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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. With Foreword by Heidi Hayes Jacobs It's crucial for 21st century teachers and students to determine together what a student will learn and at what pace. This book dives deep into quest learning, a customizable inquiry model tailored to a student's interests, needs, and abilities. Learn how to use questing to engross students in emotionally gripping learning experiences, engage them with actionable goals, build 21st century skills, and promote collaboration in online and physical spaces. Learn how to motivate students using the education quest model:* Foster students' 21st century learning by engaging critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and self-direction. * Form learning partnerships with students that lead to co-teaching and co-learning. * Explore the three main design types through which students can quest to learn: (1) inquiry, (2) network, and (3) game. * Investigate the guided inquiry design decisions involved in identifying a quest, determining checkpoints, and helping students reflect on their quest. * Use formative assessment templates for engaging students in learning. Contents: Foreword by Heidi Hayes Jacobs Introduction Part I: Establishing Chapter 1: Making the Case for Questing Chapter 2: Identifying Questing Components Chapter 3: Inquiring With Question Design Chapter 4: Playing With Game Design Chapter 5: Building Connections With Network Design Part II: Guiding Chapter 6: Launching the Quest Chapter 7: Introducing Students to Quests Chapter 8: Providing Instructional Support Chapter 9: Demonstrating Learning Appendix A:Frequently Asked Questions Appendix B: Questing Framework Questions Aligned to Decision Matrix Appendix C: Sample Complete Quest References and Resources Index. …

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Paperback. Condition: Good. English learners face not only the challenge of learning English, but also learning in English. How, then, do you set reasonable expectations for developing proficiency? School leaders will find the answers inside, including how to assess the individual needs of ELs, how to create a quality instructional program, and how to evaluate performance. Each chapter offers reliable, research-based ways to implement solutions you can count on.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. As technology continues to shift the educational landscape, most K-12 teachers' instructional strategies remain mostly unchanged. Discover how to enhance student learning in online and blended classrooms. This user-friendly resource offers direct guidance on the steps K-12 educators must take to facilitate online learning and maximize student growth using readily available digital tools. Each chapter includes suggestions, tips, and examples tied to pedagogical practices associated with learning online, so you can confidently and fully engage in the best practices with your students. Benefits Use technology tools like online classroom platforms and apps to foster digitally enhanced learning. Understand the benefits of learning online and its advantages over traditional real-world classrooms. Learn how to effectively facilitate digital learning experiences and organize the online learning space in a way that encourages comfort, motivation, and engagement. Study the challenges and opportunities teaching online offers. Gain strategies and examples to help initiate and sustain digital learning while engaging students. Contents Chapter 1: Understanding the Modality and the Moment Chapter 2: Planning Curriculum, Assessment, and Preinstruction Chapter 3: Preparing the Learning Experience Chapter 4: Initiating the Learning Experience Chapter 5: Maintaining the Momentum in the Learning Experience Chapter 6: Teaching Thoughtful Online Collaboration Chapter 7: Managing and Overcoming Toxic Conversations Chapter 8: Concluding the Learning Experience Concluding Thoughts.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Daily observation of classroom teaching can significantly impact the quality of teaching and learning. Organized into 21 chapters designed to be read over a period of 21 school days, Now We're Talking! presents a results-driven approach that far surpasses traditional walkthrough models of feedback for teachers. School leaders will complete two cycles of classroom visits while reading the book and establish the necessary foundation for subsequent visits. This plan will help you incorporate daily classroom walkthroughs to improve teaching and learning:* Understand how daily classroom observation can help you make informed decisions that foster rich relationships with teachers, improve professional practices, reduce stress, and increase student learning. * Discover how to conduct teacher evaluations and classroom walkthroughs to improve teaching and learning, fostering high-performance results and high-quality instructional leadership. * Take part in 21 days of action challenges toward making teacher observations and giving feedback to teachers after observation a daily practice. * Learn supervision and instructional leadership skills that establish effective communication in schools. * Gain time-management tips for streamlining your inboxes, staying organized, and prioritizing work so you have time for daily classroom visits and lesson observation feedback. Contents: Week 1: High-Performance Instructional Leadership Fundamentals Chapter 1: Understanding Why Instructional Leaders Belong in Classrooms Chapter 2: Following the High-Performance Instructional Leadership Model Chapter 3: Acknowledging Related Instructional Leadership, Supervision, and Walkthrough Models Chapter 4: Conducting Your First Two Cycles of Visits Chapter 5: Thinking Ahead to Your Third Cycle of Visits Week 2: High-Performance Habits Chapter 6: Making Time to Visit Classrooms Chapter 7: Keeping Your Communication Channels Under Control Chapter 8: Managing the Work You're Not Doing Yet Chapter 9: Organizing Your To-Do List Chapter 10: Maximizing Your Mental Energy With Habits Week 3: High-Impact Instructional Conversations Chapter 11: Going Beyond Data Collection and the Feedback Sandwich Chapter 12: Facilitating Evidence-Based Conversations Chapter 13: Bringing a Shared Instructional Framework Into the Conversation Chapter 14: Developing Skills for High-Impact Conversations Chapter 15: Handling the Toughest Conversations Week 4: High-Performance Instructional Leadership Enhancement Chapter 16: Building Your Feedback Repertoire Chapter 17: Balancing Your Formal Evaluation Responsibilities Chapter 18: Identifying Improvements From Classroom Visits Chapter 19: Opening the Door to New Models of Professional Learning Chapter 20: Choosing an Instructional Focus for an Observation Cycle Chapter 21: Scaling Classroom Visits Across Your School and District.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Fully embedding technology into the curriculum is key to preparing students to meet the demands of the 21st century. No single digital tool or instructional strategy will suit all classroom situations. As a result, From Pencils to Podcasts outlines many digital tools and strategies that the authors have found valuable and accessible in their own teaching experiences as well in other teachers' classrooms. The authors provide K-6 teachers with practical suggestions for incorporating technology into familiar literacy practices and illustrate ways technology can deepen students' literacy development. Each chapter includes information about easy-to-use technology tools, examples from real classrooms, and step-by-step instructions to get started. Benefits Appraise how 21st century notions of literacy differ from traditional notions of literacy. Consider research that states why it is crucial to include digital tools in today's classrooms. Learn how to enable students to create, communicate, collaborate, share, reflect, and assess through digital means. Gain step-by-step instructions for incorporating easily implemented digital tools into classroom practices, and see these tools and practices in action through vignettes. Receive tips for adapting the suggested digital tools and instructional strategies to meet the needs of different content areas. Improve students' ability to function productively in an increasingly technology-oriented world. Contents Introduction: Literacy in the 21st Century Part I: Tools to Facilitate Comprehension and Analysis Digital Word Wall Digital Reader Response Online Literature Discussions Part II: Tools to Facilitate Evaluation and Revision Collaborative Evaluation of Online Sources Online Book Reviews Digital Revision Reader's Theater Digital Movies Part III: Tools to Facilitate Performance and Publication Informational Writing Using Infographics Collaborative Digital Story Retelling Published Writing Part IV: Tools to Facilitate Assessment and Reflection Reading Histories Conferences with Readers and Writers Digital Portfolios Digital Formative Assessment of Reading Comprehension The Un-Conclusion: It's Not the End Appendix: Reproducibles References and Resources Index.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Foster effective teaching and deep learning using the seven elements of the Unstoppable Learning model: (1) planning, (2) launching, (3) consolidating, (4) assessing, (5) adapting, (6) managing, and (7) leading. Each chapter focuses on a different element of Unstoppable Learning as it pertains to designing powerful learning opportunities, and the impactful results these instructional strategies can produce in working toward academic standards. The book also provides templates for planning learning targets, assessments, lessons, and units that will help K-12 educators create and maintain positive, healthy, high-performing classrooms. Assess students' progress responsively and create differentiated classrooms that meet students' diverse needs. How this handbook will help you implement Unstoppable Learning: Learn why it is imperative to make systems thinking a top priority. Study how to prioritize academic standards to address the time crunch that too much content and too little time creates. Gain ideas to thoughtfully launch a classroom lesson to hook students into what they will learn. Consider practical examples that illustrate how to implement the big ideas of Unstoppable Learning so that students can know and apply the academic standards. Contents Chapter 1: Planning Focused and Purposeful Curriculum Chapter 2: Launching Lessons and Starting the Unit Chapter 3: Consolidating Learning by Choosing Significant Tasks Chapter 4: Assessing Students Responsively Chapter 5: Adapting Instruction Through Differentiation Chapter 6: Managing and Leading the Learning Appendix: Putting the Pieces Together.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Explore strategies for integrating the Common Core State Standards for English language arts for grades 6-8 in this resource, which focuses on areas of instruction, curriculum, assessment, and intervention. You'll also learn how to implement the CCSS within the powerful PLC at Work(tm) process. Critical chapter-opening questions guide discussion and help you leverage the CCSS to optimize student learning.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Effectively respond to diverse learning styles and achievement levels with strategies and reproducible tools to help you customize, scaffold, and layer your instruction. Reach every student in the classroom, while still holding all students accountable for learning.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Busy administrators will appreciate this quick read packed with immediate, accessible strategies. This book provides the framework for understanding dynamic relationships within a school culture and ensuring a positive environment that supports the changes necessary to improve learning for all students. The author explores many aspects of human behavior, social conditions, and history to reveal best practices for building healthy school cultures.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. With Foreword by Heidi Hayes Jacobs It's crucial for 21st century teachers and students to determine together what a student will learn and at what pace. This book dives deep into quest learning, a customizable inquiry model tailored to a student's interests, needs, and abilities. Learn how to use questing to engross students in emotionally gripping learning experiences, engage them with actionable goals, build 21st century skills, and promote collaboration in online and physical spaces. Learn how to motivate students using the education quest model:* Foster students' 21st century learning by engaging critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and self-direction. * Form learning partnerships with students that lead to co-teaching and co-learning. * Explore the three main design types through which students can quest to learn: (1) inquiry, (2) network, and (3) game. * Investigate the guided inquiry design decisions involved in identifying a quest, determining checkpoints, and helping students reflect on their quest. * Use formative assessment templates for engaging students in learning. Contents: Foreword by Heidi Hayes Jacobs Introduction Part I: Establishing Chapter 1: Making the Case for Questing Chapter 2: Identifying Questing Components Chapter 3: Inquiring With Question Design Chapter 4: Playing With Game Design Chapter 5: Building Connections With Network Design Part II: Guiding Chapter 6: Launching the Quest Chapter 7: Introducing Students to Quests Chapter 8: Providing Instructional Support Chapter 9: Demonstrating Learning Appendix A:Frequently Asked Questions Appendix B: Questing Framework Questions Aligned to Decision Matrix Appendix C: Sample Complete Quest References and Resources Index.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Explore strategies for integrating the Common Core State Standards for English language arts for grades 6-8 in this resource, which focuses on areas of instruction, curriculum, assessment, and intervention. You'll also learn how to implement the CCSS within the powerful PLC at Work(tm) process. Critical chapter-opening questions guide discussion and help you leverage the CCSS to optimize student learning.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Bring meaning and curiosity back to school. In this reader-friendly guide, the author engages educators and leaders in a powerful conversation about modern learning. Explore the 10 criteria for new curricula, encourage students to develop their skills and passions, and consider changes in teaching that can make school fun and relevant to students' lives in the real world. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Give students control over the learning process. The 21st century has seen vast advances in technology--which can connect students and teachers to more information, knowledge, and experts than ever before. Investigate why the traditional education system isn't working, uncover why the meanings of education and success should be redefined, and understand the teacher's role in a free learning environment.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Learn how to harness students' natural curiosity to develop self-directed learners. Discover how technology allows students to take ownership of their learning, create and share learning tools, and participate in work that is meaningful to them and others. Real-life examples illustrate how every student can become a teacher and a global publisher. The embedded QR codes link to supporting websites.…

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Paperback. Condition: Fair. The time of exclusive top-down leadership is over! Only teachers can transform education from inside the classroom, and this book defines best practices of collaborative teacher leadership. Specific techniques, supporting research, expert insight, and real classroom stories illustrate how to work together for student learning, create a guaranteed and viable curriculum, and use data to inform instruction.…

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