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Comprehension Going Forward: Where We Are and What's Next
"The real genius of this book is that it is written by teachers, for teachers. All of the authors in this book know what classrooms are like. This means that authenticity and integrity pervade every chapter in the book. Teachers will immediately sense...
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Core Instructional Routines: Go-To Structures for Effective Literacy Teaching, K-5
"The word routine gets a bad rap, too. It is sometimes used to describe the day-to-day, monotonous patterns of our everyday lives, often perceived as boring and unimaginative. This word has somehow lost its truth along the way. Routine needs an...
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Creating Curriculum : Teachers and Students as a Community of Learners
In practice, curriculum has historically been a hierarchy of skills and sequence models imposed on teachers and students. This has been frustrating for teachers, because it directed them to spend time covering specific topics rather than addressing the...
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Creating Social and Emotional Learning Environments
If there's one thing teachers should agree on, it's that creating a culture and climate conducive to fostering SEL is something we should all strive toward as educators. How can this resource help? Based on author Dr. Amy Cranston's experiences with...
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Difference Is Not Deficit
In this urgent and inspiring call to action, Dr. Bibi Pirayesh invites educators to radically reimagine how we support neurodiverse students—not as problems to solve, but as people with insight, strength, and agency. Rooted in principles of social...
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Ethnographic Eyes : A Teacher's Guide to Classroom Observation
Whether you realize it or not, there is a hidden side of classroom life: everyday practices so ordinary and so routine that they often become invisible. The challenge to classroom observers is to understand and reveal these implicit patterns. For Carolyn...
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Family Affair : When School Troubles Come Home
Little is known about the effects of schooling on parents, especially on those with children who struggle in school. As an educator whose work focuses on struggling students and as a parent of a daughter who has herself struggled, Curt Dudley-Marling has...
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Holding On to Good Ideas in a Time of Bad Ones
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Holding On to Good Ideas in a Time of Bad Ones: Six Literacy Principles Worth Fighting For
Holding On to Good Ideas in a Time of Bad Ones is for every teacher who has struggled under top-down mandates, who ever had to slavishly follow the script of a reading lesson, who ever felt that tests were driving instruction. It is for those whose...
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Kids Behind the Label : An inside Look at ADHD for Classroom Teachers
You’ve had them in your class. Their behavior has troubled you. Their lack of academic focus has frustrated you. And the problem of what to do about them has stretched your every professional nerve to its breaking point. So imagine what school is...