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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. 

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.

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.

Yes you can turn three of the leading approaches to school improvement into a unified system. For the first time on one stage, the experts on Differentiated Instruction, Understanding by Design, and What Works in Schools speak about these powerhouse educational approaches and share the underpinnings of their work and the implications for educators who use these models during a panel discussion recorded live at the 2008 ASCD Summer Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. This DVD features: Carol Ann Tomlinson on Differentiated Instruction; Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe on Understanding by Design; and Robert Marzano on What Works in Schools. This 90 minute recording gives you a front row seat and backstage access to interviews with the panellists.

Join Carol Ann Tomlinson and classroom teachers as they bring Differentiated Instruction to life in this practical, easily implemented Professional Development Program for the High School level. Carol Ann Tomlinson guides viewers as they observe classroom examples of the non-negotiables of Differentiated Instruction. Use the integrated professional development plan, including accompanying PowerPoint presentation and handouts, to empower educators as they lead for student success.