How Students' Reading Achievement Has Been Held Back and What We Can DoAbout It
 An engaging and evidence-based examination of how reading instruction has been misinterpreted and misapplied for decades and how to right the course to improve reading skills for all students
In Leveled Reading, Leveled Lives, leading literacy expert Timothy Shanahan curates a lively ......
Making the Most of Collaborative Time for Educators
What's the scarcest resource in schools? Almost any educator will answer, "Time." The lack of time for colleagues to work together is one of the biggest barriers to improving teaching and learning. All too often, educators also say that the biggest waste of time ismeetings. People in schools attend dozens, if not hundreds, of meetings a year. How ......
Rescuing Our Children from Failed Educational Theories
In Why Knowledge Matters, influential scholar E. D. Hirsch, Jr., addresses critical issues in contemporary education reform and shows how cherished truisms about education and child development have led to unintended and negative consequences. Hirsch, author of The Knowledge Deficit, draws on recent findings in neuroscience and data from France ......
Actionable and adaptable guidance for extending the proven Data Wise process from the classroom to entire school systems. In System Wise, Adam Parrott-Sheffer, Carmen Williams, David Rease, Jr., and Kathryn Parker Boudett provide a blueprint to scale up the Data Wise process for continuous improvement, extending it from classrooms and schools to ......
A revised and updated edition presents field-tested strategies to foster equity, inclusion, and continuous improvement in educational practice In this third edition of Data Wise, Kathryn Parker Boudett and Candice Bocala update the research-based eight-step collaborative inquiry process and demonstrate how it can be used to build more ......
Equity, Access, and Opportunity in Higher Education
Paul LeBlanc has re-imagined higher education, with a focus on the most fundamental of functions: student learning. In Students First, he advocates for an entire higher education ecosystem in which students have the flexibility to gain, assess, and certify their knowledge on their own terms and timelines. In a perceptive analysis, LeBlanc ......
Essential, accessible guidance for using trauma-informed practices to relieve student and educator stress in schools In Reducing Stress in Schools, Mathew Portell, Ingrid L. Cockhren, Tyisha J. Noise, Julie Kurtz, and Julie Nicholson provide a toolkit of actionable, evidence-based practices for PreK-12 teachers, administrators, and staff to ......
A practical, accessible framework to help education leaders at all levels turn goals into effective action In Leading Strategically, Elizabeth A. City and Rachel E. Curtis introduce an actionable leadership framework that supports education leaders in developing and executing cohesive strategy and in taking action in their daily work in ways that ......
The Power and Pitfalls of Instructional Reform in School Districts
An insightful inside perspective on the implementation of instructional improvement measures in a large urban K-12 district In When Reform Meets Reality, Jonathan A. Supovitz and contributors examine the qualities that make ambitious educational reforms impactful and identify common tensions that can thwart continuous improvement. Supovitz ......
