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Discussion is the lifeblood of learning. And when it works, classrooms come alive. Students are engaged, ideas flow, and every voice is heard. Move students from passive participants to active meaning makers with Questioning for Classroom Discussion - Elementary.

The New Art and Science of Teaching by Robert J. Marzano is more than a revision of The Art and Science of Teaching. It is a greatly expanded volume, offering a framework for substantive change based on Marzano's fifty years of education research and observation. In The New Art and Science of Teaching, Marzano identifies ten design areas within three categories of teaching - (1) feedback, (2) content and (3) context - that form a road map for F-12 teachers' lesson and unit planning. Also included in the series are The New Art and Science of Classroom Assessment, The New Art and Science of Teaching Writing and The New Art and Science of Teaching Reading - companion books that focus on improving students' literacy skills and showing teachers how to make the most of feedback.

What can you do to disrupt poverty in your school and turn it into a high-achieving school? We'll show you how in Disrupting Poverty in the Elementary School. Featuring William H. Parrett and Kathleen M. Budge, experts on school improvement, this DVD looks at elementary schools that are not only meeting the needs of impoverished students but pushing them to high achievement. Drawing upon their years studying high-poverty, high-performing schools, Parrett and Budge identify the common practices and structures that effective schools put into action as well as the unproductive processes these schools eliminate. 

The best way to implement the professional learning community (PLC) process is to develop the solid foundation necessary to support it. The foundation rests on four pillars: (1) mission, (2) vision, (3) values and (4) goals. The ultimate success of a school's or district's PLC implementation depends largely on the staff considering and building consensus around its response to key questions the pillars pose. In this 47-minute video, Rebecca DuFour and Richard DuFour first examine the four pillars. 

Based on Mike Mattos's 1-5-10 team-evaluation activity, this unscripted video will give your team the know-how to transition from a low- to high-performing team. Explore the three foundational elements to build strong teams: forming the right teams that share learning outcomes, providing dedicated time to collaborate, and collaborating professionally. With Are We a Group or a Team? you will gain advice from real PLC teams that identify the key elements of a high-performing team; access practical activities and tools necessary to improve team function and collaboration; explore the process for creating a 10 Team through activities provided in the Facilitator's Guide; and weave the short format into your busy schedule and view the video all at once, alone, or with a team.

This video program, based on the work of response to intervention (RTI) expert Mike Mattos, demonstrates exactly how a secondary school can create and utilise a Tier 2 supplemental intervention period as a part of a master schedule. Appropriate for professional development in Years 9-12, Making Time at Tier 2 can be viewed alone or used with the Facilitator's Guide to provide one half-day workshop. It includes 12 segments totalling 49 minutes in length on DVD and a 40-page Facilitator's guide in print and on CD.

Capacity building is the focus of Pete Hall and Alisa Simeral's work, and their strategies are becoming the model for instructional coaching in schools across the country. The Reflective Educator Bundle contains one copy of Teach, Reflect, Learn and one copy of The Reflective Educator DVD. In Teach, Reflect, Learn, you'll find tool specifically made to enhance self-reflection of professional practice, including the Continuum of Self-Reflection and the Reflective Cycle. The Reflective Educator profiles teachers working with administrators and coaches to take charge of their professional growth and move along the path to excellence by becoming reflective practitioners.

Follow a group of teachers and administrators from two districts who come together to learn how the Understanding by Design framework can help them tackle the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). While the two groups are at different stages of Common Core standards adoption and readiness, they both find practical solutions using the work of Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe. Through interviews, classroom scenes and segments drawn from a Wiggins and McTighe Common Core and UbD Framework seminar, you'll see how to read and interpret the CCSS document, use the UbD template to unpack the CCSS, and bring CCSS-relevant lessons to life in your schools.

Effective verbal communication is, arguably, the most important of the language arts, yet few schools explicitly help students develop the essential skills of listening and speaking. Listen Up! Speaking Matters presents a straightforward and engaging approach to teaching the following core skills: building and presenting a speech, collaborative discussion, adapting speech to different audiences, media literacy, and using multimedia effectively. Join Palmer as he visits an elementary school, a middle school and a high school where educators see the results of their emphasis on listening and speaking. This DVD shows teachers how to improve students' communication skills for success in school and beyond.

What does rigour really looks like in the classroom? As schools are focused more and more on increasing academic rigour, in part because of the emphasis placed on rigour in all of the various state standards, it's a question every teacher is asking. In this video, Robyn Jackson dispels the confusion by presenting the clear and concise definition of academic rigour she's developed over time and working with teachers to show them what rigour looks like in practice. Visit a variety of different schools to see real teachers who are using Jackson's field-tested methods to successfully boost academic rigour in their classrooms.

In this DVD, researcher and author Robert J. Marzano presents a framework for observing classroom instruction based on the questions and frameworks he first laid out in The Art and Science of Teaching. Marzano presents a detailed observation protocol and demonstrates how to use it, not only as a tool for analysing classroom instruction but also as a starting point to encourage professional dialogue among teachers. This is an essential tool for supervisors, administrators, coaches, and teacher leaders, and PLC's.

The Classroom Instruction That Works book comes to life in this engaging new production focused on its use in high school. Join Ceri Dean, coauthor of Classroom Instruction That Works, and a group of high school educators as they leverage elements from the Classroom Instruction That Works framework to transform their practice and their communities. Through the video, you’ll sit in on a planning session among Dean and the teachers and support personnel, watch how the lessons unfold with students – through success and challenge, and listen in as the team reflects on lessons learned. The Classroom Instruction That Works framework has helped countless schools and regions on their roads to academic success. Now you can see firsthand exactly how one region puts the framework to use!