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  • Empowering Excellence

    Creating Positive, Invigorating Classrooms in a Common Core Environment

    by Jeff Halstead ...
    Empowering Excellence inspires a revolution in teaching and assessment practices. These methods of teaching and grading represent a major step ahead in how teachers assess and interact with students. Empowering Excellence presents 12 significant “shifts” that encourage motivation, build confidence, and measure what students know and are able to do based on the Common Core State Standards or ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Navigating the New Pedagogy

    Six Principles that Transform Teaching

    by Jeff Halstead ...
    In the early 21st Century, a new vision for classroom practice emerged that looks very different from the teaching that existed previously. This new teaching is a synthesis of effective curriculum, big ideas, nurturing relationships, differentiated instruction, appropriate assessment, teaching to standards, use of technology, and solid understanding of the content being taught.Six core principles ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • Assessing 21st Century Skills

    A Guide to Evaluating Mastery and Authentic Learning

    Go beyond traditional paper-and-pencil tests!The Common Core State Standards clearly define the skills students need for success in college and the 21st century workplace. The question is, how can you measure student mastery of skills like creativity, problem solving, and use of technology? Laura Greenstein demonstrates how teachers can teach and assess 21st century skills using authentic learning ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Essential Questions

    Opening Doors to Student Understanding

    What are "essential questions," and how do they differ from other kinds of questions? What's so great about them? Why should you design and use essential questions in your classroom?Essential questions (EQs) help target standards as you organize curriculum content into coherent units that yield focused and thoughtful learning. In the classroom, EQs are used to stimulate students' discussions and ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Got Data? Now What?

    Creating and Leading Cultures of Inquiry

    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 ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Transitioning to Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction

    How to Bring Content and Process Together

    Series series Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction Series
    A cutting-edge model for 21st century curriculum and instructionHow can you spot a thinking child? Look at the eyes: they’ll light up, signaling that transformative moment when your student has finally grasped that big idea behind critical academic content. If experiences like this are all too rare in your school, then you need a curriculum and instruction model that’s more inquiry-driven and idea ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Failure to Connect

    How Computers Affect Our Children's Minds--For Better and Worse

    In this comprehensive, practical, and unsettling look at computers in children's lives, Jane M. Healy, Ph.D., questions whether computers are really helping or harming children's development. Once a bedazzled enthusiast of educational computing but now a troubled skeptic, Dr. Healy examines the advantages and drawbacks of computer use for kids at home and school, exploring its effects on children ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Creative Development

    Transforming Education through Design Thinking, Innovation, and Invention

    by Robert Kelly ...
    Spark continual creative growth for both learners and educators. Creativity is a key ingredient for success in the knowledge economy of the 21st century, where skills such as collaboration, communication, and critical thinking are central. Most educators agree that encouraging creativity must become a central goal in the classroom, but they face an ongoing struggle to build and maintain an ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Engaging in Action Research

    A Practical Guide to Teacher-Conducted Research for Educators and School Leaders

    You don’t need a tweed jacket to be a researcher--in thousands of schools across North America, practising teachers conduct studies on best practices, alternative approaches, and effective learning strategies. Classroom teachers have experiences and opportunities unavailable to researchers in a university setting, and action research--site-based, teacher-conducted research--can have a valuable ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Advancing Differentiation: Thinking and Learning for the 21st Century

    Powerful strategies that will transform the way you teach and the way your students learn.Advancing Differentiation will lead you through the process of creating a thriving, student-centered, 21st-century classroom. Since its initial publication, the book’s materials have undergone rigorous testing and refinement in classrooms all over the world to deliver the best and most effective ... Read more

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  • Teaching for Deeper Learning

    Tools to Engage Students in Meaning Making

    Far too often, our students attain only a superficial level of knowledge that fails to prepare them for deeper challenges in school and beyond. In Teaching for Deeper Learning, renowned educators and best-selling authors Jay McTighe and Harvey F. Silver propose a solution: teaching students to make meaning for themselves.Contending that the ability to "earn" understanding will equip students to ... Read more

    $24.99 USD