Ascd: 352 books
Assessing Multilingual Learners
A Month-by-Month Guide (ASCD Arias)
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
While students who enter a new school must learn to adapt to a new situation, multilingual students who enter a new school must often first learn to adapt to a new country and a new language—and they must be assessed along with their peers.
In Assessing Multilingual Learners, author Margo...
Professional Development That Sticks
How do I create meaningful learning experiences for educators? (ASCD Arias)
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
How can we approach professional development in a thoughtful way, keep teachers motivated, and make the process worthwhile?
It's a truth that school leaders can't deny: teachers tend to think of PD as a distraction from the "real work" of the classroom—as something to get through...
Managing Your Classroom with Heart
A Guide for Nurturing Adolescent Learners
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Teaching is as much about students as it is about curriculum, and no one understands this better than middle and high school teachers. But even the most dedicated teacher can sometimes feel defeated by the challenge of reaching distracted, disconnected, and defiant adolescents.
Drawing on her...
Transformational Teaching in the Information Age
Making Why and How We Teach Relevant to Students
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
How can teachers meet the challenges of engaging and educating all students, from those who are gadget-toting and plugged-in to those who are language learners or economically distressed and everyone in between? How can you help students learn what they need to know when the world and all that’s...
The Well-Balanced Teacher
How to Work Smarter and Stay Sane Inside the Classroom and Out
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
You’ve probably heard the advice “put on your own oxygen mask before assisting others.” This is true both in airplanes and in classrooms—you have to take care of yourself before you can help someone else. If teachers are stressed out and exhausted, how can they have the patience, positive...
Role Reversal
Achieving Uncommonly Excellent Results in the Student-Centered Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2013
Want to make your students more responsible for their own learning? Want to create an academic environment in which students thrive and develop a genuine thirst for knowledge? Want to improve your students’ standardized test results but avoid a “teach-to-the-test” mentality that throttles creativity...
Making Teachers Better, Not Bitter
Balancing Evaluation, Supervision, and Reflection for Professional Growth
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
In too many districts, evaluation of teachers ensures competence but does little or nothing to encourage and support expertise. In this thought-provoking and groundbreaking book, Tony Frontier and Paul Mielke address this issue head-on, combining the conceptual and the practical by offering a compelling...
The Learning Leader
How to Focus School Improvement for Better Results
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2006
“We can’t do that in our school district.” “I don’t have time to add that to my curriculum.” “We’re fighting against impossible odds with these students.” Effective school leadership does not have to be a losing battle. In The Learning Leader: How to Focus School Improvement for...
Excellence Through Equity
Five Principles of Courageous Leadership to Guide Achievement for Every Student
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Excellence Through Equity is an inspiring look at how real-world educators are creating schools where all students are able to thrive. In these schools, educators understand that equity is not about treating all children the same. They are deeply committed to ensuring that each student receives what...
Wasting Minds
Why Our Education System Is Failing and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Why has successful school reform been so difficult to achieve, despite decades of well-intentioned efforts, endless rhetoric, and billions of dollars of investment? Why do most U.S. schools continue to produce disappointing results? Why is there such a disconnect between the schools we need and the...
The Big Picture
Education Is Everyone's Business
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
What is the purpose of education? What kind of people do we want our children to grow up to be? How can we design schools so that students will acquire the skills they’ll need to live fulfilled and productive lives? These are just a few of the questions that renowned educator Dennis Littky explores...
Engaging Students with Poverty in Mind
Practical Strategies for Raising Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
In this galvanizing follow-up to the best-selling Teaching with Poverty in Mind, renowned educator and learning expert Eric Jensen digs deeper into engagement as the key factor in the academic success of economically disadvantaged students.
Drawing from research, experience, and real school...
Peer Feedback in the Classroom
Empowering Students to Be the Experts
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
In Peer Feedback in the Classroom, National Board Certified Teacher Starr Sackstein explores the powerful role peer feedback can play in learning and teaching. Peer feedback gives students control over their learning, increases their engagement and self-awareness as learners, and frees up the teacher...
by Carol Ann Tomlinson, Tonya R. Moon
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Carol Ann Tomlinson and Tonya R. Moon take an in-depth look at assessment and show how differentiation can improve the process in all grade levels and subject areas. After discussing differentiation in general, the authors focus on how differentiation applies to various forms of assessment--pre-assessment,...