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

NEW price markdown - $10.47Conducting research and reporting the results are at the heart of academic work, yet many teachers hesitate to incorporate student research projects into their curriculum because they’re unsure of how or where to begin.In Student Research Done Right! Lisa Scherff and Leslie S. Rush explain different research methodologies students can use, and take readers through three different types of research: the synthesis paper, the quarter-long discursive research paper, and the full-blown research project.

Student Research Done Right! A Teacher’s Guide for High School and College Classes

Lisa Scherff

Teachers around the world have been finding McREL's Unleashing Curiosity series of quick guides an inspiring and highly accessible source of effective classroom practices-and the research and theory behind them. All six 8-page guides are now available in a value set that includes bonus content to help colleagues support one another as you dig into the six key practices presented in the guides. Where you start is less important than where you finish: in a student-owned and teacher-guided learning environment.

Unleashing Curiosity: Quick Guide Complete Set

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

You may be your own harshest critic at times—but you can also be your own best teacher. 
With A Teacher’s Reflective Impact Journal: Pursuing Greatness Every Day as your guide, you’ll develop reflective habits to help you focus on your goals, improve what needs improving, and celebrate what you’ve gotten right. Filled with quotes to ponder and prompts to organize your thoughts, this is the perfect journal for any teacher who’s committed to pursuing greatness all year long. 
Have you ever written in a journal or diary before? This is pretty much the same, except it’s focused on your work as a professional educator. The Journal gives you weekly open-ended writing prompts crafted to help you develop new habits of thinking. In repeated succession, you’ll progress through these themes:

A Teacher's Reflective Impact Journal: Pursuing Greatness Every Day

Mary Smith

Want to improve your classroom’s learning climate in just a few seconds? 
With the Seven Simple Shifts—a set of research-based, practice-proven techniques every teacher can use to gain students’ cooperation, engagement, and focus, and help them learn even more. Sometimes all it takes is an intentional pause, a purposeful glance, or a few well-timed words to keep a lesson on track. 
Developed from extensive research and decades of teaching experience, the Simple Shifts do not require you to totally change your teaching—just “tilt” it a bit with these practical, teacher-friendly strategies: Low-Key Interventions: Nudge off-task students back to their work. Pivoting and Reframing: Defuse conflict and steer argumentative students back to their learning. Instructional Clarity: Secure complete student attention before issuing instructions or making transitions. Wait Time: Extend the amount of thinking time you give students before expecting them to respond. Pause and Elaboration Time: Extend your pauses after students answer, encouraging them to give more detailed responses. Snapshot Feedback: Use fast, formative feedback from students to assess the immediate impact of your teaching. Reflection Time: Give students an opportunity to quickly demonstrate that they have taken your advice.\nThe key is to be prepared to match the Shift to the moment. Chances are, you’ve already seen some of these techniques in action—probably even used them yourself. Now’s your chance to put them together in a way that works best for your grade level, subject, and teaching style. Tilting Your Teaching will show you how to get big results by managing your room just a little differently. 
Tilting Your Teaching comes with “micro-data tools” so you can track and fine tune your progress.

Tilting Your Teaching: Seven Simple Shifts That Can Substantially Improve Student Learning

Glen Pearsall

Natasha Harris

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