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Steve Boyle is a training associate with Hawker Brownlow Education. He works with leadership teams, whole-school communities and individual professional learning teams. Steve comes from a strong background in educational leadership at both an individual school and a systems level.

Educating students to traditional literacy standards is no longer enough. If students are to thrive in their academic and 21st-century careers, then independent and creative thinking hold the highest currency. The authors explain in detail how to add these new components of literacy: Solution Fluency, Information Fluency, Creativity Fluency, Collaboration Fluency. Students must master a completely different set of skills to succeed in a culture of technology-driven automation, abundance, and access to global labor markets. The authors present an effective framework for integrating comprehensive literacy or fluency into the traditional curriculum.

In this must-watch webinar, experienced educator and author Elliott Seif will share a practical four-phase planning and instructional framework that helps F–12 teachers improve learning and better prepare students for a changing world.

Choose the Literacy Success Portable Event Package to learn practical actions you can take now to leverage this powerful approach. Led by Robert J. Marzano, our self-paced virtual event offers targeted sessions that detail how to create and implement classroom, school, and districtwide programs of intentional, systematic vocabulary instruction. You will gain the critical knowledge and skills needed to assess vocabulary knowledge, place students on a continuum of learning, and implement a cluster approach to vocabulary instruction.

Grounded in psychological and sociological theory, as well as authors Dennis Shirley and Andy Hargreaves’s own research, Five paths of student engagement: Blazing the trail to learning and success covers each facet of engagement and recommends practical approaches for classroom instruction, school leadership and educational policies.

For those who struggle to get by every day, actually getting ahead hasn’t been part of your story. Life is unstable and unpredictable. Getting and keeping a good job seems nearly impossible, yet doing so is key to turning your life around. But what if you were able to take control of your future? How would your story change? For employers, the instability of your workforce – especially among low-wage or part-time employees – is more than inconvenient: it’s expensive. But what if your policies and practices helped your people establish control and stability in their lives? How would that affect engagement and turnover – and your bottom line? Getting ahead in the workplace solves these challenges by helping under-resourced people build resources and gain control over their future stories.

Inspire the next generation of scientists! This book has ready-to-use activities and ideas focusing on those core ideas in life science, earth science, physical science and engineering and technology. But the standards do more than tell us what students should learn, they call for scientific practices including communication, collaboration, inquiry and problem-solving. The activities in this book are all based on cooperative, interactive structures that have students work in pairs and in teams to build, deepen and apply their science knowledge. Through interaction, students explore science at a deeper level and have more fun doing it! Stimulate students’ interest in science with these ready-to-go, engaging activities.

French class has never been so engaging! Instead of listening to the teacher and doing independent paper and pencil practice, students interact with partners and teammates using Kagan structures. Through creative, structured activities, students discuss, ask questions, give directions, write, quiz, interview and coach. All of this interaction in French translates into more functional communication and more learning. Students don’t just learn about French. They acquire French through meaningful use. The fifteen chapters cover: community, clothes, weather, school, food, professions, daily activities, geography, time, date, music, movies, sports, verbs and adjectives. Fully engage your French students tout de suite!

Become a brain-friendly teacher! Put the power of brain research and theory to work in your classroom. Your students will learn more, learn more quickly, retain and recall more and like learning more. Dr Kagan’s extensively researched book distils the world of brain science into six essential principles that will align your teaching with how your students’ brains naturally learn. For each of the six brain-based principles, you will find practical tools, tips and structures to easily make the leap from theory to practice. Teaching is so much easier and more successful when you do it the brain-friendly way.

Kagan structures are revolutionary teaching strategies that create an unparalleled level of student engagement. In this must-have Kagan reference guide, you get 59 step-by-step Kagan structures you’ll use time and time again. More structures means more tools in your teaching toolbox to create more student engagement, more student learning and more success!

Quiz-Quiz-Trade is a student favourite! This Kagan Structure turns need-to-know curriculum into a fun and interactive quizzing game. To play, every student receives a quiz card relating to the topic. Students then pair up. Using their cards, they quiz each other. After coaching or praising, they trade cards and set off to quiz a new classmate with their new card. The repeated practice boosts retention of the content. Memorising important information and concepts has never been so fun! This book is loaded with card sets on a variety of topics including area and perimeter, balance it, big number challenge, converting fractions, division word problems, equivalent fractions, factor find, multiplication word problems, multiplication and division comparisons, ordering decimals, order of operations, place value, round it and simplifying fractions. Each card set includes enough ready-to-copy cards for your entire class to play.

Memorising important information and concepts has never been so fun! This book is loaded with card sets on a variety of topics including apostrophes, capitalisation, contractions, fragments and run on sentences, homophones, parts of speech, subject and predicate, suffixes, verb tense, and subject and verb agreement.