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Embrace a transformational approach to educational leadership. In this powerful EduFable(TM), Brad Johnson shares the story of a principal and custodian who discover that true leadership is built on connection. This story-centered guide reveals 10 transformational principles rooted in presence, trust, and relational intelligence. Use the included study guide to build lasting leadership and leave your entire school community better than you found it.Current and aspiring K 12 leaders using this book can: Reevaluate their leadership expectations with a stronger focus on service and team buildingConsider how engaged presence builds trust and fosters connectionLearn how noticing and acknowledging others contributions strengthen team rapportUnderstand the balance between leading from the front and allowing others to shineValue the leadership capacity of all school employees, including behind-the-scenes staffContents:PrologueChapter 1: Just Keeping the Seat WarmChapter 2: The First CupChapter 3: The ListChapter 4: A Paper JamChapter 5: The ThermostatChapter 6: No Such Thing as a Team of OneChapter 7: The Strength in the RoomChapter 8: A Moment of ChangeChapter 9: Beyond RecognitionChapter 10: In the Middle of It AllChapter 11: Leaders Worth FollowingChapter 12: Plans and SchedulesChapter 13: Stories in Every CornerChapter 14: The Quiet OnesChapter 15: Adding ValueChapter 16: Balance and BoundariesChapter 17: R.Q. > I.Q. Chapter 18: Protecting the CultureChapter 19: Showing Up With a BroomChapter 20: The Day the Rhythm BrokeChapter 21: When to Speak, When to SweepChapter 22: Not a PlaceholderChapter 23: The Lead CustodianChapter 24: What You BuildChapter 25: Better Than They Found ItCoffee With the Custodian Leadership Study Guide

By integrating classroom formative assessment practices into daily activities, educators can substantially increase student engagement and the rate of student learning. The second edition of this best-selling book by Dylan Wiliam presents new research, insights, and formative assessment strategies teachers can immediately apply in their classrooms. Updated examples and templates are included to help teachers elicit evidence of learning, provide meaningful feedback, and empower students to take ownership of their education.

Implement effective assessment strategies in the classroom by:

Reviewing the five key strategies of formative assessment in the classroom.Learning more than 50 practical techniques for classroom formative assessment.Examining research that states classroom formative assessment is the most impactful and cost-effective approach to raising student academic achievement.Exploring the use of classroom questioning, learning intentions and success criteria, feedback, collaborative and cooperative learning, and self-regulated learning to engineer effective learning environments.Discovering new insights into the current states of education and employment, and a discussion of how these changes affect student performance and teacher practice.

By integrating classroom formative assessment practices into daily activities, educators can substantially increase student engagement and the rate of student learning. The second edition of this best-selling book by Dylan Wiliam presents new research, insights, and formative assessment strategies teachers can immediately apply in their classrooms. Updated examples and templates are included to help teachers elicit evidence of learning, provide meaningful feedback, and empower students to take ownership of their education.

Implement effective assessment strategies in the classroom by:

Reviewing the five key strategies of formative assessment in the classroom.Learning more than 50 practical techniques for classroom formative assessment.Examining research that states classroom formative assessment is the most impactful and cost-effective approach to raising student academic achievement.Exploring the use of classroom questioning, learning intentions and success criteria, feedback, collaborative and cooperative learning, and self-regulated learning to engineer effective learning environments.Discovering new insights into the current states of education and employment, and a discussion of how these changes affect student performance and teacher practice.

Changes for the Second Edition:

Over 30 percent new content including new research, techniques, examples, and templatesNew insights into the current state of education and how these changes affect student performance and teacher practiceA deeper discussion of educational neuroscience, including memory studies and dual-pathway theory

Contents:Chapter 1: Discovering Why Educational Achievement MattersChapter 2: Making the Case for Formative AssessmentChapter 3: Clarifying, Sharing, and Understanding Learning Intentions and Success CriteriaChapter 4: Eliciting Evidence of Learners'' AchievementChapter 5: Providing Feedback That Moves Learning ForwardChapter 6: Activating Students as Instructional Resources for One AnotherChapter 7: Activating Students as Owners of Their Own Learning

Make the transition from traditional, whole-group reading instruction to the 21st century classroom by integrating three innovations that will dramatically improve elementary reading instruction: RTI, differentiated instruction, and technology. Detailed explanations, helpful case studies, and recommendations of current technologies bring these ideas to life.

Benefits

Understand the importance of students’ vocabulary development and ways educators at the classroom, school, and district levels can positively impact vocabulary building.Learn how to develop effective literacy leadership teams to foster a culture of vocabulary acquisition before implementing instructional strategies.Explore digital tools and how to use them to support word learning in interactive ways.Discover instructional strategies for teaching vocabulary to elementary students, secondary students, special education students, and English learners.Explore vocabulary word classification systems and methods for selecting vocabulary words to include in direct instruction.Access activities, recommended books, and other resources that support the three tiers of vocabulary instruction.

In Blended Vocabulary for K–12 Classrooms: Harnessing the Power of Digital Tools and Direct Instruction, authors Kimberly A. Tyson and Angela B. Peery note the gap in vocabulary knowledge and instruction that pervades K–12 classrooms and illustrate why it is vital for elementary and secondary students to gain effective vocabulary instruction to achieve at high levels.

Created for teachers, administrators, instructional coaches, and literacy teams, this resource outlines a research-based model that will help you ensure English learners, general education students, and special education students master tiered vocabulary. With greater understanding of how to teach vocabulary effectively and incorporate digital tools, you can develop a blended approach to word learning that makes a significant impact on achievement.

Contents

Chapter 1: A Culture of Word Learning

Chapter 2: A New Model for Effective Vocabulary Instruction

Chapter 3: Methods for Classifying and Selecting Vocabulary Words

Chapter 4: Effective Instruction and Assessment

Chapter 5: Vocabulary Strategies for Elementary Students

Chapter 6: Vocabulary Strategies for Secondary Students

Chapter 7: Vocabulary Strategies for Special Populations

Appendix A: Digital Tools That Support Vocabulary and Word Learning

Appendix B: Suggested Books Containing Tier Two Vocabulary Words for Primary and Intermediate Grades

Appendix C: Annotated Bibliography of Vocabulary Books to Integrate Into Word Learning

Utilize technology to put students at the center of learning. This book shows educators how to incorporate students’ personal technology tools (cell phones, iPads, and laptops) into instruction. BYOD allows students to be active participants in their learning and helps teachers give them an authentic education that equips them with the skills required to be college, career, and citizenship ready.

Set the foundation for a successful, sustainable school turnaround. Designed for school leadership, district administration, and teacher leaders, Flip This School presents a framework to revitalize underperforming and turnaround schools. Throughout the resource, authors John F. Eller and Sheila A. Eller detail practical strategies for planning school improvement efforts and collaborating with the schools existing staff and faculty to initiate a complete school transformation.

This book will guide educational leadership in planning successful school turnaround:

Identify the unique needs of your school, and learn how to develop a school improvement plan with the best methods to address present conditions.Understand the skill set needed for effectively leading school turnaround efforts.Gain strategies for developing a data-gathering plan, and recognize the ways in which data is helpful for successful turnaround schools.Examine the role of districts in the school reform and turnaround process.Consider how to improve school culture and provide opportunities for professional growth for teachers.Learn how to effectively manage change as well as understand how teacher leadership teams contribute to school improvement planning and the turnaround process.

Contents:Introduction: Understanding the Foundations of School TurnaroundChapter 1: Assessing and Developing Your Leadership SkillsChapter 2: Gathering Extensive DataChapter 3: Gaining Commitment for Resources and SupportChapter 4: Developing a Positive Climate of CollaborationChapter 5: Building Capacity for GrowthChapter 6: Successfully Managing ChangeChapter 7: Implementing Structures and Practices for SuccessReferences and Resources

Winner: Association of Educational Publishers 2009 Distinguished Achievement Award

Finalist: Association of Educational Publishers 2009 Golden Lamp Award

 Are there students in your classroom who have hit the reading wall? Studies indicate comprehension regresses in many students once they reach middle school. Teachers need the right resources in their classrooms for engaging students in reading. This book is a veritable encyclopedia of literacy strategies secondary teachers can apply to all content areas immediately. It integrates key strategies, research from top literacy experts, and proven intervention practices.

Benefits:

Gain access to the most relevant research on literacy and its application in the classroom.Employ powerful tools to aid reflection and the implementation of new strategies.Discover over 50 strategies for engaging adolescent learners, empowering strategic learning, building comprehension, developing vocabulary, and writing to learn.Access over two dozen reproducibles for teachers and students.

Turn parents into partners with practical guidelines and dialogue examples that will open the door to better communication and collaboration. These strategies for creating positive parental relationships will lead to a more positive, effective classroom and additional support for your efforts.

What can organizations do to create changes that are both profound and enduring? This anthology explores why traditional change strategies have failed and examines constructive alternatives. International experts prove successful change can be a realistic goal. Real examples of pilot projects, model schools, and other groundbreaking endeavors illustrate precisely how theory translates into practice.

Outstanding leadership in a professional learning community requires practice and patience. Simply trying harder will not yield results; leaders must proactively train to get better at the skills that matter. This book offers a framework to focus time, energy, and effort on five key disciplines. Included are reflection exercises to help readers find their own path toward effective PLC leadership.

Learn a four-step research-based program for differentiating instruction based on the cultural needs, beliefs, and values of diverse learners. The authors show you how to build teacher background knowledge; plan for differentiation; and differentiate context, content, process, product, and assessment. This book provides an opportunity for the education community to engage students at risk whom our schools have often failed.

This guide drills deep to deliver the nuts and bolts of RTI. Clear examples of effective implementation include systems and checklists to assess RTI progress. Learn specific strategies for realigning your school system. Respond to the needs of struggling students by building pyramids of intervention, solving problems in collaborative teams, monitoring student progress through data, and employing customized solutions to help every unique learner succeed.

This book shares the compelling story of how a team of visionary educators turned the traditional education system inside out and created a dramatically different approach to schooling that would serve every child. The result is the Re-Inventing Schools Coalition (RISC) Approach to Schooling, a new paradigm in education that can be replicated anywhere, by anyone, for any student, under any set of circumstances.

This anthology brings the ideas and recommendations of many of the world’s education leaders into one resource that illustrates the many perspectives on effective assessment design and implementation. From involving students in the assessment process to ensuring accuracy and applying assessments to English learners and students with special needs, you will find compelling insights and proven strategies.

The book that launched a school improvement movement offers research-based recommendations drawn from the best practices found in schools nationwide for continuously improving school performance. Coming from the perspectives of both a distinguished dean of education and one of America’s most widely acclaimed practitioners, this resource provides specific, practical how-to information about transforming schools into results-oriented PLCs.

This anthology presents the recommendations of education leaders, and each chapter contributes to a sound conceptual framework and offers specific strategies for developing PLCs. These leaders have found common ground in expressing their belief in the power of PLCs although clear differences emerge regarding their perspectives on the most effective strategy for making PLCs the norm in North America.

Get answers to the most common question posed by educators seeking to build and sustain a PLC: Where do we begin? Access a solid conceptual framework and concrete illustrations of how schools operate when they are functioning as PLCs. Two case studies examine schools that have made the transformation, showcasing district- and curriculum-level efforts to focus on student learning.

This book is a comprehensive and practical guide for reconnecting with discouraged students and reawakening their excitement and enthusiasm for learning. With proven strategies from the classroom, Dr. Mendler identifies five effective processes you can use to reawaken motivation in students who aren’t prepared, don’t care, and won’t work. These processes include emphasizing effort, creating hope, respecting power, building relationships, and expressing enthusiasm.

This 10th-anniversary sequel to the authors’ best-selling book Professional Learning Communities at Work™: Best Practices for Enhancing Student Achievement merges research, practice, and passion. The most extensive, practical, and authoritative PLC resource to date, it goes further than ever before into best practices for deep implementation, explores the commitment/consensus issue, and celebrates successes of educators who are making the journey.

Accessible language and compelling stories illustrate how RTI is most effective when built on the Professional Learning Communities at Work™ process. Written by award-winning educators from successful PLC schools, this book demonstrates how to create three tiers of interventions—from basic to intensive—to address student learning gaps. You will understand what a successful program looks like, and the many reproducible forms and activities will help your team understand how to make RTI work in your school.

This book is a teachers’ and administrators’ guide for implementing and sustaining an educational system that ensures students are taught and learn what is required by benchmarks, assessments, and state standards, and to the learning needs of each individual student. This is accomplished by providing a tight alignment between the intended, taught, and tested curricula.

Help staff focus on results, and implement SMART (Strategic and specific, Measurable, Attainable, Results based, and Time bound) goals to transform your school into a place where every student meets or exceeds standards. The authors present four success stories from real SMART schools and several frameworks for adult and student goal setting that lead to real results.

Get an authentic view of academic underachievement, apathy, and rage among America’s Black and Hispanic youth. Through a deeper understanding of the cultural backgrounds of these students, you’ll learn powerful strategies to deal with discipline problems, as well as strategies for keeping parents involved. Become an empowered Merchant of Hope armed with positive strategies for reaching these students.

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.

In a culture of shared leadership, the administrator’s role is more important than ever. How do you maintain the right balance of loose and tight leadership? How do you establish profound, lasting trust? What principles strengthen principal leadership? This book answers these questions and more in compelling chapters that deliver the strategies and heartfelt inspiration essential to being the best administrator you can be.

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.

Creativity is crucial in helping students achieve academic and professional success. The authors argue that creativity is not spontaneous or inborn but a process that can be cultivated by utilizing seven “virtues” that inspire creativity: curiosity, versatility, synthesis, discipline, collaboration, experimentation, and tenacity. Ideal for team study and discussion, the book includes assessment rubrics as well as sample activities and practical guidelines to encourage and facilitate creativity. With The Myth of the Muse, K–12 educators can put creativity at the very center of their curriculum.

Benefits

Engage in conversations about how and why creativity is an important quality for approaching future global challenges.Consider the crucial elements of creativity.Challenge misperceptions and preconceptions about creativity.Explore the great works of creative individuals throughout history.Examine practices educators and policymakers should avoid and emulate in nurturing creativity.Reflect creatively using prompts at the end of each chapter.

Contents

Introduction: The Creativity Imperative

Creativity MythsCuriosityVersatilitySynthesisDisciplineCollaborationExperimentationTenacity

Appendix A: Creativity Assessment

Appendix B: Guidelines for Leaders

As states adopt more rigorous academic standards, schools must define how special education fits into standards-aligned curricula, instruction, and assessment. Utilizing PLC practices, general and special educators must develop collaborative partnerships in order to close the achievement gap and maximize learning for all. The authors encourage all educators to take collective responsibility in improving outcomes for students with special needs.