Solution Tree Press: 340 books
Mind, Brain, & Education
Neuroscience Implications for the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Understanding how the brain learns helps teachers do their jobs more effectively. Primary researchers share the latest findings on the learning process and address their implications for educational theory and practice. Explore applications, examples, and suggestions for further thought and research;...
When Actions Speak Louder Than Words
Understanding the Challenging Behaviors of Young Children and Students With Disabilities
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Build your understanding of behavior as communication, and learn to interpret the messages behind the actions. This book provides information and tools to support all children whose primary way to communicate is through challenging behaviors. Enlightening, sometimes humorous stories provide examples...
by Ruby payne, Paul Slocum
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
Examine the risk factors for dropout among males living in poverty, especially generational poverty. Explore personal, community, and school system issues, including family dysfunction, disability, poor teaching, punitive discipline, and absence of differentiated instruction. Offering specific interventions,...
Shifting the Monkey
The Art of Protecting Good People From Liars, Criers, and Other Slackers
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Poor employees get a disproportionate amount of attention. Why? Because they complain the loudest, create the greatest disruptions, and rely on others to assume the responsibilities that they shirk. Learn how to focus on your good employees first, and help them shift these “monkeys” back to the underperformers....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Discover how educators can cultivate globally literate learners while becoming globally connected themselves. The authors explore ways to bring global issues into the classroom and personalize them using new digital tools. Find strategies for implementing global-awareness studies into the traditional school curriculum, as well as creating new types of 21st century learning environments.
Deeper Learning
Beyond 21st Century Skills
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Education authorities from around the globe explore deeper learning, a process that promotes higher-order thinking, reasoning, and problem solving to better educate students and prepare them for college and careers. Relying on research as well as their own experience, the authors show how to use intensive...
Building a Culture of Hope
Enriching Schools With Optimism and Opportunity (School Improvement Strategies for Overcoming Student Poverty and Adversity)
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Research demonstrates that children of poverty need more than just academic instruction to succeed. Discover a blueprint for turning low-performing schools into Cultures of Hope! The authors draw from their own experiences working with high-poverty, high-achieving schools to illustrate how to support students with an approach that considers social as well as emotional factors in education.
Simplifying Response to Intervention: Four Essential Guiding Principles
Four Essential Guiding Principles
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2011
The sequel to Pyramid Response to Intervention advocates that a successful RTI model begins by asking the right questions to create a fundamentally effective learning environment for every student. RTI is not a series of implementation steps, but rather a way of thinking. Understand why bureaucratic,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Discover how to improve student learning through the power of effective assessment, and realize your power to transform education from inside the classroom. Meaningful examples, expert research, and real-life experiences illustrate the capacity and responsibility every educator has to ignite positive...
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...
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It's About Time [Elementary]
Planning Interventions and Exrensions in Elementary School
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Carve out effective intervention and extension time at all three tiers of the RTI pyramid. Explore more than a dozen examples of creative and flexible scheduling, and gain access to tools you can use immediately to overcome implementation challenges. These books are full of examples from real schools...
Cultural Literacy for the Common Core
Six Steps to Powerful Practical Instruction for All Learners
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Build your cultural literacy while inspiring deep, thoughtful, unbiased thinking in students. Discover a six-step framework for becoming culturally literate that complements the Common Core and encourages students to be at the center of learning. Explore how to develop teacher-student relationships,...
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...