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School Improvement 30 Leadership 36 Assessment 46 Instruction 52 21st Century Skills and Technology 60 Literacy 66 English Learners 70

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NEW! Building a Common Core–Based Curriculum Mapping With Focus and Fidelity

By Susan Udelhofen Discover your road map for creating a curriculum based on the Common Core State Standards. Explore various stages of curriculum development, from the preliminary work of building academic support to creating Common Core curriculum maps and tracking school improvement goals. Learn to effectively share information during the curriculum-building process, and engage in significant, collaborative conversations around the curriculum.

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42BCA–BKF549 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-68-6

Bringing the Common Core to Life in K–8 Classrooms 30 Strategies to Build Literacy Skills

By Eric Jensen and LeAnn Nickelsen Actively engage students in their own learning. Discover strategies to promote student mastery of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts across the curriculum. Explore techniques to lead students in close reading, activate their background knowledge to prepare them for learning, and gain insight into habit formation. You’ll develop the know-how to effectively structure teaching to empower all students. 240 pages Benefits •

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Collaborating for Success With the Common Core is a playbook containing the tools, research, references, strategies, and advice that schools need to realize the promise of the Common Core.”

—Jeff Craig, assistant superintendent for Instructional Support Services, Onondaga-Cortland-Madison BOCES

Collaborating for Success With the Common Core A Toolkit for Professional Learning Communities at Work

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By Kim Bailey, Chris Jakicic, and Jeanne Spiller Leverage teamwork to integrate the CCSS into your curriculum, and build on a foundational knowledge of PLCs. You’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of the shifts required to implement the standards in core content areas and find valuable tips and strategies for creating strong collaborative practices. Identify the essential standards, determine learning targets, define proficiency, learn how to design rigorous assessments, and more. 232 pages 42BCA–BKF556 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-72-3

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School Leader’s Guide to the Common Core Achieving Results Through Rigor and Relevance

By James A. Bellanca, Robin J. Fogarty, Brian M. Pete, and Rebecca L. Stinson Implement the Common Core State Standards with downloadable reproducibles, lists of resources to support the topics affected, discussion questions, and relevant information to share with your colleagues. Explore the background of the standards and the changes necessary to meet them. 176 pages 42BCA–BKF597 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-45-7

How to Teach Thinking Skills Within the Common Core 7 Key Student Proficiencies of the New National Standards

By James A. Bellanca, Robin J. Fogarty, and Brian M. Pete Bestseller Packed with examples and tools, this practical guide prepares teachers across all grade levels and content areas to teach the most critical cognitive skills from the Common Core State Standards.

Discover a doable three-phase model of explicit teaching, guided practice in content-based lessons, and authentic application in standards-based performance tasks that will strengthen students’ ability to learn across the curriculum. 240 pages 42BCA–BKF576 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-07-5

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Common Core Solution Tree is proud to partner with the International Reading Association and distinguished English language arts experts to copublish this series aligned with the CCSS and PLC at Work process.

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

By Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Cynthia L. Uline 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 WorkTM process. Teachers will discover the fundamental learning targets necessary for college and career readiness and how students can master them for each grade level.

Leader’s Guide 42BCA–BKF578 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-13-6

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Common Core State Standards in Literacy, Grades 3–8 Online Course

Presenters: Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey Included eBook: Common Core English Language Arts in a PLC at WorkTM , Grades 3–5 Tackle the demands of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts, and differentiate instruction while aligning assessment practices.

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Check for understanding using oral language, questions, writing, projects, performances, and tests.

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Common Core for English Language Arts

2-Day Workshops March 27–28 Sacramento, CA November 3–4 San Diego, CA

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Presenter: Nancy Frey The CCSS for English language arts demand that students learn to justify their responses with evidence and to read increasingly complex text.

Learn what changes to curriculum and instruction are necessary to meet the standards and ensure student achievement.

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• Identify the conceptual shifts in the CCSS for English language arts.

• Enumerate the anchor standards in reading, writing, speaking and listening, language, and foundational skills.

• Comprehend the components of text complexity, text-dependent questions, and close reading.

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Common Core Solution Tree is proud to partner with the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and distinguished mathematics experts to copublish this series aligned with the CCSS and PLC at Work process.

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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.

Leader’s Guide 42BCA–BKF559 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-936765-47-8

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Bestseller Grades 3–5

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Common Core State Standards in Mathematics, Grades 3–8 Online Course

Presenters: Diane J. Briars and Timothy D. Kanold Included eBook: Common Core Mathematics in a PLC at WorkTM , Grades 3–5 Watch and learn how teachers in professional learning community classrooms successfully implement and apply the new standards in mathematics instruction.

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CEUs: 42BCA–KDS034 3 Semester Hours: 42BCA–KDS035

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Beyond the Common Core Mathematics in a Professional Learning Community Presenters: Timothy D. Kanold and Diane J. Briars or Sarah Schuhl Helping students meet or exceed CCSS-M expectations requires providing them with a vision and process for learning mathematics.

Learn how with your teacher team, school, or district at this high-energy, dynamic workshop led by mathematics thought leader Dr. Timothy D. Kanold.

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• Acquire deep understanding of the CCSS-M impact on student learning and classroom practice.

2-Day Workshops March 25–26 Sacramento, CA April 3–4 Denver, CO

• Implement the powerful PLC teachingassessing-learning cycle.

• Use and design daily lesson-planning protocols that reflect the expectations of rigorous, focused, coherent CCSS-aligned mathematics instruction.

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Teaching Students to Think Like Scientists Strategies Aligned With Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards

By Maria C. Grant, Douglas Fisher, and Diane Lapp It is essential that students learn to examine, review, and evaluate knowledge and ideas through a process of scientific investigation and argumentation. Using these instructional methods and lesson scenarios, teachers of all disciplines will gain the tools needed to offer students a richer, lasting understanding of science, its concepts, and its place in their lives and the global community. 248 pages 42BCA–BKF555 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936765-38-6

Assessment and the Common Core State Standards Online Course

Presenter: Kay Burke Included eBook: Balanced Assessment

• Identify power standards.

• Repack the Common Core State Standards as part of a collaborative team.

• Collaborate with grade-level or subject-area teams to create common assessments.

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.

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Each strategy in 20 Literacy Strategies to Meet the Common Core is clear, simple, easy to follow, and rooted in current literacy research.”

—Christopher D. Schmidt, secondary English teacher, Parish Episcopal School, Texas

20 Literacy Strategies to Meet the Common Core Increasing Rigor in Middle & High School Classrooms

By Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins and Allyson J. Burnett With the advent of the Common Core State Standards and high expectations with regard to content literacy, some secondary teachers are scrambling for what to do and how to do it. This book provides an accessible plan for implementing content literacy and offers 20 research-based literacy strategies designed to help students meet those standards and become expert readers. 328 pages; grades 6–12 42BCA–BKF588 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-28-0

Using Common Core Standards to Enhance Classroom Instruction & Assessment

Vocabulary for the Common Core

By Robert J. Marzano and Julia A. Simms Bestseller The Common Core State Standards present unique demands on students’ ability to learn vocabulary and teachers’ ability to teach it. The authors address these challenges in this resource, helping you create a successful vocabulary program. 280 pages

By Robert J. Marzano, David C. Yanoski, Jan K. Hoegh, and Julia A. Simms Bestseller Discover how to weave an in-depth understanding of the Common Core into successful classroom practice with this two-part resource. You’ll learn how to power the standards with guided assessment and measure student progress in a way that accurately reflects learning.

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Implementing Common Core Standards With Total Instructional Alignment

2-Day Workshops

Presenter: Lisa Carter Plan ahead to ensure a seamless transition from current state standards to the new national Common Core Standards. This workshop is designed to help forward-thinking schools and districts prepare teachers and administrators to smoothly accomplish this transition.

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Learn tools and processes to successfully unpack and align the national Common Core Standards through curriculum, assessment, and quality instruction.

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Write clear learning goals that are specific, measurable, and aligned to higher-order thinking.

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Create high-quality assessments designed to frequently measure individual student learning progress.

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ON-SITE PD EXPERIENCE

Common Core Coaching Academy This dynamic series of PD engagements, typically occurring over nine to twelve months, is designed to help leadership teams navigate the CCSS for full and sustained implementation.

At each in-depth group session, teams will gain a new set of skills and strategies—plus an action plan for implementing what they have learned.

Carefully designed by CCSS experts, this academy:

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Develops your school’s or district’s capacity for meeting the demands of the CCSS

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Is facilitated by one or more experts who are trained in the CCSS and have considerable experience in education

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Includes six days on-site with an expert (three sessions, two days each) and a robust selection of resources

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Offers strategies and activities that can be replicated in any setting

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Extends beyond session days with phone and email support

Common Core Packages Understanding and Transitioning to the Common Core Gain a comprehensive overview of the CCSS, and learn what distinguishes them from other state standards. Identify the gap between current practices and the expectations of the CCSS. Power implementation with CCSS-aligned resources.

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Administrator Training Gain a big-picture view of the CCSS and how to provide the support needed for comprehensive implementation. Learn how to recognize evidence that indicates teachers have made necessary shifts in their classroom practices. Obtain strategies for aligning resources, providing time and support, and monitoring implementation.

Teaching With Rigor and Relevance Timothy D. Kanold

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Transform your instructional practice by modeling and scaffolding 21st century skill development. Design CCSS-aligned lessons that emphasize critical thinking, and implement performance assessments in the classroom.

Implementing the CCSS for Mathematics

F E AT U R E S • On-site days with an expert • Interactive web conferences • Follow-up email and phone support • Related books

Cultivate research-affirmed practice, and reinforce your implementation. Grow unit by unit as a collaborative team while developing rigor and coherence in your mathematics curriculum. Gain an in-depth understanding of the seven stages of collaborative teams in the PLC process—and clear and precise explanations of current content and assessment expectations.

Implementing the CCSS for English Language Arts Recognize the conceptual shifts required for English language arts, and support CCSSalignment in areas of curriculum design, instruction, assessment, and intervention. Leaders will unpack the standards for English language arts, and teachers and leaders will discuss the transitional process and next steps.

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Deeper implementation, stronger results Transform stress into success. At this empowering event, discover the promise of learning embedded in the implementation challenges of the Common Core. Find strategies to successfully prepare students and staff for highstakes testing—to persevere from the first raw results to lasting achievement. You’ll leave equipped with techniques for tackling specific requirements for English language arts and mathematics; collaborating with peers on work that really impacts learning; reaching English learners; enlisting parental support; and measuring student progress every step of the way.

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• Align curriculum design, resource selection, instruction, and assessment to ensure college and career readiness.

• Gain up-to-date information on the PARCC and Smarter Balanced assessments.

• Acquire strategies proven to help students develop critical thinking skills.

• Examine and try highly engaging reading, vocabulary, and writing strategies.

• Make sense of teaching for depth through the Standards for Mathematical Practice.

• Learn how to identify and adapt tasks for cognitive demand.

Register by April 25 for early bird rates!

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All the presenters are knowledgeable and engaging. I always leave Solution Tree events with materials and ideas I can bring back and start using right away.”

—Colleen Roy, teacher, South Meadow Middle School, New Hampshire

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Cultures Built to Last Systemic PLCs at Work

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By Richard DuFour and Michael Fullan Bestseller Take your professional learning community to the next level! Discover a systemwide approach for re-envisioning your PLC while sustaining growth and continuing momentum on your journey. You’ll move beyond isolated pockets of excellence while allowing every person in your school system—from teachers and administrators to students—the opportunity to be an instrument of lasting cultural change. 104 pages Benefits •

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

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Achieve the coherence and clarity necessary to maintaining a healthy PLC.

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Find a balance between maintaining focus and generating creativity.

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Creating a Professional Learning Community at Work

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Foundational Concepts and Practices Online Course Presenters: Rebecca DuFour and Richard DuFour Included eBook: Revisiting Professional Learning Communities at WorkTM Experience the PLC journey in action! Learn with educators new to the process, as PLC at WorkTM architects Richard DuFour and Rebecca DuFour help them structure their new school as a PLC. Explore the essential questions of a PLC, discover how to engage in authentic collaboration and collective inquiry, and learn how to organize your school or district with a results-based orientation.

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Realize the benefits of PLCs for the entire community.

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Collaborate authentically to develop missions and visions.

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Articulate collective commitments.

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Develop SMART goals and plans to achieve them.

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—Sandra Thorstenson, superintendent, Whittier Union High School District, California

Learning by Doing A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work

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By Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker, and Thomas W. Many Bestseller 2nd Edition Through continuous work with educators, the authors have created a more powerful, practical resource for moving forward in the PLC process. This book 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 42BCA–BKF416 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-09-4

Revisiting Professional Learning Communities at WorkTM

Building a Professional Learning Community at WorkTM

New Insights for Improving Schools

A Guide to the First Year

By Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, and Robert Eaker

By Parry Graham and William M. Ferriter

Bestseller This 10th-anniversary sequel to the pivotal book Professional Learning Communities at WorkTM 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 42BCA–BKF252 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-32-1

Getting Started Reculturing Schools to Become Professional Learning Communities

By Robert Eaker, Richard DuFour, and Rebecca DuFour Bestseller Get answers to the most common question posed by educators seeking to build and sustain a PLC: Where do we begin? Readers access a solid conceptual framework and concrete illustrations of how schools operate when they are functioning as PLCs. 200 pages 42BCA–BKF120 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-879639-89-8

Foreword by Richard DuFour and Rebecca 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 42BCA–BKF273 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-59-8

Professional Learning Communities at WorkTM Best Practices for Enhancing Student Achievement

By Richard DuFour and Robert Eaker Bestseller The book that launched a school improvement movement offers research-based recommendations drawn from best practices still found in schools nationwide. Readers gain specific, practical how-to information about transforming schools into learning-focused, resultsoriented PLCs. 358 pages 42BCA– BKF032 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-879639-60-7

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The Power of Professional Learning Communities at WorkTM

Leading Difficult Conversations Featuring Richard DuFour and Rebecca DuFour

Bringing the Big Ideas to Life Featuring Richard DuFour, Robert Eaker, and Rebecca DuFour

Bestseller Gain strategies for addressing the conflicts that can result from transforming a school into a professional learning community. Learn how to hold conversations that lead staff to understand that best practice is to work collaboratively and collectively in high-performing teams.

30-minute DVD with presentation; 32-page Facilitator’s Guide (in print and on CD)

Bestseller This four-program video series takes you inside eight diverse schools, where teachers and administrators engage in candid conversations and collaborative team meetings. See how successful schools radically improve student learning, and learn the fundamentals of PLCs with this powerful, fun staff development tool. Four 20-minute programs on 4 DVDs; CD with presentations; 70-page Facilitator’s Guide (in print and on CD)

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Leadership in Professional Learning Communities at WorkTM

Through New Eyes Examining the Culture of Your School

Learning by Doing

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

Bestseller Explore the differences between a traditional school and a professional learning community from a student’s perspective. Perfect for constructing a four-hour training session, this engaging video includes step-by-step instructions, guiding questions, and group activities. 30-minute DVD; 44-page Facilitator’s Guide

Bestseller Watch leaders in action within a PLC. This short program for PLC leaders uses unscripted interviews and footage from schools to illustrate the role of effective leadership, particularly from the principal, in embedding PLC practices and values in a school. 32-minute DVD; 32-page Facilitator’s Guide (in print and on CD)

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Passion and Persistence How to Develop a Professional Learning Community

Learning by Doing

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

Bestseller Motivate staff with the inspirational video featured in many of Dr. DuFour’s keynote presentations.

A display of memorable quotes, calls to action, and quips set to music, Passion and Persistence serves as a reflective pause on the PLC journey. 7-minute DVD

Bestseller This short program shows exactly what collaborative teams do.

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In Making Teamwork Meaningful, leaders will find a multitude of ideas for scheduling, intervention, and collaboration that will lead to improved student learning, greater staff effectiveness, and PLC success.”

—John Wink, principal, Gilmer Elementary School, Texas

Making Teamwork Meaningful Leading Progress-Driven Collaboration in a PLC at Work

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By William M. Ferriter, Parry Graham, and Matt Wight Focus on developing people—not just improving test scores. The authors examine how staffing decisions can strengthen professional learning communities and explore actions that can help school leaders safeguard their schools against complacency. Collect tips and strategies that every teacher can adopt, and apply the professional development techniques that prove most useful. 128 pages 42BCA–BKF548 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-936765-29-4

Raising the Bar and Closing the Gap

Common Formative Assessment

Whatever It Takes

A Toolkit for Professional Learning Communities at WorkTM

By Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker, and Gayle Karhanek Bestseller 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. 256 pages 42BCA–BKF378 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935249-84-9

By Kim Bailey and Chris Jakicic Foreword by Richard DuFour and Rebecca DuFour

The catalyst for real student improvement begins with a decision to implement common formative assessments. 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 42BCA–BKF538 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-936765-14-0

The Collaborative Teacher

The Collaborative Administrator

Working Together as a Professional Learning Community

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

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 Rebecca DuFour Introduction by Richard DuFour

Transform education from inside the classroom with this accessible anthology.

Specific techniques, supporting research, and real classroom stories illustrate how to work together to create a guaranteed and viable curriculum and use data to inform instruction. 232 pages 42BCA–BKF257 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-36-9

Foreword by Robert Eaker Introduction by Richard DuFour

How do you maintain the right balance of loose and tight leadership? How do you establish profound, lasting trust with your staff? What principles strengthen principal leadership? This book answers these questions and much more in compelling chapters packed with strategies and inspiration. 264 pages 42BCA–BKF256 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-37-6

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The authors of Every School, Every Team, Every Classroom have laid out a clear vision of leading the learning in a systemwide professional learning community.”

—Marc Johnson, superintendent, Sanger Unified School District, California ...

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

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By Robert Eaker and Janel Keating The PLC journey begins by articulating a moral purpose: a dedication to ensuring that every student learns. Using many examples and reproducible tools, the authors explain the need to focus on creating simultaneous top-down and bottom-up leadership to align district- and school-level policies and procedures. Learn how to grow PLCs by providing direction and encouraging innovation at every level of the district. 240 pages 42BCA–BKF534 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936765-09-6

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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. 210 pages

Are you a K–8 principal looking to implement the PLC at WorkTM 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; grades K–8

42BCA–BKF495 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-935543-42-8

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Leading by Design

Getting District Results

An Action Framework for PLC at WorkTM Leaders

A Case Study in Implementing PLCs at WorkTM

By Cassandra Erkens and Eric Twadell

By Nicholas Jay Myers

Foreword by Richard DuFour

Foreword by Richard DuFour and Rebecca DuFour

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

Discover how the largest elementary school district in Illinois became a professional learning community. You’ll walk through each step of the PLC journey to learn how the district approached the most vital components of a successful PLC, such as building shared knowledge, forming collaborative teams, setting priorities, and more. 144 pages

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The PLC concept operates from the premise that leadership should be widely dispersed throughout a school, and thus developing the leadership potential of all staff members is imperative.”

—On Common Ground

A Leader’s Companion

On Common Ground

Inspiration for Professional Learning Communities at WorkTM

The Power of Professional Learning Communities

By Robert Eaker, Rebecca DuFour, and Richard DuFour

Edited by Richard DuFour, Robert Eaker, and Rebecca DuFour

Treat yourself to daily moments of reflection with inspirational quotes collected from a decade of work by renowned PLC experts. The uplifting wisdom inside this book will fuel your passion to be a leader in your PLC. 136 pages; hardcover

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

Bestseller Examine a colorful cross-section of educators’ experiences with PLCs. This collection of insights and stories from education leaders throughout North America highlights the benefits of PLCs and offers unique angles of approach to a variety of school improvement challenges.

272 pages; hardcover

42BCA–BKF227 $12.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-05-5

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The PLC at WorkTM Cartoon Book

By Martha F. Campbell Foreword by Richard DuFour and Rebecca DuFour

These clever cartoons show the humorous side of working in a professional learning community. The book features introductions by Richard DuFour and Rebecca DuFour, who remind readers to maintain a sense of humor. 144 pages

The Journey to Becoming a Professional Learning Community

By Janel Keating, Robert Eaker, Richard DuFour, and Rebecca DuFour

42BCA–BKF473 $19.95 ISBN 978-1-935543-09-1

Perfect for visual learners, the road map banner and accompanying booklet guide educators through critical issues that may arise during their journey to becoming a PLC. 1 color 7-foot vinyl banner; 2 black-and-white 7-foot paper banners; 3 process booklets 42BCA–BKF260 $89.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-39-0

The PLC Toolkit Powerful Tools for Improving Your School The Essential Resources of Richard DuFour, Robert Eaker, and Rebecca DuFour Eleven books, six videos, and one registration for an online course complete this package of self-guided professional development focused on PLC at WorkTM concepts. Easy-to-follow facilitator’s guides and dozens of reproducibles help leaders translate the video resources into powerful workshops. 18 resources, including books, videos, and 1 registration to an online course 42BCA–KTF129

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I learned the days of teachers working in isolation are over, and the benefits to students,

teachers, and our community of implementing a true PLC make doing it a no-brainer.”

ON-SITE PD EXPERIENCE

—Tammi Slagle, teacher, Cortez Middle School, Colorado

PLC at Work Coaching Academy TM

This dynamic series of PD engagements is designed to develop a cadre of leaders who will act as informed agents of change districtwide. School teams will leave each session with a new set of skills and activities—plus an action plan for implementing what they have learned.

Carefully designed by the visionaries of the PLC at WorkTM process—Richard DuFour, Robert Eaker, Rebecca DuFour, and Mike Mattos—this academy: Tim Brown

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The Role of PLCs in Advancing 21st Century Skills Featuring Richard DuFour Dr. DuFour explores fundamental characteristics of professional learning communities and demonstrates the link between PLCs and 21st century skills.

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Becoming an Authentic Learning Leader

Forged, Not Forced

Whatever You Do, Inspire Me

Implementation in Professional Learning Communities

Featuring Timothy D. Kanold

Featuring Thomas W. Many

Practical yet challenging, this humorous and motivational session provides the support and focus needed to sustain effective leadership over time. 71-minute DVD with presentation; CD with presentation handouts and supporting resources

For successful PLC implementation, roll up your sleeves and engage in the learning process with this step-by-step, side-by-side presentation on successful PLC implementation first. 59-minute DVD with presentation; CD with presentation handouts and supporting resources 42BCA–DVF060 $195.00 UPC 811796010568

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Overview

Richard DuFour

Rebecca DuFour

Robert Eaker

Gain a big-picture view of the PLC at WorkTM process—and learn how to customize it to meet the needs of your school or district. During this full-day session, you and your team will discover how to create and maintain a healthy collaborative culture, as well as how to answer the four critical questions every PLC must address. The PLC Toolkit is included.

Progress Report Receive an unbiased observation of your school’s PLC implementation. An expert facilitation team will conduct an on-site analysis of your current practices and recommend next steps for improvement. The team will assess your PLC progress and present their findings at an on-site meeting and in a written report highlighting commendations and recommendations.

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Build school culture where learning thrives The Professional Learning Communities at Work process is increasingly recognized as the most powerful strategy for sustained, substantive school improvement. You’ll delve deep into the three big ideas of a PLC—focus on learning, build a collaborative culture, and results orientation—to gain specific, practical, and inspiring strategies. These institutes give you and your team the knowledge and tools to transform your school or district into a place where all students learn at high levels.

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LEARNING OUTCOMES • Build the capacity of staff to function as a PLC at Work .

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• Develop systems of intervention and enrichment for students who experience difficulty and for those who are already proficient.

• Use evidence of student learning to inform improve professional practice.

Register early—PLC at Work Institutes sell out!

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Memphis, TN

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• Effectively address resistance to engaging in the most promising practices to improve student learning.

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Get in on the conversation! Join the All Things PLC Twitter chat (#atplc) every Thursday at 9 p.m. Eastern to connect with a network of educators just like you!

All Things PLC is now even more fun and engaging! The site was created as an interactive, collaborative resource for educators and administrators committed to enhancing student achievement. Stop by to share your knowledge, ask questions, and get expert insight into the issues teachers face in the classroom every day.

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Creating a Coaching Culture for Professional Learning Communities highlights the power and importance of coaching to assure high-functioning, productive PLC teams and leaders.”

—Karla Reiss, president and certified professional coach, The Change Place, LLC

Creating a Coaching Culture for Professional Learning Communities

Aligning School Districts as PLCs

By Jane A. G. Kise and Beth Russell

Foreword by Michael Fullan

This practical resource provides activities designed to meet a wide variety of needs so you can choose the ones that fit your leadership style, the learning styles of team members, and the particular needs of the school. 232 pages

In order for a professional learning community to achieve its full potential across an entire district, central office staff, building leadership, and teachers must all align their work to each other and the three big ideas of a PLC. 168 pages

42BCA–BKF350 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-935249-41-2

Protocols for Professional Learning Conversations

By Mark Van Clay, Perry Soldwedel, and Thomas W. Many

42BCA–BKF493 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935543-39-8

Cultivating the Art and Discipline

Collaborative Action Research for Professional Learning Communities

By Catherine Glaude

By Richard Sagor

Collegial conversations focused on improving student learning may be the most powerful professional development an educator will experience. Examine four collections of protocols to support professional learning conversations, and use them with your colleagues or with students in the classroom. 96 pages

Constant, high-quality collaborative inquiry sustains PLCs. Become disciplined and deliberative with data as you design and implement program improvements to enhance student learning. Detailed steps show you how to accomplish collaborative action research that drives continuous improvement. 176 pages 42BCA–BKF354 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935249-61-0

42BCA–BKF516 $19.95 ISBN 978-1-935543-82-4

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Differentiated Professional Development in a Professional Learning Community

By Linda Bowgren and Kathryn Sever If differentiated instruction works for diverse student learning needs, why not apply it to teacher learning? A practical guide for designing school or district professional development plans, this book explains a three-step model that is core to the differentiation process. 168 pages 42BCA–BKF275 $19.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-61-1

When Students Fail to Learn Protocols for a Schoolwide Response

By Catherine Glaude Creating learning communities where all educators are focused on student results requires new ways of learning together.

This book looks at practical and specific ways to use protocols to prompt and support new habits of working together in collaborative teams. 112 pages 42BCA–BKF518 $19.95 ISBN 978-1-935543-85-5

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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 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, test-score-driven approaches fail. Then, learn how to create a focused RTI model that works. 232 pages Benefits •

Use the four guiding principles to guide thinking and implementation.

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Develop a system of convergent assessment to identify students for intervention, determine their unique needs, monitor their progress, and revise or extend learning based on their progress.

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

By Austin Buffum, Mike Mattos, and Chris Weber Foreword by Richard DuFour 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 from successful PLC schools, this book demonstrates how to create three tiers of interventions—from basic to intensive—to address student learning gaps. You will understand what a successful program looks like, and the many reproducible forms and activities will help your team understand how to make RTI work in your school. 248 pages Benefits • Develop a comprehensive understanding of the three tiers of RTI: the core program, the supplemental level, and the intensive level.

• Learn why RTI is most successful when built on the foundation of a PLC. • Discover the role of behavioral interventions and their effects.

42BCA–BKF251 $27.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-33-8

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Pyramid Response to Intervention Four Essential Guiding Principles Featuring Austin Buffum, Mike Mattos, and Chris Weber Bestseller Shift to a culture of collective responsibility and ensure a path of opportunity and success for your students. Focusing on the four Cs vital to student achievement, this powerful four-part program will help you collect targeted information on students’ individual needs and guide you to build efficient team structures. Four 20-minute DVDs; 88-page Facilitator’s Guide (in print and on CD) 42BCA–DVF057 $595.00 UPC 811796010575

Pyramid Response to Intervention How to Respond When Kids Don’t Learn Online Course Presenters: Austin Buffum, Mike Mattos, and Chris Weber Included eBook: Pyramid Response to Intervention Austin Buffum, Mike Mattos, and Chris Weber share their experience implementing response to intervention. These experts take you 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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CEUs: 42BCA–KDS004 3 Semester Hours: 42BCA–KDS005

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$279.00 $499.00

ON-SITE PD EXPERIENCE

This dynamic series of PD engagements, typically occurring over nine to twelve months, is designed to help you form leadership teams to act as informed agents of change throughout a district. The academy builds on the foundation of the PLC at WorkTM process by using team structures and a focus on learning, collaboration, and results to drive successful outcomes.

Carefully designed by the creators of the RTI at WorkTM process—Austin Buffum, Mike Mattos, and Chris Weber—this academy:

• Develops your school’s or district’s capacity for implementing and sustaining the RTI at WorkTM process

• Is facilitated by one or more experts who are trained in the RTI at WorkTM process and have considerable experience in education

Mike Mattos

Austin Buffum

Chris Weber

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• Includes six days on-site with an expert (three sessions, two days each), three interactive web conferences, and the Pyramid Response to Intervention online course

• Offers strategies and activities that can be replicated in any setting

• Extends beyond session days with phone and email support

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Learning CPR

On Solid Ground

Creating Powerful Responses When Students Don’t Learn

How PLC Practices Create the Foundation for a Successful Intervention Program

Featuring Austin Buffum

Featuring Mike Mattos

Dr. Buffum advocates for a tiered system of intervention, which provides both the supplemental and intensive support every school needs for a successful RTI program.

Learn how to create a highly effective intervention program and gain practical, proven intervention ideas that are timely, targeted, and systematic. 70-minute DVD with presentation; CD with presentation handouts and supporting resources

Discover straightforward practices for planning and self-assessment that create successful intervention programs. In this breakout session, Mike shows how professional learning community practices provide the foundation for a successful intervention program and offers practical, effective strategies for beginning to build that foundation. 76-minute DVD with presentation; CD with presentation handouts and supporting resources

42BCA–DVF035 $195.00 UPC 811796010315

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Tiers Without Tears

A Practical Look at Response to Intervention

A Systematic Approach to Implementing RTI in PLC Schools

Featuring Mike Mattos

Featuring Austin Buffum

In this breakout session, Mike provides an accessible survey of response to intervention systems and explains how RTI, combined with a professional learning community foundation, creates a powerful system for achieving high levels of learning for all students. 78-minute DVD with presentation; CD with presentation handouts and supporting resources

Dr. Buffum shows you how the big ideas of a PLC are foundationally important when implementing RTI, and why the responsibility of every student’s success should fall to special education teachers and general education teachers.

61-minute DVD with presentation; CD with presentation handouts and supporting resources

42BCA–DVF046 $195.00 UPC 811796010421

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Simplifying Response to Intervention

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Presenters: Austin Buffum and/or Mike Mattos Learn why bureaucratic, paperwork-heavy, compliance-oriented, test-score-driven approaches fail—and then learn how to create an RTI model that works. Acquire four essential guiding principles and a simple process for implementation to help your school make RTI efficient, effective, and equitable.

• Use the four guiding principles to guide thinking and implementation.

• Shift to a culture of collective responsibility.

• Build team structures for collaboration.

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The key to unlocking powerful interventions What does successful response to intervention look like when all the pieces come together? With access to recognized experts, you’ll discover how to lead the RTI process at the site and district levels. Learn how to create a proactive process to identify students who need help, place them in the proper intervention, monitor their progress, and determine when they no longer need additional support.

April 29–May 1 October 27–29 November 19–21

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Toronto, ON Des Moines, IA Dallas, TX

Mike Mattos

LEARNING OUTCOMES • Understand the critical components and implementation of a behavioral RTI system.

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• Utilize a site leadership and intervention team to support schoolwide interventions.

• Design master schedules that provide core instruction, interventions, and elective options for students at risk.

• Identify effective Tier 3 interventions for students struggling with reading, writing, number sense, and English language.

• Determine the best ways to utilize schoolwide support staff in the RTI process, including psychologists, counselors, special education teachers, and intervention specialists.

This conference was beyond expectations! I came hoping to learn strategies to give to teachers for reteaching and came away with a vision for schoolwide team building and shared responsibility to ensure all students learn.”

—Beatrice Benjamin, school improvement coordinator, Taylor School District, Michigan

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RTI in the Early Grades will enable educators to put strategies into practice.

I highly recommend it for all teachers of young children.”

—Lesley M. Morrow, professor of literacy studies and early childhood education, Rutgers University

RTI in the Early Grades Intervention Strategies for Mathematics, Literacy, Behavior & Fine-Motor Challenges

By Chris Weber Explore why intervention and support for struggling students in the early grades are essential to student success. Teachers and support personnel will discover how to implement RTI-based supports in the early grades and learn what this prevention looks like. Find practical, research-based strategies to seal the gaps in student learning in grades K–3, identify students who need intervention, and more. 208 pages; grades K–3 42BCA–BKF572 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-04-4

Pyramid of Behavior Interventions

Understanding Response to Intervention

Seven Keys to a Positive Learning Environment

A Practical Guide to Systemic Implementation

By Tom Hierck, Charlie Coleman, and Chris Weber

By Robert Howell, Sandra Patton, and Margaret Deiotte

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

Whether you want a basic understanding of RTI or desire thorough knowledge for district-level implementation, you need this book. Understand the nuts and bolts of RTI. Follow clear examples of effective practices that include systems and checklists to assess your RTI progress.

224 pages

42BCA–BKF532 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-936765-06-5

42BCA–BKF253 $27.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-34-5

ON-SITE PD EXPERIENCE

RTI at Work Packages TM

Beginning the Implementation

Mike Mattos

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Austin Buffum

Julie Schmidt

Chris Weber

Rich Smith

Gain a big-picture view of tiered support and the guiding principles at the heart of RTI. Discover how to detect learning gaps and build shared knowledge among your team. Explore what the RTI process requires of principals, teachers, and leadership teams in your school or district.

Advancing the Implementation Dig deep into the guiding principles at the heart of RTI. With research-based study and expert guidance by your side, you’ll learn about the three tiers of the RTI process and gain practical strategies to recognize and focus on the right interventions. Identify students who need help—and which interventions will best support them.

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How RTI Works in Secondary Schools sets down the foundations of RTI clearly and concisely and then hones in on what makes secondary schools unique places to do RTI.” —Lisa H. Stewart, professor of psychology, Minnesota State University

How RTI Works in Secondary Schools Building a Framework for Success

By Holly Windram, Kerry Bollman, and Sara Johnson 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 of 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 42BCA–BKF459 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-87-2

Why Poverty and Culture Count

By Donna Walker Tileston Get a clear understanding of poverty and culture, and learn how RTI can close achievement gaps related to these issues.

Learn how you can achieve successful implementation in your school. Examine common pitfalls to avoid in the process.

168 pages

By Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Carol Rothenberg Learn why RTI is the ideal framework for supporting English learners. Follow the application and effectiveness of RTI through classroom examples and the stories of four representative students of varying ages, nationalities, and language proficiency levels. 160 pages 42BCA–BKF397 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935249-97-9

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Using Formative Assessment in the RTI Framework

By Kay Burke and Eileen Depka 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 42BCA–BKF369 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935249-74-0

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Beyond the RTI Pyramid is an outstanding compilation of the most current research and practice related to response to intervention at all levels.”

—Karen A. Kemp, director of special programs, Cohoes City School District, New York

Beyond the RTI Pyramid

RTI & Differentiated Reading in the K–8 Classroom

Solutions for the First Years of Implementation

By William N. Bender and Laura Waller

By William N. Bender

Transition from traditional whole-group reading instruction to the 21st century classroom using three innovations that dramatically improve elementary reading instruction: RTI, differentiated instruction, and technology. 208 pages; grades K–8

This book helps schools deepen the RTI experience by extending the processes beyond initial implementation. Examples from real schools show how to apply RTI in reading, math, and behavior at elementary and secondary schools. 232 pages

42BCA–BKF363 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-935249-68-9

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RTI in Middle and High Schools

RTI in Math

By William N. Bender

Practical Guidelines for Elementary Teachers

This targeted resource discusses the innovations of RTI, differentiated instruction, and instructional technologies specifically for middle and high schools.

Based on numerous real-world case studies, this book explores solutions for the complex challenges the RTI implementation process brings. 248 pages; grades 6–12

By William N. Bender and Darlene Crane Explore common student difficulties in math, and see a three-tier RTI model in action. The authors provide an overview of research, detailed guidance through each stage of implementation, tools for reflection and growth, and discussion of support strategies beyond the classroom.

216 pages; grades K–5

42BCA–BKF271 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-51-2

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Response to Intervention in Math

2-Day Workshops April 9–10 April 16–17 April 24–25 November 20–21

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Presenters: William N. Bender and Darlene Crane When planning multitiered interventions, students who struggle with mathematics often get overlooked. Learn why implementing RTI in mathematics is critical. Gain usable solutions and processes based on practical issues and emerging research.

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Streaming solutions, inspiring collaboration Experience the power of a PLC at Work Institute from the comfort of your own school! Live streaming video provides dynamic and engaging keynotes, breakouts, and panel discussions. A PLC at Work associate will be on-site at your school to facilitate discussions, offer feedback, and personalize the learning experience. There’s no better opportunity to get your whole team on board!

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St. Charles, MO June 5–7 Deadline:

Orlando, FL June 17–19 Deadline:

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STREAMING BENEFITS

April 24

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Lincolnshire, IL August 4–6

• A great option when faced with tight travel budgets.

• Staff won’t have to sacrifice personal time for travel.

• All school or district staff, rather than a small team, can participate firsthand.

• An on-site PLC at Work associate will facilitate the event for a personalized experience.

• Gain access to in-demand PLC at Work experts who may be unavailable for on-site PD.

• Available for 160–500 attendees.

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The Handbook for SMART School Teams Revitalizing Best Practices for Collaboration

By Anne E. Conzemius and Jan O’Neill Foreword by Stephanie Hirsh 2nd Edition Prepare your students for the future while juggling the expectations of multiple stakeholders! A fresh take on the classic first edition, this guide defines and advocates SMART goals—goals that are Strategic and specific, Measurable, Attainable, Results oriented, and Time bound. Gain a schoolwide understanding of how to cultivate a productive collaborative culture, and engage every member of your team in the process. 352 pages Benefits •

Gain a schoolwide understanding of what success is, how to assess it, and when it should be measured.

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Engage every member of the school team to reach common expectations and priorities.

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Plan and execute effective team meetings.

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Learn to make well-informed decisions using group planning processes and data tools.

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Prepare students, staff, and other stakeholders for school improvement plans.

42BCA–BKF573 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-78-5

Building a Culture of Hope Enriching Schools With Optimism and Opportunity

By Robert D. Barr and Emily L. Gibson Research demonstrates that children of poverty need more than just academic instruction to succeed. Discover a blueprint for turning low-performing schools into Cultures of Hope! The authors draw from their own experiences working with highpoverty, high-achieving schools to illustrate how to support students with an approach that considers social as well as emotional factors in education. 288 pages Benefits •

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More Than a SMART Goal is exactly what is needed by educators as they focus on student learning. The authors identify concerns and then give a road map to follow to make SMART goals really smart!”

—Geri Parscale, deputy superintendent, Fort Leavenworth Unified Schools, Kansas

The Power of SMART Goals

More Than a SMART Goal

Using Goals to Improve Student Learning

Staying Focused on Student Learning

By Jan O’Neill and Anne E. Conzemius

By Anne E. Conzemius and Terry Morganti-Fisher

This easy-to-read guide will help your staff set effective goals that lead to real results. Four success stories illustrate how to transform challenges into opportunities for learning using an approach that is Strategic and specific, Measurable, Attainable, Results based, and Time bound. That’s SMART! 232 pages

Successful school improvement efforts not only set SMART goals, but also align them to the school improvement process, curriculum, instruction, assessment practices, mandates, and professional development. Understand how to properly use the SMART goal process to effect change. 160 pages 42BCA–BKF482 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935543-24-4

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Breaking the Poverty Barrier

Delivering on the Promise

Changing Student Lives With Passion, Perseverance, and Performance

The Education Revolution

By Ricardo LeBlanc-Esparza and William S. Roulston

By Richard A. DeLorenzo, Wendy J. Battino, Rick M. Schreiber, and Barbara B. Gaddy Carrio

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

Learn how a team of visionary educators abandoned traditional time-based education to develop the Re-Inventing Schools Coalition (RISC) Approach to Schooling. This performance- and standards-based system can be replicated anywhere, by anyone, for any student, under any set of circumstances. 224 pages

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Turning Your School Around

The Kids Left Behind

A Self-Guided Audit for School Improvement

Catching Up the Underachieving Children of Poverty

By Robert D. Barr and Debra L. Yates

By Robert D. Barr and William H. Parrett

Learn a step-by-step protocol for the self-guided audit that focuses on the most crucial areas of school improvement identified in The Kids Left Behind, the nationally recognized work by Robert D. Barr and William H. Parrett. 224 pages

Foreword by Kati Haycock

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Successfully reach and teach the underachieving children of poverty with the help of this comprehensive resource.

The authors’ compiled research reveals practical, usable, best-practice strategies you can implement at district, school, and classroom levels. 276 pages 42BCA–BKF432 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-35-3

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Moving from my students and my work to our students and our work requires clear purpose, safe structures, and compelling data that present vivid images of the effects of teachers’ work.”

—Got Data? Now What?

Got Data? Now What?

Creating and Leading Cultures of Inquiry

By Laura Lipton and Bruce Wellman 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. 144 pages 42BCA–BKF530 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-936765-03-4

Data Dynamics Aligning Teacher Team, School, & District Efforts

FREE RESOURCES

By Edie L. Holcomb Examine the ways your school can better use student achievement data, nonacademic student data, staff data, and parent/community data to identify areas for improvement. Designed to help administrators and leaders, this book also details how teachers can use good data to monitor and motivate students. 224 pages

Each book on our website features a free preview and much more! Browse the tools our authors have created for you. solution-tree.com/Free-Resources

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Data-Based Decision Making

The High-Performing School

By Edie L. Holcomb

Benchmarking the 10 Indicators of Effectiveness

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 42BCA–BKF469 $19.95 ISBN 978-1-935543-02-2

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By Mardale Dunsworth and Dawn Billings First, understand the research on the 10 indicators of high-performing schools.

Then, use rubrics to compare your practices and learn what to do to improve. Finally, use tools and strategies to create buy-in, involve all stakeholders, and monitor and report your progress. 384 pages 42BCA–BKF602 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-93-8

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Education is entirely about change—about drawing things out of people and creating the generations of the future.”

—Change Wars

Change Wars Edited by Andy Hargreaves and Michael Fullan

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 changes that are both profound and enduring? This anthology explores why traditional change strategies have failed and examines constructive alternatives. International experts prove successful change can be a realistic goal. Real examples of pilot projects, model schools, and other groundbreaking endeavors illustrate precisely how theory translates into practice. 304 pages; hardcover 42BCA–BKF254 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-31-4

The Future of Schooling Educating America in 2020

By Bryan Goodwin, Laura Lefkowits, Carolyn Woempner, and Elizabeth Hubbell The actions you take now will help your school or district succeed in the future.

McREL experts show you how to use scenario planning to prepare for the future world of education, which will help you identify actions today that will maximize your chance for success tomorrow.

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School Improvement for the Next Generation

By Stephen White and Raymond L. Smith Learn best practices from successful schools that use next-generation school improvement methods. Focused chapters guide you through the modified planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation cycle at the core of this school improvement model. Specific strategies empower you to put the knowledge to use. 192 pages 42BCA–BKF312 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-935249-20-7

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Redefining the Norm

The Will to Lead, the Skill to Teach

Learning for ALL

Transforming Schools at Every Level

Featuring Anthony Muhammad

By Anthony Muhammad and Sharroky Hollie

Dare to confront the status quo with Dr. Muhammad as he reviews the achievement gap problem, the challenges of reform—both cultural and technical— and the historical, sociological, and psychological aspects of school cultures that make implementing PLCs a challenge.

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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 42BCA–BKF443 $19.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-54-4

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For teachers to be successful in a standards-based program, they need tools, processes, and time to work collaboratively to align their instructional programs.”

—Total Instructional Alignment

Total Instructional Alignment

What Effective Schools Do

From Standards to Student Success

Re-Envisioning the Correlates

By Lisa Carter

By Lawrence W. Lezotte and Kathleen McKee Snyder

Foreword by Lawrence W. Lezotte

This guide helps educators implement a continuous school improvement system through application of the seven correlates of effective schools. The authors discuss each correlate, update the knowledge base, and incorporate practical ideas from practitioners in the field. 176 pages

Effective education in the new millennium calls for changing an antiquated system.

Learn how you can create a flexible, proactive system by focusing on systemic alignment as well as alignment among standards, curriculum, classroom instruction, and assessment. 136 pages

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By Lisa Carter In this sequel to Total Instructional Alignment, the author reveals the five big ideas at the core of successful schools.

Focus on these ideas to simplify decision making, eliminate distractions, and intensify efforts to promote effective teaching and learning. 128 pages

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It’s difficult to not feel passionate about education and improving our schools after spending a couple of days with Wayne Hulley. His advice is practical and evidence based—a winning combination!”

—Terelyne Vadeboncoeur, teacher, Edenwold School, Saskatchewan

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Hand-selected and personally trained by Wayne Hulley, our school improvement experts are also practitioners who embody deep experiential knowledge— so you can be sure that you’re getting the best training available.

More than 1,200 schools across North America are using educator and staff developer Wayne Hulley’s Building Better Schools Together (BBST) site‐based planning model. Through the Hulley Centre, you’ll discover what so many other schools have—improved learning outcomes, increased teacher satisfaction, and an influx of community support. The BBST process counteracts the common pitfalls of planning for school improvement, so that moving forward results in change that lasts.

The Hulley Centre offers everything from overview workshops that provide you with immediate implementation tools to in‐depth trainer workshops that lay the foundation for your school improvement facilitation team. You can also choose your own PD adventure by selecting a trainer-focused workshop with a focus specific to your school’s or district’s unique needs.

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Harbors of Hope

Getting By or Getting Better

The Planning for School and Student Success Process

Applying Effective Schools Research to Today’s Issues

By Wayne Hulley and Linda Dier

By Wayne Hulley and Linda Dier

Create a culture of hope that will improve student achievement and behavior. The proven planning model in this resource will empower you to use the power of purpose to align staff efforts, implement high-yield strategies to enhance student performance, and much more! 232 pages

Learn how 14 schools became exemplary using excellent planning processes and action steps for total school improvement.

Building on their work in Harbors of Hope, the authors reveal seven lessons for success based on the correlates of effective schools. 240 pages

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NEW! It’s TIME Themes and Imperatives for Mathematics Education By the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics Help all students become high-achieving mathematics learners. Gain a strong understanding of mathematics culture, and learn necessary best practices to fully align curriculum and instruction with the CCSS for mathematics. You’ll explore the factors that have traditionally limited mathematics achievement for students and discover practical strategies for creating an environment that supports mathematics learning and instruction.

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Leaders of Learning How District, School, and Classroom Leaders Improve Student Achievement

By Richard DuFour and Robert J. Marzano Bestseller For many years, the authors have been fellow travelers on the journey to help educators improve their schools. Their first coauthored book focuses on district leadership, principal leadership, and team leadership and addresses 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 Benefits

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A great book . . . Shifting the Monkey gives good perspective for dealing with the difficult employee. I highly recommend this book for all people who direct and manage others.”

—William C. McIlroy, president of the Community State Bank of Missouri

Shifting the Monkey The Art of Protecting Good People From Liars, Criers, and Other Slackers

By Todd Whitaker Poor employees get a disproportionate amount of attention. Why? Because they complain the loudest, create the greatest disruptions, and rely on others to assume the responsibilities that they shirk.

Learn how to focus on your good employees first, and help them shift these “monkeys” back to the underperformers. Through a simple but brilliant metaphor, the author helps you reinvigorate your staff and transform your organization. 128 pages; hardcover 42BCA–BKN005 $16.95 ISBN 978-0-9827029-7-0

District Leadership That Works Striking the Right Balance

By Robert J. Marzano and Timothy Waters 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 buildinglevel staff the stylistic freedom to respond quickly and effectively to student failure.

176 pages 42BCA–BKF314 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935249-19-1

A Joint Publication With McREL

The School Board Fieldbook

The Ball

By Todd Whitaker When a veteran teacher and former student reunite, they confront the separate and unique challenges that have knocked them off course. Through each other, they find their way back on track with a message that will resonate with everyone.

96 pages; hardcover 42BCA–BKF611 $16.95 ISBN 978-1-936763-07-8

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Leading With Vision

Working With Difficult & Resistant Staff

By Mark Van Clay and Perry Soldwedel

By John F. Eller and Sheila A. Eller

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.

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Identify, confront, and manage all of the difficult and resistant staff you encounter.

This book will help school leaders understand how to prevent and address negative staff behaviors to ensure positive school change. 144 pages 42BCA–BKF407 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-07-0

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Transforming School Culture has the potential to revolutionize America’s educational system.

It gives school leaders the tools and language to instill sustained cultural change in their schools.”

—Alexander McNeece, principal, Douglas Elementary School, Michigan

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. The author explores many aspects of human behavior, social conditions, and history to reveal best practices for building healthy school cultures. 144 pages 42BCA–BKF281 $19.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-45-1

Transforming School Culture

Transforming School Culture

Online Course

Understanding and Overcoming Resistance to Necessary Change

Presenter: Anthony Muhammad Included eBook: Transforming School Culture 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.

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Featuring Anthony Muhammad Dr. Muhammad describes the prevailing beliefs and assumptions of four different types of educators: Believers, Fundamentalists, Tweeners, and Survivors.

After arguing that their collective dynamic ultimately determines the culture of a school, he provides specific strategies for working with each group. 85-minute DVD with presentation; CD with presentation handouts and supporting resources 42BCA–DVF022 $195.00 UPC 811796010339

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Meeting the CCSS challenges requires school leaders to engage in a balancing act: one that combines effective instruction and innovative practices.”

—School Leader’s Guide to the Common Core

School Leader’s Guide to the Common Core Achieving Results Through Rigor and Relevance

By James A. Bellanca, Robin J. Fogarty, Brian M. Pete, and Rebecca L. Stinson Implement the Common Core State Standards with downloadable reproducibles, lists of resources to support the many topics affected, discussion questions, and relevant information to share with your colleagues. Explore the background of the standards and the changes that must take place to meet them.

The authors offer five principles for school leaders on effective coaching and feedback. 176 pages 42BCA–BKF597 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-45-7

Leading With Trust

Leadership 180

How to Build Strong School Teams

Daily Meditations on School Leadership

By Susan Stephenson

By Dennis Sparks

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

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

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Developing Connective Leadership

Why Social Media Matters

Successes With Thinking Maps ®

School Communication in the Digital Age

By Larry Alper, Kimberly Williams, and David Hyerle 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 42BCA–BKF367 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935249-72-6 ®

Thinking Maps is a registered trademark of Thinking Maps, Inc. The trademark has been used with permission.

By Kitty Porterfield and Meg Carnes Foreword by Daniel A. Domenech

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 stepby-step instructions on how to use three of today’s most popular tools for social media: Twitter, Facebook, and blogs. 160 pages 42BCA–BKF465 $19.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-96-4

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Leadership The What Principals Need to Know series is copublished with the National Association of Elementary School Principals. This series empowers K–8 principals as instructional leaders by concisely explaining the key aspects of mathematics, reading, differentiated instruction, and more. solution-tree.com/Principals What Principals Need to Know About Teaching and Learning Writing

What Principals Need to Know About Teaching and Learning Reading

By Ruth Culham

By Patricia M. Cunningham and James W. Cunningham

Discover practical strategies for supporting and assessing writing instruction in all content areas while equipping teachers with instructional practices that emphasize this critical skill, which students need to adapt to the demands of the CCSS and thrive in the 21st century. 136 pages 42BCA–BKF557 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-936765-43-0

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.

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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 brain-compatible 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 braincompatible learning. 120 pages

What Principals Need to Know About Differentiated Instruction

By Gayle Gregory 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 42BCA–BKF536 $19.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-50-6

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What Principals Need to Know About Teaching and Learning Mathematics

What Principals Need to Know About Teaching and Learning Science

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

By Eric C. Sheninger and Keith Devereaux

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 42BCA–BKF501 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935543-55-8

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Communicating & Connecting With Social Media

How to Interview, Hire, & Retain High-Quality New Teachers

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

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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

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 42BCA–BKF486 $19.95 ISBN 978-1-935543-30-5

Effective Program Evaluation

By Mardale Dunsworth and Dawn Billings 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 42BCA–BKF461 $19.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-90-2

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 42BCA–BKF451 $19.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-78-0

The School Leader’s Guide to Special Education

By Margaret J. McLaughlin and Kristin Ruedel 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. 112 pages 42BCA–BKF453 $19.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-81-0

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Leadership The Leading Edge series unites education authorities from around the globe and asks them to confront the important issues that affect teachers and administrators and impact student success.

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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 Learn from the world’s best education researchers, theorists, and staff developers as they present recommendations on effective instruction. The book provides a comprehensive view of instruction from a theoretical, systemic, and classroom perspective. The authors’ diverse expertise delivers a wide range of ideas and strategies. 392 pages; hardcover 42BCA–BKF278 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-58-1

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 Watts-Taffe, and Junko Yokota

Change Wars Edited by Andy Hargreaves and Michael Fullan

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 42BCA–BKF254 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-31-4

This book presents a deep and thoughtful conversation about what is meant by effective reading instruction for all students. 352 pages; hardcover 42BCA–BKF399 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-00-1

On Common Ground The Power of Professional Learning Communities 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 Bestseller This anthology presents the recommendations of education leaders, and each chapter contributes to a sound conceptual framework and offers specific strategies for developing PLCs. These leaders have found common ground in expressing their belief in the power of PLCs although clear differences emerge regarding their perspectives on the most effective strategy for making PLCs the norm in North America. 272 pages; hardcover 42BCA–BKF180 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-932127-42-3

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Breaking Through Effective Instruction & Assessment for Reaching English Learners 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 Utilizing new research and field studies, this book provides a whole-school approach to helping English learners 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. 288 pages; hardcover 42BCA–BKF552 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-936765-36-2

Ahead of the Curve

21st Century Skills

The Power of Assessment to Transform Teaching and Learning

Rethinking How Students Learn

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 Get the anthology that offers the ideas and recommendations of many of the world’s leaders in assessment. Many perspectives on effective assessment design and implementation culminate in a call for redirecting assessment to improve student achievement and inform instruction. 280 pages; hardcover 42BCA–BKF232 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-06-2

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.

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Mind, Brain, & Education Neuroscience Implications for the Classroom Edited by David A. Sousa

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 Understanding how the brain learns helps teachers do their jobs more effectively. Primary researchers share the latest findings on the learning process and address their implications for educational theory and practice. Explore applications, examples, and suggestions for further thought and research; numerous charts and diagrams; strategies for all subject areas; and new ways of thinking about intelligence, academic ability, and learning disability. 312 pages; hardcover 42BCA–BKF358 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-935249-63-4

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Brainwork The Neuroscience Behind How We Lead Others

By David A. Sousa Through engaging stories and studies, the author shows you how to leverage the most provocative brain research to increase your productivity, expand your creative vision, and become a stronger leader. By applying an understanding of how the brain perceives, plans, and influences behavior, you’ll transform your leadership and impact. 144 pages; hardcover 42BCA–BKN008 $19.95 ISBN 978-0-9833020-3-2

Leading a Learning Organization

Leadership’s Ten Commandments

The Science of Working With Others

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Looking for an easy-to-implement and powerful framework for leading and sustaining change in your professional learning community? Kenneth employs research, encourages audience participation, and reflects on his own experience to show you how to lead with integrity and create a collaborative staff dedicated to student learning.

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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.

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Embedded Formative Assessment

By Dylan Wiliam Bestseller 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 Benefits •

Discover five key strategies with research evidence to show the impact of each.

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Common Formative Assessment A Toolkit for Professional Learning Communities at Work

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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 Benefits •

Gain strategies for how to identify and unwrap power standards to use as the basis for learning targets and common formative assessments.

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—Larry Ainsworth, executive director of professional development, The Leadership and Learning Center

Balanced Assessment From Formative to Summative

Formative Assessment & Standards-Based Grading

By Kay Burke

By Robert J. Marzano

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

Bestseller Learn everything you need to know to implement an integrated system of assessment and grading. The author explains how to design, interpret, and systematically use three different types of formative assessments and how to track student progress and assign meaningful grades. 184 pages 42BCA–BKL003 $29.95 ISBN 978-0-9822592-2-1

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Formative Assessment and Standards-Based Grading Online Course

Presenters: Robert J. Marzano and Tammy Heflebower Included eBook: Formative Assessment & Standards-Based Grading Dr. Marzano and Dr. Heflebower walk you through the research and theories that support what kind of feedback, assessment, and grading enhance student learning. 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.

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Building Common Assessments Presenter: Cassandra Erkens, Angela LaBounty, or Sarah Schuhl Learn how to work as collaborative teams to develop common formative assessments. Leave with a framework for working interdependently to create high-quality assessments and to collect meaningful instructional data that informs interventions and enrichment planning.

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Redefining Fair is a great book! It will be useful for anyone struggling with the question of what is fair in instruction and assessment.”

—Susan M. Brookhart, senior research associate, Center for Advancing the Study of Teaching and Learning, Duquesne University

Redefining Fair

Grading and Learning

How to Plan, Assess, and Grade for Excellence in Mixed-Ability Classrooms

Practices That Support Student Achievement

By Damian Cooper

By Susan M. Brookhart

Foreword by Michael Fullan

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.

Clear, concrete examples help translate state standards into curriculum goals.

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Learn how to define proficiency accurately and differentiate to help all students achieve it. Using stories, strategies, case histories, and sample documents, the author explains how to implement equitable instruction, assessment, grading, and reporting practices for diverse 21st century learners. 200 pages 42BCA–BKF412 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-14-8

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Using Formative Assessment in the RTI Framework

Standards-Based Reporting and Formative Assessment

By Kay Burke and Eileen Depka

On the Road to a Highly Reliable Organization

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 42BCA–BKF369 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935249-74-0

Featuring Robert J. Marzano Dr. Marzano offers a research-based framework that outlines strategies for designing and scoring formative assessments. You’ll learn why the 100-point grading scale can stunt a student’s potential, how to design measurement topics, and what opportunities exist to migrate traditional practices into a formative assessment system. 90-minute DVD with presentation; CD with presentation handouts and supporting resources 42BCA–DVF040 $195.00 UPC 811796010377

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Elements of Grading

A Guide to Effective Practice Online Course

A Guide to Effective Practice

Presenters: Kristine Nielsen and Douglas B. Reeves Included eBook: Elements of Grading

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, and timeliness—and also make the process quicker and more efficient. 152 pages

By Douglas B. Reeves

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.

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The Principal as Assessment Leader

The Teacher as Assessment Leader

Edited by Thomas R. Guskey

Edited by Thomas R. Guskey

By Cassandra Erkens, William M. Ferriter, Tammy Heflebower, Tom Hierck, Charles Hinman, Susan Huff, Chris Jakicic, Dennis King, Ainsley B. Rose, Nicole Vagle, and Mark Weichel

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

Filled with firsthand experiences from expert practitioners, this book delivers the motivation needed to ignite a shift toward formative assessment and overall school improvement. Topics include building teacher literacy, providing targeted professional development, acquiring appropriate technology, and more.

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Meaningful examples, expert research, and real-life experiences illustrate the capacity and responsibility every educator has to ignite positive change. Packed with practical strategies for designing, analyzing, and using assessments, this book shows how to turn best practices into usable solutions. 280 pages 42BCA–BKF345 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-49-9

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Content, Then Process Teaching Learning Communities in the Service of Formative Assessment Featuring Dylan Wiliam In this striking keynote, Dr. Wiliam encourages the building of teacher learning communities (TLCs). He provides practical techniques to embed formative assessment in regular classroom practice and illustrates how TLCs can be established and sustained within schools and districts to support teachers. 86-minute DVD with presentation; CD with presentation handouts and supporting resources 42BCA–DVF058 $195.00 UPC 811796010544

The School Leader’s Guide to Grading

By Ken O’Connor 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; grades K–8 42BCA–BKF553 $19.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-52-0

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NEW! A Fresh Look at Grading and Reporting in High Schools

By Sandra Herbst and Anne Davies Equip yourself with research-based strategies to execute effective classroom assessment. This book is organized around four quadrants: determining the learning destination, researching the expected quality level, planning to collect reliable evidence of learning, and collecting baseline evidence of learning. 112 pages

Making Classroom Assessment Work

By Anne Davies 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. 136 pages 42BCA–BKF520 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935543-88-6

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Self-Assessment and Goal Setting

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. 80 pages 42BCA–BKF514 $17.95 ISBN 978-1-935543-76-3

Quality Assessment in High Schools Accounts From Teachers Edited by Anne Davies, Sandra Herbst, and Kathy Busick Discover how to increase the efficacy of your assessment practices and motivate students to take ownership of their learning. Educators from a variety of disciplines share techniques and firsthand strategies for creating systems of assessment that target student needs.

200 pages 42BCA–BKF526 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-935543-97-8

Setting and Using Criteria

Conferencing and Reporting

By Kathleen Gregory, Caren Cameron, and Anne Davies

By Kathleen Gregory, Caren Cameron, and Anne Davies

Foreword by Sandra Herbst

Foreword by Rick Stiggins

2nd Edition Increase engagement, learning, and achievement by involving students in the process of classroom assessment. This book includes strategies, classroom models, and 10 ways to give students descriptive, specific feedback—all designed to improve the quality of their work while keeping them engaged and focused. 80 pages

2nd Edition Learn practical ways to involve students in the assessment process.

The authors share the 10 best ways to have students reflect on their learning, collect evidence of learning, share that evidence with others, and ask for specific feedback to support further learning. 80 pages 42BCA–BKF512 $17.95 ISBN 978-1-935543-79-4

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Differentiation and the Brain How Neuroscience Supports the Learner-Friendly Classroom

By David A. Sousa and Carol Ann Tomlinson 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 Benefits •

Discover ways to better meet the needs of increasingly diverse students.

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Learn more about how the brain learns and about approaches to differentiation.

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Understand the science behind teaching the best content in the best possible way.

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Design and implement strategies for effective differentiated teaching.

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Create a positive and productive learning environment.

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You’ve Got to Reach Them to Teach Them Hard Facts About the Soft Skills of Student Engagement

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 Benefits •

Gain practical strategies for increasing student engagement and achievement.

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—Jane Bluestein, author, The Win-Win Classroom and Creating Emotionally Safe Schools

Differentiation and the Brain Online Course

Presenters: David A. Sousa and Carol Ann Tomlinson Included eBook: Differentiation and the Brain 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.

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Defensible Differentiation

Think Big, Start Small

What Does It Take to Get It Right?

How to Differentiate Instruction in a Brain-Friendly Classroom

Featuring Carol Ann Tomlinson One-size-fits-all instruction approaches do not serve today’s academically diverse student population, and simply claiming to practice differentiation is not a magic bullet. In this keynote, Dr. Tomlinson calls on teachers to implement differentiation best practices to serve today’s academically diverse student population. 72-minute DVD with presentation; CD with presentation handouts and supporting resources

By Gayle Gregory and Martha Kaufeldt You don’t have to be a neuroscientist to understand how your students absorb knowledge. This easy-to-understand guide pares down the vast field of neuroscience and provides simple brain-compatible strategies that will make a measurable difference in your differentiated classrooms. 168 pages

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The 5 Dimensions of Engaged Teaching offers wisdom, inspiration, and practical strategies for being an effective and connected teacher.”

—Roger P. Weissberg, president and CEO, Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning

The 5 Dimensions of Engaged Teaching A Practical Guide for Educators

By Laura Weaver and Mark Wilding Foreword by Ari Gerzon-Kessler Engaged teaching recognizes that educators need to offer more than lesson plans and assessments for students to thrive in the 21st century. Equip your students to be resilient individuals, able to communicate effectively and work with diverse people. The authors contend that students must develop their emotional and social skills as thoroughly as their academic skills, and that teachers must cultivate this growth.

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Supporting Differentiated Instruction A Professional Learning Communities Approach

By Robin J. Fogarty and Brian M. Pete Foreword by Jay McTighe

Examine how PLCs provide the decisionmaking 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.

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Motivating Students 25 Strategies to Light the Fire of Engagement

By Carolyn Chapman and Nicole Vagle Learn why students disengage and how to motivate them to achieve success with a five-step framework. Research-based strategies and fun activities, along with tips and troubleshooting advice, show how to instill a lasting love of learning in students of any age. 240 pages 42BCA–BKF371 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-935249-78-8

Making Homework Matter Featuring Cassandra Erkens By asking participants to evaluate homework through the eyes of different stakeholders, Cassandra illustrates the value of allowing students to make mistakes, the impact of descriptive feedback from teacher to student, and the critical effect of student involvement in setting and achieving learning targets.

64-minute DVD with presentation; CD with presentation handouts and supporting resources 42BCA–DVF039 $195.00 UPC 811796010360

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The Collected Kappan Cartoons for Educators

A Practical Pathway to 21st Century Skills

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By James A. Bellanca

Treat yourself and your colleagues to a healthy dose of laughter. A compilation of the best cartoons ever published in Phi Delta Kappan, this book offers school administrators, teachers, staff, and parents witty glimpses of life in education.

176 pages

Translate standards-based content into enriched learning projects that build 21st century skills. A valuable tool for teachers, this book helps develop critical thinking and creative skills, highlights useful e-tools, and presents a variety of research-based instructional strategies. 248 pages

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Teaching Our Children to Think

By John Langrehr Move students from simply memorizing content to making meaningful connections. More than 200 user-friendly exercises show you how to help students develop many of the valuable critical and creative thinking skills that have been identified by educators as essential, including questioning, classifying, inferring, and predicting. 216 pages; grades 4–12 42BCA–BKF106 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-879639-76-8

Adventure Education for the Classroom Community Over 90 Activities for Developing Character, Responsibility, and the Courage to Achieve

By Laurie S. Frank and Ambrose Panico New Edition Engage your students in building a classroom community that supports character development, academic excellence, and individual and social responsibility. This character education curriculum is packed with activities that motivate students to choose positive behavior. 400 pages; spiral-bound 42BCA–BKF565 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-936765-96-6

Backward Design

On Excellence in Teaching

Featuring Jay McTighe

Edited by Robert J. Marzano

The Understanding by Design framework reflects the meeting of the ideas of teaching and assessing for understanding with the process for curriculum design.

In this keynote, Jay uses that framework as the foundation to help participants distinguish three learning goals and their implications. 60-minute DVD with presentation; CD with presentation handouts and supporting resources

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

42BCA–DVF055 $195.00 UPC 811796010520

Learn from the world’s best education researchers, theorists, and staff developers.

The authors’ diverse expertise delivers a wide range of ideas and strategies and provides a comprehensive view of effective instruction from a theoretical, systemic, and classroom perspective. 392 pages; hardcover 42BCA–BKF278 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-58-1

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This two-book set offers research-based strategies to enhance instruction and create learning conditions where all students thrive. Becoming a Reflective Teacher introduces 41 elements of effective teaching that are expanded on in its companion book Coaching Classroom Instruction. Teachers and building- and district-level administrators can work together to ensure quality instruction leads to high student achievement in every classroom.

Coaching Classroom Instruction

Becoming a Reflective Teacher

By Robert J. Marzano and Julia A. Simms

By Robert J. Marzano

Bestseller Find advice on how to offer targeted feedback to teachers, empowering them to identify specific steps to improve their knowledge and skill. Coaches can use the step-by-step guidelines to help teachers improve their performance on the 280 research-based strategies introduced in Becoming a Reflective Teacher. 272 pages

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. 256 pages

42BCA–BKL013 $34.95 ISBN 978-0-9833512-6-9

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NEW! Questioning Sequences in the Classroom

NEW! Enhancing the Art & Science of Teaching With Technology

By Robert J. Marzano and Julia A. Simms

By Sonny Magaña and Robert J. Marzano

Learn to use a four-phase questioning sequence to reinforce what students learn, spark their curiosity, and increase achievement. Explore the benefits of using questioning sequences, discover techniques for creating these sequences, and learn to effectively implement them in classrooms.

Successfully leverage technology to enhance classroom practices with this practical resource. Included are over 100 organized classroom strategies, vignettes that show each section’s strategies in action, and a glossary of classroomrelevant technology terms. Key research is summarized and translated into classroom recommendations.

42BCA–BKL018 $24.95 ISBN 978-0-9858902-6-1

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The Highly Engaged Classroom

By Robert J. Marzano and Debra J. Pickering 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. 240 pages 42BCA–BKL005 $29.95 ISBN 978-0-9822592-4-5

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Designing & Teaching Learning Goals & Objectives

By Robert J. Marzano Design and teach effective learning goals and objectives by following strategies based on the strongest research available.

This first book in The Classroom Strategies Series summarizes key research behind best practices and translates that research into step-by-step hands-on strategies.

152 pages 42BCA–BKL001 $24.95 ISBN 978-0-9822592-0-7

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Motivating and Engaging Students

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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.

CEUs: 42BCA–KDS022 3 Semester Hours: 42BCA–KDS023

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Vocabulary Games for the Classroom

By Lindsay Carleton and Robert J. Marzano Make direct vocabulary instruction fun and successful with this simple, straightforward, and easy-to-use book.

Hundreds of vocabulary terms handpicked

by Dr. Marzano cover four content areas and all grade levels. 272 pages 42BCA–BKL007 $34.95 ISBN 978-0-9822592-6-9

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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?”

CEUs: 42BCA–KDS010 3 Semester Hours: 42BCA–KDS011

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Using Common Core Standards to Enhance Classroom Instruction & Assessment

By Robert J. Marzano, David C. Yanoski, Jan K. Hoegh, and Julia A. Simms Bestseller Discover how to weave an in-depth understanding of the Common Core into successful classroom practice with this two-part resource. You’ll learn how to power the standards with guided assessment and measure student progress in a way that accurately reflects learning.

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Supervising the Art and Science of Teaching A New Approach to Lesson Observation and Lesson Design Featuring Robert J. Marzano This fully loaded presentation delivers Dr. Marzano’s best and most effective strategies for lesson design and observation. After outlining 10 critical areas of instructional practice, he guides you through practical design questions, fundamental segments of classroom instruction, and a protocol for monthly reflective practice meetings. 90-minute DVD with presentation; CD with presentation handouts and supporting resources

Developing Expert Teachers Featuring Robert J. Marzano Gain a blueprint for how schools and districts can develop teacher expertise.

Beginning with the premise that excellent teachers are made, not born, Dr. Marzano walks through research-based techniques on how districts and schools can emphasize professional growth, with ties to teacher evaluation. 130-minute DVD with presentation; CD with presentation handouts and supporting resources 42BCA–DVF051 $195.00 UPC 811796010469

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Building Classroom Communities provides the two magic keys to creating classroom communities: belonging and meaning.”

—James C. Malley, associate professor and chair, Department of Counseling and Family Therapy, Central Connecticut State University

Why Culture Counts

Building Classroom Communities

Teaching Children of Poverty

Strategies for Developing a Culture of Caring

By Donna Walker Tileston and Sandra K. Darling Foreword by Belinda Williams Afterword by Rosilyn Carroll

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

By David A. Levine Create a unified, caring classroom in which all students love to learn and feel a sense of belonging. Developed from the author’s experience, this resource helps you create an emotionally safe environment, teach empathy as a primary skill, and much more.

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Teaching for Diversity

From Rage to Hope

A Guide to Greater Understanding

Strategies for Reclaiming Black & Hispanic Students

By Ricardo L. García 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. 216 pages 42BCA–BKF400 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-01-8

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Bestseller 2nd Edition Get an authentic view of academic underachievement, apathy, and rage among America’s Black and Hispanic youth. Become an empowered Merchant of Hope armed with positive strategies for reaching these students and sparking motivation toward achievement. 304 pages 42BCA–BKF157 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-932127-15-7

Teaching Empathy

Focused Instruction

A Blueprint for Caring, Compassion, and Community

An Innovative Teaching Model for All Learners

By David A. Levine

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How do you transform a classroom of unique individuals into a community of compassionate peers? This resource focuses on teaching empathy and building a culture of caring in the classroom. A CD of the author’s original music enhances the learning experience. 236 pages; music CD

Effectively respond to diverse learning styles and achievement levels with strategies and reproducible tools to help you customize, scaffold, and layer your instruction. Reach every student in the classroom, while still holding all students accountable for learning. 176 pages

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21st Century Skills and Technology

Leading the New Literacies Digital, Media, Global Edited by Heidi Hayes Jacobs

By Nitasha Chaudhuri, Michael L. Fisher, Madeleine Maceda Heide, Ann Ward Johnson, Shabbi Luthra, Jane McGee, Fiona Reynolds, Bill Sheskey, Jeanne Tribuzzi, and Brandon L. Wiley Integrate teaching practices that incorporate digital, media, and global-based learning with traditional learning to prepare students to succeed in a highly competitive world.

Identify new literacy terms, find points of curriculum intersection, learn how to acquaint faculty with new technologies, and explore case studies featuring teachers and students operating in 21st century classrooms. 184 pages Benefits •

Follow a detailed, four-phase implementation model to integrate digital, media, and global literacies into the curriculum.

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Reflect on your own teaching and learning practices to construct 21st century classrooms and globally competent students.

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NEW! Mastering Digital Literacy Edited by Heidi Hayes Jacobs

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

152 pages Benefits •

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

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Foster collaboration, creativity, initiative, and engagement, while equipping students with the desire to steer their own learning.

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Mastering Media Literacy Edited by Heidi Hayes Jacobs

By Frank W. Baker, Verneda Edwards, Jennie L. Johnson, Holen Sabrina Kahn, Emily Keating, Kristy Sailors, and Mark Schulte Discover the role media can play in preparing students to compete in a global society in which cultures, economies, and people are constantly connected. Learn how to merge technology and instruction successfully, giving students greater access to knowledge and making learning more meaningful. The authors provide practical tips for incorporating media literacy into the traditional curriculum. 128 pages Benefits •

Use media literacy to enhance learning and create opportunities for deeper understanding of concepts and skills.

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Mastering Global Literacy Edited by Heidi Hayes Jacobs

By Veronica Boix Mansilla, Anthony W. Jackson, William Kist, Homa Sabet Tavangar, and Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano Discover how educators can cultivate globally literate learners while becoming globally connected themselves. The authors explore ways to bring global issues into the classroom and personalize them using new digital tools. Find strategies for implementing global-awareness studies into the traditional school curriculum, as well as creating new types of 21st century learning environments. 136 pages Benefits •

Understand why a rapidly changing world calls for the integration of global awareness in the classroom.

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Nurture students to become citizens able to thrive in a contemporary society.

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Use global competence to stimulate student interest in learning, college, and careers.

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21st Century Skills and Technology Bringing Innovation to School makes a powerful case that innovation can be—make that must be—taught and provides engaging examples of how real educators are doing this today.”

—John R. Mergendoller, executive director, Buck Institute for Education

Bringing Innovation to School

Who Owns the Learning?

Empowering Students to Thrive in a Changing World

Preparing Students for Success in the Digital Age

By Suzie Boss

By Alan November

Foreword by Chris Lehmann

Learn how to harness students’ natural curiosity to develop self-directed learners.

Discover how technology allows students to take ownership of their learning, create and share learning tools, and participate in work that is meaningful to them and others. 104 pages

Activate your students’ creativity and problem-solving potential with breakthrough learning projects. Across all grades and content areas, student-driven, collaborative projects will teach students how to generate innovative ideas and then put them into action. 184 pages

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The Connected Educator

The Global School

Learning and Leading in a Digital Age

Connecting Classrooms and Students Around the World

By Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Lani Ritter Hall Create a connected learning community through social media and rediscover the power of being a learner first. The authors show you how to take advantage of technology to collaborate with other educators and deepen the learning of your students. 208 pages 42BCA–BKF478 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-935543-17-6

Personal Learning Networks Using the Power of Connections to Transform Education

WINNER

By William Kist Prepare students for an increasingly flat world where diverse people from divergent cultures learn and work together rather than in isolation. Learn specific steps to globalize your classroom and encourage higher-order thinking, all wrapped in a 21st century skills framework. 128 pages 42BCA–BKF570 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935543-69-5

21st Century Learning in a Networked World For Our Students and Ourselves

By Will Richardson and Rob Mancabelli

Featuring Will Richardson

Follow this road map for using the web for learning. Learn how to build your own learning network. Use learning networks in the classroom and make the case for schoolwide learning networks to improve student outcomes. 168 pages

Discover eight shifts necessary to fully utilize Internet technology in the classroom.

Will challenges educators to set aside the old model of schooling and re-envision the foundation of teaching and learning as global and continuous. 71-minute DVD with presentation; CD with presentation handouts and supporting resources

42BCA–BKF484 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935543-27-5

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Classroom Habitudes

21st Century Skills

Teaching Habits and Attitudes for 21st Century Learning

Rethinking How Students Learn

By Angela Maiers Revised Edition Learn how to use the content you already teach to challenge students to think critically, collaborate with others, solve new problems, and adapt to change across new learning contexts. Help students build the seven habitudes they need to succeed. 160 pages; grades K–8 42BCA–BKF542 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-62-9

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 42BCA–BKF389 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-935249-90-0

21st Century Readiness for Every Student

21st Century Skills

Featuring Ken Kay

Presenters: James A. Bellanca and Ken Kay

The term 21st century education is used to describe myriad trends. In this keynote, Ken argues that for the term to have meaning, 21st century education must be rooted in knowledge and skills that ensure readiness for every student. 67-minute DVD with presentation; CD with presentation handouts and supporting resources 42BCA–DVF056 $195.00 UPC 811796010490

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

CEUs: 42BCA–KDS036 3 Semester Hours: 42BCA–KDS037

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21st Century Skills

2-Day Workshop

Presenters: William M. Ferriter, Cheryl Lemke, and Will Richardson Ensure your students are prepared to step up, both as learners and as the new generation of productive global citizens. Learn teacher-friendly strategies to utilize problem-based learning, clear communication, and metacognitive reflection for inspiring and engaging students.

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• Envision new designs for learning made possible through digital tools.

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21st Century Skills and Technology The authors of Teaching the iGeneration provide tools and resources to prepare students to succeed and to compete in a global economy that demands innovation, critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration, and creativity.”

—Howie DiBlasi, technology and educational consultant, Digital Journey

Teaching the iGeneration 5 Easy Ways to Introduce Essential Skills With Web 2.0 Tools

By William M. Ferriter and Adam Garry Find the natural overlap between the work you already believe in and the digital tools that define tomorrow’s learning. Each chapter introduces an enduring life skill and a digital solution to enhance traditional skill-based instructional practices. A collection of handouts and supporting materials ends each chapter. 256 pages 42BCA–BKF393 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-935249-93-1

Using Web 2.0 in Teaching and Instruction Online Course Presenters: William M. Ferriter and Adam Garry Included eBook: Teaching the iGeneration 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 thought-provoking, 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.

CEUs: 42BCA–KDS026 3 Semester Hours: 42BCA–KDS027

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

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Teaching & Assessing 21st Century Skills

By Robert J. Marzano and Tammy Heflebower

By Meg Ormiston Design and deliver standards-based lessons in which technology plays an integral role.

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 42BCA–BKF385 $19.95 ISBN 978-1-935249-87-0

In this clear, practical guide, the authors present a model of instruction and assessment based on a combination of cognitive skills (skills students will need to succeed academically) and conative skills (skills students will need to succeed interpersonally) necessary for the 21st century. 264 pages 42BCA–BKL009 $34.95 ISBN 978-0-9833512-0-7

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Teaching Students to Read Like Detectives Comprehending, Analyzing, and Discussing Text

By Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Diane Lapp Bestseller 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 Benefits •

Learn how to establish an inquiry-based and reflective classroom.

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Gain examples of student and teacher dialogues, teacher modeling, and graphic organizers.

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

By Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Cynthia L. Uline 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 WorkTM process. Teachers will discover the fundamental learning targets necessary for college and career readiness and how students can master them for each grade level.

Solution Tree is proud to partner with the International Reading Association and distinguished English language arts experts to copublish this series aligned with the CCSS and PLC at Work process.

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Literacy Look-Fors, for administrators and literacy leaders, and Collaborative Teacher Literacy Teams, K–6, for teachers, were created to help educators at all levels align their efforts. Build shared understanding of what effective, balanced literacy instruction looks like, and watch your school’s literacy program blossom with success.

Literacy Look-Fors An Observation Protocol to Guide K–6 Classroom Walkthroughs

By Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins Understand and identify the look-fors that provide evidence of effective literacy instruction, and bring all students to grade level or well above. 184 pages; grades K–6 42BCA–BKF422 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-18-6

Collaborative Teacher Literacy Teams, K–6 Connecting Professional Growth to Student Achievement

By Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins Explore the work of collaborative literacy teams from their formation to the employment of successful student-focused strategies. 232 pages; grades K–6 42BCA–BKF491 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-28-5

Elementary Reading Intervention Strategies, Grades K–6

40 Reading Intervention Strategies for K–6 Students

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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. McEwanAdkins shows how to help your students develop essential reading skills. Grades K–6 CEUs: 42BCA–KDS016 3 Semester Hours: 42BCA–KDS017

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From Tired to Inspired Fresh Strategies to Engage Students in Literacy

By Mary Kim Schreck In this Common Core State Standardsaligned book, educators will discover research-based tips and strategies to improve literacy from upper elementary to secondary school classrooms. Topics include teaching close reading and writing, engaging students, making literacy instruction meaningful, and more.

208 pages 42BCA–BKF594 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-37-2

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 42BCA–BKF270 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-934009-50-5

20 Literacy Strategies to Meet the Common Core Increasing Rigor in Middle & High School Classrooms

By Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins and Allyson J. Burnett With the advent of the Common Core State Standards, some secondary teachers are scrambling for what to do and how to do it. This book provides 20 research-based strategies designed to help students meet those standards and become expert readers. 328 pages; grades 6–12 42BCA–BKF588 $34.95 ISBN 978-1-936764-28-0

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Literacy 2.0 Reading and Writing in 21st Century Classrooms

By Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, and Alex Gonzalez Students in the 21st century still need to develop traditional reading and writing skills, and they must also learn how to use technology for communicating and collaborating in new ways. This book offers specific teaching strategies for developing student literacy in using search engines efficiently, evaluating information found on websites, avoiding plagiarism, communicating with a wide audience, working collaboratively, and creating multimedia products. 152 pages; grades 6–12 42BCA–BKF373 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935249-80-1

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Teaching Reading & Comprehension to English Learners, K–5

By Margarita Calderón 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 Benefits •

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Learn how to plan, implement, and evaluate common language assessments for your English learners. With this stepby-step guide, teachers, school leaders, and administrators will find organizing principles, lead questions, and action steps all directing you toward collaborative assessment. 192 pages

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Boys in Poverty A Framework for Understanding Dropout

By Ruby K. Payne and Paul D. Slocumb Foreword by Michael Gurian Examine the risk factors for dropout among males living in poverty, especially generational poverty. Explore personal, community, and school system issues, including family dysfunction, disability, poor teaching, punitive discipline, and absence of differentiated instruction. Offering specific interventions, the book focuses on boys’ physical, emotional, cognitive, and social development and the unique problems of sensitive, gay, gifted, ADHD, and postadolescent males. 160 pages 42BCA–BKF383 $24.95 ISBN 978-1-935542-22-3

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Breaking the Poverty Barrier Changing Student Lives With Passion, Perseverance, and Performance

By Ricardo LeBlanc-Esparza and William S. Roulston Strong leadership, parent involvement, mentoring, data-based intervention, and high expectations are known factors in student success, but what do they really look like in practice—and are they as powerful as research says? This book illustrates the specific strategies and critical steps that transformed a school beset with poverty and shockingly low proficiency into a National Showcase School. 216 pages 42BCA–BKF476 $29.95 ISBN 978-1-935543-14-5

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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 Benefits •

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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 a quality collaborative relationship through critical conversations, the authors explain three co-teaching models and how co-teaching fits within school improvement initiatives. Next, they present the critical conversations framework designed to foster dramatic improvements in the way educators communicate with their colleagues. The authors use practical examples and real-life stories to show how co-teaching strategies make a positive difference for students.

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2nd Edition When students lack basic social skills for controlling their behavior and getting along with others, the solution is simple and direct. Use the same skills you bring to teaching mathematics, reading, and science to incorporate this social skills curriculum that builds self-control.

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Learn specific strategies for developing behavior intervention plans (BIPs) that lead to long-term, positive change for general and special education students. The author outlines a practical five-step Plan to Do Better approach and provides reproducibles that ease the information-gathering process.

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Power Struggles Successful Techniques for Educators

By Allen N. Mendler and Brian D. Mendler 2nd Edition Regain the focus of challenging 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 to prevent and defuse future disruptive moments. 96 pages 42BCA–BKF480 $17.95 ISBN 978-1-935543-20-6

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 four skill areas essential to establishing a safe, supportive learning environment. In this video series, Dr. Curwin and Dr. Mendler demonstrate proven, research-based strategies in dramatized scenes and actual classroom settings. Deliver the material over a two-day in-service period or in extended intervals. Four 20-minute DVDs; 80-page Facilitator’s Guide (in print and on DVD) 42BCA–DVF064 $595.00 UPC 811796010612

Motivating Students Who Don’t Care Successful Techniques for Educators

By Allen N. Mendler Bestseller Spark enthusiasm in your classroom. Proven strategies and five effective processes (emphasizing effort, creating hope, respecting power, building relationships, and expressing enthusiasm) empower you to reawaken motivation in students who aren’t prepared, don’t care, and won’t work. 80 pages

Discipline With Dignity for Challenging Youth

By Allen N. Mendler and Richard L. Curwin Create positive change in your most challenging students with the help of practical strategies found in this resource.

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Pyramid of Behavior Interventions Seven Keys to a Positive Learning Environment

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Discipline With Dignity A Plan for Prevention, Action, and Resolution of Challenging Classroom Behaviors Featuring Richard L. Curwin and Allen N. Mendler The long-term goal of the Discipline With Dignity® program is to teach students responsibility, self-discipline, and selfcontrol. With this DVD set, learn a variety of techniques to help students feel connected, competent, and empowered, and teach them to have empathy for others—all while having fun!

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Succeeding With Difficult Students ® New Strategies for Reaching Your Most Challenging Students

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Professional Learning Communities at Work Plan Book TM

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Formative Assessment and Standards-Based Grading

Presenters: James A. Bellanca and Ken Kay Included eBook: 21st Century Skills

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Gain ideas, recommendations, and strategies from a variety of experts on how to prepare students for a globally connected world.

Learn how to construct assessments, create rubric-based scales to inform both formative and summative assessments, and monitor and affect students’ progress.

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Common Core State Standards in Literacy, Grades 3–8

Discover how to raise students’ energy levels, demonstrate a positive demeanor, express enthusiasm, and use humor to engage and motivate students.

Pyramid Response to Intervention

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How to Respond When Kids Don’t Learn Presenters: Austin Buffum, Mike Mattos, and Chris Weber Included eBook: Pyramid Response to Intervention

Tackle the demands of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts, and differentiate instruction while aligning assessment practices.

RTI experts take you through the critical stages of establishing PLCs, using universal screening tools, and devising interventions at three tiers.

Common Core State Standards in Mathematics, Grades 3–8

Teaching Boys in Poverty

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Transforming School Culture Differentiation and the Brain Presenters: David A. Sousa and Carol Ann Tomlinson Included eBook: Differentiation and the Brain Discover the components of a brain-friendly quality curriculum, along with a model for teachers to set up a differentiated classroom.

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Using Web 2.0 in Teaching and Instruction Presenters: William M. Ferriter and Adam Garry Included eBook: Teaching the iGeneration Discover how you can use today’s technology to create classroom experiences that encourage your students to learn.

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Ontario RTI at WorkTM Institute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25, 87

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Colorado Beyond the Common Core Mathematics in a Professional Learning Community Workshop . . . . . . 7, 86 Building Common Assessments Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47, 86 Professional Learning Communities at WorkTM Institute . . . 19, 87

Florida Implementing Common Core Standards With Total Instructional Alignment Workshop . . . . . . . . . 9, 86 Response to Intervention in Math Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . 28, 86 Professional Learning Communities at WorkTM Institute . . . 19, 87

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William M. Ferriter, Cheryl Lemke, and Will Richardson

Ensure your students are prepared to step up, both as learners and as the new generation of productive global citizens. Learn teacher-friendly strategies to utilize problem-based learning, clear communication, and metacognitive reflection for inspiring and engaging students.

Beyond the Common Core Mathematics in a Professional Learning Community March 25–26 Sacramento, CA April 3–4 Denver, CO

Timothy D. Kanold and Diane J. Briars or Sarah Schuhl

Helping students meet or exceed CCSS-M expectations requires providing them with a vision and process for learning mathematics. Learn how with your teacher team, school, or district at this high-energy, dynamic workshop led by mathematics thought leader Dr. Timothy D. Kanold.

Building Common Assessments March 10–11 March 17–18 April 1–2 April 1–2 April 7–8 November 18–19

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Cassandra Erkens, Angela LaBounty, or Sarah Schuhl

Learn how to work as collaborative teams to develop common formative assessments. Leave with a framework for working interdependently to create high-quality assessments and to collect meaningful instructional data that informs interventions and enrichment planning.

Common Core for English Language Arts Nancy Frey

The CCSS for English language arts demand that students learn to justify their responses with evidence and to read increasingly complex text. Learn what changes to curriculum and instruction are necessary to meet the standards and ensure student achievement.

Implementing Common Core Standards With Total Instructional Alignment April 7–8 St. Louis, MO April 14–15 Orlando, FL April 22–23 San Diego, CA

Lisa Carter

Plan ahead to ensure a seamless transition from current state standards to the new national Common Core Standards. This workshop is designed to help forward-thinking schools and districts prepare teachers and administrators to smoothly accomplish this transition.

Response to Intervention in Math April 9–10 April 16–17 April 24–25 November 20–21

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William N. Bender and Darlene Crane

When planning multitiered interventions, students who struggle with mathematics often get overlooked. Learn why implementing RTI in mathematics is critical. Gain usable solutions and processes based on practical issues and emerging research.

Simplifying Response to Intervention March 12–13 March 19–20 April 3–4 April 9–10 May 22–23

Omaha, NE Seattle, WA Boston, MA San Antonio, TX Prince George, BC

Austin Buffum and/or Mike Mattos

Learn why bureaucratic, paperwork-heavy, compliance-oriented, test-scoredriven approaches fail—and then learn how to create an RTI model that works.

Acquire four essential guiding principles and a simple process for implementation to help your school make RTI efficient, effective, and equitable.

Transforming School Culture April 14–15 Montreal, QC

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Institutes and Summits Assessment NOW Canada Rebecca DuFour, Richard DuFour, Tammy Heflebower, Timothy D. Kanold, Robert J. Marzano, Anthony Muhammad, Phil Warrick, and Kenneth C. Williams

Quality classroom assessments need to be both accurate and valid in order to provide educators with the information they need to assess student understanding.

Explore frameworks for rigor and relevance in assessment design that is fair and motivating to all students.

November 3–5 Victoria, BC

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Common Core NOW Institute Luis F. Cruz, James W. Cunningham, Juli K. Dixon, Cassandra Erkens, Timothy D. Kanold, and LeAnn Nickelsen

Transform Common Core stress into success at this empowering event. Prepare students and staff to persevere from first results to lasting achievement. Learn how to tackle specific content-area requirements, reach English learners, enlist parental support, and measure progress every step of the way.

July 28–29 Boston, MA

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Common Core Standards & Assessment Institute Schools throughout the nation face a new challenge of transitioning to the Common Core State Standards. This conference offers a range of assessment strategies and the time to explore, network, and discover the tools that will work best for you.

Victoria L. Bernhardt, Diane J. Briars, Tim Brown, Cassandra Erkens, Douglas Fisher, Thomas R. Guskey, Timothy D. Kanold, Robert J. Marzano, Meg Ormiston, Mary Kim Schreck, and Nicole Vagle

April 29–May 1 Glendale, AZ

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Leadership NOW Summit Rebecca DuFour, Richard DuFour, Tammy Heflebower, Timothy D. Kanold, Robert J. Marzano, Anthony Muhammad, Phil Warrick, and Kenneth C. Williams

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.

April 1–3 Las Vegas, NV

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Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker, Mike Mattos, and others

The Professional Learning Communities at WorkTM process is increasingly recognized as the most powerful strategy for sustained, substantive school improvement.

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Daresh, Bridget N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Daresh, John C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Darling-Hammond, Linda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33, 42, 43, 63 Darling, Sandra K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58, 73 Davies, Anne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43, 50 Davis, Kim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75, 79 Dede, Chris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43, 63 Dehaene, Stanislas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Deiotte, Margaret . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 DeLorenzo, Richard A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Depka, Eileen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27, 48 Devereaux, Keith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Devlin, Keith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Dier, Linda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Dixon, Juli K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7, 11, 87 Dixon, Susan D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75, 79 Doty, Gwen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 DuFour, Rebecca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 42, 43, 45, 63, 80, 83, 87 DuFour, Richard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 36, 42, 43, 45, 63, 80, 83, 87 Dunsworth, Mardale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32, 41

Hardiman, Mariale M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Hargadon, Steve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Hargreaves, Andy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33, 42, 43, 63 Heflebower, Tammy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45, 47, 49, 64, 83, 87 Heide, Madeleine Maceda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Heikkinen, Katie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Henley, Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75, 76 Herbst, Sandra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Hierck, Tom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26, 35, 49, 78, 79 Hinman, Charles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15, 49 Hoegh, Jan K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9, 57 Hoffman, James V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42, 68 Holcomb, Edie L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Hollie, Sharroky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33, 34 Howell, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Hubbell, Elizabeth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Huff, Susan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15, 49 Hulley, Wayne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Hyatt, Cate Hart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Hyerle, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Hymel, Shelley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

B Bailey, Kim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 15, 46 Baker, Frank W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Barber, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33, 42 Barell, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43, 63 Barr, Robert D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30, 31, 34 Barth, Roland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17, 42 Battino, Wendy J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Bean, Rita M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42, 68 Bear, Donald R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42, 68 Bellanca, James A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 39, 43, 55, 63, 83 Bender, William N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28, 86 Bennett, Barrie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42, 55 Berliner, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42, 55 Bernhardt, Victoria L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8, 51, 87 Billings, Dawn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32, 41 Blachowicz, Camille L. Z. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42, 68 Boix Mansilla, Veronica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Bollman, Kerry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Boss, Suzie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Bowgren, Linda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Brandt, Ron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43, 63 Branscombe, Karen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Brendtro, Larry K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Briars, Diane J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7, 8, 40, 51, 83, 86, 87 Brokenleg, Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Brookhart, Susan M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48, 49 Brophy, Jere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42, 55 Brown, Tim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8, 18, 51, 87 Buffum, Austin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 83, 86, 87 Burke, Kay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8, 27, 47, 48, 83 Burnett, Allyson J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9, 67, 68 Busick, Kathy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

C Calderón, Margarita . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10, 43, 70, 71, 83 Cameron, Caren . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Campbell, Martha F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Canter, Lee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76, 79, 80 Canter, Marlene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Capitelli, Sarah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43, 71 Carleton, Lindsay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Carnes, Meg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Carrio, Barbara B. Gaddy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Carter, John A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Carter, Lisa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9, 34, 86 Chapman, Carolyn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53, 54 Chapman, Carrie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Chaudhuri, Nitasha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Christodoulou, Joanna A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Coch, Donna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Cohan, Daniel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Coleman, Charlie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26, 78, 79 Conzemius, Anne E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30, 31, 44 Cooper, Damian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48, 49 Crane, Darlene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28, 86 Crick, Nicki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Cruz, Luis F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11, 87 Culham, Ruth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40, 42, 68 Cummins, Jim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43, 71 Cunningham, James W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11, 40, 68, 87 Cunningham, Patricia M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40, 42, 68 Curwin, Richard L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77, 79

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E Eaker, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . .13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 42, 80, 87 Eason-Watkins, Barbara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17, 42 Eddy, Marianna D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Edwards, Verneda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Eller, John F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37, 44 Eller, Sheila A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Elmore, Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33, 42 Erickson, Lynn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42, 55 Erkens, Cassandra . . . . . . .8, 10, 11, 15, 16, 47, 49, 51, 54, 86, 87

F Faeth, Matthias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Farmer, Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Fennell, Francis (Skip) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7, 40 Ferriter, William M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13, 15, 41, 49, 63, 64, 83, 86 Fischer, Kurt W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Fisher, Douglas . . . . . . . . 6, 8, 10, 27, 43, 51, 63, 66, 68, 71, 83, 87 Fisher, Michael L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Fisher, Peter J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42, 68 Fogarty, Robin J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 39, 43, 54, 63 Foster, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Frank, Laurie S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Frey, Nancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6, 10, 27, 43, 63, 66, 68, 71, 83, 86 Fullan, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12, 17, 33, 42, 44

G Gabrieli, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Gale, Mardi A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Gambrell, Linda B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42, 68 García, Ricardo L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Gardner, Howard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43, 63 Garry, Adam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64, 83 Gibson, Emily L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Glaude, Catherine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Goldenberg, Claude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43, 71 Gómez, Joel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43, 71 Gonzalez, Alex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Good, Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42, 55 Goodwin, Bryan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Goodwin, Michelle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Gottlieb, Margo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43, 71 Graham, Parry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13, 15 Grant, Maria C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8, 71 Gregg, Linda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Gregory, Gayle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40, 53 Gregory, Kathleen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Guskey, Thomas R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8, 43, 49, 51, 87

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I–K Immordino-Yang, Mary Helen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Izquierdo, Elena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43, 71 Jackson, Anthony W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Jacobs, Heidi Hayes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42, 55, 60, 61 Jakicic, Chris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 15, 46, 49 Jansen, Jonathan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33, 42 Jensen, Eric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Jessie, Lillie G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Johnson, Ann Ward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Johnson, David W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43, 63 Johnson, Jennie L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Johnson, Roger T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43, 63 Johnson, Sara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Jung, Lee Ann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Kahn, Holen Sabrina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Kanold, Timothy D. . . . . . 7, 8, 10, 11, 16, 18, 40, 45, 51, 83, 86, 87 Karhanek, Gayle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Karten, Toby J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74, 75 Kaufeldt, Martha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Kay, Ken . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43, 63, 83 Keating, Emily . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Keating, Janel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16, 17, 18 King, Dennis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15, 49 Kise, Jane A. G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21, 44 Kist, William . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61, 62, 64 Kobett, Beth McCord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Kramer, Sharon V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10, 15, 18, 49 Kuykendall, Crystal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

L LaBounty, Angela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47, 86 Langrehr, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Lapp, Diane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8, 66, 68 Larson, Matthew R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 LeBlanc-Esparza, Kym . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 LeBlanc-Esparza, Ricardo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31, 34, 41, 73 Lee, Okhee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43, 71 Lefkowits, Laura . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Lemke, Cheryl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43, 63, 86 Levin, Ben . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33, 42 Levine, David A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58, 80 Lezotte, Lawrence W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17, 34, 42 Lipton, Laura . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Littlejohn, Jim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72, 83 Luthra, Shabbi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

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Magaña, Sonny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Mahlke, Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Maiers, Angela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63, 64 Mancabelli, Rob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Many, Thomas W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13, 14, 15, 18, 21 Martin, Terri L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Marzano, Jana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42, 55 Marzano, Robert J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 8, 9, 36, 37, 42, 43, 45, 47, 48, 51, 55, 56, 57, 64, 83, 87 Massé, François . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Mattos, Mike . . . . . . . . . .15, 18, 19, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 83, 86, 87 Mayer, Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42, 55 McEwan-Adkins, Elaine K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9, 67, 83 McGee, Jane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 McLaughlin, Margaret J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 McLaughlin, Maureen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42, 68 McNeece, Alexander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 McTighe, Jay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42, 43, 55, 63 Mendler, Allen N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77, 79 Mendler, Brian D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Minaya-Rowe, Liliana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43, 71 Morganti-Fisher, Terry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Morrow, Lesley Mandel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42, 68 Mraz, Maryann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42, 68 Muhammad, Anthony . . . . . . . . . . . .15, 33, 34, 38, 45, 83, 86, 87 Myers, Nicholas Jay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

r4 Educated Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Ramsden, Jason T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Ranells, Mary Ann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Rasinski, Timothy V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42, 68 Reason, Casey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Reeves, Douglas B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17, 33, 42, 43, 48, 63, 83 Reynolds, Fiona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Richardson, Will . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43, 62, 63, 64, 86 Ritter Hall, Lani . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Rivera, Charlene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43, 71 Robinson, Laurie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25, 87 Rodriguez, Rich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Rose, Ainsley B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15, 35, 49 Rothenberg, Carol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27, 71 Roulston, William S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31, 73 Rozzelle, Jan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Ruedel, Kristin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Russell, Beth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Udelhofen, Susan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Uline, Cynthia L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 66 Vacca, Richard T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42, 68 Vagle, Nicole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8, 49, 51, 54, 87 Valdés, Guadalupe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43, 71 Van Bockern, Steve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Van Clay, Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21, 37

N National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Nickelsen, LeAnn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 10, 11, 87 Nielsen, Kristine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48, 83 Noguera, Pedro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33, 42 Noonan, Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15, 18 November, Alan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43, 62, 63 Nussbaum-Beach, Sheryl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62, 64

O–P O’Connor, Ken . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43, 49 O’Loughlin, Tricia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 O’Neill, Jan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30, 31 Ormiston, Meg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8, 51, 64, 87 Ortiz, Alba A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43, 71 Overlie, Jeffry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Owens, Regina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Panico, Ambrose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55, 76, 78 Parrett, William H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Parscale, Geri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Patton, Sandra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Payne, Ruby K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72, 83 Pearlman, Bob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43, 63 Pearson, P. David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42, 68 Perini, Matthew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42, 55 Pete, Brian M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 39, 43, 54, 63 Peterson, Garrick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Phi Delta Kappa International . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Pickering, Debra J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42, 55, 56, 57, 83 Porterfield, Kitty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Posner, Michael I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

S Sagor, Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Sailors, Kristy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Saphier, Jonathon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17, 42 Scearce, Carol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Schleicher, Andreas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33, 42 Schmidt, Julie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Schmoker, Mike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17, 42 Schreck, Mary Kim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8, 51, 52, 53, 67, 87 Schreiber, Rick M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Schuhl, Sarah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7, 10, 47, 86 Schulte, Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Seif, Elliott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43, 63 Sever, Kathryn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Shanahan, Timothy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42, 68 Sheninger, Eric C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40, 41 Sheskey, Bill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Shirley, Dennis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33, 42 Silver, Harvey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42, 55 Simms, Julia A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9, 56, 57 Slavin, Robert E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43, 71 Slocumb, Paul D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Smith, Raymond L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Smith, Rich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Snyder, Kathleen McKee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Soldwedel, Perry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21, 37 Sousa, David A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40, 43, 44, 52, 53, 83 Sparks, Dennis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17, 39, 42 Sparks, Susan K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Spillane, James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33, 42 Spiller, Jeanne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Stephenson, Susan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Stiggins, Rick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17, 42, 43 Stinson, Rebecca L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 39

W Waller, Laura . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Warrick, Phil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45, 87 Waters, Timothy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Watts-Taffe, Susan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42, 68 Weaver, Laura . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Weber, Chris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22, 23, 26, 78, 79, 83 Weichel, Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Wellman, Bruce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Westover, Jay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Whitaker, Todd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 White, Stephen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33, 43 Wiggins, Grant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42, 55 Wight, Matt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Wilding, Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Wiley, Brandon L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Wiliam, Dylan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43, 46, 49 Williams, Diane L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Williams, Kenneth C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15, 34, 41, 44, 45, 78, 87 Williams, Kimberly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Willis, Judy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Windram, Holly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Woempner, Carolyn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Wray, Jonathan A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Y–Z Yanoski, David C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9, 57 Yates, Debra L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Yokota, Junko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42, 68 Young, Adam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Zimmermann, Gwendolyn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

T Tavangar, Homa Sabet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Teale, William H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42, 68 Templeton, Shane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42, 68 Tibbals, Cheryl Zintgraff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Tileston, Donna Walker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27, 58, 73 Tolisano, Silvia Rosenthal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60, 61 Tomlinson, Carol Ann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42, 52, 53, 55, 83 Toncheff, Mona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Trejo, Maria N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43, 71 Tribuzzi, Jeanne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Tucker, Marc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33, 42 Twadell, Eric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15, 16, 23, 44 Twemlow, Stuart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

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Book and Video Index 5 Dimensions of Engaged Teaching, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 20 Literacy Strategies to Meet the Common Core . . . . . . . . . 9, 67 21st Century Learning in a Networked World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 21st Century Readiness for Every Student . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 21st Century Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43, 63 40 Reading Intervention Strategies for K–6 Students . . . . . . . . . 67

A Adventure Education for the Classroom Community . . . . . . . . . 55 Ahead of the Curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Aligning School Districts as PLCs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Assertive Discipline® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

B Backward Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Balanced Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Ball, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Becoming an Authentic Learning Leader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Becoming a Reflective Teacher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Behave Yourself! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Beyond the RTI Pyramid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Boys in Poverty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Boys Will Be Boys, But What About Girls? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Brainwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Breaking the Poverty Barrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31, 73 Breaking Through . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43, 71 Bringing Innovation to School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Bringing the Common Core to Life in K–8 Classrooms . . . . . . . . . 4 Building a Common Core–Based Curriculum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Building a Culture of Hope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Building a Professional Learning Community at WorkTM . . . . . . 13 Building Classroom Communities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Bullying and Peer Harassment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

C Change Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33, 42 Classroom Habitudes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Classroom Management for Academic Success . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Closing the RTI Gap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Coaching Classroom Instruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Collaborating for Success With the Common Core . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Collaborative Action Research for Professional Learning Communities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Collaborative Administrator, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Collaborative Teacher Literacy Teams, K–6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Collaborative Teacher, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Collaborative Teams in Professional Learning Communities at WorkTM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Common Core English Language Arts in a PLC at WorkTM series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 66 Common Core Mathematics in a PLC at WorkTM series . . . . . . . . 7 Common Formative Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15, 46 Common Language Assessment for English Learners . . . . . . . . 71 Communicating & Connecting With Social Media . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Conferencing and Reporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Connected Educator, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Content, Then Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Creating a Coaching Culture for Professional Learning Communities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Creating a Digital-Rich Classroom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Creating Physical & Emotional Security in Schools . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Creating Successful Inclusion Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Critical Conversations in Co-Teaching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Cultures Built to Last . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

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Data-Based Decision Making . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Data Dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Defensible Differentiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Delivering on the Promise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Designing & Teaching Learning Goals & Objectives . . . . . . . . . . 56 Developing Connective Leadership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Developing Expert Teachers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Differentiated Professional Development in a Professional Learning Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Differentiation and the Brain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Discipline With Dignity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Discipline With Dignity for Challenging Youth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 District Leadership That Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Making Classroom Assessment Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Making Homework Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Making Math Accessible to Students With Special Needs . . . . . 75 Making Teamwork Meaningful . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Mastering Digital Literacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Mastering Global Literacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Mastering Media Literacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Mind, Brain, & Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 More Than a SMART Goal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 MORE What Do I Do When . . . ? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Motivating Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Motivating Students Who Don’t Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

E Effective Program Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Elements of Grading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Embedded Formative Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Enhancing the Art & Science of Teaching With Technology . . . . . 56 Enriched Learning Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Every School, Every Team, Every Classroom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

F Five Big Ideas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Five Disciplines of PLC Leaders, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Focused Instruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Forged, Not Forced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Formative Assessment & Standards-Based Grading . . . . . . . . . . 47 Four Keys to Effective Classroom and Behavior Management, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Fresh Look at Grading and Reporting in High Schools, A . . . . . . 50 From Rage to Hope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 From Tired to Inspired . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Future of Schooling, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

G Getting By or Getting Better . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Getting District Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Global School, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Got Data? Now What? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Grading and Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

O–P On Common Ground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17, 42 On Excellence in Teaching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42, 55 On Solid Ground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Passion and Persistence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Personal Learning Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 PLC at Work™ Cartoon Book, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 PLC Toolkit, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Power of Professional Learning Communities at WorkTM, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Power of SMART Goals, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Power Struggles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Power Tools for Adolescent Literacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Practical Look at Response to Intervention, A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Principal as Assessment Leader, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Professional Learning Communities at WorkTM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Professional Learning Communities at WorkTM Plan Book . . . . . 80 Protocols for Professional Learning Conversations . . . . . . . . . . 21 Pyramid of Behavior Interventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26, 79 Pyramid Response to Intervention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22, 23

Q Quality Assessment in High Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Questioning Sequences in the Classroom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

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Handbook for SMART School Teams, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Harbors of Hope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Head of the Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Highly Engaged Classroom, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 High-Performing School, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 How RTI Works in Secondary Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 How to Interview, Hire, & Retain High-Quality New Teachers . . 41 How to Teach Thinking Skills Within the Common Core . . . . . . . . 5

Raising the Bar and Closing the Gap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Rebuilding the Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42, 68 Reclaiming Youth at Risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Record Book Plus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Redefining Fair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Redefining the Norm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Revisiting Professional Learning Communities at WorkTM . . . . . 13 Role of PLCs in Advancing 21st Century Skills, The . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Role of the Bystander, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 RTI & Differentiated Reading in the K–8 Classroom . . . . . . . . . . 28 RTI in Math . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 RTI in Middle and High Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 RTI in the Early Grades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

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Implementing RTI With English Learners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27, 71 Inclusion Strategies & Interventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 It’s TIME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

School Board Fieldbook, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 School Improvement for the Next Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 School Leader’s Guide to English Learners, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 School Leader’s Guide to Grading, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 School Leader’s Guide to Professional Learning Communities at Work™, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 School Leader’s Guide to Special Education, The . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 School Leader’s Guide to the Common Core . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 39 School of Belonging Plan Book, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Self-Assessment and Goal Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Setting and Using Criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Shifting the Monkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Simplifying Response to Intervention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Standards-Based Reporting and Formative Assessment . . . . . . . 48 Strengthening the Connection Between School & Home . . . . . . 41 Succeeding With Difficult Students® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Supervising the Art and Science of Teaching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Supporting Differentiated Instruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

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J–L Journey to Becoming a Professional Learning Community, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Kids Left Behind, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Leader’s Companion, A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Leadership 180 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Leadership in Professional Learning Communities at WorkTM . . . 14 Leadership’s Ten Commandments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Leaders of Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Leading a Learning Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Leading by Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Leading Difficult Conversations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Leading the New Literacies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Leading With Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Learning by Doing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Learning CPR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Literacy 2.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Literacy Look-Fors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

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T Teacher as Assessment Leader, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Teacher’s Plan Books Plus #1–7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Teaching & Assessing 21st Century Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Teaching Empathy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Teaching for Diversity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Teaching Our Children to Think . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Teaching Reading & Comprehension to English Learners, K–5 . . 70 Teaching Self-Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Teaching Students to Read Like Detectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Teaching Students to Think Like Scientists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Teaching the iGeneration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Think Big, Start Small . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Through New Eyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Tiers Without Tears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Total Instructional Alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Transforming School Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Turning Your School Around . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

U Understanding Response to Intervention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Using Common Core Standards to Enhance Classroom Instruction & Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9, 57 Using Formative Assessment in the RTI Framework . . . . . . . 27, 48

V–Z Vocabulary for the Common Core . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Vocabulary Games for the Classroom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 What Do I Do When . . . ? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 What Effective Schools Do . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 What Principals Need to Know About Differentiated Instruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 What Principals Need to Know About Teaching and Learning Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 What Principals Need to Know About Teaching and Learning Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 What Principals Need to Know About Teaching and Learning Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 What Principals Need to Know About Teaching and Learning Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 What Principals Need to Know About the Basics of Creating Brain-Compatible Classrooms . . . . . 40 When Actions Speak Louder Than Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75, 79 When Students Fail to Learn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Who Owns the Learning? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Why Culture Counts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58, 73 Why Social Media Matters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Will to Lead, the Skill to Teach, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Working With Difficult & Resistant Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 You’ve Got to Reach Them to Teach Them . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Online Course Index 21st Century Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63, 83 Assessment and the Common Core State Standards . . . . . . . 8, 83 Becoming a Reflective Teacher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57, 83 Common Core State Standards in Literacy, Grades 3–8 . . . . . 6, 83 Common Core State Standards in Mathematics, Grades 3–8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7, 83 Creating a Professional Learning Community at WorkTM . . . 12, 83 Differentiation and the Brain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53, 83 Elementary Reading Intervention Strategies, Grades K–6 . . 67, 83 Formative Assessment and Standards-Based Grading . . . . . 47, 83 Grading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48, 83 Motivating and Engaging Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57, 83 Pyramid Response to Intervention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23, 83 Teaching Boys in Poverty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72, 83 Teaching Reading and Comprehension to English Learners, Grades K–5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70, 83 Transforming School Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38, 83 Using Web 2.0 in Teaching and Instruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64, 83

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