We'd all love schools to be havens of joyful learning, not bastions of box-checking and clock-punching. Take charge of the learning environment in your school by rekindling the power of curiosity in yourself and your colleagues! Where to start? Curiosity Works guides school leadership teams through a six-phase journey toward powerful improvement and innovation, and includes 17 practical tools to help your staff work together toward great outcomes.

Curiosity Works: A Guidebook for Moving Your School from Improvement to Innovation

Bryan Goodwin

Kristin Rouleau

Dale Lewis

McREL International

Do you feel like misplaced priorities are preventing a breakthrough at work? That your kids' school has all the potential for greatness but keeps turning in flat results? That connecting deeply with others seems more difficult than ever? You're not imagining it: Like many of us, you may feel like you're running out of curiosity. Join Bryan Goodwin, a former business writer and high school teacher who now heads one of America's leading education research and consulting firms, as he explores this uniquely human yet easily overlooked characteristic.

Out of Curiosity: Restoring the Power of Hungry Minds for Better Schools, Workplaces, and Lives

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

The New Classroom Instruction That Works: The Best Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement

Cheryl Abla

Karen Baptiste

Tonia Gibson

Michele Kimball

ASCD

"As educators, we all wish for our students to become more self-motivated and to show a greater passion for learning. But how can we turn this universal wish into classroom reality? How can we help our students develop that "yearning for learning" that spurs discovery and promotes deep understanding? By tapping into the most basic and powerful learning drive of all-curiosity. Combining the research-based insights of curiosity expert Bryan Goodwin with ready-to-use instructional tools developed by Harvey Silver and the Thoughtful Classroom team, this book will help you unleash the power of curiosity in your classroom. More specifically, it will show you how to (1) Pique students curiosity to increase interest in new learning. (2) Sustain students curiosity over the course of lessons and units. (3) Inspire students to express and pursue their own natural curiosity. Designed for teachers of all grade levels and content areas, the book provides everything youll need to get your students fired up about learning"--

Tools for Igniting Curiosity: Classroom-Ready Techniques for Increasing Engagement and Inspiring the Love of Learning

Harvey F. Silver

Susan Kreisman

More than likely, your school is doing the right things. So why won't student achievement budge? Maybe the key is doing the right things right. You may be lacking a straightforward yet powerful tool that can work wonders in aligning expectations and talents: an instructional model. Join authors Elizabeth Ross Hubbell and Bryan Goodwin as they explore the variety of instructional models available to today's educators and explain how they can unite teachers and students in identifying-and achieving-classroom goals.

Instructional Models: How to Choose One and How to Use One

Elizabeth Ross Hubbell

You've probably heard that teaching is a journey. So . . . where are you on yours? That all depends on which challenges you're currently facing. Trying to solve them all at once would lead to disorientation and burnout, so where to start? For guidance, join five of America's leading thinkers, consultants, and writers on teaching and learning as they demonstrate the power of self-reflection to achieve ever-deeper insights into your own strengths-and ever-better results from your students.

Pursuing Greatness: Empowering Teachers to Take Charge of Their Professional Growth

Pete Hall

Alisa Simeral

The Future of Schooling: Educating America in 2020

The actions you take now will help your school or district succeed in the future. McREL experts show you how to use scenario planning to prepare for the future world of education. By analyzing the content and discussing the implications of these scenarios, you can identify action steps today that will maximize your chance for success tomorrow. Benefits: 
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<li>Review four scenarios that describe in vivid detail how the trends McREL has been tracking might shape very different alternate futures for education. </li> <li>Gain a summary of the key factors and trends that are driving change in education now and in the near future. </li> <li>Understand how to move from the abstract thought experiment of the scenarios to concrete actions you can take today. </li>
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Contents: Chapter 1: Welcome to 2020 Chapter 2: Drivers of a Changing World Chapter 3: Scenario A: Test Day at Bronx City Day School Chapter 4: Scenario B: Education to the Max Chapter 5: Scenario C: Who Killed Buster the Bearcat? Chapter 6: Scenario D: My Path to Juilliard Chapter 7: Taking the Next Step Resources to Keep the Conversation Alive

Politics & Social Sciences

Laura Lefkowits

Carolyn Woempner

Elizabeth Hubbell

Social Sciences

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