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Positive Alternatives to Problematic Teaching Practices

Old habits die hard, particularly when they are part of the unexamined norms of schooling. In this book, the best-selling authors lead a teacher-positive, empathetic inquiry into 16 common educational practices that can undermine student learning, including round robin reading, teaching to learning styles, adhering to rigid pacing guides, teaching to test samples, asking "does everyone understand?", homework as a default, and more.

Call number: T 371.102 HIM

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A Framework for the Gradual Release of Responsibility

This book describes how teachers can help students develop stronger learning skills by ensuring that instruction moves from modeling and guided practice to collaborative learning, and finally, to independent tasks. You'll find out how to use the four components of this approach to help meet critical challenges, including differentiating instruction and making effective use of class time.

Call number: T 371.39 FIS

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A Roadmap to the Future of Education

This book takes a fresh look at our nation's schools, eschewing the negativity so often found in the world of education today. While on his solo road trip across the USA, the author, one of the country's leading experts in educational innovation, discovered that there is much to be positive about in today's K-12 schools. During his travels, he interviewed more than 600 teachers, administrators, students, and parents to find out what kind of innovations they're doing right - and to discover how others can follow their example.

Call number: T 371.2 LIC

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Accelerating Achievement

This book will help you and your colleagues teach in ways that will bring your students to the Common Core State Standards' level of work in literacy. This book will illuminate both the standards themselves and the pathways you can take to achieve those ambitious expectations. It will help you understand what is written and implied in the standards and help you grasp the coherence and central messages of them.

Call number: T 371.26 CAL

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Teaching Subject Matter through the Arts in Multicultural Settings

Practical and engaging, Merryl Goldburg's popular guide to integrating the arts throughout the K-12 curriculum blends contemporary theory with classroom practice. Beyond teaching about the arts as a subject in and of itself, the text explains how teachers may integrate the arts - literary, media, visual, and performing - throughout the subject area curriculum and provides a multitude of strategies and examples.

Call number: T 700.71 GOL

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If increased writing correlates with higher achievement on standardized tests, why aren't students writing more in their classes? Why are young adults entering college and the workforce unprepared for the writing they are expected to do? And what can teachers do to address this problem?

Call number: T 372.62 PEE

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Ensuring Mathematical Success for All

The widespread adoption of college- and career-readiness standards, including the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, presents a historic opportunity to improve mathematics education. What will it take to turn this opportunity into reality in every classroom, school, and district?

Call number: T 510.71 MAT

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How to Take it to the Next Level as a Confident, Engaging Presenter

A step-by-step guide to enhancing your skills to become a more engaging, more persuasive, and more effective presenter.

Call number: T 155.5 STE

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How to Connect Standards-Based Instruction and Assessment

This timely resource presents the "big picture" of an integrated standards-based instruction and assessment system and offers instructional leaders and teacher teams guidelines for assessments.

Call number: T 700.71 GOL

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Curriculum maps are among the simplest yet most effective tools for improving teaching and learning. Because they require people to draw explicit connections between content, skills, and assessment measures, these maps ensure that all aspects of a lesson are aligned not only with each other, but also with mandated standards and tests.

Call number: T 375 JAB

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Mastering the Principles of Great Teaching

In this guide, Robyn Jackson takes you step by step through the process of planning rigorous instruction - what great teachers do to set a learning destination that's worth working toward and ensure that the path students take to get there will help them pass the big tests and become engaged learners, effective problem solvers, and critical thinkers.

Call number: T 371.3 JAC

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Teaching Comprehension in the Primary Grades

Through explicit instruction, modeling, classroom discussion, and most important, by gradually introducing content.

Call number: T 372.4 MIL

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Created by teachers for teachers, this is the ultimate guide for unleashing students' potential through creative lessons, empowering messages, and innovative teaching. This title provides all you need to foster a growth mindset classroom, including a month-by-month program, research-based activities, hands-on lesson plans, real-life educator stories, constructive feedback, and sample parent letters.

Call number: T 370.15 BRO

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While challenging the teacher as hero trope, We Got This shows how authentically listening to kids is the closest thing to a superpower that we have. Cornelius identifies tools, attributes, and strategies that can augment out listening. What we hear can spark action that allows us to make powerful moves toward equity by broadening access to learning for all children.

Call number: T 371.82 MIN

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Given that each child learns differently, it makes sense that one type of science instruction does not fit all. Best-selling author Douglas Llewellyn gives teachers standards-based strategies for differentiating inquiry-based science instruction to more effectively meet the needs of all students.

Call number: T 507.1 LLE

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Are you or your teachers frustrated with carrots and sticks, detention rooms, and suspension--antiquated school discipline practices that simply do not work with the students entering our classrooms today? Our kids have complex needs, and we must empower and embrace them with restorative practices that not only change behaviors but transform students into productive citizens, accountable for their own actions.

Call number: T 371.10 MAY

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Teaching Secondary Students with Moderate to Severe Disabilities

Featuring sample lessons, information on finding age-appropriate materials, and more, this guide helps teachers create thematic units that build literacy skills in students with significant disabilities.

Call number: T 371.9 SMI

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Building a Culture of Success and Student Achievement in Schools

Presents a guide to learning for teachers, focusing on changing students' thinking about success and performance, how to build a growth mindset school culture, and developing students' conceptual understanding of learning and the brain.

Call number: T 370.15 RIC

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1.) Purpose and modeling

2.) Close and scaffolded reading instruction

3.) Collaborative conversations

4.) An independent reading staircase

5.) Performance

Also included are illustrative classroom video clips, available via QR codes, along with a professional learning guide with powerpoints.

Call number: T 372.47 FRE

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Zaretta Hammond draws on cutting-edge neuroscience research to offer an innovative approach for designing and implementing brain-compatible culturally responsive instruction.

Call number: T 370.11 HAM

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eBook: Sora (SDCL)

What is in the best interest of our students? Is it teaching to the newest standards movement, like the Common Core? Teaching that prepares students to take a test? Or is it something more meaningful and authentic? Kelly Gallagher takes the long view, reminding us that standards come and go but what remains constant is the need to stay true to what we know works in the teaching of reading, writing, speaking and listening.

Call number: T 372.6 GAL

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Understanding How to Use Functions

Develop a deep understanding of mathematics by grasping the context and purpose behind various strategies. This user-friendly resource presents high school teachers with a logical progression of pedagogical actions, classroom norms, and collaborative teacher team efforts to increase their knowledge and improve mathematics instruction.

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Explicit instruction is systematic, direct, engaging, and success oriented--and has been shown to promote achievement for all students.

Sample lesson plans, lively examples, and reproducible checklists and teacher worksheets enhance the utility of the volume. Purchasers can also download and print the reproducible materials for repeated use. Video clips demonstrating the approach in real classrooms are available at the authors' website: www.explicitinstruction.org.

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If you want to revamp your secondary English Language Arts curriculum to reflect the Common Core State Standards, this book is the perfect resource. The authors move the implementation of the CCSS for ELA from the abstract to the concrete by providing adaptable, exemplar lesson plans in each of the CCSS strands: reading, writing, speaking and listening, and language.

Call number: T 428.007 GIO

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William Bender presents a new view of differentiated instruction―as seen through a Common Core lens―drawing on the latest brain research, technology, and educational initiatives.

Call number: T 371.9 BEN

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Purposeful speaking, engaged listening, deep thinking.

Questioning and discussion are important components of classroom instruction that work in tandem to push learning forward and move students from passive participants to active meaning makers. The extent to which this potential is realized, of course, depends on individual teachers who embrace these practices, make them their own, and realize that this process requires a true partnership with students.

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Classroom-tested strategies that help students with learning disabilities succeed.

Written by a teacher for teachers, this engaging book provides more than 100 practical strategies for students with learning disabilities, along with guidance on accommodations and assessment. Discover innovative, easy-to-implement teaching methods that overcome barriers to learning and help students with special needs thrive in your classroom.

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This is a collection of intriguing mathematical problems and activities linked by common themes that all involve working with objects from our everyday experience.

The activities contained in this book are immediate, catchy and fun, but upon investigation, begin to unfold into surprising layers of depth and new perspectives. The necessary mathematics, in increasing levels of difficulty, is explained fully along the way. Mathematics educators will find this an invaluable resource of fresh and innovative approaches to topics in mathematics.

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How to Plan Discussion-based Lessons for Diverse Language Learners

Teachers across the country are seeking ways to make their multicultural classrooms come alive with student talk about content. This title is a practical, hands-on guide to creating and managing environments that spur sophisticated levels of student communication, both oral and written.

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Topics such as race, gender, politics, religion, and sexuality are part of our students' lives, yet when these subjects are brought up at school, teachers often struggle with how to respond. How do we create learning conditions where kids can ask the questions they want to ask, muddle through how to say the things they are thinking, and have tough conversations?

Call number: T 302 AHM

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Audiobook: Sora (SDCL)

With insights gained from interviews with business leaders, reviews of new research, and extensive classroom observations in the country's leading suburban schools, the author analyzes performance by considering the skills the next generation will need in the workplace. A must-read for anyone interested in seeing our young people achieve their full potential.

Call number: T 370.9 WAG

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Suzy Rollins lays out a plan of action that teachers can use to immediately move underperforming students in the right direction and differentiate instruction for all learners—even those who excel academically.

Call number: T 372.43 ROL

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Enrollment in vocational programs is on the rise and many high schools are introducing or restarting vocational preparedness components as part of their curricula. You already know that programming events for young adults can draw a big crowd, which means that right now is the right time to make sure your library's lineup includes offerings that will help youth transition into successful adults.

Call number: T 027.62 WYC

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