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This book provides a clear, practical roadmap for teams to enhance their impact by building a strong foundation for collaboration, gaining clarity on essential student learning, leveraging assessments as learning tools, and ensuring every student receives the time and support needed to achieve high levels.

The Green Literacy Handbook blends environmental awareness with critical literacy, empowering educators to create lessons with thematic unit plans focusing on biodiversity, climate change, and systems thinking. Through hands-on implementation, students build better environmental responsibility and school community engagement.

Grades K–8 teachers, curriculum specialists, literacy coaches, reading interventionists, and administrators gain research-based strategies for small-group reading instruction tailored to five developmental phases. This book equips you with practical templates and reading strategies for effective small-group instruction, catering to each developmental phase.

Transform mathematics instruction with Nathan D. Lang-Raad’s comprehensive mathematical competencies framework. Discover practical strategies to integrate seven essential competencies that develop true mathematical proficiency and enhance student engagement in K–12 classrooms.

Equip secondary students with age-appropriate strategies to conquer complex informational texts. Gain specific techniques to boost student confidence and facilitate engaging discussions, ultimately fostering deep comprehension and enhancing literacy skills for adolescent readers.

This book provides a step-by-step process for English educators to design future-ready literacy experiences in secondary English classrooms. Grades 6–12 teachers will find practical steps and resources, including reflection questions and tools, to aid curriculum development and reflection.

This book promotes small-group reading as a key tool for K–5 teachers, offering frameworks, videos, and text strategies. Teachers can differentiate instruction with evidence-based routines, creating a dynamic learning environment that nurtures readers and aligns whole-class instruction with small-group lessons.

K–12 classroom educators can use author Daniel L. Vollrath’s productive behavior strategies to cultivate essential student behaviors like observation, self-control, responsible decision making, persistence, attentive listening, cooperation, and organization. Discover actionable tips for teachers to create a positive and productive classroom environment.

Classroom educator Rachel Swearengin guides educators in creating effective social studies units. Learn to unpack standards, craft compelling questions, select grade-appropriate primary and secondary sources, and design assessments using claim-evidence-reasoning (CER). Practical templates and examples are provided for each K–5 grade level.

Author Paul J. Cancellieri’s guide to artificial intelligence (AI) in education offers practical strategies for K–12 teachers. The book provides prompts and techniques to enhance learning, from activating prior knowledge to assessing student mastery. Learn how AI can personalize instruction, provide feedback, and support more profound understanding in the classroom.