In this practical guide, Angie Barrett shares her tried and tested teaching strategies in six easy steps. You’ll find a game plan for success, personal and colleague-shared experiences, tips and tricks, as well as troubleshooting through real classroom examples.
Build a classroom landscape that includes students sharing ideas and thinking, exploring ways of knowing, and integrating all methods and modes of learning. With strong student-to-student mentoring, children gain new ways of looking at learning, problem-solving, challenges, and the world around them.
Over 40 practical lessons that guide teachers to confront racism and discrimination, and that lead young people to take action for inclusion and tolerance.
The literacy fundamentals school leaders need to understand and support teachers and students. This book empowers principals to inspire and lead schools where reading, writing, and literacy flourish.
Week-by-week, step-by-step skill progressions and model lesson plans for teaching phonics in K–3 classrooms. This blueprint to effective reading instruction includes tools for easy classroom use: high-impact activities, word lists, phoneme-grapheme grids, word ladders, and more.
60 practical lessons that guide students to write in a variety of forms. Organized alphabetically, they give students opportunities to read books that can inspire their writing and to write for a variety of purposes.
This guidebook for educators—whether professional teachers or home-school parents—focuses on the importance of including mindfulness as part of the curriculum. Mindfulness helps children understand the power of choice, encourages them to recognize their feelings, and increases their ability to stay focused.
Mathematizing Student Thinking outlines an approach to mathematics instruction that emphasizes making connections to the lived experiences of students. It supports teachers in providing students with problems that are meaningful, engaging, and purposeful and support students as independent, critical thinkers.
This practical book provides an in-depth understanding of student behavior, along with many effective, evidence-based strategies that support positive change. Although there is no one-size-fits-all answer, when these strategies are applied consistently they will have a profound effect on classroom behavior that will last.
Adrienne Gear continues the journey of effective literacy instruction with a focus on poetry. Combining writing, reading and oral language skills, this book will provide teachers with a wealth of engaging lessons to bring the power of poetry into their classrooms.
A grab-bag of joyful activities teachers can use to involve students in digital learning as they encourage interaction and inclusion. Simple ways to easily align student learning objectives and skills to the virtual environment.
Cultivate the skills students need to succeed and find the motivation that will make them want to read.
Find the unique strengths and skills in every student, and integrate teaching autistic students into everyday learning.
A grab-bag of ready-to-use strategies and activities to inspire students and nurture lifelong readers.
How to teach and foster classroom learning experiences that will assist students in retaining and applying math concepts in the long term.
Everything teachers need to connect with students, build confidence and promote classroom learning.
An open-ended approach to giving students voice and challenging them to think critically about social justice issues.
Writing strategies that focus on brain pockets to deepen all forms of writing.
A comprehensive guide to choosing and using the best children’s books to address sensitive but significant topics in the classroom.
Simple ideas for improving classroom instruction in reading, writing and math, as well as building life skills and social-emotional learning.
A comprehensive guide for using the Orca Origins, a nonfiction series for middle readers, in the classroom.
An essential guide to mindfulness activities and strategies that build skills students need to manage their attention, emotions, and behavior in classrooms, and beyond.
Help our youngest learners thrive with a learning environment that celebrates curiosity, exploration, and imagination.
101 ways to inspire and engage students by building vocabulary, improving spelling, and enriching reading, writing, and learning.
