While social and emotional learning (SEL) is most familiar as compartmentalized programs separate from academics, the truth is, all learning is social and emotional. What teachers say, the values we express, the materials and activities we choose, and the skills we prioritize all influence how students think, see themselves, and interact with content and with others.

If you teach kids rather than standards, and if you want all kids to get what they need to thrive, Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, and Dominique Smith offer a solution: a comprehensive, five-part model of SEL that's easy to integrate into everyday content instruction, no matter what subject or grade level you teach. You'll learn the hows and whys of

Building students' sense of identity and confidence in their ability to learn, overcome challenge, and influence the world around them.

Helping students identify, describe, and regulate their emotional responses.

Promoting the cognitive regulation skills critical to decision making and problem solving.

Fostering students' social skills, including teamwork and sharing, and their ability to establish and repair relationships.

Equipping students to becoming informed and involved citizens.

Along with a toolbox of strategies for addressing 33 essential competencies, you'll find real-life examples highlighting the many opportunities for social and emotional learning within the K-12 academic curriculum. Children's social and emotional development is too important to be an add-on or an afterthought, too important to be left to chance. Use this books integrated SEL approach to help your students build essential skills that will serve them in the classroom and throughout their lives.

Join Nancy Frey and Douglas Fisher as they outline a clear-cut, realistic, and rewarding approach to formative assessment. They explain how four discrete steps work in tandem to create a seamless, comprehensive formative assessment system-one that has no beginning and no end. This ongoing approach enhances an active give-and-take relationship between teachers and students to promote learning. Where am I going? Step 1: Feed-up ensures that students understand the purpose of an assignment, task, or lesson, including how they will be assessed. Where am I now? Step 2: Checking for understanding guides instruction and helps determine if students are making progress toward their goals. How am I doing? Step 3: Feedback provides students with valuable and constructive information about their successes and needs. Where am I going next? Step 4: Feed-forward builds on the feedback from step 3 and uses performance data to facilitate student achievement. Dozens of real-life scenarios demonstrate how to apply these steps in your classroom, always focusing on the presence or absence of student learning to guide the action. By enabling teachers and students alike to see more clearly what they need to do for learning to be successful, this approach builds students' competence, confidence, and understanding. No matter what grade level you teach, The Formative Assessment Action Plan will help you make better use of assessment data so you can more quickly adjust instruction to keep every student on the path to success.

What it really means to read closely

Call it close reading, call it deep reading, call it analytic reading--call it what you like. The point is, it's a level of understanding that students of any age can achieve with the right kind of instruction. In Rigorous Reading, Nancy Frey and Doug Fisher articulate an instructional plan so clearly, and so squarely built on research, that teachers, schools, and districts need look no further:

• Purpose & Modeling
• Close & Scaffolded Reading Instruction
• Collaborative Conversations
• An Independent Reading Staircase
• Performance

Build students' confidence and competence with tutoring strategies that spark meaningful, accelerated learning.

Tutoring is much more than telling students information. Effective tutoring begins with the strong and caring relationship a tutor establishes with a learner to build trust, fuel motivation, and drive critical learning.

How Tutoring Works distills the complexity of strategic moves effective tutors make to build students' confidence and competence. Harnessing decades of Visible Learning(R) research, this easy to read, eye-opening guide details the six essential components of any effective tutoring intervention--establishing a relationship and credibility, addressing student confidence and challenges, setting shared goals, helping a student learn how to learn, teaching and learning content, and establishing a habit of deliberate practice. Indispensable for any educator who intervenes with students, this rich resource includes:

• Examples of impactful tutoring conversations, including what to say and what not to say when building a relationship with a learner.
• Specific approaches to use when establishing credibility, addressing challenges to learning, leveraging the relevance of knowledge, setting goals, and ensuring practice.
• Learning strategies, with effect size, for teaching and learning content, including specific strategies for improving reading, writing, and mathematics.
• Tips and tools for helping students develop powerful cognitive, metacognitive, and affective study skills.
• Resources and advice for establishing an effective and transformational tutoring program.

Done well, tutoring can repair a student's damaged relationship to learning, address unrealized potential, and alter the course of a young person's life. A strong and nurturing relationship between tutor and learner is key.

The benefits of collaborative learning are well documented-and yet, almost every teacher knows how group work can go wrong: restless students, unequal workloads, lack of accountability, and too little learning for all the effort involved. In this book, educators Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, and Sandi Everlove show you how to make all group work productive group work: with all students engaged in the academic content and with each other, building valuable social skills, consolidating and extending their knowledge, and increasing their readiness for independent learning. The key to getting the most out of group work is to match research-based principles of group work with practical action. Classroom examples across grade levels and disciplines illustrate how to * Create interdependence and positive interaction * Model and guide group work * Design challenging and engaging group tasks * Ensure group and individual accountability * Assess and monitor students' developing understanding (and show them how to do the same) * Foster essential interpersonal skills, such as thinking with clarity, listening, giving useful feedback, and considering different points of view. The authors also address the most frequently asked questions about group work, including the best ways to form groups, accommodate mixed readiness levels, and introduce collaborative learning routines into the classroom. Throughout, they build a case that productive group work is both an essential part of a gradual release of responsibility instructional model and a necessary part of good teaching practice.

This book puts into practice what we've long known but often ignored: one picture is indeed worth a thousand words! The chapters offer a practical look at how images in all their many forms can be used to motivate reluctant readers.
-Donn

Language * Literacy * Content Reach Higher guides students to learn English, learn about the world, and learn about themselves through authentic content with a global perspective. Primary students develop the academic language skills and content knowledge they need to get an education in English. - Cross-curricular, six-level program showcases original fiction, science, and social studies content to develop English literacy skills. - Academic skill-building with phonics support develops students' understanding of different cultures while fostering independent learning. - Inquiry-based approach with a writing project in every unit develops critical thinkers and strong writers. - Integrated digital tools for every stage of teaching and learning are available on the Spark platform. - Read on Your Own phonics readers use fiction and non-fiction texts to reinforce the phonics and high-frequency words in Reach Higher through science and social studies content.

The most effective way to foster social and emotional skill development is make it a deliberate part of classroom instruction. In this quick reference guide for K-12 teachers, Nancy Frey, Dominique Smith, and Douglas Fisher introduce a new approach to SEL that shifts it from a standalone curriculum to its natural place as essential part of learning. They cover

• The 5 tenets of integrated social and emotional learning.
• The 33 SEL competencies teachers can target in the classroom.
• How to begin integrating SEL into your content instruction.

This guide's taxonomy of SEL fundamentals and practical ideas for fostering cognitive and emotional self-regulation, prosocial behavior, conflict resolution, decision making, and problem solving make it an empowering resource for all educators committed to teaching the whole child.

8.5 x 11 3-panel foldout guide (6 pages), laminated for extra durability and 3-hole-punched for binder storage.

In the few short years since tablets were introduced, they have become a popular addition to classrooms across all grade levels and content areas. By putting this device in the hands of students and teachers, we can grab hold of their interest, interact with content on a more personalized level, and monitor real-time learning. But how we use tablets in the classroom needs thoughtful planning to ensure that the technology actually improves the teaching and learning process. Nancy Frey, Doug Fisher, and Alex Gonzalez offer practical advice on how to effectively use tablets as part of the gradual release of responsibility from teacher to student. You'll learn how to ensure that tablets are integrated into high-quality instruction, including strategies for using tablets for modeling, guided instruction, collaborative learning, independent learning, and formative assessment. Filled with examples of teachers successfully using tablets in their classrooms, this resource will help you maximize the potential of tablet technology to facilitate student understanding.

Language * Literacy * Content Reach Higher guides students to learn English, learn about the world, and learn about themselves through authentic content with a global perspective. Primary students develop the academic language skills and content knowledge they need to get an education in English. - Cross-curricular, six-level program showcases original fiction, science, and social studies content to develop English literacy skills. - Academic skill-building with phonics support develops students' understanding of different cultures while fostering independent learning. - Inquiry-based approach with a writing project in every unit develops critical thinkers and strong writers. - Integrated digital tools for every stage of teaching and learning are available on the Spark platform. - Read on Your Own phonics readers use fiction and non-fiction texts to reinforce the phonics and high-frequency words in Reach Higher through science and social studies content.

Language * Literacy * Content Reach Higher guides students to learn English, learn about the world, and learn about themselves through authentic content with a global perspective. Primary students develop the academic language skills and content knowledge they need to get an education in English. - Cross-curricular, six-level program showcases original fiction, science, and social studies content to develop English literacy skills. - Academic skill-building with phonics support develops students' understanding of different cultures while fostering independent learning. - Inquiry-based approach with a writing project in every unit develops critical thinkers and strong writers. - Integrated digital tools for every stage of teaching and learning are available on the Spark platform. - Read on Your Own phonics readers use fiction and non-fiction texts to reinforce the phonics and high-frequency words in Reach Higher through science and social studies content.

Language * Literacy * Content Reach Higher guides students to learn English, learn about the world, and learn about themselves through authentic content with a global perspective. Primary students develop the academic language skills and content knowledge they need to get an education in English. - Cross-curricular, six-level program showcases original fiction, science, and social studies content to develop English literacy skills. - Academic skill-building with phonics support develops students' understanding of different cultures while fostering independent learning. - Inquiry-based approach with a writing project in every unit develops critical thinkers and strong writers. - Integrated digital tools for every stage of teaching and learning are available on the Spark platform. - Read on Your Own phonics readers use fiction and non-fiction texts to reinforce the phonics and high-frequency words in Reach Higher through science and social studies content.

Language * Literacy * Content Reach Higher guides students to learn English, learn about the world, and learn about themselves through authentic content with a global perspective. Primary students develop the academic language skills and content knowledge they need to get an education in English. - Cross-curricular, six-level program showcases original fiction, science, and social studies content to develop English literacy skills. - Academic skill-building with phonics support develops students' understanding of different cultures while fostering independent learning. - Inquiry-based approach with a writing project in every unit develops critical thinkers and strong writers. - Integrated digital tools for every stage of teaching and learning are available on the Spark platform. - Read on Your Own phonics readers use fiction and non-fiction texts to reinforce the phonics and high-frequency words in Reach Higher through science and social studies content.

Language * Literacy * Content Reach Higher guides students to learn English, learn about the world, and learn about themselves through authentic content with a global perspective. Primary students develop the academic language skills and content knowledge they need to get an education in English. - Cross-curricular, six-level program showcases original fiction, science, and social studies content to develop English literacy skills. - Academic skill-building with phonics support develops students' understanding of different cultures while fostering independent learning. - Inquiry-based approach with a writing project in every unit develops critical thinkers and strong writers. - Integrated digital tools for every stage of teaching and learning are available on the Spark platform. - Read on Your Own phonics readers use fiction and non-fiction texts to reinforce the phonics and high-frequency words in Reach Higher through science and social studies content.

Language * Literacy * Content Reach Higher guides students to learn English, learn about the world, and learn about themselves through authentic content with a global perspective. Primary students develop the academic language skills and content knowledge they need to get an education in English. - Cross-curricular, six-level program showcases original fiction, science, and social studies content to develop English literacy skills. - Academic skill-building with phonics support develops students' understanding of different cultures while fostering independent learning. - Inquiry-based approach with a writing project in every unit develops critical thinkers and strong writers. - Integrated digital tools for every stage of teaching and learning are available on the Spark platform. - Read on Your Own phonics readers use fiction and non-fiction texts to reinforce the phonics and high-frequency words in Reach Higher through science and social studies content.

Language * Literacy * Content Reach Higher guides students to learn English, learn about the world, and learn about themselves through authentic content with a global perspective. Primary students develop the academic language skills and content knowledge they need to get an education in English. - Cross-curricular, six-level program showcases original fiction, science, and social studies content to develop English literacy skills. - Academic skill-building with phonics support develops students' understanding of different cultures while fostering independent learning. - Inquiry-based approach with a writing project in every unit develops critical thinkers and strong writers. - Integrated digital tools for every stage of teaching and learning are available on the Spark platform. - Read on Your Own phonics readers use fiction and non-fiction texts to reinforce the phonics and high-frequency words in Reach Higher through science and social studies content.

This popular guide offers a wealth of innovative, research-based strategies for making K-12 classrooms the best learning environments they can be. Easy-to-implement best practices are presented for establishing a classroom management plan, organizing procedures and materials, building a respectful community, fostering peer collaboration, and engaging students in interactive learning. Each of the 50 strategies includes step-by-step instructions, the amount of time needed to implement, and the recommended grade level. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, the book features ready-to-use reproducibles.

Students in the 21st century still need to develop traditional reading and writing skills, and they must also learn how to use technology for communicating and collaborating in new ways. This book offers specific teaching strategies for developing student literacy in using search engines efficiently, evaluating information found on websites, avoiding plagiarism, communicating with a wide audience, working collaboratively, and creating multimedia products.

Language * Literacy * Content Reach Higher guides students to learn English, learn about the world, and learn about themselves through authentic content with a global perspective. Primary students develop the academic language skills and content knowledge they need to get an education in English. - Cross-curricular, six-level program showcases original fiction, science, and social studies content to develop English literacy skills. - Academic skill-building with phonics support develops students' understanding of different cultures while fostering independent learning. - Inquiry-based approach with a writing project in every unit develops critical thinkers and strong writers. - Integrated digital tools for every stage of teaching and learning are available on the Spark platform. - Read on Your Own phonics readers use fiction and non-fiction texts to reinforce the phonics and high-frequency words in Reach Higher through science and social studies content.