Fisher Nancy: 51 books
Checking for Understanding
Formative Assessment Techniques for Your Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
A teacher presents a lesson, and at the end asks students if they understand the material. The students nod and say they get it. Later, the teacher is dismayed when many of the students fail a test on the material. Why aren’t students getting it? And, just as important, why didn’t the teacher...
Enhancing RTI
How to Ensure Success with Effective Classroom Instruction and Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Are we missing the opportunity to reach struggling learners from the very beginning? Are we hastily--and unnecessarily--referring students to intervention programs that substitute for high-quality core instruction? What if we could eliminate the need for intervention programs in the first place?Response...
The Path to Get There
a Common Core Road Map for Higher Student Achievement Across the Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Common Core State Standards represents a call for all teachers to focus on the literacy learning of their students. Together, these skills—reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing—comprise the literacies that students must develop if they are to master content and be successful in...
Better Than Carrots or Sticks
Restorative Practices for Positive Classroom Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
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....
Intentional and Targeted Teaching
A Framework for Teacher Growth and Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
What is FIT Teaching? What is a FIT Teacher?
The Framework for Intentional and Targeted Teaching®—or FIT Teaching®—is a research-based, field-tested, and experience-honed process that captures the essentials of the best educational environments. In contrast to restrictive pedagogical...
The Purposeful Classroom
How to Structure Lessons with Learning Goals in Mind
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
How can teachers guarantee that what they teach results in students learning what they really need to know? In The Purposeful Classroom: How to Structure Lessons with Learning Goals in Mind, Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey present a variety of strategies that teachers at all levels can use to ensure...
Better Learning Through Structured Teaching
A Framework for the Gradual Release of Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
In this updated 2nd edition of the ASCD best-seller, Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey dig deeper into the hows and whys of the gradual release of responsibility instructional framework. To gradually release responsibility is to equip students with what they need to be engaged and self-directed learners....
by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
You know that repeating the same words and the same instructions—or simply announcing the answers to questions—doesn’t help students learn. How do you get past the predictable and really teach your kids how to learn? Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey say that helping students develop immediate and...
by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Ian Pumpian
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
What does it feel like to walk into your school? Is it a welcoming place, where everyone feels valued? Most school improvement efforts focus on academic goals, instructional models, curriculum, and assessments. But sometimes what can make or break your learning community are the intangibles--the relationships,...
Unstoppable Learning
Seven Essential Elements to Unleash Student Potential (Using Systems Thinking to Improve Teaching Practices and Learning Outcomes)
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Discover proven methods to enhance teaching and learning schoolwide. Identify questions educators should ask to guarantee a positive classroom culture where students learn from each other, not just teachers. Explore ways to adapt learning in response to students’ individual needs, and gain strategies...
by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Professional development embedded within the PLC culture is vital to successfully implementing the Common Core State Standards. Integrate the CCSS for English language arts into your school’s instruction, curriculum, assessment, and intervention practices with this straightforward resource. Using...
by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
English learners face not only the challenge of learning English, but also learning in English. How, then, do you set reasonable expectations for developing proficiency? School leaders will find the answers inside, including how to assess the individual needs of ELs, how to create a quality instructional...
by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Fewy
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Learn why response to intervention is the ideal framework for supporting English learners. Find clear guidelines for distinguishing between lack of language proficiency and learning disability. Follow the application and effectiveness of RTI through the stories of four representative students of varying...
by Cheryl James-Ward, Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Data. Does the word make you cringe? Does it evoke feelings of guilt? Are you unsure how to distill it and use it effectively? Grab this book and learn how to empower yourself and your school community with information gleaned from your school’s data. Experienced educators and authors offer simple...