Concept-Based Inquiry in Action provides teachers with the tools and resources necessary to facilitate the construction and transfer of conceptual understanding in any classroom.
Designing Learning to Ignite Understanding and Transfer, Grades 4-10
Helps bridge the divide between conceptual curriculum and actionable practice, and provides practical support for teachers implementing Concept-Based literacy lessons.
Teaching for Deep Understanding in Secondary Classrooms
This book is filled with the practical tools needed to move from teaching memorization and routine processes to teaching maths in a deep, clear, and meaningful way.
Confident Communication is a public speaking resource for teachers, principals, and school administrators written by a trained counsellor and experienced teacher. This concise learning tool speaks to teachers at every level, addressing the critical affective aspects of learning how to speak in public. Confident Communication is designed ......
Creating Focus and Resilience for Students, Staff, and Communities
With Confronting the Crisis of Engagement, bring students and faculty back from the brink. Help everyone learn to lead, laugh, and lean in, because high expectations with compassionate support will lead students back to learning.
Reach out before they drop out Student dropout rates continue to soar, despite decades of funding, research, programs, and professional development initiatives. This is a wakeup call. Written by a former school dropout, Confronting the School Dropout Crisis encourages educators and related professionals to discover and explore the sometimes unnoticed reasons that youth drop out of school. With fresh strategies for prevention and intervention, this critical resource includes: How to reach and recover students who are at risk of dropping out or who already have Clear, impactful strategies that better engage and positively impact students who are at risk Moving personal stories from teens and the author Confronting the School Dropout Crisis invites you to rethink how you address real dropout issues with young people and how to incorporate fresh approaches to better reach and positively impact these students and their caregivers-before it's too late.
This book will provide practical strategies, applications, real life examples, and helpful tips for becoming a connected educator. Through this process, readers will learn the skills and techniques necessary to become connected to other like-minded educators throughout the world in order to overcome the feeling of isolation and stifled professional growth.
For English Learners and other struggling students, understanding and using academic language is absolutely critical to literacy development and school achievement, but it takes careful planning to help these students develop mastery. Ruth Swinney and Patricia Velasco's teacher-friendly guide explains how to weave together content and language goals when planning lesson units, as well as offering strategies for moving students from social to academic language and creating a curriculum of talk in the classroom. In addition, Swinney and Velasco provide detailed sample unit plans in all content areas to demonstrate how these strategies can be employed while simultaneously meeting curriculum demands. Using specific structures of balanced literacy including read along, shared reading, and shared writing, these unit plans also include a self-assessment guide for teachers to use as they scaffold the content to increase comprehension and student achievement
