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Mentoring Early Childhood Educators: A Handbook for Supervisors, Administrators, and Teachers
The first few months in the classroom are a combination of on-the-job training and rite of passage, a time when novice teachers need someone to show them the ropes and be there to answer the tough...
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No More Random Acts of Literacy Coaching
Teacher-coach collaboration is critical to teacher effectiveness and student learning, but sometimes the in-the-moment response rate required when supporting several teacher requests at once can make...
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Pathways to the Common Core: Accelerating Achievement
“As challenging as it must have been to write and finesse the adoption of the Common Core State Standards, that accomplishment is nothing compared to the work of teaching in ways that bring all...
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Reclaiming the Principalship: Instructional Leadership Strategies
As a principal, your days are filled with decisions. How do you keep student learning central to your work and the school’s mission while managing all of the mandates and administrative work?...
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Rethinking High School: Best Practice in Teaching, Learning and Leadership
In their previous book, Best Practice: New Standards for Teaching and Learning in America’s Schools, Daniels and his colleagues drew on the national curriculum standards to define good teaching and...
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Systems to Transform Your Classroom and School
"There are steps teachers and administrators can take—tweaks, if you will—that make a classroom or school a place that’s safe for children, one where every student feels noticed and known, one that...
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Taming the Standards: A Commonsense Approach to Higher Student Achievement, K-12
Make sense of state and national standards across the disciplines. Align them to your curriculum and classroom practices. And achieve the greatest student success. In these politically charged times,...
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Teacher to Teacher: A Guidebook for Effective Mentoring
This is a book about the growth and change that can be achieved by teachers, new and experienced, when they work together. Adults learn best when they are interested. They need opportunities to...
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Truth About DIBELS: What It Is, What It Does
DIBELS is the worst thing to happen to the teaching of reading since the development of flash cards.—P. David Pearson Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) is wildly popular up...