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Educate students in mind and body—and optimize their success.Technology offers exciting new opportunities and challenges to you and your students; movement is essential to their learning. But screen time often comes at the expense of physical activity. Enter a blended instructional approach that combines kinesthetic teaching methodologies with technological resources to meet content standards, increase achievement and test scores, and enrich the learning process, promoting students’ social, physical, mental, emotional, and cognitive growth. Here you’ll find: A neuroscientific overview of the powerful brain-body connection Step-by-step instructions for balancing movement and the use of technology in the classroom Practical tools, templates, and vignettes to ensure successful implementation Classroom management tactics and useful remedies for common problems

This book is a call to action for teachers and principals around the world to recommit to becoming the most passionate educators and leaders we know our children deserve. The authors offer a blueprint for success by providing numerous practical ideas, how-to's, and suggestions from successful, passionate practitioners.

School leaders can use this practical guide to implement the most effective behavior practices, programs, and initiatives their school needs in a systematic and sustainable way.

Because equity and instruction are inextricably bound Why are equity visits such a critical first step to increasing opportunity and access for our under-served students? Because they take instructional rounds to a new level, providing a powerful lens for investigating the intersections of equity and instruction. After all, how can we possibly deliver equitable learning experiences, opportunities, and outcomes for our students, without first pinpointing problems of practice? That¿s where Equity Visits will prove absolutely indispensable to district and school administrators. It details how to combine a strong focus on instruction with explicit, intentional efforts to address systemic inequities. Inside yoüll find A range of data collection activities and tools to target central issues of equity in your school Clear guidelines on how to investigate the ways instructional practices, structures, and beliefs lead to inequitable educational experiences¿and how these are often masked in the day-to-day life of schools and districts A frank discussion of how to make race and racism an explicit part of investigating and addressing educational inequities Voices of school and district leaders who have taken crucial first steps to become "equity warriors" Recommendations on how to develop policies, initiatives, and practices to confront those inequities Few dispute that instructional improvement must be a central focus of educational leadership, but for too long achieving educational equity has been absent from the conversation. Here is your opportunity to ensure equity occupy a central spot in data collection and analysis, and be explicitly discussed at all levels of your school or district organization. In short, essential reading and doing for all administrators!

Yoüve just found your new comprehensive guide to designing powerful professional learning!Full of protocols, vignettes, and case studies, this book dissects elements of professional learning, like coherence, connections, and content, and examines each through an evidence-based lens. Destined to become a go-to resource for anyone in a teacher-support role, this book analyzes research from the past 25 years on what makes professional learning work. In addition to focusing on the often-neglected role of the facilitator itself, other features include: A multi-year implementation framework to improve instructional practice Planning tools to shift instruction at the school and district level Techniques and strategies to embed content-based learning for all educators

With the goal of instilling curiosity and a self-starting attitude in students, this hands-on guide to word study instruction connects research with experience to make word learning jubilant and fun.

This book enables practicing leaders to build and support effective special education programs to include supervising and supporting teachers, review programs, and implement special education law.

Agency, self-regulation, motivationDouglas Fisher and Nancy Frey deliver, with coauthors John Hattie and Karen Flories, the lessons and tools you need to teach students to thrive using the tenets of Visible Learning. Learner’s Notebook.

Standards-based learning just got a lot easierThis new version of The Common Core Companion provides an index for all states implementing state-specific ELA standards. This index allows you to see in an instant which of your standards are the same as CCSS, which differ and how—and which page number to turn to for standards-based teaching ideas. Beyond that? It’s the same great go-to guide for implementing the standards, translating each and every standard for reading, writing, speaking and listening, language, and foundational skills into the day-to-day “what you do.”

Standards-based learning just got a lot easierThis new version of The Common Core Companion provides indexes for all states implementing state-specific ELA standards. This index allows you to see in an instant which of your standards are the same as CCSS, which differ and how—and which page number to turn to for standards-based teaching ideas. Beyond that? It’s the same great go-to guide for implementing the standards, translating each and every standard for reading, writing, speaking and listening, language, and foundational skills into the day-to-day “what you do.”

This book is designed to help teachers and students understand the meaning of operations in a coherent way that makes sense as students move from whole numbers to fractions, decimals, and integers.

By flipping the traditional "reading lesson first, writing lesson second" sequence, Colleen Cruz helps teachers make the most of the writing-to-reading connection with 50 carefully matched lesson pairs centered around narrative texts.

Edited by Terri D. Pigott, Ann Marie Ryan, and Charles Tocci, the purpose of this volume is to present high-quality reviews that examine change to teaching practice from a variety of perspectives and a range of disciplines with an eye toward the enormous scope of the field. Taken as a whole, this volume presents a compelling profile of the core challenges and opportunities facing those engaged in the work of changing teaching practice and those who research these efforts. Divided into four sections, the first section of this volume delves into the history and policy of changing teaching practice, the second set of chapters consider the capacity of teachers to make changes, the third set of chapters review literature examining how to change practice in numerous settings in various ways, and the final section of the volume centers on emerging issues for practice. This volume considers some of the most critical problems facing educators and scholars today: how our history shapes our present-day possibilities, how we develop the capacity of educators to change and improve practice, the innumerable aspects that can be changed, which dimensions of teaching should we prioritize, and what emerging issues will shape this work in the coming years?

The purpose of this volume is to contribute to educational research by presenting comprehensive and nuanced understandings of intersectional perspectives

Be the leader your school community needs.The responsibilities of today¿s school leaders¿providing a world-class education while serving as the moral compass of diverse communities¿requires deep insight and understanding of communities, cultures and integrity. In this book, based on national standards, real-life vignettes, mental exercises, reflections, checklists, and other templates provide you with practical strategies to understand how ethical standards and core values drive leadership choices and recognize when urgent action is called for and when it¿s better to methodically consider your actions and their consequences

The Emotionally Connected Classroom provides a model that offers a new definition of connectedness, allowing teachers to develop their own social-emotional agenda best suited for the needs of each unique student or class.

Make the most of every instructional minute with engaging literacy activitiesTeachers are faced with a real challenge: time. There is never enough time to do it all. While teachers don¿t have the power to create more minutes in the day, they do have the power to be effective with the time given. Ness introduces 40 innovative activities designed to replace seatwork. These literacy-rich alternatives for classroom transitions are presented alongside·         Research on instructional time ·         Strategies for maximizing every minute of instruction·         Suggestions for improving efficiency to expand independent reading and writing ·         Reflective practices to help teachers examine how they use the time they have

Hybrid Ethnography provides researchers with concrete and theory-based ways to combine online and offline ethnographic research methods to support the reality of much contemporary fieldwork. As part of the Qualitative Research Methods series, this concise book serves students and faculty designing, conducting, and writing up dissertations and research studies.

An R Companion for Applied Statistics II: Multivariable and Multivariate Techniques breaks the language of the R software down into manageable chunks in order to help students learn how to use R to analyze multivariate data. The book has been designed to be an R companion to Rebecca M. Warner¿s Applied Statistics II: Third Edition, and includes end-of-chapter instructions for replicating the examples from that book in R.

It¿s not what you do, it¿s how you think about what you do.A must-have resource for any educator working toward student achievement at ever-higher levels, 10 Mindframes for Leaders: The VISIBLE LEARNING® Approach to School Success brings the mindframes of ten world-renowned educators to life. Each chapter, written by a different thought leader, details a mindframe at the heart of successful school leadership. It includes:·  The most current, up-to-date findings from the Visible Learning research, including the factors from Visible Learning that support each mindframe·  Practical ideas for leaders to implement high-impact strategies in classrooms and schools·  Resources to help educators clarify and refine their own mindframes

Newly revised and updated throughout, this new Florida Edition has been specially developed to align with Floridäs new B.E.ST. Standards.What it really means to "read closely."Call it close reading, call it deep reading, call it analytic reading¿call it what you like. The point is, it¿s a level of understanding that students of any age can achieve with the right kind of instruction. In Rigorous Reading, Nancy and Doug articulate an instructional plan so clearly, and so squarely built on research, that teachers, schools, and districts need look no further.The 5 Access Points Toward Proficiency, Purpose & Modeling: Teachers think aloud to demonstrate critical thinking and how good readers always know why they are reading. Close & Scaffolded Reading Instruction: Teachers engage students in repeated readings and discussions, with text-dependent questions, prompts, and cues to help students delve into an author¿s ideas. Collaborative Conversations: Teachers orchestrate collaborative learning to get students in the habit of exercising their analytical thinking in the presence of their peers. An Independent Reading Staircase: Teachers artfully steer students to more challenging books, with strategic bursts of instruction and peer conferences to foster metacognitive awareness. Performance: Teachers offer feedback and assessments that help students demonstrate understanding of text in authentic ways and plan instruction based on student understanding.

The roadmap for your school¿s CBE journey!  Employ the WHAT (deeper academic and personalized learning), the WHY (equity), and the HOW (learner-centered approaches) of Competency-Based Education, maximizing the time, place, and pace of student learning. Make the shift to CBE using best practices from the authors¿ CBE implementation experiences across states, districts, and schools. Build the foundation with organizational shifts - policy, leadership, culture, and professional learning Shift teaching-learning structures¿rigorous learning, performance assessment, and evidence-based grading and reporting Dive into student-centered classrooms¿personalized instruction and shifting mindsets for teacher-student roles, responsibilities, and classroom culture

The Supreme Court Compendium provides historical and statistical information on the Supreme Court, including its institutional development, decision trends and its impact.

Helps students understand the larger patterns of the policy making process in the US.

This integrated text, workbook and website connect each theoretical model with practice skills to help aspiring school practitioners (school psychologists, school counsellors, and school social workers) gain the necessary theoretical background and skill set to work effectively with youth in schools.

Includes exercises, group activities, and areas for reflection that follow along with the training modules.

Authors Don C. Locke and Deryl F. Bailey encourage readers to explore their own cultural background and identity, and in the process, begin to better understand others.

Reviews the sampling methods used in surveys such as simple random sampling, systematic sampling, stratification, cluster and multi-stage sampling, sampling with probability proportional to size, two-phase sampling, replicated sampling, panel designs, and non-probability sampling.

"Simply Stations: Independent Reading shows how to ensure that kids are purposefully and effectively practicing comprehension, deeper thinking, vocabulary, and communication skills every day"--