42 Joyful Lessons to Foster Skilled Writers Every Day
Discover engaging lessons to transform your elementary writing instruction While we sometimes perceive that our students aren't "ready to write", [EG1] every student brings literacy experiences from their home and family lives that can be leveraged to create meaningful writing experiences in the first days of school. Write From the Beginning, ......
Listening—the most underrated skill in education
Listening—the process of actively receiving, constructing meaning from, and responding to spoken or non-verbal messages—is essential for teaching and learning. How can we check for understanding and ensure that students’ contributions are heard and understood ......
Inspire the next generation to create a sustainable and hopeful future Climate change is one of the greatest threats humanity has ever faced. The most recent 10 years have been the hottest on record, and the results have been increasingly extreme storms, flooding, and fires around the world. Understanding the causes of climate change and ......
Four Necessary Components for High-Impact Student Learning
How to Activate and Accelerate Student Learning Have you ever given instructions to your students, only to receive blank stares or confusion? Clarity is an essential part of teaching and learning, and every interaction we have with students is the foundation for moving learning forward-we must make every interaction count. Backed by the latest ......
A Video-Enhanced Flipbook to Promote Teacher Expertise in Relationship Building, Instruction, Goals, Organizations, and Relevance
This unique, hands-on flipbook is designed as a classroom observation tool that redefines RIGOR, with a focus on five key elements, or indicators, that form a framework to promote a rigorous, scaffolded learning environment.
Unlocking Student Potential in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Prepare your students for a future where AI literacy is crucial Artificial intelligence (AI) is here and seems on the brink of transforming education. As teachers, we know that AI will not diminish the need for students to learn essential skills. It will, however, change how we teach and will require us to develop new skill sets for instruction ......
There are many adolescent readers who, for a variety of reasons, find it difficult to connect with written words and have fallen behind on their foundational reading skills. Thankfully, its never too late to give these necessary skills a boost and help students find joy in reading and learning.
Refine the art and craft of instructional coaching. For more than 25 years, Jim Knight and his team at the Instructional Coaching Group have been studying what excellence in instructional coaching looks and sounds like. Their findings-organized around 7 Success Factors for instructional coaches and shared via books, articles, and workshops-have helped many instructional coaches around the world to increase teacher effectiveness and improve outcomes for students. Bringing together for the first time a wealth of resources and practical tools, The IC Toolkit is designed to guide instructional coaches-either individually or, preferably, collectively-through a 36-week journey of practice, reflection, and learning. For instructional coaches who want to improve and leaders who want to set up meaningful learning experiences, the book provides concrete tools-including activities, checklists, case studies, and videos-that you can use every week. Additional features include One-page descriptions of each success factor A needs assessment to gauge your instructional coaching proficiency in the 7 Success Factors Learning paths to guide your use of the resources and enable meaningful exploration of each success factor End-of-chapter reflection questions The IC Toolkit makes it possible for every instructional coach to become highly proficient in the Success Factors. When instructional coaches become highly proficient in their craft, we can see students, teachers, and systems flourish.
Transformative Practices That Affirm and Accelerate All Learners
How well do you notice your students? Affirming students' thinking and adapting the learning experience to support and advance their understanding is an act of both expertise and compassion. This is teacher noticing. Does My Teacher Notice Me? emphasizes the often-overlooked skill of teacher noticing: observing or paying attention to students' ......
