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The Essentials for Achieving Rigour series of instructional guides helps educators become highly skilled at implementing, monitoring and adapting instruction. Readers can put the guides to practical use immediately, adopting day-to-day examples as models for application in their own classrooms.

The equity & social justice education 50 will help you understand the importance of having an equity mindset when teaching students generally and when teaching Black students in particular. It defines social justice education and sheds light on the issues and challenges that Black people face, as well as the successes they’ve achieved, providing you with a pathway to infusing social justice education into your lesson plans. And along the way, Kafele reveals personal experiences from his distant and recent pasts to highlight how important it is that your Black students see themselves in all aspects of education every day.

Starting a movement helps to sustain and support the energy and purpose of schools as they transform into professional learning communities (PLCs). The authentic alignment model helps bridge the gulf between principles and practice to cultivate an environment where a PLC soars rather than stalls. Educators will learn to express, clarify and align their beliefs so that they are meaningful to teachers, staff and other stakeholders; create a maximum buy-in among all members of the school community; use the authors' authentic alignment model to help keep their actions aligned to their schools' mission and vision; and reinforce the researched, results-proven PLC within their school culture.

James Popham has helped hundreds of educators in all kinds of schools turn formative assessment theory into everyday practice. Now you can benefit from his approach to implementing formative assessment in all year levels and subjects. Instead of focusing on checklists and data-gathering techniques, Popham explains how to take on what really matters most in the formative assessment process, including: What kinds of assessment tools to use in your instruction; When and how often to collect evidence of student learning; Which items and how many to include in an assessment; and many more. Teacher comments bolster the author’s advice with clear illustrations of the kind of thinking and planning that ensures you teach more effectively.

Both the new national curriculum in Australia and the Common Core State Standards in America have identified literacy as a cross-curricular capability that is critical to school and future success. This book will assist content-area teachers in understanding and teaching the literacy skills that apply to their various subjects. The role of literacy learning in humanities and social studies, science and technical subjects is explained in detail, including examples of lessons designed to ensure student mastery. Although the focus of the book is on unpacking the Common Core, there is significant correspondence with the Australian Curriculum, and Australian teachers will find much of value for enhancing their instruction.

Each thematic unit integrates activities across the curriculum in English, maths, science, social studies, art, music and life skills. Many of these activities encourage cooperative learning and suggestions, and patterns for display boards are provided. Culminating activities enable students to synthesise their knowledge in order to create products that can be shard beyond the classroom. Each thematic unit includes: literature selections, planning guides, writing ideas, homework suggestions, curriculum connections, group projects, a culminating activity and a reading list. Each book provides activities and lesson ideas based on two or more popular children’s stories.

In Achieving Great Impact: Empowering Teachers to Drive Their Growth and Development, authors John F. Eller, Sheila A. Eller and Peter Hayes use research-based strategies and their own experiences to show F-12 school leaders how to provide quality feedback and guidance to teachers. This highly practical resource demonstrates how to evaluate teachers' performance, use multiple data forms for evaluation and communicate evaluation findings to teachers in a way that fosters their professional growth.

Transformative Talk assists an aspirant Cognitive Coach in building their coaching capabilities. It draws upon each of the insights and experiences of Cognitive Coaching training associates and agency trainers who are 'walking the talk' in their own lives and careers. Each chapter at varying degrees reflects personal journeys shared with the explicit intention to assist you in making connections to your own work and your growth as a coach.Talk is critical to the complex, challenging and intrinsically satisfying work of educators. This book provides you with the opportunity to continue transforming your talk so you can transform the thinking of others in the process of education.

Why are all teachers responsible for teaching reading? The answer is simple. An emphasis on reading and literacy skills in the content areas has an exponential effect on learning in every discipline. Teaching Reading in the Content Areas: If Not Me, Then Who? 3rd Edition draws from new research on the impact of new technologies, the population boom of English language learners and the influence of government standards on student performance, and uses this information to promote better reading strategies and practices in students. This book also includes 40 strategies designed to help students in every year level and across the content areas develop their vocabularies, comprehend informational and narrative texts, and engage in meaningful discussions of what they read.

Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) research refers to experiments conducted to address problems in those fields that can be tested using the scientific method. The scientific method is an inquiry process used to systematically study, investigate and to provide explanations for observed phenomenon in the natural world. This method is used by STEM professionals to answer questions they have about important world problems and usually includes carefully orchestrating a situation that allows them to observe, measure and test their ideas.

A call to action that is both passionate and practical, Five practices for equity-focused school leadership is an indispensable roadmap for educators undertaking the journey toward an education system that acknowledges and advances the worth and potential of all students.

The achievement gap is a persistent and perplexing challenge for educators. Minding the Achievement Gap One Classroom at a Time identifies small, specific adjustments to planning, teaching and assessment practices that will support more effective learning in every student, every day, and help close the achievement gap on a classroom-by-classroom basis. Minding the Achievement Gap also features the voices of working educators who share how "minding the gap" has helped them engage academically at-risk students and special education students; improve students' test scores; and sustain these gains over time.