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"Teachers are critical to student success, but the profession of teaching is in crisis. In Ensuring Teachers Matter: Where to Focus First So Students Matter Most, Shelly Wilfong and Ryan Donlan remind us that supporting students does not mean we cannot support teachers, and they argue that a sense of mattering, or feeling meaningfully significant, is the key to this support. Drawing from original research, the authors introduce eight essential elements that schools need to have for teachers to feel that they matter"--

"In an increasingly charged political and social climate, educators may feel ill equipped to address students' varying needs and perspectives in a meaningful way. By intentionally incorporating practices that facilitate honest dialogue and cultivate inclusion, educators can instill a sense of emotional safety in students and positively affirm them in the ways they need it most. In Compassion as Our Compass: 20+ Professional Learning Activities to Nurture Educator Empathy, Gloria L. Canada provides teachers with field-tested activities, strategies to address potential roadblocks, and opportunities for self-reflection. Complete with personal stories and lessons the author has learned in her career, Compassion as Your Compass is an invaluable resource for any educator invested in creating a compassionate, inclusive, and intentional school culture"--

"It's no secret that technology has been increasingly replacing books in many K-12 students' lives. But how can educators and school leaders successfully encourage their students to read when devices vie for so much of their attention? In Leading a Culture of Reading: How to Ignite and Sustain a Love of Literacy in Your School, Lorraine M. Radice demonstrates how educators can promote a love of reading by using technology and social platforms to their advantage. She shares the literacy campaign she designed to address reading proficiency in her district and guides educators in implementing their own program. Grounded in current research and considerate of the many variables affecting student literacy, Leading a Culture of Reading provides practical resources, tools, and strategies that will be invaluable to any educator hoping to improve literacy in their schools and inspire a love of reading in their students"--

"Research demonstrates that when students don't build strong reading skills, their performance in school and ability to succeed in life decline. With more students considered illiterate or struggling with reading challenges each year, it's imperative that teachers have research-supported tools and strategies that effectively target the reading skills students need to thrive. In The Power of Effective Reading Instruction: How Neuroscience Informs Instruction Across All Grades and Disciplines, Karen Gazith explores the neuroscience research on how children learn to read and discusses how it should inform reading practices in schools. She proposes that reading instruction should not be limited to language arts teachers; rather, it is a shared responsibility among educators across content areas if schools hope to improve historically low literacy rates. With this research-packed guide, educators will have the resources they need to effectively implement reading instruction, no matter the subject they teach"--

"Maintaining student engagement in the classroom is a challenge all teachers face-but the effects of boredom and disengagement in school aren't confined to the classroom. Students learn skills like perseverance and accountability in school, which later shape their personal relationships, professions, and society at large. In Power Engage: Seven Power Moves for Building a Culture of Engagement and Equity, classroom coach Carlos Johnson shares his seven strategies to ensure teachers are reaching all their students in meaningful ways. By building what he calls Performance-Based Relationships (PBRs), teachers can learn to sustain their students' attention and deepen the impact of their instruction, and in turn inspire the curiosity and responsibility upon which successful and equitable societies are built. Johnson's "power moves" are informed by current research on the variables affecting students' capacity to engage in school and will be useful to educators no matter where they are on their professional journey"--

"Exceptionally busy educators may struggle to keep up with the latest ideas and research while trying to manage their increasing responsibilities and decreasing time for professional development. Choose Your Own Master Class: Urgent Ideas to Invigorate Your Professional Learning by Beth Pandolpho and Katie Cubano is designed to fit into educators' busy lives. The book features stand-alone chapters, each focused on a concept, perspective, or field of research valuable to the work educators do every day. Readers can draw from these chapters to suit their needs, interests, and schedules, allowing them to explore exciting new ideas that span a wide range of disciplines outside education and learn how to engage these ideas in their classrooms"--

"In The Antiracist School Leader: What to Know, Say, and Do, education leaders will learn how to plan, test, and execute a comprehensive antiracist vision to transform the culture, curriculum, and conscience of their school administration"--

"Inclusivity in schools happens by design, not by chance. In Meant for More: Real Talk About Classrooms Built on Dignity, Authenticity, and Connection, author Angie Freese equips teachers with realistic means to allow students to find relevance and meaning in the content and delivery of teaching. She showcases how teams of educators can reshape classrooms so that they recognize students' and staff's unique perspectives, experiences, assets, and needs and capitalize on them. Through this book's collection of practical processes, strategies, and tools, readers can promote engagement and achievement for all students, as well as sustainable, transformational change. Mindfully reshaping classrooms in this Meant for More way will create inclusive learning environments that close opportunity gaps and ensure the skills and dispositions necessary for future success"--

"This second edition of "Mathematics Assessment and Intervention in a PLC at Work" by Sarah Schuhl, Timothy D. Kanold, Mona Toncheff, Bill Barnes, Jessica Kanold-McIntyre, Matthew R. Larson, and Georgina Rivera provides updated tools and additional resources for education professionals seeking to implement the professional learning community (PLC) approach in their schools. The PLC at Work method models how schools and districts can use team collaboration to build a more equitable learning experience for students. By creating common criteria for scoring student proficiency and agreeing on the rigor of curriculum and assessment, educators can ensure students school- and districtwide receive comparable instruction and feedback. Augmented with personal anecdotes and opportunities for team reflection, this edition includes new tasks, common assessments for various grade levels, self-assessment examples for student reflection, and revised rubrics, as well as how to score end-of-unit assessments using a proficiency scale"--

"Inclusive school environments don't just happen-they require continual fine-tuning to ensure every educator and student feels heard and valued. As school leaders, principals hold a crucial position within a school's structure that determines its success or failure to create an equitable school climate. Without sound leadership, teachers can flounder amidst the myriad inequalities facing their students-from racial and gender identity, socioeconomic barriers, homelessness, abuse, and neglect. A principal's devotion to actively understanding and counteracting these inequities-enacting practices that address them-is the vehicle for school-wide change, that can either propel, or bring to a halt, a school's culture of safety, opportunity, and inclusion. In Be the Driving Force: Leading Your School on the Road to Equity, Don Parker provides a roadmap for principals aspiring to refine their leadership practices so that they can best lead their teachers in tackling the disparities in their students' opportunities and experiences. Equipped with discussion questions, surveys, and practical action plans, principals will feel more prepared to embody their impactful role with strength, integrity, and unwavering commitment"--

"Reading aloud to children is a routine that parents have incorporated in their homes-and teachers in their schools-for millennia. It has served as a tool for parent-child bonding and teacher-student instruction, and for good reason: children who are read to reap a host of social, emotional, cognitive, and even physiological benefits. In Read Alouds for All Learners: A Comprehensive Plan for Every Subject, Every Day, Grades PreK-8, Molly Ness demonstrates that the read aloud has slowly been falling out of practice in homes and schools alike, and this has had sobering consequences on children's vocabulary acquisition and retention, verbal reasoning and syntactical understanding, and their social and emotional capacity. She provides teachers with practical tools and lessons from her own experience to guide them in creating an effective read aloud routine. Supported by current research and personal experiences, Read Alouds for All Learners is at once a compelling case for the reintegration of the read aloud in schools and a step-by-step resource for K-8 educators who need guidance on how to structure an impactful read aloud ritual in their classrooms"--

"Principals know all too well the stresses of school leadership. Balancing the difficulties of the job with the importance of being an effective school leader takes purposeful self-management. In The Principal's Backpack: Tips and Tools for Managing Yourself (So You Can Manage Everything Else), author Nancy Karlin Flynn offers a host of ways to not only survive but thrive as a school leader. Drawing on her background as an accomplished hiker and mountain climber, her many years of experience leading schools, and current research, Flynn gives readers concrete ideas for making the best use of their time and energy"--

"All learning is based on the building of foundational literacy skills. But students often lack these necessary, transferable proficiencies. As a result, educators must each implement foundational skill building, no matter their content area or grade level. In Removing Educational Barriers: How to Apply Explicit Interventions for All Students in All Grades, certified English teacher and reading specialist Peg Grafwallner covers six foundational skills that students require in order to succeed. These skills are (1) locate and identify the main idea and supporting details and write a summary; (2) interpret and apply academic vocabulary; (3) identify and apply inference; (4) identify and understand cause-effect relationships; (5) identify and understand relationships using compare-contrast; and (6) delineate and evaluate arguments. Using the response to intervention (RTI) process and this book's skill-building tools, educators can effectively teach the foundational skills and support developing students as they learn to read, write, and think critically"--

"Mathematics Instruction and Tasks in a PLC at Workª, Second Edition by Mona Toncheff, Timothy D. Kanold, Sarah Schuhl, Bill Barnes, Jennifer Deinhart, Jessica Kanold-McIntyre, and Matthew R. Larson provides guidance for K-12 teachers to reflect on current lesson-design practices, compare those practices against high-quality standards of mathematics lesson design, and develop and use effective lessons that engage students within the mathematics classroom. Part of the Every Student Can Learn Mathematics series, it offers a comprehensive professional learning community (PLC) approach to sustaining deep change in mathematics achievement. The PLC at Work process is one of the best models that schools or districts can use to build a more equitable learning experience for students. Using the four critical questions of a PLC, teams will provide every mathematics student with common learning experiences, opportunities for sustained perseverance, and robust formative feedback. In this second edition, teachers will access new and updated tools to maximize their lesson-planning strategies in mathematics within the PLC framework"--

Are you ready to be the most impactful coach you can be? This companion planner to Nicole S. Turner's powerful resource, Simply Instructional Coaching, offers tools to simplify tasks, manage time, be a reflective coach, and set goals. Helpful tips and purposeful pages help K-12 instructional coaches maintain focus on their vital role in developing teacher potential. This book will help you: Plan and record your essential coaching functions all in one place Help teachers become more effective in the classroom and track coaching cycles to reflect on teacher growth Set coaching goals, record professional development sessions, and strengthen your overall coaching plan Generate coaching schedules to stay on task each day, week, and month Note tasks and reminders, new resources to purchase, teacher birthdays, testing schedules, and more Contents:

Educators' daily stressors can easily accumulate without intentional wellness actions in place. Designed as both a plan book and journal, this companion resource to Educator Wellness: A Guide for Sustaining Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Social Well-Being offers inspirational, practical weekly routines and reflections for teachers committed to improving their wellness practices throughout the school year. Use this plan book and journal to: Commit to practices that encourage well-being in each of the four dimensions: physical, mental, emotional, and social Organize your thoughts, collect data on your current habits, and reflect on areas to improve with 46 field-tested tools Monitor your progress on each month's wellness goal and set intentions to encourage long-term maintenance of positive habits Contents: Part 1: About This Plan Book and Journal Part 2: Summer--A Season of Renewal Part 3: Fall--A Season of Opportunity Part 4: Winter--A Season of Perseverance Part 5: Spring--A Season of Transition Appendix: Journal Tools References and Resources Index

"Equity initiatives can help schools and districts improve outcomes for historically marginalized students and contribute to a positive, successful school and district culture. Leading Through an Equity Lens by Kim Wallace provides a course of action to address obstacles to equity while implementing initiatives that mitigate performance gaps and help students recapture missed opportunities created and sustained by the system. Wallace's 2021 book Leading the Launch introduced the ten stages of launching district-wide initiatives. This new, companion book condenses each of the ten stages and adapts them for equity-centered initiatives"--

"How can students achieve a deep understanding of mathematics, one which allows them to go beyond recall to explain and justify their thinking? Teachers must help students transcend rote memorization and develop reasoning skills related to multiplication. In The Fact Tactics Fluency Program, professor of mathematics education Juli K. Dixon introduces a program that teachers may seamlessly integrate into existing mathematics instruction. The program is built on six tactics: (1) the grounding tactic, (2) the linking tactic, (3) the strategic repetition tactic, (4) the review tactic, (5) the assessment tactic, and (6) the extension tactic. Using these tactics, teachers gain an alternative to drill and kill instruction, connecting what students learn as they make sense of multiplication by emphasizing and supporting procedural fluency to develop automaticity"--

"There are countless technology tools available to educators. But how do educators employ those tools in an optimal, purposeful way? In Making the Move With Ed Tech, authors Troy Hicks, Jennifer Parker, and Kate Grunow help educators wade through edtech jargon and frameworks and learn to employ edtech tools strategically. The authors explore "moves," or instructional strategies, both familiar and new, that facilitate inquiry, dialogue, critical thinking, and creativity. These strategies will help students think critically and creatively, and are paired with suggestions for appropriate technology tools, and alignment with ISTE standards"--

"As the responsibilities, emotional demands, and risk of burnout increases for educators, so does the demand for a supportive working environment that acknowledges their unique stressors. While we cannot take stress and trauma out of the school environment, Benches in the Bathroom: Inspiring a Culture of Wellness by Evisha Ford provides the roadmap to constructing a school culture that values teacher contributions, operates on a framework of emotional wellness, and implements trauma-compassionate organizational strategies to ensure the success and wellbeing of all educators as they navigate their challenging work. With this book, educational leaders will be able to take critical steps to combat teacher burnout, provide an environment where educators can be happy at work, and design a culture where teachers and students are both truly engaged in learning"--

"The need to close the student achievement gap has never been greater, but educators' approach to acceleration is usually only limited to already high-achieving students. In their new book, Acceleration for All: A How-To Guide for Overcoming Learning Gaps, Sharon V. Kramer and Sarah Schuhl discuss strategies for accelerating learning for all students, not just those at the top. Through research-based practices and real-world practice, the authors build a framework for getting acceleration started and keeping the momentum going once it begins"--

"Teacher-leadership can change the climate of a school, inspire and support other teachers, and positively impact the lives of students. In Teacher Leaders, Classroom Champions, author Jeanetta Jones Miller envisions teacher-leadership not as teachers who lead other teachers but teachers who take responsibility to support other teachers, students, and parents in a variety of ways. With templates and tools to record next steps in every chapter, teachers will have a clear path to activate leadership within their own classrooms"--

"Providing equitable literacy outcomes for every student drives the purpose, focus, and passion behind the tools, resources, and learning shared in Literacy in a PLC: Guiding Teams to Get Going and Get Better in Grades K-6 Reading. In this book, authors Paula Maeker and Jacqueline Heller help new and experienced K-6 educators navigate reading and language instruction through the lens of Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) at Workª instead of focusing on a particular instructional methodology. This valuable resource can help individuals and teams learn how to collaborate around literacy data to answer the four critical questions of learning. The authors include numerous templates, guides, and protocols to make implementing improved literacy and collaboration practices easy"--

"Good STEM education begins with good instruction. In What STEM Can Do for Your Classroom, Jason McKenna describes how teaching STEM in his elementary school changed not only his classroom but his life, improving his students' and his own approaches to problem-solving, collaboration, and general motivation to learn. Using a vast variety of examples, tried and tested classroom projects, and collaborative strategies, What STEM Can Do for Your Classroom opens up STEM education for K-6 educators in exciting and expansive new ways"--

"Do grades really drive student behavior? Are consequences the best way to make students responsible? Author Tom Schimmer says student accountability can be taught, developed, nurtured, and reinforced like academic skills. He advocates using a three-tiered framework and trauma-informed, restorative, and schoolwide approaches to increase students' chances of learning the skills they need to take responsibility for their choices and actions. Schools operating as professional learning communities will find this book an invaluable resource for redefining student accountability. Stop waiting for students to take responsibility and start teaching them how to do it"--

Research shows student movement in the classroom is integral to improving cognitive engagement. But how do you integrate movement and instruction seamlessly and effectively? Author Rebecca Stobaugh guides the way with research-backed strategies utilizing classroom design, class climate, and classroom management. Explore a variety of ways to reimagine your teaching practices and get your students moving while they are actively learning. This book will help K-12 educators: Implement movement-based activities to improve student engagement Create a classroom climate that models safety and belonging for all students Utilize various strategies for students to participate in pairs, groups, and teams Understand the research behind cognitive engagement and embodied learning Explore the concept of movement integration in the classroom Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Understanding Student Engagement Chapter 2: Integrating Movement in the Classroom Chapter 3: Moving in Pairs Chapter 4: Moving in Groups Chapter 5: Moving With Games Chapter 6: Cementing a Culture of Engagement References and Resources Index

"Challenges bring many of life's highs and lows, but learning how to confront them correctly can propel you into success. In his new book Mentally Strong: Developing Grit, Perseverance, and Resilience, Jay Jackson blends personal challenges and achievements with professional tools to equip teachers in improving their students' resilience. By focusing on self-awareness, integrity, purpose, passion, positivity, courage, commitment, and grit, Jackson deftly defines performance character and provides readers the opportunity for reflection, growth, and student development"--

"Professional learning is vital to educators' growth and ability to create classrooms that maximize student learning. Studies indicate, however, that traditional off-site professional learning is often less effective than it can be because of the lag between passive learning and active application of the concepts. In Elevate School-Based Professional Learning, authors Joellen Killion, William A. Sommers, and Ann Delehant present a new model for continuous professional learning as part of educators' onsite, everyday school experience. The authors explain how educators can collaboratively study and solve issues that arise directly from their own schools' unique contexts and circumstances. Professional learning and skill application thus occur in tandem, benefitting both educators and students. By presenting foundational and practical knowledge backed by supporting research, Elevate School-Based Professional Learning guides readers in implementing collaborative, teacher-generated professional learning as part of everyday work and increased student learning"--

"Common formative assessments are a fundamental aspect of collaborative instruction. In this new and revised second edition of Common Formative Assessment: A Toolkit for Professional Learning Communities at Workª, the authors return with updated and improved resources to help teachers use formative data to bring about more learning. With data-driven techniques and a wealth of new tools, learn how to improve collaboration and student engagement throughout the whole assessment process"--