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Advancing Differentiation
Advancing Differentiation will lead you through the process of creating a thriving, student-centered, 21st-century classroom. Since its initial publication, the book’s materials have undergone rigorous testing and refinement in classrooms...
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All That Matters : What Is It We Value in School and Beyond?
This book examines learning and evaluation and the need to bring the two together in more relevant ways. Rief and Barbieri invite us to consider how we might best develop our students' strengths, presenting a collection of truly useful, and often novel,...
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DIY Literacy: Teaching Tools for Differentiation, Rigor, and Independence
“We have never seen teachers work harder than we do now. These tools inspire kids to work as hard as we are.”—Kate Roberts and Maggie Beattie Roberts What’s DIY Literacy? It’s making your own visual teaching tools...
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How to Align Literacy Instruction, Assessment, and Standards: And Achieve Results You NEVER Dreamed Possible
In this book, Nancy Akhavan details the stories and strategies that enabled her school to move from "under-performing" status to one in which students achieve and teachers have a whole new understanding of targeted instruction, sensitive...
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How to Catch a Shark : And Other Stories About Teaching and Learning
"I submit that the well-told, well-chosen story can tell the most about the qualitative status of both teaching and learning in the classroom." So says Donald Graves, author of this unique new book and one of the field's best-loved and most...
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Imagine It Better
Visions of What School Might Be Imagine It Better features 18 provocative invitations from some of the most brilliant and creative minds in education today, including Tony Wagner, Andy Hargreaves, Noam Chomsky, and Linda Darling-Hammond, that focus...
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Innovative Educators
An Action Plan for Teachers In a culture that demands change and innovation, how can the individual teacher effect change that’s both meaningful and achievable? Innovative Educators shows teachers how to adapt existing practices and how...
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Literacy's Democratic Roots: A Personal Tour Through Eight Big Ideas
Take a tour with author Tom Newkirk through eight big ideas in literacy instruction and their embodiment of democratic values. He explores ideas from the founders of the “writing renaissance,” 1975–1987, and the impact those ideas have...
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Mapmaking with Children : Sense of Place Education for the Elementary Years
The current crisis in geography education has spawned several new books on mapmaking, many of which advocate either recitation and drill or a conceptual top-down model that ignores children's interests. Mapmaking with Children presents an inspired...
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Not Quite Burned Out But Crispy Around the Edges : Inspiration, Laughter, and Encouragement for Teachers
Faced with low salaries, overcrowded classrooms, and dwindling public support, teachers are expected to improve student performance, answer public scrutiny, and solve society’s problems—with just a stroke of chalk across a blackboard. It is...