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Online courses from Solution Tree are a class above the rest. Here are just a few reasons why: • Led by expert authors • Research-based professional learning • Immediate takeaways • Engaging, easy-to-use format • Interactive workshop environment • Real classroom footage • Meaningful reflection questions • Customizable options

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Looking for sustainable PD that impacts student learning? You’ve come to the right place. At Solution Tree, we offer our customers the best PD available—period. Expect nothing less from our online courses.

We have the experts. Our courses are created and presented by the leading names in education. Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, and Robert J. Marzano are just a few of the experts you will have the chance to learn from. Research-based professional learning is at the foundation of every course.

We offer the best variety of topics. Common Core. PLC at WorkTM. Response to intervention. You name the topic you want to improve or freshen up on, and we can meet your needs. Our online courses offer immediate implementation takeaways. Companion eBooks also come with every course, so you can dig deeper into the topic that interests you.

We use the best platform—the eClassroom. We have partnered with Knowledge Delivery Systems (KDS) to ensure you have the best tools. You will be fully engaged with video presentations, real classroom footage, and an interactive area where you can take notes, have discussions with colleagues, and answer reflection questions. The interactive workshop environment will bring the learning straight to your desk.

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English Learners

Assessment

21st Century Skills

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PLC at WorkTM

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Features Access to printable course resources Video units PowerPoint presentations 24-hour course access eBook Reflection questions Unit quizzes Scoring of participant work Certificate of completion Access to course portfolio Access to course transcript Customer support Classroom footage

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Midterm Final NOTE: This chart applies to all online courses except Foundations of the PLC Concept. See page 22 for more information.

Course completion can be applied toward license renewal. For license renewal, check with your state.

Credit is granted through Brandman University and is not transferrable. Brandman University, part of the prestigious Chapman University System of California, has provided adult learners with a quality education since 1958.

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No matter who you are or what you do, our courses offer the best benefits. Administrators, you’ll love our online courses! You’ll get deep learning to your teachers fast.

They’re designed by our world-renowned authors.

They offer unparalleled flexibility.

To make an impact on overall student achievement, you need more than just pockets of excellence in a grade level, school, or district. Our courses are perfect for developing a shared vision, mission, and understanding of content and effective practices across all levels.

These experts bring depth of knowledge of both research and real school practices to their online courses that most course designers simply don’t have.

Do you want your staff to earn CEU or graduate course credit? Do you need to get new teachers on the same page as veterans or introduce a brand new idea to a large group? Are you interested in PLCs? RTI? Assessment? The Common Core State Standards? We have a plan—and a course— that’s right for you.

Teachers, you’ll also love our online courses! EBOOK INCLUDED WITH COURSE

Learn what to implement into your instructional practices—and how.

You already have everything you need to make it work.

You’ll work at a pace that makes sense with your schedule.

Every course offers a dynamic and integrated approach to learning. You’ll find that the interviews, progress quizzes, reflection questions, and real classroom footage will empower and motivate you to take what you’ve learned to your classroom immediately.

No hotel rooms. No airfare or caravan arrangements. And no special software. You’ll be able to access your coursework anyplace with an Internet connection.

We know that you lead a very busy life. That’s why your coursework will be available to you 24 hours a day. As you move through each unit, it’s easy to go back and review course materials.

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Under the Progress & Credits tab, you’ll see exactly how far you are in each unit and how you’re performing each step of the way.

Review all unit videos, along with accompanying PowerPoint presentations.

This is the course outline, where you navigate through the units.

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Common Core NEW!

Common Core State Standards in Mathematics, Grades 3–8 Presenters: Diane J. Briars and Timothy D. Kanold CEU 3-Credit

29OCB–KDS034 $279.00 29OCB–KDS035 $499.00

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In this timely and practical course, Dr. Kanold and Dr. Briars explain both the whys and the how-tos for implementing the CCSS. You’ll gain strategies for teaching for understanding, tools for planning lessons and evaluating assessments, and classroom-ready tasks that put theory into practice. You’ll also visit classrooms where educators are piloting the CCSS to see their results.

• Support the eight Mathematical Practices. • Maintain high cognitive demand. • Include assessing and advancing questions for formative assessment. • Meet the needs of all learners.

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NEW! 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

29OCB–BKF568 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-00-6

This teacher guide illustrates how to sustain successful team implementation of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, grades 3–5. Download free reproducibles go.solution-tree.com/commoncore A Joint Publication With the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

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An invaluable resource for grade 3–5 teachers. . . . The impressive team of authors has produced a rich set of collaborative team tasks to guide groups of teachers in thoughtful discussions of mathematical content and practices, instructional design, assessment, and differentiation.” —Jane F. Schielack, associate dean for assessment and preK–12 education, College of Science, Texas A&M University

Assessment NEW!

Assessment and the Common Core State Standards Presenter: Kay Burke CEU 29OCB–KDS013 $279.00 3-Credit 29OCB–KDS014 $499.00 Included eBook: Balanced Assessment

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

• Identify power standards. • Collaborate with grade-level or subject-area teams to create common assessments. • Create performance tasks, checklists, and rubrics appropriate to your grade level or subject area. • Use formal and informal assessment tools to improve instruction and evaluate mastery of the standards.

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Balanced Assessment From Formative to Summative By Kay Burke Learn how to integrate formative and summative assessments seamlessly into instruction. Research, rationale, strategies, and examples help teachers develop their own repertoire of assessments to monitor, grade, and gauge a student’s ability to meet standards and curriculum goals. 29OCB–BKF272 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-52-9

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A comprehensive overview of the critical role that assessments, both formative and summative, play in today’s classrooms. Burke promotes the use of performance-based tasks that make real-life connections, and she explains how to use rubrics to assess the critical skills and understanding that the tasks target.” —Lisa Almeida, senior professional development associate, The Leadership and Learning Center

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Assessment Formative Assessment and Standards-Based Grading Presenters: Tammy Heflebower and Robert J. Marzano CEU 29OCB–KDS007 $279.00 3-Credit 29OCB–KDS008 $499.00 Included eBook: Formative Assessment & Standards-Based Grading

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Overview Dr. Marzano and Dr. Heflebower walk course participants through the research and theories that support what kind of feedback, assessment, and grading students need in order to learn. You’ll also learn how to construct assessments, create rubric-based scales to inform both formative and summative assessments, and monitor and affect students’ progress.

• Design multiple assessments that inform instructional design. • Clarify learning goals for your students. • Develop rubrics, or proficiency scales, to guide students’ learning. • Track students’ progress through research-tested methods. • Assess students for grades with consistent, reliable, and valid methods.

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Formative Assessment & Standards-Based Grading By Robert J. Marzano Bestseller! Learn how to design, interpret, and systematically use three different types of formative assessments and how to track student progress and assign meaningful grades. Download free reproducibles marzanoresearch.com/classroomstrategies 29OCB–BKL003 $29.95 ISBN 978-0-9822592-2-1

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Robert Marzano cuts to the heart of assessment and grading in this essential book. Although there is a mountain of research on the impact of feedback on student learning, teacher feedback is impotent unless it is accurate, timely, and designed to improve performance. With compelling evidence and practical exercises, this book builds a necessary bridge from theory to practice.” —Douglas B. Reeves, chairman, The Leadership and Learning Center

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Assessment NEW!

Grading A Guide to Effective Practice Presenters: Kris Nielsen and Douglas B. Reeves CEU 29OCB–KDS028 $279.00 3-Credit 29OCB–KDS029 $499.00 Included eBook: Elements of Grading

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Overview Ensure that your grading systems are accurate, fair, specific, and timely. Learn processes for evaluating your current grading system, discussing contentious grading issues with colleagues, and engaging all stakeholders in the feedback and grading process. The presenters address why grading is so important, what relevant factors should influence grades, and how to reconcile qualitative experience with quantitative evidence of learning.

• Analyze and revise your current grading practices. • Employ effective feedback to impact student achievement. • Analyze what makes students high or low grade earners. • Discover when to apply grades to student work. • Conduct “reality checks” to assess the effectiveness of your grading.

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Elements of Grading A Guide to Effective Practice By Douglas B. Reeves Learn several strategies for improving grading practices, while examining the common arguments against reform. The book includes examples, case studies, and opportunities for reflection. Download free reproducibles go.solution-tree.com/assessment 29OCB–BKF410 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-12-4

Elements of Grading is accessible not only to read but to implement, and yet it can have world-changing consequences. You will not want to miss this one.” —Lucy Calkins, director of the Reading and Writing Project, Teacher’s College, Columbia University

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Instruction NEW!

Becoming a Reflective Teacher Presenter: Robert J. Marzano CEU 29OCB–KDS022 $279.00 3-Credit 29OCB–KDS023 $499.00 Included eBook: Becoming a Reflective Teacher

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

• Conduct a complete self-audit of your practice. • Articulate growth goals. • Pursue growth goals through the establishing of protocols and focused strategies. • Solicit feedback from students and colleagues. • Improve your practice through the reflection process.

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Becoming a Reflective Teacher By Robert J. Marzano With Tina Boogren, Tammy Heflebower, Jessica Kanold-McIntyre, and Debra J. Pickering

Bestseller! Learn how to combine a model of effective instruction with goal setting, focused practice, focused feedback, and observations to improve your instructional practices. Included are 280 strategies related to the 41 elements of effective teaching proven to enhance student achievement. 29OCB–BKL011 $34.95 ISBN 978-0-9833512-3-8

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Reflection is at the core of professional practice, at the core of deepening instruction. Becoming a Reflective Teacher is a valuable and practical resource . . . packed with strategies, tools and examples for focusing reflection and self-assessing the outcomes. I see teachers and teams routinely accessing its wealth of —Gail Ghere, assistant administrator, Office of Leadership Development, Saint Paul Public Schools, Minnesota

Instruction NEW!

Differentiation and the Brain Presenters: David A. Sousa and Carol Ann Tomlinson CEU 29OCB–KDS024 $279.00 3-Credit 29OCB–KDS025 $499.00 Included eBook: Differentiation and the Brain

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

• Embrace a growth mind-set to effect student achievement. • Create a cooperative classroom environment. • Develop a high-quality curriculum. • Employ assessment strategies. • Lead and manage differentiated classrooms.

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Differentiation and the Brain How Neuroscience Supports the Learner-Friendly Classroom By David A. Sousa and Carol Ann Tomlinson

29OCB–BKF353 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-935249-59-7

Examine the basic principles of differentiation in light of educational neuroscience research that will help you make the most effective curricular, instructional, and assessment choices. Learn how to implement differentiation so that it achieves the desired result of shared responsibility between teacher and student. Download free reproducibles go.solution-tree.com/instruction

Tomlinson and Sousa emphasize that differentiation is a shared responsibility between teacher and student. They provide a solid rationale for differentiation in educational neuroscience and then offer practical strategies for embedding differentiation into our classroom practices. This will be a go-to resource for teachers!” —Diane Heacox, author of Differentiating Instruction in the Regular Classroom and Making Differentiation a Habit

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Leadership Transforming School Culture Presenter: Anthony Muhammad CEU 29OCB–KDS001 $279.00 3-Credit 29OCB–KDS002 $499.00 Included eBook: Transforming School Culture

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Dr. Muhammad sheds new light on the diverse issues of resistant staff. Explore the root causes of staff resistance to change, and learn immediate, accessible strategies that improve school culture. Dr. Muhammad provides the framework for understanding dynamic relationships within a school culture and ensuring a positive environment that supports the changes necessary to improve learning for all students.

• Strategize to build on staff assets. • Reflect on your own contributions to the school’s culture. • Overcome resistance and lay the foundation for a powerful learning environment. • Develop a plan for transforming school culture.

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Transforming School Culture How to Overcome Staff Division By Anthony Muhammad Foreword by Richard DuFour

Bestseller! Busy administrators will appreciate this quick read packed with immediate, accessible strategies. This book provides the framework for understanding dynamic relationships within a school culture and ensuring a positive environment that supports the changes necessary to improve learning for all students. 29OCB–BKF281 $19.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-45-1

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Muhammad issues a passionate call for all educators to confront the fierce urgency of now and to take meaningful steps that breathe new life into schools and the students they serve.” —From the foreword by Richard DuFour, author and consultant

Response to Intervention Pyramid Response to Intervention How to Respond When Kids Don’t Learn Presenters: Austin Buffum, Mike Mattos, and Chris Weber CEU 29OCB–KDS004 $279.00 3-Credit 29OCB–KDS005 $499.00 Included eBook: Pyramid Response to Intervention

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Austin Buffum, Mike Mattos, and Chris Weber share their experience implementing response to intervention. These experts take participants through the critical stages of establishing professional learning communities in schools and districts, using universal screening tools to ascertain students’ learning needs, and devising interventions for students at three tiers.

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• Facilitate a professional learning community in your school or district. • Locate and utilize universal screening tools to ascertain students’ needs. • Devise appropriate interventions at each of three tiers. • Monitor student progress and revise interventions accordingly. • Conduct productive team meetings.

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

Simplifying Response to Intervention Four Essential Guiding Principles

By Austin Buffum, Mike Mattos, and Chris Weber

Bestseller! The sequel to Pyramid Response to Intervention advocates that effective RTI begins by asking the right questions to create a fundamentally effective learning environment for every student. Understand why paperworkheavy, compliance-oriented, test-score-driven approaches fail. Then learn how to create an RTI model that works.

By Austin Buffum, Mike Mattos, and Chris Weber

Foreword by Richard DuFour

29OCB–BKF251 $27.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-33-8

Bestseller! Accessible language and compelling stories illustrate how RTI is most effective when built on the Professional Learning Communities at Work™ process. Written by award-winning educators, this book details three tiers of interventions—from basic to intensive—and includes implementation ideas. Download free reproducibles go.solution-tree.com/rti

29OCB–BKF506 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-935543-65-7

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School Improvement NEW!

Teaching Boys in Poverty Presenters: Ruby K. Payne and Jim Littlejohn CEU 29OCB–KDS030 $279.00 3-Credit 29OCB–KDS031 $499.00 Included eBook: Boys in Poverty

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Overview Ruby K. Payne and Jim Littlejohn provide invaluable insight about boys who grow up in poverty and how to reach them in school, based on research about their physical, cognitive, and emotional development. Learn how to keep these boys engaged and how to support those at risk of dropping out.

• Counter the impact of poverty on boys’ development. • Employ instructional strategies to accommodate the needs of boys from poverty through their physical, emotional, cognitive, and social development. • Develop productive and nurturing relationships with boys from poverty in school settings.

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Boys in Poverty A Framework for Understanding Dropout By Ruby K. Payne and Paul D. Slocumb Foreword by Michael Gurian

29OCB–BKF383 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-22-3

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

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Payne and Slocumb are wise guides on this journey, and I am personally and professionally thankful to them for letting me walk with them down this difficult and ultimately hopeful road.” —Michael Gurian, New York Times best-selling author of The Minds of Boys, The Wonder of Boys, and Boys and Girls Learn Differently

School Improvement Motivating and Engaging Students Presenters: Robert J. Marzano and Debra J. Pickering CEU 29OCB–KDS010 $279.00 3-Credit 29OCB–KDS011 $499.00 Included eBook: The Highly Engaged Classroom

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Dr. Marzano and Dr. Pickering show participants how to raise students’ energy levels, demonstrate a positive demeanor, express enthusiasm, and use humor to create a classroom culture in which all students are accepted and challenged. Learn to facilitate emotions for students such as enthusiasm, interest, enjoyment, satisfaction, and pride, so that those students can positively answer the question “How do I feel?”

• Execute specific strategies to engage students throughout their learning. • Assess students’ engagement. • Use four categories of strategies on a daily basis: effective pacing, demonstrating intensity and enthusiasm, building positive teacher-student and student-student relationships, and using effective verbal feedback.

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The Highly Engaged Classroom By Robert J. Marzano and Debra J. Pickering With Tammy Heflebower

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

29OCB–BKL005 $29.95 ISBN 978-0-9822592-4-5

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The Highly Engaged Classroom will give you specific, exciting, and fresh approaches to genuinely empower your students. The learner moves to the driver’s seat as teachers equip them with tools to learn from feedback and navigate their future.” —Heidi Hayes Jacobs, executive director, Curriculum Mapping Institute

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Literacy NEW!

Elementary Reading Intervention Strategies, Grades K–6 Presenter: Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins CEU 29OCB–KDS016 $279.00 3-Credit 29OCB–KDS017 $499.00 Included eBook: 40 Reading Intervention Strategies for K–6 Students

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Prevent reading struggles and promote authentic literacy by mastering the art of proactive reading instruction. Then prepare yourself to intervene immediately and effectively at the first signs of students’ struggles by building a personal menu of research-based strategies. From phonics to comprehension, Dr. McEwan-Adkins shows how to help your students develop essential skills. Learn routines and activities that will make them all confident, able readers.

• Implement proactive strategies to prevent literacy problems. • Deliver reading interventions that address existing literacy problems. • Facilitate elementary school students’ literacy through research-based strategies. • Provide differentiated, systematic, direct instruction in essential reading skills.

EBOOK INCLUDED WITH COURSE 40 Reading Intervention Strategies for K–6 Students Research-Based Support for RTI By Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins 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. 29OCB–BKF270 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-50-5

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Aligned with current literacy research, this resource provides teachers with a wide range of specific suggestions for gradeappropriate interventions matched to an identified area of need. Busy educators will appreciate the clear and concise explanations and sample lessons for the 40 interventions designed to accelerate student progress.” —Lois Lanning, assistant superintendent of schools, Pomperaug Regional School District 15, Connecticut

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English Learners NEW!

Teaching Reading and Comprehension to English Learners, Grades K–5 Presenter: Margarita Calderón CEU 29OCB–KDS019 $279.00 3-Credit 29OCB–KDS020 $499.00 Included eBook: Teaching Reading & Comprehension to English Learners, K–5

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Dr. Calderón outlines techniques for elementary teachers seeking to improve the reading and comprehension skills of ELs in their classrooms. With straightforwardness, patience, and humor, Dr. Calderón leads workshop participants through the steps needed to select vocabulary for reading, preteach this vocabulary, and model comprehension strategies like think-alouds and partner reading. Writing and editing strategies complete the picture.

• Develop a seven-step process to preteach vocabulary. • Implement strategies to teach reading comprehension, including think-alouds and partner reading. • Create strategies to teach writing and editing. • Reflect on your own practices with the goal of improving the reading, writing, and editing skills of ELs.

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EBOOK INCLUDED WITH COURSE Teaching Reading & Comprehension to English Learners, K–5 By Margarita Calderón Raise achievement for English learners through new instructional strategies and assessment processes. 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. 29OCB–BKF402 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-03-2

Packed with practical strategies for using RTI methods appropriately with ELs, teaching vocabulary in context at each lesson stage, building comprehension skills, mastering more effective reading and writing approaches, and on and on. Keep your highlighter handy for ideas you can try tomorrow in class!” —Tim Boals, director, World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment (WIDA)

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21st Century Skills NEW!

Using Web 2.0 in Teaching and Instruction Presenters: William M. Ferriter and Adam Garry CEU 29OCB–KDS026 $279.00 3-Credit 29OCB–KDS027 $499.00 Included eBook: Teaching the iGeneration

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Discover how you can use today’s technology to create classroom experiences that encourage your students to learn. The presenters help you see the world as students see it in this thoughtprovoking, lively, and current course. Through teacher workshops and middle-school classroom demonstrations, they provide practical suggestions for using new technology to teach “old-school” skills.

• Identify skills that provide endurance, leverage, and readiness. • Learn tools like Google’s “Related Search” to subcategorize topics, focus research efforts, and direct students. • Use a rubric to rate the reliability of a website. • Improve students’ abilities to participate in respectful discussions. • Teach the specifics of collaborative versus competitive dialogue. • Develop students’ skills in using statistics, star statements, and stories to craft persuasive arguments.

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Teaching the iGeneration 5 Easy Ways to Introduce Essential Skills With Web 2.0 Tools By William M. Ferriter and Adam Garry

29OCB–BKF393 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-935249-93-1

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 life skill and a digital solution to enhance traditional skillbased instructional practices. A collection of handouts and supporting materials ends each chapter. Download free reproducibles go.solution-tree.com/technology Free Study Guide Online

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Managing information in the 21st century, collaborating, problem solving, communication, visual literacy, projects, rubrics—it’s all here. William Ferriter and Adam Garry understand that it’s not about the tools, it’s all about the skills.” —Howie DiBlasi, technology and educational consultant, Digital Journey, Texas

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21st Century Skills Presenter: James A. Bellanca CEU 29OCB–KDS036 $279.00 3-Credit 29OCB–KDS037 $499.00 Included eBook: 21st Century Skills

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

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21st Century Skills Rethinking How Students Learn Edited by James A. Bellanca and Ron Brandt By John Barell, Linda Darling-Hammond, Chris Dede, Rebecca DuFour, Richard DuFour, Douglas Fisher, Robin J. Fogarty, Nancy Frey, Howard Gardner, Andy Hargreaves, David W. Johnson, Roger T. Johnson, Ken Kay, Cheryl Lemke, Jay McTighe, Alan November, Bob Pearlman, Brian M. Pete, Douglas B. Reeves, Will Richardson, and Elliott Seif

With 21st century skills, students will be prepared to think, learn, work, solve problems, communicate, collaborate, and contribute effectively throughout their lives.” —From the foreword by Ken Kay, president, Partnership for 21st Century Skills

29OCB–BKF389 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-935249-90-0 Foreword by Ken Kay

Examine the Framework for 21st Century Learning from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills as a way to re-envision learning in a rapidly evolving global and technological world. Learn why these skills are necessary, which are most important, and how to best help schools include them. Download free chapters with web links go.solution-tree.com/21stcenturyskills Free Study Guide Online 800.733.6786

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Designed to complement your other PD resources, online courses are an easy way to maximize your learning.

Integrate your online course into other forms of PD for the most dynamic results. 1. Get a sense of what’s at stake and who can help: check out free webinars and watch video clips of expert presenters at solution-tree.com, and then share them with decision makers.

2. Bring a masterful presenter who knows the content, the standards, and best practice to your school or district.

3. Ensure continuous, year-round learning: online courses allow all staff to work at their own pace to build shared knowledge. Ask about special options to create a collaborative, customized experience for your school or district.

4. Follow our experts’ blogs and websites to learn more and stay on the cutting edge of learning.

Make your learning curve a learning spike! Attend an event to supplement your online course. 1. Choose from a variety of online courses to ensure implementation of best practice in every classroom across a school or district.

2. Send a small team to one of our workshops to learn strategies to bring back to your school or district.

3. Don’t see a workshop that fits your needs? We can create a customized workshop to deliver on-site at your school.

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Related Workshops Pair your online course with a workshop for a dynamic learning experience. Workshop Assessments for State and Common Core Standards

Online Course Assessment and the Common Core State Standards (p. 7)

2012 October 16–17 Minneapolis, MN November 26–27 San Diego, CA 2013 March 25–26 April 15–16

Boston, MA Chicago, IL

Common Core Mathematics in a PLC 2012 November 15–16

San José, CA

Common Core State Standards in Mathematics, Grades 3–8 (p. 6)

Elementary Reading Intervention Strategies Elementary Reading Intervention Strategies, Grades K–6 (p. 16) 2012 November 29–30

San Diego, CA

2013 March 11–12 April 17–18 May 6–7

Seattle, WA Chicago, IL St. Paul, MN

Pyramid Response to Intervention 2013 March 13–14 March 13–14 April 10–11 April 24–25 May 1–2 May 2–3 May 8–9 May 8–9 May 14–15

San Antonio, TX Seattle, WA Santa Ana, CA St. Charles, MO West Palm Beach, FL San José, CA Denver, CO St. Paul, MN San Diego, CA

Teaching Reading and Comprehension to K–5 ELs 2012 November 13–14 November 28–29

Pyramid Response to Intervention (p. 13)

Teaching Reading and Comprehension to English Learners, Grades K–5 (p. 17)

San José, CA San Diego, CA

Teaching the iGeneration 2012 October 16–17

Denver, CO

2013 March 27–28 April 4–5

San Diego, CA St. Paul, MN

Using Web 2.0 in Teaching and Instruction (p. 18)

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PLC at Work

Foundations of the PLC Concept Presenters: Rebecca DuFour and Richard DuFour CEU 29OCB–OTF010 $279.00 30 contact hours Included book: Revisiting Professional Learning Communities at WorkTM

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Begin with a general overview of the PLC process, and explore specific ideas and questions that drive the work of the members of a PLC. You’ll also develop the common vocabulary essential to implementing the PLC concept; examine and utilize strategies for building consensus; engage in the process of creating the shared mission, vision, collective commitments, and goals that constitute the foundation of a PLC; and more.

• Define and analyze the meaning of key terms used in developing, establishing, and sustaining a PLC. • Analyze research on the effectiveness of PLCs, and evaluate the positions taken by professional organizations on the PLC concept. • Identify specific strategies to advance a school on the PLC continuum by analyzing the Three Big Ideas, Four Critical Questions, and shared beliefs that drive the work of a PLC. • Compare and contrast traditional practices to specific indicators that would be present in a high-performing PLC.

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Revisiting Professional Learning Communities at WorkTM New Insights for Improving Schools By Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, and Robert Eaker This 10th-anniversary sequel to the pivotal book Professional Learning Communities at Work™ offers advanced insights on deep implementation, the commitment/consensus issue, and the human side of PLCs. Gain greater knowledge of common mistakes to avoid and new discoveries for success. 29OCB–BKF252 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-32-1 Free Study Guide Online

The authors’ work on professional learning communities has spawned one of the most substantial reform movements in the last decade, if not the most substantial. This book expands and even further clarifies how schools can use the authors’ powerful concepts.” —Robert J. Marzano, author and cofounder/CEO, Marzano Research Laboratory

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