Ascd imprint: 352 books
Align the Design
A Blueprint for School Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2008
“This is our THIRD school improvement plan! Why aren’t we seeing any results?” “We have all of this data, but we don’t know what to do with it!” “What does this workshop have to do with the goals we set for our school? Many of today’s school leaders have all the latest tools, techniques,...
A World-Class Education
Learning from International Models of Excellence and Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
In the 20th century, the United States was the world leader in education—the first country to achieve universal secondary education and the first to expand higher education beyond the elite class. Now other countries are catching up and leaping ahead—in high school graduation rates, in the quality...
The Best Schools
How Human Development Research Should Inform Educational Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2006
Educators, politicians, parents, and even students are consumed with speaking the language of academic achievement. Yet something is missing in the current focus on accountability, standardized testing, and adequate yearly progress. If schools continue to focus the conversation on rigor and accountability...
Engaging the Whole Child: Reflections on Best Practices in Learning, Teaching, and Leadership
Reflections on Best Practices in Learning, Teaching, and Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2009
This e-book collection of articles from Educational Leadership provides a compelling look at what it means to truly open students to learning--heart, mind, body, and soul. The articles describe how to impart relevance, respect, and reward while also teaching traditional and not-so-traditional curriculum...
The Teacher Quality Index
A Protocol for Teacher Selection
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2006
A research-based interview protocol built on the quality indicators explored in Stronge's best-selling Qualities of Effective Teachers.
by Amy Sandvold, Maelou Baxter
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2008
Creating a peer literacy coaching program from scratch is no easy task. Making it focused, dynamic, and effective is even harder. In this inspiring and immensely readable book, veteran educators Amy Sandvold and Maelou Baxter present a blueprint for creating a successful coaching plan in districts...
Effective Supervision
Supporting the Art and Science of Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
In Effective Supervision, Robert J. Marzano, Tony Frontier, and David Livingston show school and district-level administrators how to set the priorities and support the practices that will help all teachers become expert teachers. Their five-part framework is based on what research tells us about...
Becoming a Great High School
6 Strategies and 1 Attitude That Make a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
What will it take to move your high school to the next level? In Becoming a Great High School, former principal Tim Westerberg emphasizes that significant improvement in any high school must start with improving the quality of instruction in the classroom. But the isolated efforts of individual teachers...
Advancing Formative Assessment in Every Classroom
A Guide for Instructional Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
Formative assessment is one of the best ways to increase student learning and enhance teacher quality. But effective formative assessment is not part of most classrooms, largely because teachers misunderstand what it is and don't have the necessary skills to implement it.
In the updated 2nd...
by Carol Ann Tomlinson Ann Tomlinson, Marcia B. Imbeau
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Today’s teachers are responsible for a greater variety of learners with a greater diversity of needs than ever before. When you add in the ever-changing dynamics of technology and current events, the complexity of both students’ and teachers’ lives grows exponentially. Far too few teachers,...
Learning Targets
Helping Students Aim for Understanding in Today's Lesson
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
In Learning Targets, Connie M. Moss and Susan M. Brookhart contend that improving student learning and achievement happens in the immediacy of an individual lesson--what they call "today's lesson"—or it doesn't happen at all.
The key to making today's lesson meaningful? Learning...
On Formative Assessment
Readings from Educational Leadership (EL Essentials)
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
This collection of articles from Educational Leadership pulls together some of the best pieces on formative assessment and feedback that will help educators understand how to best use the data they have at their fingertips. The authors tell fellow educators about how to use formative assessment to...
Questioning for Classroom Discussion
Purposeful Speaking, Engaged Listening, Deep Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
What type of questioning invigorates and sustains productive discussions?
That’s what Jackie Acree Walsh and Beth Dankert Sattes ask as they begin a passionate exploration of questioning as the beating heart of thoughtful discussions. Questioning and discussion are important components of...
by Rick Stiggins
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
It's time to move our assessment practices from the 1950s to the century we're living in. It's time to invest in our teachers and local school leaders instead of in more tests. It's time to help all students understand how to unleash their strengths and gain a sense of themselves as learners capable...