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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.

In this keynote session from the 21st Century Learning Institute on 12 October 2010 Richard DuFour asserts that traditional school culture is not designed to deliver those outcomes. For students to acquire essential skills, schools must organise into PLCs. This set includes a 71-minute DVD with the video session and a CD with materials to support team or individual professional learning, including the presenter's PowerPoint, an excerpt from the book 21st Century Skills: Rethinking How Students Learn and relevant web links.

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.

Join Carol Ann Tomlinson and classroom teachers as they bring Differentiated Instruction to life in this practical, easily implemented Professional Development Program for the Primary 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.

What can you do to disrupt poverty in your school and turn it into a high-achieving school? We'll show you how in the new ASCD video program, Disrupting Poverty in the Secondary School. Featuring William H. Parrett and Kathleen M. Budge, experts on school improvement, this DVD looks at secondary 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. 

Based on the updated second edition of Carol Ann Tomlinson's The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners, this new DVD series shows you practical, real-world examples from experienced K-5 and secondary school teachers of how to divide your time, resources and efforts to effectively instruct students of various backgrounds, readiness and skill levels, and interests. Through interviews with teachers, hear guidance on what to differentiate, how to differentiate and why. Understand the groundwork for bringing differentiated instruction into your own classroom or refining the work you already do. The videos include bonus content on how a differentiated classroom makes it easier to implement the Common Core State Standards.

Your school is in the midst of unpacking, integrating and implementing the Common Core State Standards. To help teachers meet the challenge, Silver, Dewing and Perini have identified six best strategies for transforming instruction. Backed by more than 40 years of field research and hands-on classroom testing, the core six strategies are proven methods that not only increase student engagement and achievement, but also prepare students for tertiary-level education and career success. In this video, see the core six strategies come to life within six classrooms across different subjects and year levels.

FIT Teaching in Action: A Framework for Intentional and Targeted Teaching introduces teachers to a proven framework for becoming more efficient and effective at teaching and creating a classroom culture that delivers stronger results. This video showcases Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey's FIT Teaching process in action. It takes us into classrooms where teachers are using the framework to explain and demonstrate the five major FIT Teaching components: Planning with a Purpose, Cultivating the Learning Climate, Instructing with Intention, Assessing with a System and Impacting Student Learning. This DVD gives teachers the tools they need to help their students become better learners.

In this video, author and educator Myron Dueck explains how assessment and grading policies can be tailored to focus on what really matters: student understanding of content. You'll visit a variety of secondary classrooms where teachers are using Dueck's practical strategies to assess and grade smarter, not harder. Rather than grading every assignment regardless of its purpose, the teachers organise lessons according to learning goals and identify clear levels of performance to keep the focus on learning. Smarter Assessment in the Secondary Classroom shows how well-planned and well-executed assessment and grading policies can contribute to, rather than impede, student achievement.

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. 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 shows that teachers are a school's most essential strength. As their capacity for success increases, so does their ability to positively affect the students they guide.