoughtfully adapted RTI at Work pyramid, aligned to the larger PLC at Work framework, makes individual students the focus of multi-tiered school interventions. This handbook offers logical tier-by-tier guiding principles and essential actions to help educators collaboratively create a highly effective, multi-tiered system of supports.

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When educators embrace student-centred learning, classrooms transform, learning comes alive and outcomes improve. A culmination of Lee Watanabe-Crockett's years of work with schools around the world, Future-Focused Learning: Ten Essential Shifts of Everyday Practice details ten core shifts of instructional practice teachers can use with students immediately, regardless of core curriculum or instructional pedagogy. These proven shifts offer a clear pathway for taking the great work teachers already do and making it exceptional. Teachers will connect the six essential fluencies to the shifts to develop students' 21st century skills and higher-order thinking, gain one hundred specific examples of instructional microshifts - simple classroom activities to advance classroom learning - and more.

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Whether you’re seeking a basic understanding of Response To Intervention or thorough knowledge for implementation, you need this book. Understanding Response to Intervention drills deep to deliver the nuts and bolts of RTI. Respond to the needs of struggling students by building a pyramid of interventions, solving problems in collaborative teams, and monitoring student progress through data to help every unique learner succeed.

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Weaving Well-Being is a research-based mental health program that aims to enhance well-being in children aged 7-12. Each book in this series introduces students to age-appropriate concepts and skills drawn from the field of Positive Psychology, the science of well-being. This Student Book allows children to reflect on the lessons found in the accompanying Teacher Book as they gradually build a highly personal portfolio of work. Weekly homework activities give students the opportunity to explore how their well-being can be integrated into their daily lives. The included pull-out guide provides parents with all the information they need to actively support their child throughout the program.

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Practical suggestions for performance assessments with extensive examples of classroom tasks that help students achieve the deepest type of learning and active construction of knowledge. Tells how to score performance assessment and track student achievement.

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This guide offers instructional modules on how to refine units created using Understanding by Design (UbD) and how to effectively review the units using self-assessment and peer review, along with observation and supervision. The guide builds upon its companion and predecessor, The Understanding By Design Guide to Creating High-Quality Units and is intended for use by individuals or groups in K–16 education who want to further develop their skills in UbD. Users can work through the modules in order or pick and choose, depending on their interests and needs.

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This revised Australian edition of Inside the Black Box: Primary Years is an up-to-date guide to assessment for learning focused on helping Australian primary teachers to acquire and develop effective assessment practice. The booklet offers guidance on how to develop a community of learning that builds on collaborative practice between children, offering recommendations grounded in both research findings and in the authors’ experience of working with many teachers, schools and local authorities over the last decade.

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Based on the best-selling book of the same name by Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins, this 45 minute video guides you through practical and proven processes, as well as suggested "response strategies" to encourage student engagement. Learn how to create a culture of inquiry so that all members of the educational community - student, teachers and administrators - benefit from the increased rigour and deepened understanding that emerge when essential questions become a guiding force for learners of all ages. See the process come to life with scenes from a seminar though by Wiggins and of teachers using essential questions in practice. In addition, McTighe and Wiggins provide expert commentary about their years of experience in schools exploring just what makes an essential question essential.

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The Daily Five Second Edition will give you everything you need to launch and sustain the daily five in literacy and mathematics including materials and set up, model behaviours and detailed lesson plans into which you can place your own lesson content. You will find specific tips for implementation and solutions to common problems. Of particular use are the strategies for engaging ‘barometer children’ – those challenging children who can so easily influence the climate in the classroom.

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By making the statement, 'I am the future', one student poses a question: What role do we, as teachers, have in ensuring that future is bright? Being an educator is hard work. It demands the very best people, and the very best from those people. It requires change that reflects the changes all around us. It requires consistency borne out of doing the right thing for the right outcomes. Mostly, it requires listening and responding to the needs of students. It’s important that we keep as our primary focus that every day, in every class, in every school, our future appears before us. I Am the Future is a book about students and those who teach them. It reminds teachers that teaching is hard work, and will help them keep what is most important in mind as they approach each day: their students.

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Jacob’s Ladder is a reading comprehension program for gifted students that spans from early primary to early secondary instruction. Students progress through an inquiry process based on targeted reading passages that emphasise the progressive, ongoing development of higher-order thinking skills that are relevant across the curriculum. The Jacob's Ladder Student Workbooks complement the Jacob’s Ladder: Primary Years 5–6 book by providing a matching, all-in-one resource for students to record their answers to each exercise. This allows the teacher to keep all of the student’s work in the program in one place for ease of collection, reading and marking.

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Principals navigate the dynamic complexities and subtleties of their schools every day. They promote, facilitate and lead efforts to achieve both tangible and intangible results throughout the school community. As the principalship has evolved and grown, so have the expectations of it. With that in mind, ASCD developed the Principal Leadership Development Framework (PLDF). The PLDF also offers 17 criteria of effective practice that allow leaders to focus on behaviours that have the greatest direct effect on the culture and status of learning and teaching. This book can help channel your efforts in ways that promote successful teaching and student learning.

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Each book in the 10 Projects for the PBL Classroom series provides 10 ready-made projects designed to help students achieve higher levels of thinking and develop 21st-century skills. Projects are aligned to the Australian Curriculum, allowing students to explore and be creative as well as gain enduring understanding. Each project represents a type of performance assessment, including portfolios, oral presentations, research papers, and exhibitions. Included for each project is a suggested calendar to allow teacher scheduling, mini-lessons that allow students to build capacity and gain understanding, as well as multiple rubrics to objectively assess student performance. The lessons are presented in an easy-to-follow format, enabling teachers to implement projects immediately. Years 3–6

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Hands-On STEAM Explorations for Young Learners uses popular children’s nursery rhymes to explore STEAM concepts through minds-on, hands-on investigations. Children ages 4–8 and their teachers will love this twist on familiar old nursery rhymes. Learn More

The Understanding by Design Guide to Creating High-Quality Units offers instructional modules on the basic concepts and elements of Understanding by Design (UbD), the "backward design" approach used by thousands of educators to create curriculum units and assessments that focus on developing students' understanding of important ideas. The eight modules are organised around the UbD Template Version 2.0 and feature components similar to what is typically provided in a UbD design workshop, including: Discussion and explanation of key ideas in the module; Guiding exercises, worksheets and design tips.

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Weaving Well-Being is a research-based mental health program that aims to enhance well-being in children aged 7-12. Each book in this series introduces students to age-appropriate concepts and skills drawn from the field of Positive Psychology, the science of well-being. The ten lessons in this Character Strengths program are designed to help Year 2 students understand what well-being means, before exploring the 24 different character strengths that contribute to a happy and healthy life. By identifying their top five strengths and practising them on a regular basis, students grow in confidence, self-esteem and appreciation of the unique gifts of their peers.

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Emotional Intelligence has become a staple of highly effective leaders who want to lead schools where teachers want to teach and students want to learn. In Inspire, Motivate, Collaborate: Leading with Emotional Intelligence, author Bobby Moore, describes how school leaders can establish successful relationships, lead change, and deal with emotions in turbulent times, to cultivate cultures of excellence in their learning communities. Case studies, self- and staff assessment tools and guided questions for study and reflection make this a complete self-study guide to Emotional Intelligence.

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Since 2009, the CAFE system has been implemented in classrooms all over the world. It has changed the way teachers assess, teach and track student information, and positively impacted the way students learn, practice, and talk about reading. The CAFE Book, Expanded Second Edition gives you a variety of tools to structure your literacy block and create an environment where your students are engaged readers and writers with resources that set them up for success.

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The ideas and examples in this book help teachers successfully collaborate to raise student achievement through the use of formative assessments. Here, Todd Stanley and Betsy Moore, educators with over 40 years of combined experience, offer proven formative assessment strategies to teachers in a professional learning community. Contents include: Why a PLC?, How to Work Effectively in a Group, How to Write Assessments, Adjustments in the Classroom, Keeping Up with Collaboration. If you’re looking to extend the benefits of formative assessments throughout your school, this user-friendly guide will help to unite teachers in improving classroom learning!

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The revised and updated second edition of the bestselling title, Teachers as Architects of Learning supports teachers to develop ideas, consider approaches and, in general, increase levels of consciousness about what they do, why they do it and how they might do it differently. The book enables teachers to develop their own blueprint for teaching through the exploration of twelve learning constructs and 100 strategies. The authors draw from extensive personal experiences, research from the field and the reflections of teachers themselves to serve as a catalyst for thinking about their own practice in a way that lets learning lead. The second edition is a "must-have" book for any educator committed to the development of their own or other's practice.

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Visible Learning and the Science of How We Learn explains the major principles and strategies of learning, outlining why it can be so hard sometimes, and yet easy on other occasions. Aimed at teachers and students, it is written in an accessible and engaging style and can be read cover to cover, or used on a chapter-by-chapter basis for essay writing or staff development. The book is structured in three parts – ‘learning within classrooms’, ‘learning foundations’, which explains the cognitive building blocks of knowledge acquisition and ‘know thyself’ which explores, confidence and self-knowledge.

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Effective classroom formative assessment helps educators make minute-by-minute, day-by-day instructional decisions, but putting it into practice requires both a robust collection of techniques and an understanding of how to use them. Dylan Wiliam and Siobhan Leahy deliver a clear, practical guide for teachers, centred on five key strategies for improving teacher practice and student achievement. The authors provide an overview of each strategy and a number of very practical formative assessment techniques for implementing them in classrooms. Along with guidance on when and how to use the specific techniques, they provide tips, cautions and enhancements to sustain formative assessment.

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Jacob’s Ladder is a reading comprehension program for gifted students that spans from early primary to early secondary instruction. Students progress through an inquiry process based on targeted reading passages that emphasise the progressive, ongoing development of higher-order thinking skills that are relevant across the curriculum. The first section of this book includes Fables, Myths, Short Stories and Essays, some written by students in similar year levels to those reading this book. The Poetry selections include works by students, as well as pieces by well-known poets. Nonfiction selections touch on the areas of Biology and Mathematics. This book is suggested for students in years 5 and 6 to enhance reading comprehension and critical thinking.

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Collaborative Teams That Transform Schools: The Next Step in PLCs is groundbreaking. It offers teachers and school leaders a practical, comprehensive model for building successful professional learning communities (PLCs), drawing from the extensive research and experience of its authors to present a clear and compelling look at the future of PLCs. Beginning with essential theory, the authors then detail the practical steps that collaborative teams can take to transform their schools. If you are an educator in the process of developing your school as a PLC, this book is an invaluable resource. Learn More

In Learning Targets, Connie M. Moss and Susan M. Brookhart contend that improving student learning and achievement happens in the immediacy of 'today's lesson' - or it doesn't happen at all. The key to making today's lesson meaningful? Learning targets. Written from students' point of view, a learning target describes a lesson-sized chunk of information and skills that students will come to know deeply. Each lesson's learning target connects to the next lesson's target, enabling students to master a coherent series of challenges that ultimately lead to important curricular standards.

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More than any other time in education, schools are being asked to address the challenges of ensuring we leave no students behind in their pursuit for success - regardless of their background, previous achievements and dispositions. Sometimes the challenge in seeking resource support in schools is not a lack of information but knowing which information is most relevant to their school improvement efforts. Securing Learning Success looks closely at some of the important factors leaders and teachers require to put learning first. Chapter extracts from leading international and Australian authors have been compiled to provide practical strategies for teams in their pursuit of securing learning success.

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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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How can you help teachers become self-reflective practitioners whose thoughtful approach translates into real gains for student achievement? In Creating a Culture of Reflective Practice, Pete Hall and Alisa Simeral draw on lessons learned from educators across year levels, content areas and district demographics to present a definitive guide to developing a culture of reflective practice in your school. Armed with the book's real-life examples and research-based tools, you'll learn how to determine the current location of all stakeholders on the continuum and how teacher-leadership activities, transformational feedback and strategic coaching can move them forward. The result? A schoolwide culture that both values reflection and uses it to ensure that teachers reach their fullest potential.

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The personal side of starting a teaching career - the joys and pains - often goes undiscussed. The Beginning Teacher's Field Guide: Embarking on Your First Years offers the advice and empathy F-12 beginning teachers so desperately need. Author Tina H. Boogren pairs the six phases a new teacher goes through - (1) anticipation, (2) survival, (3) disillusionment, (4) rejuvenation, (5) reflection, (6) second anticipation - with personal essays she wrote during her first years in the classroom. She arms readers with classroom strategies and self-care practices tailored to the challenge they're likely to encounter in each phase, and encourages them to record their reflections directly in the book.

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Get your students excited about vocabulary learning with these thirteen fun games designed for students at all levels. Puzzle stories, category creators, word harvests and much more make learning easy and fun. The step-by-step approach clearly explains the design, set up, materials and directions for each game, and an extensive appendix is filled with vocabulary terms that are considered critical based on educational research by the Marzano Institute. This Revised Australian edition offers sample questions, suggestions and examples to help you teach each game.

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Weaving Well-Being is a research-based mental health program that aims to enhance well-being in children aged 7-12. Each book in this series introduces students to age-appropriate concepts and skills drawn from the field of Positive Psychology, the science of well-being. This Student Book allows children to reflect on the lessons found in the accompanying Teacher Book as they gradually build a highly personal portfolio of work. Weekly homework activities give students the opportunity to explore how their well-being can be integrated into their daily lives. The included pull-out guide provides parents with all the information they need to actively support their child throughout the program.

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UbD authors Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe describe how to start with your school's mission and goals and develop a powerful school improvement plan focused on desired results. Learn how to use UbD's backward-design process to determine the evidence for your plan's success and to plan improvement steps in instruction and leadership roles. Get dozens of action ideas for starting the school improvement process and keeping it going, plus samples of curriculum frameworks and assessment rubrics, and a three-stage school improvement planning process with specific tactics for each stage.

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In this book, the authors acknowledge the structural and sociological issues that contribute to low-performing schools, and describe how leaders can create a healthy school culture. They offer strategies and activities to improve classroom management, increase literacy, establish academic vocabulary, and create an engaging environment. Examine four broad steps to developing a positive learning environment (aligning philosophies, managing frustration, creating a culture of collaboration, and institutionalizing a healthy culture) and uncover the components of responsive pedagogy—a balanced framework of traditional and culturally responsive classroom activities.

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Inside the Black Box: Maths outlines the principles of formative assessment and how they can be applied in the maths classroom. The recommendations made in Inside the Black Box: Maths gain particular strength from the fact that they are grounded in the main findings of many decades of research into the principles that govern effective learning and the factors that help support the motivation and self-esteem of learners. This research is put into the context of the aims and expectations of mathematics teaching, and the authors outline their findings on ways of practising formative assessment that have been found to be both workable and productive with mathematics teachers, including classroom dialogue, feedback and marking, and peer- and self-assessment.

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