Providing step-by-step insights, this book shows teachers how to incorporate performance tasks as a tool to teach, monitor, and extend student learning.

This accessible book is one volume of a four-book series enabling understanding of Academic Language development among English Language Learners and speakers of non-standard English

Socrates believed in the power of questions rather than lecturing his students. But how did we get so far away from his method of inquiry? Shanna Peeples, 2015 National Teacher of the Year, will show you how teachers can create an engaging atmosphere that encourages student questions and honors their experiences.

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.

A guide for educators on how to integrate the new national anchor guidelines on academic language into everyday curriculum and assessment, for grades 6-8.

Teacher professional development (PD) is critical to students' success. This book demonstrates research-based strategies for planning, executing and evaluating the results of PD programs.

This book explains the basis principles and ideas that lie behind personalized high school learning, through the voices of Pathways students, with commentary by their advisors, parents and community mentors.

A handy five-step wellness guide helping busy teachers to optimize their classroom effectiveness and breeze through stressful and busy times.

Common Core CPR is needed. Urgently. Embracing what is best about the standards, Lent and Gilmore explicitly connect ideal outcomes to strategies for coaxing reluctant learners into engagement and achievement.