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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.

Based on the best-selling book of the same name by Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins, this 45 minute video guides you through practical and proven processes, as well as suggested "response strategies" to encourage student engagement. Learn how to create a culture of inquiry so that all members of the educational community - student, teachers and administrators - benefit from the increased rigour and deepened understanding that emerge when essential questions become a guiding force for learners of all ages. See the process come to life with scenes from a seminar though by Wiggins and of teachers using essential questions in practice. In addition, McTighe and Wiggins provide expert commentary about their years of experience in schools exploring just what makes an essential question essential.

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!

This program focuses on how to analyse differentiated learning tasks, plan differentiated lessons, manage a differentiated classroom, and provide all students with the opportunity to learn as much as they can. Teachers in primary, middle, and secondary years settings demonstrate differentiation in their classes and, with expert Carol Ann Tomlinson, explain how to create a differentiated classroom. Differentiating Instruction examines how to create multiple avenues to learning that challenges all students in a mixed-ability classroom.

Ken O'Connor is an independent consultant who specialises in issues related to the communication of student achievement, especially grading and reporting. In this video presentation, Ken submits that traditionally, grading encourages competition rather than collaboration and results. In order to get grades that are accurate, meaningful, consistent and supportive of learning, he outlines eight fundamental grading guidelines that will move traditional grades to standards-based. He also details how to implement them and support your staff as they change their attitudes and approaches toward grading - particularly in the middle years and secondary school. Includes 99 minute-DVD with presentation and accompanying CD-ROM with presentation handouts and supporting resources.

Rita Pierson has been a professional educator since 1972, with experience as an primary, junior high and special education teacher; counsellor; assistant principal; director and testing coordinator. Dr Pierson has an established record of successful educational leadership and management experience, particularly in curriculum and instructional development, community relations and personnel supervision. She developed a successful community involvement program for a large urban elementary school and organised an in-school crisis team for students in need of immediate intervention. An experience presenter, Dr Pierson has led more than 200 workshops, and has used her entertaining stories to aptly illustrate a number of key ideas from Dr Ruby Payne's book A Framework for Understanding Poverty.

In every classroom there are students with a wide range of exceptionalities – students with one or more learning problems, students with different interests, students who are very advanced and students without a "label" but whose learning needs are just as unique. How can teachers face this challenge and meet such a variety of student learning needs? Help answer that question and maximise learning for all students with the common-sense approach featured in this new video series. Use the included DVD with the workshops in the accompanying Facilitator's Guide to take teachers inside primary, middle years and secondary classes to show how a differentiated approach can help teachers to maximise their abilities as educators.

Transforming a school into a professional learning community (PLC) requires changing embedded behaviours, beliefs and processes, which can cause resistance and conflict. In healthy PLCs, these conflicts are addressed in ways that both support core values and respect team members. In this short video, Richard DuFour and Rebecca DuFour model a principal and a teacher engaging in a conflict over marking practices, then the role play is broken down and analysed. Viewers will learn how to hold difficult but crucial conversations that lead to higher levels of commitment to PLC practices.