Leadership

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Drive momentum, impact change As a leader, you know that building momentum is crucial to creating lasting change. You also understand that sustaining change requires resources and energy that can be difficult to manage on your own. That’s where we come in.

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At Solution Tree, we believe in action-oriented PD. Each of our resources—from books to on-site training, events to online courses—spurs a plan to get you moving, no matter where you are on your journey. Browse these pages to get a sense of what we offer, and we’ll help you find the perfect fit.

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Leaders who call upon others to engage in new work, achieve new standards, and accomplish new goals have a responsibility to develop the capacity of those they lead to be successful in meeting these challenges.

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Contents Leadership 3 Professional Learning Communities TM at Work 8 Common Core 10 Response to Intervention 11 Assessment 12 Online Courses 13 On-Site PD 14 Order Form 15 2

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Leadership Leaders of Learning

District Leadership That Works

How District, School, and Classroom Leaders Improve Student Achievement

Striking the Right Balance

By Richard DuFour and Robert J. Marzano

Bridge the divide between administrative duties and daily classroom impact with a leadership mechanism called defined autonomy. Learn strategies for creating district-defined goals while giving building-level staff the stylistic freedom to respond quickly and effectively to student failure. 168 pages

By Robert J. Marzano and Timothy Waters

Bestseller Together, the authors focus on district leadership, principal leadership, and team leadership and address how individual teachers can be most effective in leading students—by learning with colleagues how to implement the most promising pedagogy in their classrooms. 248 pages

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Transforming School Culture

Transforming School Culture

How to Overcome Staff Division

Presenter: Anthony Muhammad

By Anthony Muhammad

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.

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. 144 pages

Online course

Included eBook: Transforming School Culture CEUs: 33BCB–KDS001 $279.00 3 Semester Hours: 33BCB–KDS002 $499.00

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Working With Difficult & Resistant Staff

The Will to Lead, the Skill to Teach

By John F. Eller and Sheila A. Eller

Transforming Schools at Every Level

To move forward in the school improvement process, school leaders must address the behaviors of difficult and resistant staff members while sending the message that a few people cannot halt change. This book will help school leaders understand how to prevent and address negative behaviors to ensure positive school change. 144 pages

By Anthony Muhammad and Sharroky Hollie

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Bestseller The authors acknowledge both the structural and sociological issues that contribute to low-performing schools and offer multiple tools and strategies to assess and improve classroom management, increase literacy, establish academic vocabulary, and contribute to a healthier school culture. 176 pages 33BCB–BKF443 $19.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-54-4

NEW! Leadership NOW: A Collaborative Summit for Administrators and Teachers Presenters: Richard DuFour, Robert J. Marzano, Sir Ken Robinson, Anthony Muhammad, Kenneth C. Williams, Rebecca DuFour, Tammy Heflebower, Timothy D. Kanold, and Phil Warrick

April 24–26

Richard DuFour

Las Vegas, NV

Robert J. Marzano

Sir Ken Robinson

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

Learning Outcomes

• Gain an understanding of how to create high standards of achievement for all students.

• Acquire techniques for consensus building, strategic planning, and vision development.

• Develop effective systems of job-embedded professional development.

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Leadership Why Social Media Matters

Leading a Learning Organization

School Communication in the Digital Age

The Science of Working With Others

By Kitty Porterfield and Meg Carnes

By Casey Reason

Foreword by Daniel A. Domenech

Improve the quality of organizational learning in your school. The author draws on educational, psychological, and neuroscientific research to show how leaders can change the prevailing emotional climate or tone of a school to promote deeper learning at all levels. 192 pages

Here’s everything you need to know to begin building a social media platform that nurtures relationships and garners support from your key stakeholders, including step-by-step instructions on how to use three of today’s most popular tools for social media: Twitter, Facebook, and blogs.

160 pages

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Developing Connective Leadership

Leading With Trust

Successes With Thinking Maps ®

How to Build Strong School Teams

By Larry Alper, Kimberly Williams, and David Hyerle

By Susan Stephenson

Explore leadership from the inside out, and define a visual language for thinking with Thinking Maps®.

Examine personal reflectiveness, interpersonal interactions, schoolwide change processes, and more—all to bring you back to leading connectively and collaboratively. 168 pages

Identify causes of distrust, and learn how to discuss traditionally taboo topics. This book offers strategies based on substantial findings from the latest research. Activities help team leaders engage staff and move the community toward a more trusting environment. 264 pages 33BCB–BKF282 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-46-8

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Leadership 180

The School Board Fieldbook

Daily Meditations on School Leadership

Leading With Vision

By Dennis Sparks

By Mark Van Clay and Perry Soldwedel

This daily inspirational book contains 180 meditations for busy school leaders. Each page contains a quote focused on an essential leadership topic and a translation into a powerful “Today I will . . .” statement that integrates the reflection into daily practice. 208 pages

Take a reader-friendly tour through the responsibilities and challenges of being a school board member. Award-winning administrators give practical guidance on how to best work with school administrators and staff to create and fulfill a shared vision of school system excellence. 176 pages

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Breaking the Poverty Barrier

Boys in Poverty

Changing Student Lives With Passion, Perseverance, and Performance

A Framework for Understanding Dropout

By Ricardo LeBlanc-Esparza and William S. Roulston

Foreword by Michael Gurian

Strong leadership, parent involvement, mentoring, data-based intervention, and high expectations are known factors in student success. This book illustrates the specific strategies and critical steps that transformed a school with shockingly low proficiency into a National Showcase School.

216 pages 33BCB–BKF476 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-935543-14-5

By Ruby K. Payne and Paul D. Slocumb

Examine risk factors for dropout among boys living in poverty, especially generational poverty. The book structures issues according to boys’ physical, emotional, cognitive, and social development and also explores the unique problems of sensitive, gay, gifted, ADHD, and postadolescent males. 160 pages 33BCB–BKF383 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-22-3

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Leadership

As a leader, you don’t have to know all the answers—you just have to know where to find them. Turn to the Leading Edge series.

Breaking Through

Rebuilding the Foundation

Effective Instruction & Assessment for Reaching English Learners

Effective Reading Instruction for 21st Century Literacy

Edited by Margarita Calderón

Edited by Timothy V. Rasinski

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

This book provides educators with a whole-school approach to helping English learners achieve academically while they learn English. 288 pages; hardcover

This book presents a deep and thoughtful conversation about what is meant by effective reading instruction for all students. 352 pages; hardcover 33BCB–BKF399 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-00-1

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Mind, Brain, & Education

On Excellence in Teaching

Neuroscience Implications for the Classroom

Edited by Robert J. Marzano

Edited by David A. Sousa

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

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

The world’s best education researchers, theorists, and staff developers provide a comprehensive view of instruction from a theoretical, systemic, and classroom perspective. 392 pages; hardcover

Understanding how the brain learns helps teachers do their jobs more effectively. Primary researchers share the latest findings in neuroscience, as well as applications, examples, and innovative strategies. 312 pages; hardcover

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21st Century Skills

Ahead of the Curve

Rethinking How Students Learn

The Power of Assessment to Transform Teaching and Learning

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 Foreword by Ken Kay

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

408 pages; hardcover

Edited by Douglas B. Reeves

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

Bestseller Leaders in education contribute their perspectives on effective assessment design and implementation, sending out a call for redirecting assessment to improve student achievement and inform instruction. 280 pages; hardcover 33BCB–BKF232 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-06-2

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On Common Ground

Change Wars

The Power of Professional Learning Communities

Edited by Andy Hargreaves and Michael Fullan

Edited by Richard DuFour, Robert Eaker, and Rebecca DuFour

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

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Bestseller Examine a colorful cross section of educators’ experiences with PLCs. This collection of insights from education leaders throughout North America highlights the benefits of PLCs. 272 pages; hardcover 33BCB–BKF180 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-932127-42-3

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

What can organizations do to create profound, enduring changes? International experts prove successful change can be a realistic goal and then explore constructive alternatives to traditional change strategies. 304 pages; hardcover 33BCB–BKF254 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-31-4

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Leadership

Solution Tree is proud to partner with the National Association of Elementary School Principals and distinguished experts to deliver books dedicated soley to K–8 principals.

How to Interview, Hire, & Retain HighQuality New Teachers

The School Leader’s Guide to Grading

By John C. Daresh and Bridget N. Daresh

NEW! Ensure your school’s grading procedures are supportive of learning, accurate, meaningful, and consistent. Discover how the “seven essential Ps” can improve your effectiveness in supporting assessment and communicating student achievement. Learn how to avoid inaccurate grades and what causes them. 112 pages

NEW! 3rd Edition The key to student success starts in the classroom. The authors use firsthand experiences and observations to guide readers through effective processes for recruiting, interviewing, hiring, and supporting faculty who best fit the needs of individual schools. 104 pages

By Ken O’Connor

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Strengthening the Connection Between School & Home

Creating Physical & Emotional Security in Schools

By Ricardo LeBlanc-Esparza and Kym LeBlanc-Esparza

By Kenneth C. Williams

NEW! 2nd Edition Examine the pivotal role family engagement plays in student achievement with this research-based guide. Leaders will find specific strategies to involve families, including 11 ways to create a family-friendly school and advice for connecting with families who are hard to reach.

96 pages

2nd Edition Give your students a physically and emotionally safe learning environment. Learn how you and your teachers can nurture supportive relationships with students, develop conflict management strategies, prevent different forms of bullying, develop student initiative and resilience, and encourage celebration. 80 pages 33BCB–BKF451 $19.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-78-0

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The School Leader’s Guide to Special Education

Data-Based Decision Making

By Margaret J. McLaughlin and Kristin Ruedel

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

3rd Edition You have IEPs and BIPs in place, but are they really working? Find a refresher on the key legal rights of students with disabilities, along with methods for designing and implementing IEPs and BIPs that work, approaches to creating effective instruction and assessment practices, and more.

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The School Leader’s Guide to English Learners

By Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey

English learners face a difficult challenge: learning in English. How, then, do you set reasonable expectations for developing proficiency? School leaders will learn how to assess the individual needs of ELs, how to create a quality instructional program, and how to evaluate performance. 96 pages 33BCB–BKF540 $19.95 ISBN 978-1-936765-17-1

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By Edie L. Holcomb

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The School Leader’s Guide to Professional Learning Communities TM at Work

By Richard DuFour and Rebecca DuFour

Are you a K–8 principal looking to implement the PLC at Work™ process? Explore the components needed to lay the foundation, including how to develop a structure that supports collaborative teams, how to focus on effective monitoring strategies, and more. 120 pages 33BCB–BKF489 $19.95 ISBN 978-1-935543-36-7

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The Essentials for Principals series and What Principals Need to Know series offer the content-area and pedagogical expertise every administrator needs to be an effective instructional leader.

Leadership

Effective Program Evaluation

Mobile Learning Devices

By Mardale Dunsworth and Dawn Billings

By Kipp D. Rogers

2nd Edition Educators and administrators are increasingly coming to realize the importance of making decisions based on reliable, accurate data. This short guide provides a clear and easily implemented blueprint for evaluating academic programs, practices, or strategies using a simple framework. 96 pages

Learn exactly what mobile learning is, how to introduce MLDs into your school, and how to ensure that teachers and students use them appropriately to enhance 21st century learning. Logistical implementation tips and examples of effective lesson plans are included. 96 pages 33BCB–BKF445 $19.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-69-8

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By William M. Ferriter, Jason T. Ramsden, and Eric C. Sheninger

By Patricia M. Cunningham and James W. Cunningham

In this short text, the authors examine how enterprising schools are using social media tools to provide customized professional development for teachers and to transform communication practices with staff, students, parents, and other stakeholders.

104 pages

NEW! 2nd Edition Principals will discover strategies for improving reading programs using the foundation established by the six truths of reading instruction. Explore comprehensive techniques, troubleshoot problems your teachers may face, and gain valuable approaches to topics such as reading comprehension, vocabulary and literacy, and phonics and fluency. 128 pages

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What Principals Need to Know About Differentiated Instruction

What Principals Need to Know About Teaching and Learning Mathematics

By Gayle Gregory

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

2nd Edition This valuable resource gives administrators the knowledge and skills needed to enable teachers to implement and sustain differentiation. Learn information and strategies to jump-start, guide, and coach teachers as they respond to the needs of diverse students. 96 pages 33BCB–BKF536 $19.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-50-6

This must-have resource offers support and encouragement for improved mathematics achievement across every grade level. With an emphasis on Principles and Standards for School Mathematics and Common Core State Standards, this book covers the importance of mathematics content, learning and instruction, and mathematics assessment. 136 pages 33BCB–BKF501 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935543-55-8

What Principals Need to Know About Teaching and Learning Science

By Eric C. Sheninger and Keith Devereaux

2nd Edition This accessible resource offers practical strategies for increasing student achievement in science and fostering a school environment that supports the science curriculum. With checklists, assessments, and reproducibles that you can share with stakeholders, discover how to improve science instruction and sustain a strong science program.

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What Principals Need to Know About the Basics of Creating Brain-Compatible Classrooms

By David A. Sousa

Understand the basics for creating a braincompatible classroom with this brief, accessible guide customized for principals. This book provides an overview of educational neuroscience designed to help principals construct meaningful professional development that enhances teachers’ knowledge and skills about brain-compatible learning.

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Professional Learning Communities at Work

TM

Cultures Built to Last Systemic PLCs at Work™

By Richard DuFour and Michael Fullan Powerhouse authors team up with the goal to rescue PLCs from the misperception that they are simply programs to be implemented. Instead, the PLC process is a systemic cultural phenomenon with far-reaching, long-lasting positive effects that are instrumental in transforming the culture of the education system. PLCs must be approached systemically to achieve optimal student learning.

Benefits • Determine how a systemic approach to PLCs is essential to collaborative culture.

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

• Recognize warning signs that threaten your progress as a PLC. • Establish key guidelines for facilitating a systemic PLC. • Cultivate coherence in individuals and collectively across the entire system.

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The Power of Professional Learning Communities at Work™

Getting Started

Bringing the Big Ideas to Life

Reculturing Schools to Become Professional Learning Communities

Featuring Richard DuFour, Robert Eaker, and Rebecca DuFour

By Robert Eaker, Richard DuFour, and Rebecca DuFour

Bestseller This video series explores eight diverse schools implementing PLC at Work™ concepts.

Watch teachers and administrators engage in candid conversations and collaborative meetings to improve student learning. Four 20-minute programs on 4 DVDs; CD with presentations; 70-page Facilitator’s Guide (in print and on CD)

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Revisiting Professional Learning Communities at Work™

Creating a Professional Learning Community at WorkTM

New Insights for Improving Schools

Foundational Concepts and Practices

By Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, and Robert Eaker

Bestseller 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. 544 pages 33BCB–BKF252 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-32-1

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Presenters: Rebecca DuFour and Richard DuFour

Online course

NEW! Experience the PLC journey in action!

Learn alongside educators as PLC at Work™ architects help them structure their new school as a PLC. Included eBook: Revisiting Professional Learning Communities at Work™ CEUs: 33BCB–KDS038 $279.00 3 Semester Hours: 33BCB–KDS039 $499.00

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Professional Learning Communities at Work

TM

The Five Disciplines of PLC Leaders

By Timothy D. Kanold Foreword by Richard DuFour

Effective leadership in a professional learning community requires practice, patience, and skill.

Through engaging examples and accessible language, this book offers a focused framework that will help educators maintain balance and consistent vision as they strengthen the skills of PLC leadership.

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Every School, Every Team, Every Classroom District Leadership for Growing Professional Learning Communities at Work™

By Robert Eaker and Janel Keating

The PLC journey begins with a dedication to ensuring the learning of every student. Using many examples and reproducible tools, the authors explain the need to focus on creating simultaneous top-down and bottom-up leadership. Learn how to grow PLCs by encouraging innovation at every level.

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Building a Professional Learning Community at Work™

Leading by Design

A Guide to the First Year

An Action Framework for PLC at Work™ Leaders

By Parry Graham and William M. Ferriter

By Cassandra Erkens and Eric Twadell

Foreword by Richard DuFour and Rebecca DuFour

Foreword by Richard DuFour

This play-by-play guide to implementing PLC concepts uses a story to focus each chapter. The authors analyze the story, highlighting good decisions and mistakes. They offer research behind best practice and wrap up each chapter with practical recommendations and tools. 240 pages

After interviewing and observing principals, administrators, and teachers, the authors identify seven leadership practices that effective PLC leaders share, along with the techniques that have led them to sustainable success. 216 pages 33BCB–BKF430 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-29-2

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Collaborative Teams in Professional Learning Communities at Work™

Learning by Doing

Learning by Doing

A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work™

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

By Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker, and Thomas W. Many

Bestseller This short program shows exactly what collaborative teams do. Aligned with the bestselling book Learning by Doing, the video features unscripted footage of collaboration in action. Learn how teams organize, interact, and find time to meet; what products they produce; and more. 30-minute DVD; 40-page Facilitator’s Guide (in print and on CD)

Bestseller 2nd Edition This book is an action guide for closing the knowing-doing gap and transforming schools into PLCs. It includes seven major additions that equip educators with essential tools for confronting challenges. 296 pages 33BCB–BKF416 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-09-4

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The Collaborative Administrator

Raising the Bar and Closing the Gap

Working Together as a Professional Learning Community

Whatever It Takes

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

In a culture of shared leadership, the administrator’s role is more important than ever. This book addresses your toughest challenges with practical strategies and inspiring insight. 264 pages

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

This expansion of Whatever It Takes uses case studies to sharpen the focus on the pyramid of interventions strategy, present new insights, and explain how PLC intervention processes align with RTI legislation.

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Common Core

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

By Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Cynthia L. Uline NEW! These teacher guides illustrate how to sustain successful implementation of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts in K–12 instruction, curriculum, assessment, and intervention practices within the powerful Professional Learning Communities at Work™ process. Teachers will discover the fundamental learning targets necessary for college and career readiness and how students can master them for each grade level. Each book includes comprehensive and research-affirmed analysis tools and strategies to help collaborative teams develop and assess student understanding.

Joint Publications With the International Reading Association

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

By Thomasenia Lott Adams, Harold Asturias, Diane J. Briars, John A. Carter, Juli K. Dixon, Francis (Skip) Fennell, David Foster, Mardi A. Gale, Timothy D. Kanold, Beth McCord Kobett, Matthew R. Larson, Mona Toncheff, Jonathan A. Wray, and Gwendolyn Zimmermann

These teacher guides illustrate how to sustain successful implementation of the Common Core State Standards for mathematics. Discover what students should learn and how they should learn it at each grade level. Comprehensive and research-affirmed analysis tools and strategies will help you and your collaborative team develop and assess student demonstrations of deep conceptual understanding and procedural fluency.

Joint Publications With the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

NEW!

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Response to Intervention Simplifying Response to Intervention

Pyramid Response to Intervention

Four Essential Guiding Principles

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

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 paperwork-heavy, complianceoriented, test-score-driven approaches fail. Then learn how to create an RTI model that works.

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By Austin Buffum, Mike Mattos, and Chris Weber Foreword by Richard DuFour

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Pyramid of Behavior Interventions

How RTI Works in Secondary Schools

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Students thrive when educators hold high expectations for behavior as well as academics. This book shows how to use a three-tiered pyramid of behavior supports to create a school culture and classroom climates in which learning is primed to occur. 132 pages

By Holly Windram, Kerry Bollman, and Sara Johnson

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Implementing RTI With English Learners

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Solutions for the First Years of Implementation

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Common Formative Assessment

Practices That Support Student Achievement

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Balanced Assessment

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By Kay Burke

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

Learn how to integrate formative and summative assessments seamlessly into instruction. Research, rationale, strategies, and examples help teachers develop their own repertoire of assessments to monitor, grade, and gauge a student’s ability to meet standards and curriculum goals. 176 pages

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From Formative to Summative

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Elements of Grading

The Principal as Assessment Leader

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