This updated edition includes a generous selection of user-friendly strategies that help teachers assess struggling learners, students with special needs, children who are performing at grade level, and advanced learners. Included are practical tools that improve student performance and help them take responsibility for their own learning.

Help striving writers thrive through UDL principles, instructional best practices, classroom-management strategies, low- and high-tech solutions, differentiated instruction, and reproducible tools.

Guides educators toward an understanding of the socio-cultural characteristics of classrooms and why such an understanding is critical to fostering academic engagement of African American students.

A practical guide to designing, implementing, and sustaining community-based learning in schools.

This valuable resource demonstrates how Universal Design for Learning (UDL) can help educators make the CCSS in writing and language accessible to all kids.

This book explores the idea of why branding schools is important, the benefits of branding a school, and gives leaders an action plan for branding.

Maverick young educator Josh Stumpenhorst details his unorthodox techniques for improving student outcomes through trust-based relationships, leveraging technology, de-emphasizing letter grades, and much more.

For anyone who doesn't "fit in," this book offers survival strategies for managing the dynamics of difference and mentoring others who are targeted because they are different.