Books

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The Differentiated Classroom - Responding to the Needs of All Learners (2nd Edition)

This book's insightful guidance on what to differentiate, how to differentiate, and why lays the groundwork for bringing differentiated instruction into your own classroom or refining the work you already do to help each of your wonderfully unique learners move toward greater knowledge, more advanced skills, and expanded understanding. Today more than ever, The Differentiated Classroom is a must-have staple for every teacher s shelf and every school s professional development collection.

The Differentiated School - Making Revolutionary Changes in Teaching and Learning

Looking for advice and guidance on how to implement differentiated instruction throughout your school? Learn from the experts. Administrators and teachers alike will find viable ideas and answers to questions as leaders at two schools share milestones and vignettes from their real-life experiences in converting entire faculties to this dynamic approach to teaching and learning.

Differentiation and the Brain - How Neuroscience Supports the Learner-Friendly Classroom

In Differentiation and the Brain: How Neuroscience Supports the Learner-Friendly Classroom, authors David Sousa and Carol Ann Tomlinson examine the basic principles of differentiation in light of what the current research on educational neuroscience has revealed. This research pool offers information and insights that can help educators decide whether certain curricular, instructional, and assessment choices are likely to be more effective than others. The authors also offer suggestions on how to establish and manage differentiated classrooms without imposing additional heavy burdens on teachers teach differently and smarter, not harder. In fact, when properly implemented, differentiation emphasizes shared responsibility between teacher and student a desirable outcome, because the brain that does the work is the brain that learns!

Leading and Managing A Differentiated Classroom

In Leading and Managing a Differentiated Classroom, Carol Ann Tomlinson and Marcia B. Imbeau tackle the issue of how to address student differences thoughtfully and proactively. The first half of the book focuses on what it means for a teacher to effectively lead a differentiated classroom. Readers will learn how to be more confident and effective leaders for and in student-focused and responsive classrooms.

Leadership for Differentiating Schools & Classrooms

This book explores how school leaders can develop responsive, personalized, and differentiated classrooms. Differentiation is simply a teacher attending to the learning needs of a particular student or small group of students, rather than teaching a class as though all individuals in it were basically alike.

The Differentiated Classroom

Drawing on nearly three decades of experience, author Carol Ann Tomlinson describes a way of thinking about teaching and learning that will change all aspects of how you approach students and your classroom. She looks to the latest research on learning, education, and change for the theoretical basis of differentiated instruction and why it's so important to today's children. Yet she offers much more than theory, filling the pages with real-life examples of teachers and students using-and benefitting from-differentiated instruction.

Coaching & Research

The Differentiated Instruction Book of Lists

The Differentiated Instruction Book of Lists is the definitive reference for DI for teachers in grades K-12. Ready for immediate use, it offers over 150 up-to-date lists for developing instructional materials, lesson planning, and assessment. Organized into 12 convenient sections, the book is full of practical examples, teaching ideas, and activities that can be used or adapted to meet students' diverse needs.

The Differentiated Instruction Coach's Guide for Observation and Feedback

This indispensable guide is perfect for administrators who want to support staff in converting DI training into effective classroom practice. The Coach`s Guide lists concrete benchmarks for assessing a teacher`s use of differentiation and provides practical ideas for feedback and support.

What Works in Schools - Translating Research into Action

Any school in the United States can operate at advanced levels of effectiveness--if it is willing to implement what is known about effective schooling. "If we follow the guidance offered from 35 years of research," says author Robert J. Marzano, "we can enter an era of unprecedented effectiveness for the public practice of education." In What Works in Schools: Translating Research into Action, Marzano synthesizes that research to provide clear and unequalled insight into the nature of schooling. In each chapter, Marzano recommends specific-and attainable-action steps to implement successful strategies culled from the wealth of research data.

Special Education

Including Students with Special Needs - A Practical Guide for Classroom Teachers

Including Students with Special Needs, provides the best source of cross-categorical, practical strategies available for teaching students with special needs in inclusive settings. In it readers get practical help for understanding the legal and ethical bases of special education, while acquiring the knowledge about and skills to deliver effective instruction to all students. A cross-categorical book, Including Students with Special Needs provides strategies that cut across subject areas, covering the content most needed by general educators and others working with students with disabilities and other special needs, and presents examples and vignettes to illustrate the concepts.

Strategies for Teaching Students with Learning and Behavior Problems

Using this bestselling text, pre- and in-service teachers get the ideal contents to prepare to meet the needs of elementary and secondary students with learning and behavior problems in a variety of settings. Strategies for Teaching Students with Learning and Behavior Problems presents more hands on applications and classroom strategies than any other methods text on the market. This new edition features a new emphasis on and integration of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) throughout; updated coverage of RtI; a new emphasis on higher level thinking, including reading comprehension and complex texts as well as problem solving, fractions, and algebra; increased focus on classroom management and positive behavior support; and updated and enhanced key research, practice opportunities, and strategies throughout.

Curriculum & Assessment

The Understanding by Design Guide to Creating High-Quality Units

This guide is intended for K-16 educators either individuals or groups who may have received some training in Understanding by Design and want to continue their work independently; those who've read Understanding by Design and want to design curriculum units but have no access to formal training; graduate and undergraduate students in university curriculum courses; and school and district administrators, curriculum directors, and others who facilitate Understanding by Design work with staff. Users can go through the modules in sequence or skip around, depending on their previous experience with UbD and their preferred curriculum design style or approach.

Curriculum Mapping for Differentiated Instruction, K-8

This easy-to-use guide to curriculum mapping and instructional planning for K-8 student-centered classrooms blends standards, rubrics, interdisciplinary units, and a "Teacher's Tool Chest" for successful learning.

Mapping the Big Picture - Integrating Curriculum & Assessment K-12

In Mapping the Big Picture, Heidi Hayes Jacobs describes a seven-step process for creating and working with curriculum maps, from data collection to ongoing curriculum review. She discusses the importance of asking "essential questions" and of designing assessments that reflect what teachers know about the students in their care.

Assessment and Student Success in a Differentiated Classroom

Grounded in research and the authors' teaching experience, Assessment and Student Success in a Differentiated Classroom outlines a common-sense approach that is both thoughtful and practical, and that empowers teachers and students to discover, strive for, and achieve their true potential. Throughout, Tomlinson and Moon emphasize the importance of maintaining a consistent focus on the essential knowledge, understandings, and skills that all students must acquire, no matter what their starting point.

ESL & Diverse Student Populations

Language, Culture, and Teaching Critical Perspectives

Distinguished multiculturalist Sonia Nieto speaks directly to current and future teachers in this thoughtful integration of a selection of her key writings with creative pedagogical features. Offering information, insights, and motivation to teach students of diverse cultural, racial, and linguistic backgrounds, examples are included throughout to illustrate real-life dilemmas about diversity that teachers face in their own classrooms; ideas about how language, culture, and teaching are linked; and ways to engage with these ideas through reflection and collaborative inquiry.

Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality

Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality is a brief history of school polices affecting dominated groups in the United States. In seven concise chapters, the text looks at the educational, legal, and social construction of race and racism, with a focus on educational practices related to deculturalization, segregation, and the civil rights movemen

Teaching with Poverty in Mind - What Being Poor Does to Kids' Brains and What Schools Can Do About It

Too often, we talk about change while maintaining a culture of excuses. We can do better. Although no magic bullet can offset the grave challenges faced daily by disadvantaged children, this timely resource shines a spotlight on what matters most, providing an inspiring and practical guide for enriching the minds and lives of all your students. In Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids' Brains and What Schools Can Do About It, veteran educator and brain expert Eric Jensen takes an unflinching look at how poverty hurts children, families, and communities across the United States and demonstrates how schools can improve the academic achievement and life readiness of economically disadvantaged students.

Literacy Instruction

Best Practices in Literacy Instruction

"If you are a literacy educator looking for solutions, this book is just what you need! Whether it's the CCSS, new literacies, struggling readers, or other key literacy topics, this book provides up-to-date, evidence-based information. With end-of-chapter activities to draw readers in, this book is a powerful tool for school-based professional development efforts and graduate courses in literacy programs."

Writing Workshop - The Essential Guide

Above all Writing Workshop is a practical book, providing everything a teacher needs to get the writing workshop up and running. In clear language, Fletcher and Portalupi explain the simple principles that underlie the writing workshop and explore the major components that make it work. Each chapter addresses an essential element, then suggests five or six specific things a teacher can do to implement the idea under discussion. There's also a separate chapter entitled "What About Skills," which shows how to effectively teach skills in the context of writing. The book closes with practical forms in the appendixes to ensure that the workshop runs smoothly.

Educational Technology

Teaching and Learning with Technology

This book is a current look at the range of educational technologies available for use in today's classrooms, and the many ways teachers can use technology to effectively enhance teaching and learning. Chapter learning outcomes are aligned to NETS-T Standards, and key topics in the chapters; a unique explanation-demonstration-application approach introduces and demonstrates content and follows up with application activities.