AN EXCELLENT GIFT TO TEACHERS. I hope this book continues to inspire teachers and remind them of the connection they make to kids and how important this connection is. Every student needs a significant adult in school. As teachers we have the best opportunity to fill this role. The final sentence in the book summarizes the significant role of a teacher. In response to the question posed in the title Kristin replies "I'm a teacher and I make a difference."

What Do You Make? A Book for and About Teachers

Tom Hierck

T. Hierck

Overcoming the Gentrification of Dual Language, Bilingual and Immersion Education

Alex Kajitani

Ingram Publisher Services UK- Academic

Benefits 
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<li>Understand how teaching prioritized standards helps students become college and career ready and able to retain mathematics knowledge.</li> <li>Gain strategies to build the RTI framework into your mathematics program.</li> <li>Learn to teach mathematics in a way that helps learners gain conceptual understanding, procedural competency, and the ability to apply mathematics knowledge.</li> <li>Discover how to create assessments for determining students difficulties and appropriate supplemental interventions for understanding mathematics.</li> <li>Access reproducible tools to create detailed and viable curriculum maps for your mathematics program.</li> Build a solid mathematics program by emphasizing prioritized learning goals and integrating response to intervention (RTI) into your curriculum. Prepare students to move forward in mathematics learning, and ensure their continued growth in critical thinking and problem solving. With this book, you ll discover an RTI model that provides the mathematics instruction, assessment, and intervention strategies necessary to meet the complex, diverse needs of students. 
Contents Introduction: The Rationale for RTI and Application-Based Mathematics Chapter 1: Prioritized Content in Mathematics Chapter 2: Designing Conceptual Units in Mathematics Chapter 3: Instructional Practices for Application-Based Mathematical Learning Chapter 4: Tiers 2 and 3 Approaches to Foundational Conceptual Understandings and Mathematical Practices Chapter 5: Integrating Assessment and Intervention Epilogue: The Promise and Possibility of Improved Mathematics Learning
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Strategies for Mathematics Instruction and Intervention, 6-8 (Implement an RTI framework to improve your mathematics program)

Science & Math

Chris Weber

Darlene Crane

Mathematics

Solution Tree

Infuse energy back into the practices of your PLC. Explore the authors' four-stage authentic alignment model, which will take you through the Why, Eye, How, and Now of transforming your school's culture. Through this inspiring guide, you'll discover how to bridge the gulf between principles and practice to cultivate an empowering environment that is committed to a cycle of continuous improvement. Benefits: 
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<li>Use the authentic alignment model to align your schools' guiding principles and staff actions. </li> <li>Learn to express, clarify, and align beliefs so they are meaningful to teachers, staff, and other stakeholders. </li> <li>Create maximum buy-in among all members of the school community. </li> <li>Update practices to 21st century expectations to ensure learning for all students. </li> <li>Support PLC implementation in your school. </li>
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Contents: Introduction: Ready, Set, Stall . . . Chapter 1: Wanted: Leaders at Every Level Chapter 2: What Is Authentic Alignment? Chapter 3: Exploring: The Why Chapter 4: Envisioning: The Eye Chapter 5: Connecting: The How Chapter 6: Integrating: The Now Chapter 7: Communication: Stories and Celebrations Epilogue: Moving From Posters to Practice

Starting a Movement: Building Culture From the Inside Out in Professional Learning Communities (PLC) - steps to an effective school leadership team

Education & Teaching

Kenneth C. Williams

Schools & Teaching

Ensure students acquire the academic skills, dispositions, and knowledge necessary for long-term success. The authors examine effective academic and behavior supports and offer a step-by-step process for determining, targeting, and observing academic and behavior interventions. You'll discover how to work in collaborative teams using a research-based framework to provide united and simultaneous interventions to students at risk. Benefits: 
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<li>Realize the role behavior plays in students' academic performance. </li> <li>Identify the academic skills and knowledge, academic behaviors, and social behaviors necessary to developing a successful learner. </li> <li>Learn to simultaneously administer academic and behavior interventions to students at risk. </li> <li>Understand the need to make sure students are prepared to work independently and cooperatively and possess the academic skills and creativity to compete in the future job market. </li> <li>Gain intervention strategies to foster lifelong learners. </li>
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Contents: Introduction: The Chicken and the Egg Chapter 1: Building the Foundation Chapter 2: The Five Students and Their Schools Chapter 3: Protocols and Problem Solving Chapter 4: Uniting Core Instruction and Interventions Chapter 5: Uniting Skill and Will With Supplemental Interventions Chapter 6: Uniting Core Instruction and Intensive Remediation Chapter 7: Getting Started and Getting Better

Uniting Academic and Behavior Interventions: Solving the Skill or Will Dilemma

Mike Mattos

Austin Buffum

Students thrive when educators commit to proactively meeting their behavioral as well as academic needs. This book will help teachers and school leaders transform the research on behavior, response to intervention, and professional learning communities into practical strategies they can use to create a school culture and classroom climates in which learning is primed to occur. Benefits: 
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<li>Explore specific strategies with real-life examples and current research. </li> <li>Implement behavior matrix that identifies specific settings, expected behaviors, and application strategies. </li> <li>Build data-driven dialogue within collaborative teams. </li> <li>Support schoolwide efforts with a detailed five-step approach. </li> Contents: Introduction: This We Believe Chapter 1: Creating a Positive Learning Environment Chapter 2: Common Expectations Chapter 3: Targeted Instruction and Positive Reinforcement Chapter 4: Support Strategies and Interventions Chapter 5: Collaborative Teams and Data-Driven Dialogue Chapter 6: A Schoolwide Systems Approach
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Pyramid of Behavior Interventions: Book 7 Keys to a Positive Learning Environment (Solutions)

Charlie Coleman

Solution Tree Press

In order to make grading and reporting practices more meaningful and appropriate, schools must design core instruction to reflect both academic standards and specific academic and behavioral targets that clearly indicate what students must know and what they must be able to do. The authors experience shows that taking this approach positively impacts teaching and learning. This six-page, quick-reference laminated guide is designed to help schools move beyond standards to target-based grading and reporting. In 13 clear steps, it walks collaborative teams through the process of: Prioritizing standards and breaking them into specific learning targets; Creating assessments that accurately measure the relevant standards and learning targets; Designing and delivering instruction that specifically addresses learning targets; Administering and analyzing assessments; Reassessing when there is evidence of new learning; Reporting proficiency levels against learning targets using a summative scoring rubric. The guide includes examples of proficiency scales, proficiency targets, progress trackers, and summative rubrics.

Target-based Grading in Collaborative Teams: 13 Steps to Moving Beyond Standards

Garth Larson

Dude Publishing, a division of National Professional Resources, Inc.

Creating a positive classroom learning environment is a complex but necessary task if a teacher wants to cultivate a new, productive classroom culture. By fully realizing the seven keys the author highlights, teachers can establish clearer expectations, enhance instruction and assessment practices, and foster quality relationships with students, thereby maximizing the potential of all students. The book includes helpful stories from teachers, as well as classroom strategies to consider in implementing the keys. With this book, teachers can clearly define the misunderstood concepts of differentiation and enrichment and know how to use these strategies to help all students succeed, no matter their needed level of support. Benefits: 
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<li>Read stories from classroom teachers that highlight how each key can help establish a positive learning environment.</li> <li>Explore research and anecdotal evidence that maintains that students who feel connected are more motivated and successful in the classroom. </li> <li>Learn how the effective use of data can minimize both academic and behavioral challenges among students. </li> <li>Discover collaborative practices that can establish common expectations between teachers and their students, so a positive classroom tone is set when the school year starts. </li> <li>Consider tactics teachers can use to record and analyze data on students' progress, to make informed decisions that help students gain proficiency. </li> <li>Peruse the essential practices that teachers should have in their classroom assessment toolbox. </li>
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Contents: Introduction 1. Classroom Culture and Positive Relationships: Precursors to a Positive Learning Environment 2. Classroom Expectations 3. Targeted Instruction 4. Positive Reinforcement 5. Data-Driven Decisions 6. Differentiation and Enrichment 7. Collaborative Teams 8. Connecting to the Schoolwide System Epilogue References and Resources Index

Seven Keys to a Positive Learning Environment in Your Classroom

Assessing Unstoppable Learning explains how K-12 teachers and administrators can work in collaborative teams to form effective and efficient assessment systems in their schools that help all students maximize their learning. Based on the key principles of systems thinking, this book will help educators define student learning goals and plan, launch, and lead learning as a team to meet them. This user-friendly resource focuses on the assessing element of the the Unstoppable Learning model, which consists of seven elements: (1) planning, (2) launching, (3) consolidating, (4) assessing, (5) adapting, (6) managing, and (7) leading. This guide provides readers with crucial protocols and activities for collectively reworking their assessment systems. By implementing the step-by-step actions shared by the authors, educators can prepare themselves and their students to thrive in 21st century classrooms and beyond. Unlock the full assessment power of Unstoppable Learning by: 
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<li>Reflecting on the collaborative culture of your learning organization and what elements of it are within your control.</li> <li>Considering questions designed to focus your work on generating high levels of student achievement.</li> <li>Completing activities with collaborative teams to discuss how to better promote productive systems thinking using the book's strategies.</li> <li>Learning about balanced assessment systems and how to include formative assessments in addition to summative assessments.</li> <li>Embedding evidence-based practices throughout the organization and using protocols for effective team discussions.</li>
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Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Building Trust and Healthy Relationships to Leverage Assessment Chapter 2: Seeking Evidence to Launch Assessments With the End in Mind Chapter 3: Gathering Evidence to Use Assessment as Instruction Chapter 4: Discussing Evidence to Leverage Assessment as Learning Chapter 5: Responding to Evidence to Adapt Assessment as Instruction Chapter 6: Embedding Evidence-Based Practices in Learning Organizations Epilogue

Assessing Unstoppable Learning (A Guide to Systems-Thinking Assessment in a Collaborative Culture) (Solutions)

Angela Freese

Part of the Unstoppable Learning Series First introduced in Unstoppable Learning, the Unstoppable Learning framework details seven essential elements of teaching and learning: (1) planning, (2) launching, (3) consolidating, (4) assessing, (5) adapting, (6) managing, and (7) leading. This resource by Tom Hierck focuses specifically on the element of managing learning outcomes in the classroom environment, outlining a collective approach to behavior management strategies and student engagement that minimizes the impact of negative behaviors and maximizes the potential (as well as the social and emotional learning) of each student. Effective classroom management strategies to create a positive learning environment: 
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<li>Review the Unstoppable Learning framework originally laid out by Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey.</li> <li>Closely examine how to manage student behavior and classroom climate using the Unstoppable Learning framework's proven approach.</li> <li>Become familiar with classroom management strategies for creating a positive learning environment, developing teacher-student relationships, and dealing with problem behaviors.</li> <li>Benefit from summaries of key points at the end of each chapter, as well as questions for reflection.</li> <li>Access free reproducibles designed for reader reflection on classroom behavior management strategies.</li>
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Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Improving Behavior Management Through Cultural Change Chapter 2: Supporting Teacher-Student Relationships Chapter 3: Supporting Group Interactions and Peer Relationships Chapter 4: Supporting a Positive Learning Environment Chapter 5: Responding to Problem Behaviors Epilogue Appendix Books in the Unstoppable Learning series: 
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<li>Unstoppable Learning</li> <li>A Handbook for Unstoppable Learning</li> <li>Leading Unstoppable Learning</li> <li>Adapting Unstoppable Learning</li> <li>Assessing Unstoppable Learning</li> <li>Managing Unstoppable Learning</li> <li>Launching and Consolidating Unstoppable Learning</li>
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Managing Unstoppable Learning (Classroom Behavior Management Strategies to Support Social and Emotional Learning)

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