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Quick view West Meets East: Best Practices from Expert Teachers in the U.S. and China The authors compare and contrast the practices, beliefs, and strategies of award-winning teachers in the United States and China. View Details
Quick view The Well-Balanced Teacher: How to Work Smarter and Stay Sane Inside the Classroom and Out At last here's a guide for how to handle stress and take better care of your health while dealing with the heavy workload and busy lifestyle of a teacher's life. View Details
Quick view Wasting Minds: Why Our Education System Is Failing and What We Can Do about It The founding editor of Education Week and Teacher Magazine explains how the flawed assumptions that have shaped the debate on school reform for decades have hampered progress and proposes alternative assumptions as the basis for a whole new system of... View Details
Quick view Vocab Rehab: How Do I Teach Vocabulary Effectively with Limited Time? d out how to make time every day to teach vocabulary through direct, explicit instruction that is also creative, interesting, and fun for students. Teacher and author Marilee Sprenger explains a new and effective approach to teaching vocabulary that... View Details
Quick view Using Data to Focus Instructional Improvement 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... View Details
Quick view Upgrade Your Curriculum: Practical Ways to Transform Units and Engage Students An advanced look at curriculum mapping to align with 21st century learning. View Details
Quick view Unlocking Student Potential: How Do I Identify and Activate Student Strengths? What if your next faculty meeting began with this question: What are the strengths of our underachieving students? When teachers recognize and focus on student strengths, they transform the learning environment into one of positivity and potential... View Details
Quick view Understanding How Young Children Learn: Bringing the Science of Child Development to the Classroom Human beings are born to learn. During the last few decades, developmental science has exploded with discoveries of how, specifically, learning happens. This provides us with an unprecedented window into children’s minds: how and when they begin... View Details
Quick view Understanding Common Core State Standards Now that the Common Core standards are coming to 43 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, it is essential to understand their content and implications. Understanding Common Core State Standards tells you everything you need to know about... View Details
Quick view The Understanding by Design Guide to Creating High-Quality Units Whether you are an experienced curriculum designer or new to Understanding by Design® (UbD™) framework, you will benefit from the latest design tools and the updated UbD unit Template 2.0. UbD authors Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe share... View Details
Quick view The Understanding by Design Guide to Advanced Concepts in Creating and Reviewing Units The Understanding by Design Guide to Advanced Concepts in Creating and Reviewing Units offers instructional modules on how to refine units created using Understanding by Design (UbD) and how to effectively review the units using self-assessment and peer... View Details
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