Solution Tree Press: 340 books
Elements of Grading
A Guide to Effective Practice, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Formative assessment plays an important role in increasing teacher quality and student learning when it’s viewed as a process rather than a tool. Emphasizing the instructional side of formative assessment, this book explores in depth the use of classroom questioning, learning intentions and success...
Score to Soar
Moving Teachers From Evaluation to Professional Growth
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Discover how to guide and enhance the job performance of teachers in your school or district. The authors share highly practical strategies for providing teachers meaningful feedback and encouraging their improvement. You’ll discover how to evaluate teacher effectiveness, use multiple forms of data...
by Edie Holcomb
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
You’re ready to start collecting and utilizing school data, but what data? How exactly will you find it, and how will you use it once you have it? This informative resource takes an in-depth look at best data collection practices and guides the elementary school principal on how to reach struggling learners, strengthen instruction, and achieve schoolwide improvement.
by Toby J. Karten
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Inclusion means more than just preparing students to pass standardized tests and increasing academic levels. In inclusive classrooms, students with special educational needs are treated as integral members of the general education environment. Gain strategies to offer the academic, social, emotional, and behavioral benefits that allow all students to achieve their highest potential.
by William N. Bender
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Perhaps more than any other single initiative, response to intervention is likely to restructure how middle and high school teachers teach in a very profound way. This timely and targeted resource discusses the innovations of RTI, differentiated instruction, and instructional technologies. Based on...
by John C. Daresh, Bridget Daresh
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
The key to student success starts in the classroom. Principals face the challenge of finding and keeping highly qualified teachers who will work to ensure learning for all. The authors use firsthand experiences and observations to guide readers through effective processes for recruiting, interviewing, hiring, and supporting faculty who best fit the needs of individual schools.
What Effective Schools Do
Re-Envisioning the Correlates
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
This guide helps educators implement a continuous school improvement system through application of the seven correlates of effective schools. The authors discuss each correlate, update the knowledge base, and incorporate practical ideas from practitioners in the field. A comprehensive description of...
Assertive Discipline
Positive Behavior Management for Today's Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
This book contains the best concepts and teacher-tested strategies by the author plus new content. A special emphasis on the needs of new and struggling teachers includes practical actions for earning student respect and teaching them behavior management skills. The author also introduces a real-time coaching model and explains how to establish a schoolwide Assertive Discipline® program.
Common Formative Assessment
A Toolkit for Professional Learning Communities at Work
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Teams that engage in designing, using, and responding to common formative assessments are more knowledgeable about their own standards, more assessment literate, and able to develop more strategies for helping all students learn. In this conversational guide, the authors offer tools, templates, and protocols...
Yes We Can!
General and Special Educators Collaborating in a Professional Learning Community
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
As states adopt more rigorous academic standards, schools must define how special education fits into standards-aligned curricula, instruction, and assessment. Utilizing PLC practices, general and special educators must develop collaborative partnerships in order to close the achievement gap and maximize...
Understanding Response to Intervention
A Practical Guide to Systemic Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
This guide drills deep to deliver the nuts and bolts of RTI. Clear examples of effective implementation include systems and checklists to assess RTI progress. Learn specific strategies for realigning your school system. Respond to the needs of struggling students by building pyramids of intervention,...
Design in Five
Essential Phases to Create Engaging Assessment Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Fully engage learners in your classroom. Discover how to create high-quality assessments using a five-phase design protocol. Explore types and traits of quality assessment, and learn how to develop assessments that are innovative, effective, and engaging. Evaluate whether your current assessments meet the design criteria, and discover how to use this process collaboratively with your team.
by Kay Burke, Eileen Depka
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
RTI and formative assessment have the potential to positively impact student achievement. Understand the basics of RTI and its connection to formative assessment, and base instructional decisions on the results of effective formative assessment practices. Learn how to adjust instruction to increase...
by Richard Curwin, Allen Mendler
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1999
Create positive change in your most challenging students with the help of practical strategies found in this resource. The authors share proven practices for classroom discipline, reveal reasons why students misbehave, and offer 21 effective drug-free ways to help students with ADHD.