Empower your students to succeed and create a culture of engaged learning in your classroom

Teach Like a Champion 3.0 is the long-awaited update to Doug Lemov's highly regarded guide to the craft of teaching. This book teaches you how to create a positive and productive classroom that encourages student engagement, trust, respect, accountability, and excellence. In this edition, you'll find new and updated teaching techniques, the latest evidence from cognitive science and culturally responsive teaching practices, and an expanded companion video collection. Learn how to build students' background knowledge, move learning into long-term memory, and connect your teaching with the curriculum content for tangible improvement in learning outcomes.

Teach Like a Champion 3.0 includes:

• An introductory chapter on mental models for teachers to use to guide their decision-making in the classroom.
• A brand new chapter on Lesson Preparation.
• 10 new classroom techniques.
• Updated and revised versions of all the techniques readers know and use.
• A brand new set of exemplar online videos, including more than a dozen longer keystone videos which show how teachers combine and balance technique over a stretch of 8 to 10 minutes of teaching.
• Extensive discussion of research in social and cognitive science to support and guide the use of techniques.
• Additional online resources and support.

Read this powerful Teach Like a Champion update to discover the techniques that leading teachers are using to put students on the path to success.

An ASCD Bestseller!

In this stirring follow-up to the award-winning Fostering Resilient Learners, Kristin Van Marter Souers and Pete Hall take you to the next level of trauma-invested practice. To get there, they explain, educators need to build a nest--a positive learning environment shaped by three new Rs of education: relationship, responsibility, and regulation.

Drawing from their extensive experience working with schools, students, and families throughout the country, the authors

Explain how to create a culture of safety in which everyone feels valued, important, and capable of learning.

Describe the four areas of need--emotional, relational, physical, and control--that drive student behaviors and show how to meet these needs with interventions framed around the new three Rs.

Illustrate trauma-invested practices in action through real scenarios that identify students' unmet needs, examine the situation from five stakeholder perspectives, and suggest interventions to support students and their families.

Offer opportunities to challenge your beliefs and develop deeper and different ways of thinking about your role in your students' lives.

Educators have a unique opportunity to influence students' learning, attitudes, and futures. This book will invigorate your practice and equip you to empower those you serve--whatever their personal histories.

The Fundamental Five: The Formula for Quality Instruction, shares with teachers and school leaders the five practices that every teacher can, and should, use to dramatically improve instuctional rigor and relevance, and student performance.

The transformation of schooling from a twelve-year jail sentence to freedom to learn.

John Taylor Gatto's Weapons of Mass Instruction , now available in paperback, focuses on mechanisms of traditional education which cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning as a byproduct of rote-memorization drills. Gatto's earlier book, Dumbing Us Down , introduced the now-famous expression of the title into the common vernacular. Weapons of Mass Instruction adds another chilling metaphor to the brief against conventional schooling.

Gatto demonstrates that the harm school inflicts is rational and deliberate. The real function of pedagogy, he argues, is to render the common population manageable. To that end, young people must be conditioned to rely upon experts, to remain divided from natural alliances and to accept disconnections from their own lived experiences. They must at all costs be discouraged from developing self-reliance and independence.

Escaping this trap requires a strategy Gatto calls open source learning which imposes no artificial divisions between learning and life. Through this alternative approach our children can avoid being indoctrinated-only then can they achieve self-knowledge, good judgment, and courage.

This title is a greatly expanded volume of the original Art and Science of Teaching, offering a competency-based education framework for substantive change based on Dr. Robert Marzano's 50 years of education research. While the previous model focused on teacher outcomes, the new version places focus on student learning outcomes, with research-based instructional strategies teachers can use to help students grasp the information and skills transferred through their instruction. Throughout the book, Marzano details the elements of three overarching categories of teaching, which define what must happen to optimize student learning: students must receive feedback, get meaningful content instruction, and have their basic psychological needs met.

Gain research-based instructional strategies and teaching methods that drive student success:

• Explore instructional strategies that correspond to each of the 43 elements of The New Art and Science of Teaching, which have been carefully designed to maximize student engagement and achievement.
• Use ten design questions and a general framework to help determine which classroom strategies you should use to foster student learning.
• Analyze the behavioral evidence that proves the strategies of an element are helping learners reach their peak academic success.
• Study the state of the modern standards movement and what changes must be made in K-12 education to ensure high levels of learning for all.
• Download free reproducible scales specific to the elements in The New Art and Science of Teaching.

Contents:
Chapter 1: Providing and Communicating Clear Learning Goals
Chapter 2: Conducting Assessment
Chapter 3: Conducting Direct Instruction Lessons
Chapter 4: Practicing and Deepening Lessons
Chapter 5: Implementing Knowledge Application Lessons
Chapter 6: Using Strategies That Appear in All Types of Lessons
Chapter 7: Using Engagement Strategies
Chapter 8: Implementing Rules and Procedures
Chapter 9: Building Relationships
Chapter 10: Communicating High Expectations
Chapter 11: Making System Changes

Students are becoming more academically and culturally diverse, making it more important than ever to shift away from a one-size-fits-all approach and toward differentiated instruction. The second edition of this best-selling book will help you create truly effective, brain-friendly classrooms for all learners. The authors share an array of updated differentiated instruction examples, scenarios, and exercises, as well as the latest educational psychology research from cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and pedagogy.

Learn more about teaching diverse learners using brain-based learning strategies:

• Explore how the brain learns and approaches to differentiated instruction.
• Sharpen your knowledge of developmental cognitive neuroscience and educational psychology to teach the best content in the best possible way.
• Use the knowledge of educational neuroscience (neuroeducation) to benefit the students you teach.
• Design and implement strategies for effective differentiated instruction.
• Create a positive and productive learning environment that supports diversity in the classroom.

A joint publication of ASCD and Solution Tree

Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Nonnegotiables of Effective Differentiation
Chapter 2: Mindset, Learning Environment, and Differentiation
Chapter 3: Curriculum and Differentiation
Chapter 4: Classroom Assessment and Differentiation
Chapter 5: Differentiating in Response to Student Readiness
Chapter 6: Differentiating in Response to Student Interest
Chapter 7: Differentiating in Response to Student Learning Profile
Chapter 8: Managing a Differentiated Classroom
References and Resources
Index

Advice for running a chaos-free classroom where middle and high school students can really learn. You may be able to design creative, compelling lessons. But if your classroom is chaotic or its inhabitants are disrespectful, YOUR STUDENTS will not be learning well. And YOU will be anywhere from dissatisfied to miserable!

With this book, educators will recognize that it doesn't take better or different curriculum, more staff, or more dollars to bring about amazing and sustained transformations in classrooms and schools. Instilling inner wealth in students takes only a few minutes of intervention each school day. The result: more productive and better behaved students, more productive classrooms and schools, and a better future for each child.

Classroom management is traditionally a matter of encouraging good behavior and discouraging bad by doling out rewards and punishments. But studies show that when educators empower students to address and correct misbehavior among themselves, positive results are longer lasting and more wide reaching. In Better Than Carrots or Sticks, longtime educators and best-selling authors Dominique Smith, Douglas Fisher, and Nancy Frey provide a practical blueprint for creating a cooperative and respectful classroom climate in which students and teachers work through behavioral issues together. After a comprehensive overview of the roots of the restorative practices movement in schools, the authors explain how to

• Establish procedures and expectations for student behavior that encourage the development of positive interpersonal skills;
• Develop a nonconfrontational rapport with even the most challenging students; and
• Implement conflict resolution strategies that prioritize relationship building and mutual understanding over finger-pointing and retribution.

Rewards and punishments may help to maintain order in the short term, but they're at best superficially effective and at worst counterproductive. This book will prepare teachers at all levels to ensure that their classrooms are welcoming, enriching, and constructive environments built on collective respect and focused on student achievement.

Quick, easy, specific steps that make a difference in teaching and learning

Busy school leaders need an easy-to-apply resource to increase teacher effectiveness quickly and efficiently. This book shows principals and staff developers how to improve teaching school-wide through high-impact inservices lasting only ten minutes--incorporated easily into weekly staff meetings. Written by popular education consultants Todd Whitaker and Annette Breaux, this important book offers 40 teacher-tested, mini-workshops that can improve teaching in every classroom. The book covers a range of topics, from behavior challenges and parent engagement to motivating students and making lessons meaningful.

• Offers school leaders a proven plan to help every teacher improve on a weekly basis by conducting simple 10-minute inservice workshops
• Offers staff developers, new teacher induction coordinators, mentors, and Professional Learning Communities ideas for effective training sessions
• Each of the 40 mini-training sessions offered include tips on how to introduce the topic, sample scripts to follow, and implementation activities to ensure lasting learning
• Whitaker and Breaux are bestselling education authors with a proven track record improving teacher effectiveness

This handy resource contains a simple and effective method for improving teacher effectiveness school wide.

Staying A Head is a book about overcoming the stresses of school leadership. The book identifies key strategies that school leaders must adopt if they are to rise successfully above the challenges of their roles and maintain their ability to lead and inspire others. This book is wise, timely and very well needed by the profession; it is reassuring, re-affirming and motivating. It's so rare to have the human experience of being a school leader really explored in a perceptive and emotionally intelligent, but equally incisive and challenging way. Kathryn Pugh, Head teacher, The St Marylebone CE School, London Viv Grant has written a book of deep honesty and authenticity. She has opened the closed world that many school leaders inhabit. But rather than leave the world 'exposed she offers new and experienced school leaders practical and effective methods that nurture inner understanding to bring out the best in others and foster organisational transformation. I highly recommend this book to anyone in, or aspiring to senior leadership. Mike Jones, Head teacher, South Failsworth Primary School, Oldham Staying A Head is a must read book for those school leaders who are brave enough to admit that they are not super human and that in their endeavours to shape better futures for our children, it is OK to admit to self doubt, worry and anxiety and to ask for help. It is for school leaders who want to know how to: - Let go of the stresses of their roles - Develop greater emotional resilience - Uncover solutions for helping them to achieve greater personal and professional fulfilment - Maintain their moral compass and stay connected to their purpose - Achieve their vision without sacrificing their own health and personal well being Six Reasons to Read Staying A Head - Because our children need you - Because you have a vision - Because you need to know how to deliver your vision without sacrificing your own well being - Because you need to be the leader you want to be - Because you have your own unique story. You need to be the author of the next chapters and not other people - Because you haven't got this far in your career to give up now

Today's teachers face a daunting challenge: how to ensure a positive school experience for their students, many of whom carry the burden of adverse childhood experiences, such as abuse, poverty, divorce, abandonment, and numerous other serious social issues. Spurred by her personal experience and extensive exploration of brain-based learning, author Marilee Sprenger explains how brain science--what we know about how the brain works--can be applied to social-emotional learning. Specifically, she addresses how to

- Build strong, caring relationships with students to give them a sense of belonging.
- Teach and model empathy, so students feel understood and can better understand others.
- Awaken students' self-awareness, including the ability to name their own emotions, have accurate self-perceptions, and display self-confidence and self-efficacy.
- Help students manage their behavior through impulse control, stress management, and other positive skills.
- Improve students' social awareness and interaction with others.
- Teach students how to handle relationships, including with people whose backgrounds differ from their own.
- Guide students in making responsible decisions.

Offering clear, easy-to-understand explanations of brain activity and dozens of specific strategies for all grade levels, Social-Emotional Learning and the Brain is an essential guide to creating supportive classroom environments and improving outcomes for all our students.

We differentiate instruction to honor the reality of the students we teach. They are energetic and outgoing. They are quiet and curious. They are confident and self-doubting. They are interested in a thousand things and deeply immersed in a particular topic. They are academically advanced and kids in the middle and struggling due to cognitive, emotional, economic, or sociological challenges. More of them than ever speak a different language at home. They learn at different rates and in different ways. And they all come together in our academically diverse classrooms.

Written as a practical guide for teachers, this expanded third edition of Carol Ann Tomlinson's groundbreaking work covers the fundamentals of differentiation and provides additional guidelines and new strategies for how to go about it. You'll learn

• What differentiation is and why it's essential
• How to set up the flexible and supportive learning environment that promotes success
• How to manage a differentiated classroom
• How to plan lessons differentiated by readiness, interest, and learning profile
• How to differentiate content, process, and products
• How to prepare students, parents, and yourself for the challenge of differentiation

First published in 1995 as How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed-Ability Classrooms, this new edition reflects evolving best practices in education, the experiences of practitioners throughout the United States and around the world, and Tomlinson's continuing thinking about how to help each and every student access challenging, high-quality curriculum; engage in meaning-rich learning experiences; and feel at home in a school environment that fits.

The second edition of the bestseller Taking Action delves deeper into how educators can leverage the PLC at Work(R) process to create a highly effective multitiered system of supports. This step-by-step guide defines--tier by tier--the essential actions of the guiding coalition, teacher teams, and intervention team. New recommendations and tools are included to target assessments, engage students, and address resistance.

Use this book to:

• Close the achievement gaps exacerbated by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
• Leverage proven Tier 1 instructional practices to provide first-best teaching and engage students in learning
• Understand the critical roles and responsibilities of the guiding coalition, teacher teams, and site intervention team
• Create schoolwide, balanced assessment and grading practices that promote student learning and engagement
• Employ crucial skills and tools to address common leadership obstacles, such as staff resistance to change

Contents:
Introduction: The Urgency of the Moment
Chapter 1: The RTI at Work Pyramid
Part One: Tier 1 Essential Actions
Chapter 2: A Culture of Collective Responsibility
Chapter 3: Tier 1 Teacher Team Essential Actions
Chapter 4: Tier 1 Guiding Coalition Essential Actions
Part Two: Tier 2 Essential Actions
Chapter 5: Tier 2 Teacher Team Essential Actions
Chapter 6: Tier 2 Guiding Coalition Essential Actions
Part Three: Tier 3 Essential Actions
Chapter 7: Tier 3 Guiding Coalition Essential Actions
Chapter 8: Tier 3 Intervention Team Essential Actions
Epilogue: Get Started . . . Then Get Better
References and Resources
Index

The secret to every positive learning environment? Belonging. When students feel that they belong in their school and classroom, commitment to learning goes up and behavioral disruptions subside. And when teachers embrace an SEL-infused approach to classroom management that helps every student feel valued, safe, and competent, belonging soars.

We Belong offers 50 targeted strategies to increase students' sense of belonging and reinforce the habits that support classroom harmony and learning success. Authors and award-winning educators Laurie Barron and Patti Kinney explore the dynamic partnership of belonging and classroom management and share specific ways to

* Build authentic, positive relationships with students and among students
* Create spaces that feel physically and emotionally safe for all
* Teach and foster social-emotional competence
* Increase student engagement and motivation
* Foster a sustaining sense of community

Covering a range of key topics--from behavioral expectations to conflict resolution to more effective collaboration--this practical guide for elementary and secondary teachers includes downloadable forms and templates to support strategy implementation. Use it to revisit your priorities and reshape your practices so that all students in your classroom can say of themselves and their peers, We belong.

Part of The New Art and Science of Teaching series

Rely on this comprehensive guide to help you implement the teaching methods of Dr. Robert J. Marzano's The New Art and Science of Teaching framework, which includes over 330 specific instructional strategies, 43 instructional elements, and 10 design questions. Each chapter outlines actionable steps, tips, and examples of implementation that will set you (and your students) up to succeed with this powerful framework in your classroom.

Added insight into Marzano's research-based instructional strategies and teaching methods:

• Learn the history of Robert J. Marzano's framework of teaching methods first laid out in his best-selling The Art and Science of Teaching.
• Thoroughly examine the updated The New Art and Science of Teaching framework for competency-based education.
• Explore numerous instructional strategies that correspond to each of the 43 elements of The New Art and Science of Teaching.
• Acquire examples that will assist in the realization of the instructional strategies discussed throughout the book.
• Discover strategies that will improve both the mental and physical environment of the classroom to better support student success.
• Reimagine how to develop relationships with students and generate student engagement. Access free reproducibles that will assist in implementing The New Art and Science of Teaching framework in classrooms.

A joint publication of ASCD and Solution Tree

Contents:
Introduction

Part I: Feedback
Chapter 1: Providing and Communicating Clear Learning Goals
Chapter 2: Using Assessments

Part II: Content
Chapter 3: Conducting Direct Instruction Lessons
Chapter 4: Conducting Practicing and Deepening Lessons
Chapter 5: Conducting Knowledge Application Lessons
Chapter 6: Using Strategies That Appear in All Types of Lessons

Part III: Context
Chapter 7: Using Engagement Strategies
Chapter 8: Implementing Rules and Procedures
Chapter 9: Building Relationships
Chapter 10: Communicating High Expectations

Appendix
Reproducibles
References and Resources

Books in The New Art and Science of Teaching series:

• The New Art and Science of Teaching
• The Handbook for the New Art and Science of Teaching
• The New Art and Science of Teaching Reading
• The New Art and Science of Teaching Writing
• The New Art and Science of Classroom Assessment

A popular classroom assessment tool, this supplement is widely used by pre-service and in-service teachers to assess or test students' reading progress. It also serves as a practical guide for reading specialists and as a focus for in-service workshops. Unique to this book are its K-12 scope and its abundant strategies (including forms) for assessing students' vocabulary, phonics, and comprehension of text.

TEAM stands for Together Everyone Achieves More!

Share this story with kids in grades K though 6 before assigning the next group project! Strengthen social and emotional learning and help kids learn to interact with each other in positive and constructive ways. Four simple steps each for using the social skills of teamwork and sharing are presented in rhyme so they are easy for listeners to recall when needed.

RJ's having another bad day. His teacher wants him to work with Bernice, Frankie, and Norma on a report about Egyptian mummies. After a frustrating school day with his team, RJ goes home to find only one cookie left in the jar - and his mom makes him share it with his sister! With the help of his coach, RJ learns that working as a team and sharing are skills needed not just on the soccer field, but in school and at home too!

This is the fourth storybook in Julia Cook's BEST ME I Can Be! book series, which teaches children that social skills can make home life happier and school more successful.

The BEST ME I Can Be! book series also includes:

• The WORST Day of My Life EVER!
• I Just Don't Like the Sound of NO!
• SORRY, I Forgot to Ask!
• I Just Want to Do It MY WAY!
• THANKS FOR THE FEEDBACK... (I THINK?)
• I Can't Believe You SAID That!

A practical guide to the ins and outs of building, maintaining, and restoring positive and productive relationships in schools.

Relationships are at the core of education. When teachers are intentional about all of their relationships, they can address burnout, increase their own effectiveness, and improve the learning environment for their students.

In this thoughtful book, educators Michael Creekmore and Nita Creekmore introduce the build, maintain, and restore approach to relationships, focusing on six key types of relationships that K-12 teachers need to navigate in a school:

* Teacher-to-self, highlighting the importance of self-care to ensure mental, emotional, and physical well-being.
* Teacher-to-student, focusing on how strong student-teacher relationships can change the trajectory of a student's path.
* Teacher-to-family, showing how a teacher's relationship with a student's family is essential to the student's school experience.
* Teacher-to-teacher, addressing the critical and complex nature of relationships between teachers in teams.
* Teacher-to-administrator, emphasizing the need for authentic relationships with those who are charged with observing and guiding teachers' growth in the profession.
* Teacher-to-staff, discussing the value of relationships with support staff and ways these relationships can be built.

Each chapter includes helpful guidance, tools, reflective questions, and ways you can build, maintain, and restore your relationships. Every Connection Matters will help you improve your daily connections and interactions at school--both in person and virtually--to build, maintain, and restore meaningful relationships that make a difference for you and your students.