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You are the first and last line of defense for learning. Every day you’re asked to do more—usually with less. It’s a remarkable and awesome responsibility! The staff of Solution Tree—as we collaborate with you at your schools, online, and at our events—continues to be amazed by the things you accomplish.

The truth is that every one of us here at Solution Tree remembers a teacher who made a monumental difference in our learning, and ultimately in our lives. In a time when students are accessing information and making connections in ways they never have before, we are proud to support you in your effort to best prepare them for a future that’s simply impossible to predict. In the pages ahead, you’ll find some of our most versatile and budget-friendly resources, each created by our nation’s leading practitioners and researchers. They’ll help you empower students to engage in their own learning; hone your instruction and assessment practices to create deep, lasting learning; and create a powerful staff community that helps every teacher succeed. Make sure you visit solution-tree.com to learn about the other ways we can serve you on your journey toward educational excellence.

Literacy 4 Common Core

Instruction 6

21st Century Skills & Technology

Classroom Management

Assessment 10 Response to Intervention

Professional Learning Communities at Work™ 13

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Collaborative Teacher Literacy Teams, K–6

Teaching Students to Read Like Detectives

By Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins

By Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Diane Lapp

Literacy

Connecting Professional Growth to Student Achievement

Comprehending, Analyzing, and Discussing Text

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

literacy, planning and delivering effective literacy instruction can be overwhelming. Explore the work of collaborative literacy teams from their formation to the employment of successful student-focused strategies. Find professional growth units in each chapter that provide educators with the opportunity to discuss key concepts, self-reflect, and remain focused on student achievement. 232 pages; grades K–6

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other content areas, too. Find out what works to help students of all ages develop the literacy skills they need to succeed in school—and in life. 40 Reading Intervention Strategies for K–6 Students

Teaching Reading & Comprehension to English Learners, K–5

By Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins

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; grades K–5

Research-Based Support for RTI

This well-rounded collection of reading intervention strategies, teacher-friendly 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; grades K–6

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Rebuilding the Foundation Effective Reading Instruction for 21st Century Literacy

Edited by Timothy V. Rasinski 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 WattsTaffe, and Junko Yokota

Teaching reading is a complex task without a simple formula for developing quality instruction. The authors present a deep and thoughtful conversation about what is meant by effective reading instruction for all students. Rather than build on or alter existing models, this book considers how educators and policymakers might think about rebuilding and reconceptualizing reading education, perhaps from the ground up. 352 pages; hardcover

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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

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Literacy 2.0

Reading and Writing in 21st Century Classrooms By Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, and Alex Gonzalez

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Common Core

The Common Core State Standards ask that you teach less so that students learn more. Do you know which critical mathematical

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

NEW! Written by the leading voices of K–12 mathematics, this authoritative series prepares every teacher for successful implementation of the CCSS. Drill into each cluster of standards to discover what’s familiar, what’s new, and what knowledge and skills you should be emphasizing in the classroom. You’ll also learn how fundamental shifts in collaboration, instruction, curriculum, assessment, and intervention can increase college and career readiness in every one of your students. Joint Publications With the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

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Common Core Mathematics in a PLC at Work™, Grades 3–5 Edited by Timothy D. Kanold By Matthew R. Larson, Francis (Skip) Fennell, Thomasenia Lott Adams, Juli K. Dixon, Beth McCord Kobett, and Jonathan A. Wray Foreword by Rebecca DuFour

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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

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

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Common Language Assessment for English Learners By Margo Gottlieb

NEW! Learn how to plan, implement, and evaluate common language assessments for your English learners. With this step-bystep guide, teachers, school leaders, and administrators will find organizing principles, leading questions, and action steps all directing you toward collaborative assessment. Yield meaningful information for and about EL learning preferences, build student selfassessment, and inform your instructional decision making based on reliable results. 192 pages

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Instruction

Breaking Through

You’ve Got to Reach Them to Teach Them

Effective Instruction & Assessment for Reaching English Learners

Hard Facts About the Soft Skills of Student Engagement

Edited by Margarita Calderón 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

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

Utilizing new research and field studies, this book provides a whole-school approach to helping English learners (ELs) achieve academically while they learn English. Discover why ELs learn better when language, literacy, and subject matter are integrated, and learn how to prepare all teachers in a school to meet the needs of this growing student population. Hardcover

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The power of your classroom is the many voices that fill it. Why Culture Counts

Motivating Students

By Donna Walker Tileston and Sandra K. Darling

By Carolyn Chapman and Nicole Vagle

Teaching Children of Poverty

25 Strategies to Light the Fire of Engagement

Foreword by Belinda Williams Afterword by Rosilyn Carroll

Learn why students disengage and how to motivate them to achieve success with a five-step framework. Research-based strategies and fun activities show how to instill a lasting love of learning in students of any age. Classroom tips and troubleshooting advice for common motivation problems prepare readers for the real-world ups and downs of motivating students. 240 pages

Learn a four-step research-based program for differentiating instruction based on the cultural needs, beliefs, and values of diverse learners. This book shows you how to build teacher background knowledge; plan for differentiation; and differentiate context, content, process, product, and assessment. 216 pages

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Teaching for Diversity

A Guide to Greater Understanding 3rd Edition 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. Utilizing a combination of theory and concrete examples, the author constructs a vision of schools as the foundation for an inclusive, democratic society. 216 pages 23BCE–BKF400 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-01-8

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Motivating Students Who Don’t Care

Successful Techniques for Educators

By Ricardo L. García

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By Allen N. Mendler

This book is a comprehensive and practical guide for reconnecting with discouraged students and reawakening their excitement and enthusiasm for learning. With proven strategies from the classroom, Dr. Mendler identifies five effective processes you can use to reawaken motivation in students who aren’t prepared, don’t care, and won’t work. These processes include emphasizing effort, creating hope, respecting power, building relationships, and expressing enthusiasm. 80 pages 23BCE–BKF360 $17.95 ISBN 978-1-935249-67-2

Differentiation and the Brain

How Neuroscience Supports the LearnerFriendly Classroom By David A. Sousa and Carol Ann Tomlinson

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A Professional Learning Communities Approach By Robin J. Fogarty and Brian M. Pete Foreword by Jay McTighe

Examine how PLCs provide the decision-making platform for the rigorous work of differentiated classroom instruction. A practical guide to implementing differentiation in the classroom, this book offers a road map to effective teaching that responds to diverse learning needs. Takeaway objectives at the beginning of each chapter guide discussion, and each chapter ends with action options of highly interactive strategies. 200 pages

Think Big, Start Small

How to Differentiate Instruction in a BrainFriendly Classroom By Gayle Gregory and Martha Kaufeldt

You no longer have to be a neuroscientist to understand how your students absorb knowledge. This easy-to-comprehend guide pares down the vast field of neuroscience and covers the brain basics that affect your classroom the most— attention, memory, emotions, and stress. With a variety of simple brain-compatible strategies, you’ll see a measurable difference in your differentiated classrooms. 168 pages

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Instruction

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

Supporting Differentiated Instruction

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Critical Conversations in Co-Teaching A Problem-Solving Approach By Carrie Chapman and Cate Hart Hyatt

In this practitioner’s guide to building quality collaborative relationships, the authors explain co-teaching models and how co-teaching fits within school-improvement initiatives. Through practical examples and real-life stories, they present the critical conversations framework designed to foster dramatic improvements in the way co-teachers communicate. 176 pages

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Discover ways to access each of your students’ individual strengths, grow from their many differences, and tend to their unique learning needs.

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

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Inclusion Strategies & Interventions By Toby J. Karten

Inclusion means more than just preparing students to pass standardized tests and increasing academic levels. In inclusive classrooms, students with special educational needs are treated as integral members of the general education environment. Gain strategies to offer the academic, social, emotional, and behavioral benefits that allow all students to achieve their highest potential. 208 pages

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When Actions Speak Louder Than Words

Understanding the Challenging Behaviors of Young Children and Students With Disabilities By Kim Davis and Susan D. Dixon

Gain information and tools to support all children whose primary way to communicate is through challenging behaviors. 216 pages; grades K–6 23BCE–BKF274 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-60-4

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21st Century Skills & Technology

Available May 2012

Habitudes

Teaching Learning Habits and Attitudes in 21st Century Classrooms By Angela Maiers

Revised Edition You know students need to acquire 21st century skills. But when can you teach them? Learn how to use what you already teach to help students think critically, collaborate with others, solve new problems, and adapt to change across new learning contexts. Help students build the seven habitudes—habits of disciplined decisions and specific attitudes—they need to succeed.

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Creating a Digital-Rich Classroom Teaching & Learning in a Web 2.0 World By Meg Ormiston

Instead of asking students to power down during class, power up your lesson plans with digital tools. Design and deliver lessons in which technology plays an integral role. Engage students in solving real-world problems while staying true to standards-aligned curricula. This book provides a research base and practical strategies for using web 2.0 tools to create engaging lessons that transform and enrich content. 160 pages

Technology has changed the way students access information, make learning connections, and engage in meaningful conversation. Are you harnessing and utilizing its full teaching power? These resources will show you how.

The Connected Educator

Teaching the iGeneration

By Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Lani Ritter Hall

By William M. Ferriter and Adam Garry

Learning and Leading in a Digital Age

NEW! Create a connected learning community through social media and rediscover the power of being a learner first. After uncovering the theories and research behind the significance of learning through collaboration with other educators, the authors show you how to take advantage of technology to improve your own learning and ultimately the learning of your students. 208 pages

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5 Easy Ways to Introduce Essential Skills With Web 2.0 Tools Find the natural overlap between the work you already believe in and the digital tools that define tomorrow’s learning. Each chapter introduces an enduring skill: information fluency, persuasion, communication, collaboration, 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. 256 pages

Personal Learning Networks Using the Power of Connections to Transform Education

By Will Richardson and Rob Mancabelli

The Internet connects us in unprecedented ways. To prepare students to flourish in this new learning world, schools will need to transform themselves in important ways. This book is a road map for any educator thinking about using the web for learning. Build your own learning network, and use learning networks in the classroom and schoolwide to improve student outcomes. 168 pages

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Enriched Learning Projects

A Practical Pathway to 21st Century Skills By James 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

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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

Assertive Discipline®

Positive Behavior Management for Today’s Classroom By Lee Canter

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Classroom Management for Academic Success

Assertive Discipline®

This groundbreaking resource details effective management strategies you can implement from day one so that all students achieve in the classroom. Teacher-tested, research-based strategies create a classroom in which children learn free from the distraction of disruptive behavior. 304 pages; CD

By Lee Canter

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Positive Behavior Management for Today’s Classroom

Classroom Management

Pyramid of Behavior Interventions

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Your students crave clear expectations and positive, proactive support. Learn how to minimize distractions and keep the focus on learning.

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 the four key skill areas (community, motivation, responsibility, and school safety) essential to establishing an atmosphere that supports learning for all students. Each of the four video programs in this workshop focuses on one of these skills and includes proven and research-based strategies from experts Dr. Curwin and Dr. Mendler. Four 20-minute programs on DVD; 80-page Facilitator’s Guide (in print and on DVD)

Power Struggles

Successful Techniques for Educators By Allen N. Mendler and Brian D. Mendler

2nd Edition It’s every educator’s worst fear: losing control of the classroom. Regain the focus of challenging and resistant students with this practical resource on classroom management, discipline, and motivation. The dedicated authors re-examine the root causes of student misbehavior and offer a range of easy-to-implement instructions and activities—along with real-world stories of these strategies in action—to prevent and defuse future disruptive classroom moments. 96 pages

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Elements of Grading

Assessment

A Guide to Effective Practice By Douglas Reeves

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, timeliness—and also make the process quicker and more efficient. Examples, case studies, and opportunities for reflection facilitate individual and schoolwide examination of grading practices. 152 pages

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. Understand how to grade individual assignments and give report card grades that accurately reflect and clearly communicate student achievement. Clear, concrete examples help translate state standards into curriculum goals. 168 pages

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Balanced Assessment

From Formative to Summative By Kay Burke

Learn how to integrate formative and summative assessments seamlessly into instruction. The research, rationale, strategies, and examples provided in this book will help teachers develop their own repertoire of formative and summative assessments to monitor, grade, and make inferences about a student’s ability to meet standards and curriculum goals. Exercises at the end of each chapter provide opportunities to reflect and plan action steps. 176 pages

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The Teacher as Assessment Leader

Using Formative Assessment in the RTI Framework

Edited by Thomas R. Guskey

By Kay Burke and Eileen Depka

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

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

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Grading and Learning

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RTI and formative assessment have the potential to positively impact student achievement. Understand the basics of RTI and its connection to formative assessment and base instructional decisions on the results of effective formative assessment practices. Learn how to adjust instruction to increase levels of student understanding and achievement with the information, tools, and techniques presented in this practical guide. 144 pages

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Making Classroom Assessment Work

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By Anne Davies

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

3rd Edition This book combines powerful ideas with practical strategies to implement quality classroom assessment. Use assessment for learning to guide instruction, provide feedback, collect evidence of learning, present evidence of success, and produce accurate standards-based report cards. The framework provides a guide for teachers to follow—from involving students, parents, and community members in the assessment process to evaluating and reporting progress. 136 pages

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Embedded Formative Assessment

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Self-Assessment and Goal Setting

By Kathleen Gregory, Caren Cameron, and Anne Davies Foreword by Rick Stiggins

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By Kathleen Gregory, Caren Cameron, and Anne Davies Foreword by Heidi Andrade

2nd Edition Self-assessment and goal setting are key processes for helping students learn how to self-monitor and self-regulate their way to success. This book provides ways to motivate students to work harder while engaging in assessment for learning strategies that result in higher achievement. The authors include responses to commonly asked questions from students, teachers, and parents. 80 pages

Setting and Using Criteria By Kathleen Gregory, Caren Cameron, and Anne Davies Foreword by Sandra Herbst

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Response to Intervention

Four Essential Guiding Principles By Austin Buffum, Mike Mattos, and Chris Weber

NEW! The sequel to Pyramid Response to Intervention advocates that a successful RTI model begins by asking the right questions to create a fundamentally effective learning environment for every student. RTI is not a series of implementation steps, but rather a way of thinking. Understand why bureaucratic, paperwork-heavy, compliance-oriented, testscore-driven approaches fail. Then, learn how to create a focused RTI model that works. 232 pages

Pyramid Response to Intervention Four Essential Guiding Principles

Featuring Austin Buffum, Mike Mattos, and Chris Weber

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Implementing RTI With English Learners By Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Carol Rothenberg

Learn why response to intervention is the ideal framework for supporting English learners. Find clear guidelines for distinguishing between lack of language proficiency and learning disability. Follow the application and effectiveness of RTI through the stories of four representative students of varying ages, nationalities, and language proficiency levels. Throughout the book, the authors illustrate the benefits of implementing RTI in a professional learning community. 160 pages

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How RTI Works in Secondary Schools

Building a Framework for Success By Holly Windram, Kerry Bollman, and Sara Johnson

NEW! Focusing on the unique response to intervention challenges faced by those working in a secondary school—including larger student and educator populations, curriculum specializations, a growing achievement gap, and more—the authors outline three imperative components to a successful RTI program and then provide action steps and examples illustrating how each component should surface within the different RTI tiers. 240 pages; grades 6–12

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RTI & Differentiated Reading in the K–8 Classroom

RTI in Math

Make the transition from traditional, wholegroup reading instruction to the 21st century classroom by integrating three innovations that will dramatically improve elementary reading instruction: RTI, differentiated instruction, and technology. Detailed explanations, helpful case studies, and recommendations of current technologies bring these ideas to life. 208 pages; grades K–8

By William N. Bender and Darlene Crane

By William N. Bender and Laura Waller

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Practical Guidelines for Elementary Teachers This map of the RTI process offers an overview of research, detailed guidance through each stage of implementation, tools for teacher reflection and growth, and discussion of support strategies beyond the classroom. The authors analyze a variety of common student difficulties in elementary math and apply a three-tier RTI model to the general education classroom. 216 pages; grades K–5

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Raising the Bar and Closing the Gap Whatever It Takes

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

This expansion of Whatever It Takes: How Professional Learning Communities Respond When Kids Don’t Learn sharpens the focus on the pyramid of interventions strategy. The authors examine schools and districts across North America to illustrate how PLC at Work™ is a sustainable and transferable model 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. 256 pages

Learning by Doing

A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work™ By Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker, and Thomas Many

2nd Edition Through continuous work with educators, the authors have created a more powerful, practical resource for moving forward in the PLC process. Like the first edition, the second edition of Learning by Doing 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

Learning by Doing

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

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 team norms are managed; how teams organize, interact, and find time to meet; what products they produce; and what team conversations about the critical questions of student learning “look like.” 30-minute DVD; 40-page Facilitator’s Guide (in print and on CD) 23BCE–DVF023 $174.95 UPC 811796010285

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

The time of exclusive top-down leadership is over! Only teachers can transform education from inside the classroom, and this book defines best practices of collaborative teacher leadership. Specific techniques, supporting research, expert insight, and real classroom stories illustrate how to work together for student learning, create a guaranteed and viable curriculum, and use data to inform instruction. 232 pages

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The PLC at Work™ Cartoon Book By Martha F. Campbell

Foreword by Richard DuFour and Rebecca DuFour

This collection of clever cartoons shows the humorous side of working in a professional learning community. The book also features a foreword and introductory text for each chapter by Richard DuFour and Rebecca DuFour, who remind readers to keep a sense of humor along the journey to becoming a PLC. 144 pages 23BCE–BKF473 $19.95 ISBN 978-1-935543-09-1

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Team up for your data work! Got Data? Now What?

Creating and Leading Cultures of Inquiry By Laura Lipton and Bruce Wellman

NEW! 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.

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Plan books Teacher’s Plan Books #1–7 by Lee Canter are 112 pages, spiral-bound, and recommended for grades K–8.

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Strengthen your discipline efforts with weekly behavior-management tips and reminders.

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

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

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Integrate advanced behavior-management ideas into your curriculum.

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

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

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Professional Learning Communities at Work™ Plan Book

The School of Belonging Plan Book By David A. Levine

By Rebecca DuFour, Richard DuFour, and Robert Eaker

The Professional Learning Communities at Work™ Plan Book combines 40 weekly planning pages and space for eight class periods, with ideas and activities to help teachers and their collaborative teams work together to address crucial, teacher-specific PLC concepts. It presents essential school-improvement tips and inspirational testaments to last the entire academic year. 103 pages; spiral-bound 23BCE–BKF217 $12.95 ISBN 978-1-932127-95-9

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In a School of Belonging, communication, caring, and trust are the norm. Students are honored for their individual gifts and learn to honor other students in turn. 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 23BCE–BKF218 $12.95 ISBN 978-1-932127-94-2

Record Book Plus By Lee Canter

The needs of teachers have changed over the years. No longer is it enough to wait until the end of a quarter or semester to report progress to parents. 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, behaviormanagement documentation sheets, and parent communication resources with helpful tips and guidelines. 168 pages; spiral-bound; grades K–5 23BCE–BKF190 $12.95 ISBN 978-1-932127-59-1

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