Books

Do you want your English classes to bustle with engagement? Do you want your students to be active, ask and answer questions, explore literature at a deeper level and quiz each other on vocabulary? In this two-book series, you will find powerful cooperative learning strategies to make your secondary English curriculum come alive.

Do you want your English classes to bustle with engagement? Do you want your students to be active, ask and answer questions, explore literature at a deeper level and quiz each other on vocabulary? Here’s your solution. In this two-book series, you will find powerful cooperative learning strategies to make your secondary English curriculum come alive.

Best practices at Tier 2: Supplemental interventions for additional student support, elementary offers Years F–5 teachers proven response to intervention (RTI) strategies for responding to students who need additional support after core instruction.

Parent engagement with schools is known to be key to student achievement, but building such involvement can be a challenge, especially in economically disadvantaged schools that need it the most. Community connections and your PLC at Work® guides readers to build this vital engagement by broadening a school’s professional learning community so it includes parents, families and other community members in a productive collaboration toward success for all students.

Mathematics unit planning in a PLC at Work® provides a seven-step framework for collectively planning units of study, helping teams identify what students need to know by the end of each unit and how teachers can build student self-efficacy.

In this engaging and well-researched book, Dueck reveals troubling issues related to traditional approaches and offers numerous examples of educators at all levels who are transforming assessment by using tools and methods that engage and empower students. He also shares surprising revelations about the nature of memory and learning that speak to the need for rethinking how we measure student understanding and achievement.

Grounded in psychological and sociological theory, as well as authors Dennis Shirley and Andy Hargreaves’s own research, Five paths of student engagement: Blazing the trail to learning and success covers each facet of engagement and recommends practical approaches for classroom instruction, school leadership and educational policies.

Successful change requires all voices and voters at the table to be heard and valued. The Bridges Out of Poverty model is an antidote to current divisiveness, facilitates dialogue and respect among stakeholders, and offers policy-level direction for elected officials. The authors’ goal is to provide a roadmap for coming together as individuals, institutions and communities to help people get out of poverty and create communities, states and indeed a country where everyone can live well.

Create a fun and friendly classroom environment through positive classmate interactions. The activities are a great way to energise students, have fun and get acquainted with their classmates.

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.

Uncovering student ideas about engineering and technology has the potential to help you take an important first step in teaching for understanding – and perhaps transform your teaching about STEM-related topics.

Removing the mask provides research that shows gifted children from poverty may respond or behave differently than children who come from more affluent backgrounds. Case studies illustrate how limited resources impact individual students’ academic achievement. When teachers look at children’s potential instead of their demonstrated achievement, they will discover the brightest and most creative minds in any classroom.