Graphic organizers provide a clear and easy-to-understand reflection of how the brain sorts and connects learning, allowing teachers to spot gaps in student understanding. This collection of classic and newly created graphic and three dimensional organizers will give teachers new tools and new ways to use them to teach, assess, and help students ......
A Playbook for Supporting and Releasing Responsibility to Students
Provide the perfect structure and support to develop student independence. Effective scaffolding leads to learner autonomy-but too many educators have been airlifting students to right answers, perpetuating a generation who don't know how to learn. Yes, we know the sweet spot for learning involves giving our students the right blend of ......
All students deserve an equal opportunity to learn Through student engagement, accessible instruction, and multiple approaches to demonstrate learning, UDL ensures all students succeed by enabling educators to remove barriers to learning.
Navigate barriers and take actional steps toward equity The principles of Cultural Proficiency have guided our drive toward equitable schools for decades. Leaders who apply this framework to scrutinize the beliefs and practices that have caused disproportionate harm to children of color and other marginalized students are frequently left with the question: "Now What?" Using their unique insights and life experiences as Latina superintendents, the authors of Now What? Confronting Uncomfortable Truths About Inequity in Schools present a guide to navigating barriers, managing differences, and creating an actionable equity plan. Readers will find: a "What Next" guide for leaders at all levels to leverage Cultural Proficiency a Culturally Proficient Leadership Rubric for promoting growth an 8-Step Process to help educators gauge status and progress of their equity plan a discussion of the impact of COVID-19 on educational transformation, as well as heightened awareness of injustice, including the Black Lives Matter movement and mistreatment of immigrant children and families Cultural Proficiency begins with us. By focusing on our beliefs and biases, and taking actionable steps, we can become more proficient at eliminating barriers.
Feedback, Engagement, and Well-Being for Each Student
By addressing feedback, engagement, and well-being in ways that are sustainable and founded in justice, Just Teaching supports comprehensive growth while elevating the essential work of educators.
This comprehensive guide offers leaders the tools they need to implement evidence-based identity safe practices across schools and districts where students of all backgrounds feel "seen" and "heard." Strategies and policies are offered that validate all social identities and seek to eliminate negative stereotypes and biases. Leaders will find guiding principles for promoting belonging in a non-colorblind and anti-racist environment with examples and vignettes; professional learning models, assessment strategies, interactive activities and tools to develop an identity safe plan for your school.
Transforming Programs for Multilingualism and Equity
This practical guide features a dual-language adaptation of a widely used, evidence-based framework, seven proven co-teaching models, and tools for collaborative curriculum alignment and implementation.
Written for teachers, interventionists and instructional coaches, this book provides much-needed guidance on how to meet the diverse needs of students using small-group math instruction.
