Make learning visible in the early years Early childhood is a uniquely sensitive time, when young learners are rapidly developing across multiple domains, including language and literacy, mathematics, and motor skills. Knowing which teaching strategies work best and when can have a significant impact on a child¿s development and future success. Visible Learning in Early Childhood investigates the critical years between ages 3 and 6 and, backed by evidence from the Visible Learning® research, explores seven core strategies for learning success: working together as evaluators, setting high expectations, measuring learning with explicit success criteria, establishing developmentally appropriate levels of learning, viewing mistakes as opportunities, continually seeking feedback, and balancing surface, deep, and transfer learning. The authors unpack the symbiotic relationship between these seven tenets through Authentic examples of diverse learners and settings Voices of master teachers from the US, UK, and Australia Multiple assessment and differentiation strategies Multidisciplinary approaches depicting mathematics, literacy, art and music, social-emotional learning, and moreUsing the Visible Learning research, teachers partner with children to encourage high expectations, developmentally appropriate practices, the right level of challenge, and a focus on explicit success criteria. Get started today and watch your young learners thrive!
This guide will help teachers plan and assess Project-Based Learning in their classrooms by reminding them of the key concepts they need to remember when they sit down to plan a new PBL unit.
Secondary ELA teachers, be excited: here at last is that crash course in utilizing the best of what we already know about teaching reading, writing, and language to ensure our English learners thrive.Take Penny Kittle and Donalyn Miller¿s reader¿s workshops. Take Kylene Beers and Robert Probst¿s "signposts." Take the best writing techniques advanced by the National Writing Project. Take Jim Burke¿s essential questions for life. Award-winning EL authorities Mandy Stewart and Holly Genova describe immediate adaptations you can put in place to simultaneously build your ELs¿ language and literacy, while affirming their languages, cultures, and unique lived experiences.A rare blend of the humane and practical, But Does This Work with English Learners? is a book on how to leverage our ELs¿ full linguistic repertoires in the ELA classroom, while remaining sensitive to those barriers that could restrict learning. With this book as your guide, yoüll learn how to: Look beyond the labels, and better understand the diversity of ELs, English language proficiency levels, and sociopolitical influences Teach and assess through reader¿s workshop, recognizing where comprehensible input fits in and adapting recurring features like support, choice, conferencing, and academic conversations Teach and assess through writer¿s workshops, including modifications to quick-writes, minilessons, conferencing, sharing, and more Teach through structures and community with classroom schedules and behavior norms, and activities like All About Me Paragraphs and Six Things You Need to Know About Me Listicles Embrace identity in inquiry cycles via research and family interviews, mentor texts and essays, pictorial autobiographies, memory paragraphs, and more Answer your own FAQs such as How do I teach students if I don¿t know their language? What about grammar? How do I teach the grade-level ELA standards while I teach the language?"As you read this book," Mandy and Holly write, "our hope is that you will begin to see your students as multilinguals¿people who already have language as well as a wealth of knowledge and are just adding English to that great repertoire." If you have even a single English learner in your classroom, we urge you to read this book and institute its practices. Right away!"Mandy Stewart and Holly Genova have given us a primer for the evolving complexities of our classroom melting pots, a map for navigating the murky waters of regulations, and most importantly, a recipe for opening our arms to children from all over the world. They welcome them with thoughts like `A foreign accent is a sign of bravery.¿"--GRETCHEN BERNABEI, Coauthor of Fun-Sized Academic Writing for Serious Learning "After reading this book, I was left with the feeling that I learned something new on every page--something that I had previously either wondered about or struggled to understand. Mandy Stewart and Holly Genova are the guides we all need to help us understand and better address the needs of our English learners."--JIM BURKE, Author of The English Teacher¿s Companion
How to build productive relationships in math education I wasn¿t taught this way. I can¿t help my child! These are common refrains from parents and guardians, who are often overwhelmed, confused, and frustrated about how to best support their children with what they see as the "new math." Partnering With Parents in Elementary School Math provides educators with long overdue guidance on how to communicate with families about their children¿s learning. Readers will find guidance on how to: · Understand what fuels parents¿ anxieties and concerns· Set parents¿ expectations about their children¿s math instruction and homework· Communicate clearly and productively about students¿ mathematical progress, strengths, and needs · Run informative and fun family events · Coach parents to portray a productive disposition at home
All On-Your-Feet Guide orders receive FREE SHIPPING! Use code SHIPOYFG at check out.Students learn what mathematics is and how one does it through their classroom instruction and the mathematical tasks they explore. Student learning is greatest when students have regular opportunities to engage with high-level or cognitively challenging tasks that engage students in thinking, reasoning, and problem solving and are essential to developing students¿ conceptual understanding of mathematics. How do you help students develop the capacity to think, reason, and problem solve, but your curricular resources don¿t have many high-level, cognitively demanding tasks? Learn to modify existing tasks for higher-level thinking!This On-Your-Feet-Guide provides:¿ 8 Key Strategies for modifying low-level procedural tasks and transforming them into high-level thinking tasks.¿ Examples across grades K-12¿ Opportunities to practice modifying tasks and reflect on how the modified versions better meet students¿ learning needs¿ Helpful hints to set your tasks up for ultimate success.On-Your-Feet Guides (OYFGs) provide you with the ultimate "cheat sheet" to implement effective change in your classroom while in the moment of teaching. Designed for accessibility, and providing step-by-step guidance, the OYFGs are written by experts who take research-based practices and make them doable for the busy teacher. Each On-Your-Feet Guide is laminated, 8.5"x11" tri-fold (6 pages), and 3-hole punched.Use On-Your-Feet Guides¿ When you know the "what" but need help with the "how"¿ As a quick reference to support a practice you learned in a PD workshop or book¿ To learn how to implement foundational practices¿ When you want to help your students learn a specific strategy, routine, or approach, but aren¿t sure how to do it yourself
This bundle includes Tools for Teaching Conceptual Understanding, Elementary and the new On-Your-Feet Guide to Learning Transfer. Combined, this package becomes your go-to resource for content study and easy in-class implementation of concept-based teaching and learning transfer in your elementary classroom.
Improve Schools and Transform EducationIn order for educational systems to change, we must reevaluate deep-seated beliefs about learning, teaching, schooling, and race that perpetuate inequitable opportunities and outcomes. Hatch, Corson, and Gerth van den Berg challenge the narrative when it comes to the "grammar of schooling"--or the conventional structures, practices, and beliefs that define educational experiences for so many children¿to cast a new vision of what school could be.The book addresses current systemic problems and solutions as it:¿ Highlights global examples of successful school change¿ Describes strategies that improve educational opportunities and performance¿ Explores promising approaches in developing new learning opportunities¿ Outlines conditions for supporting wide-scale educational improvement
Inspiration and Guidance to Develop Collective Teacher EfficacyCollective efficacy, or a shared belief that through collective action educators can positively influence student outcomes, has remained at the top of a list of influences on student achievement in John Hattie¿s Visible Learning research. Collective efficacy has been embodied by many educators, though collaboration tends to be focused on building community and relationships, which alone are not enough to move the needle on student achievement.This book contains stories of collective efficacy in schools where it has been actualized in practice, and includes:¿ Real-world case studies of teams who have fostered and sustained collective efficacy¿ Practical guidance for building collective efficacy through professional learning designs¿ Tools that can be adapted for specific needs or local contexts
What will you do to promote multilingual learners¿ equity? Our nation¿s moment of reckoning with the deficit view of multilingual learners has arrived. The COVID-19 pandemic has further exposed and exacerbated long-standing inequities that stand in the way of MLs¿ access to effective instruction. Recent events have also caused us to reflect on our place as educators within the intersection of race and language. In this innovative book, Sydney Snyder and Diane Staehr Fenner share practical, replicable ways you can draw from students¿ strengths and promote multilingual learners¿ success within and beyond your own classroom walls. In this book yoüll find¿ Practical and printable, research-based tools that guide you on how to implement culturally responsive teaching in your context¿ Case studies and reflection exercises to help identify implicit bias in your work and mitigate deficit-based thinking¿ Authentic classroom video clips in each chapter to show you what culturally responsive teaching actually looks like in practice¿ Hand-drawn sketch note graphics that spotlight key concepts, reinforce central themes, and engage you with eye-catching and memorable illustrations
"It is a pleasure to have a full length treatise on this most important topic, and may this focus on transferbecome much more debated, taught, and valued in our schools." - John HattieTeach students to use their learning to unlock new situations.Learning That Transfers empowers teachers and curriculum designers alike to harness the critical concepts of traditional disciplines while building students¿ capacity to navigate, interpret, and transfer their learning to solve novel and complex modern problems. Using a backwards design approach, this hands-on guide walks teachers step-by-step through the process of identifying curricular goals, establishing assessment targets, and planning curriculum and instruction that facilitates the transfer of learning to new and challenging situations. Key features include: Thinking prompts to spur reflection and inform curricular planning and design. Next-day strategies that offer tips for practical, immediate action in the classroom. Design steps that outline critical moments in creating curriculum for learning that transfers. Links to case studies, discipline-specific examples, and podcast interviews with educators. A companion website that hosts templates, planning guides, and flexible options for adapting current curriculum documents.
Disrupting the cycle starts with you.It¿s human nature to carry implicit bias, which can lead to negative assumptions and labels of students. This book helps you take an active approach toward disrupting the negative effects of labels that interfere with student learning. Inside Removing Labels, yoüll find:· 40 practical, replicable teaching techniques based in research and best practice· Suggestions for actions on an individual, classroom, and schoolwide level· Student-facing printables available for download· Ready-to-go tools to use in planning and instruction
Provide students a clear view of what success looks like for any process, task, or product.What does success look like for your students? How will they know if they have learned? This essential component of teaching and learning can be difficult to articulate but is vital to achievement for both teachers and students. The Success Criteria Playbook catapults teachers beyond learning intentions to define clearly what success looks like for every student¿whether face-to-face or in a remote learning environment. Designed to be used collaboratively in grade-level, subject area teams¿or even on your own¿the step-by-step playbook expands teacher understanding of how success criteria can be utilized to maximize student learning and better engage learners in monitoring and evaluating their own progress. Each module is designed to support the creation and immediate implementation of high-quality, high impact success criteria and includes:¿ Templates that allow for guided and independent study for teachers. ¿ Extensive STEM-focused examples from across the K-12 STEM curriculum to guide teacher learning and practice. ¿ Examples of success criteria applied across learning domains and grades, including high school content, skills, practices, dispositions, and understandings.
Create environments where students ask questions, not just answer them!When students become questioners, learning improves for all. Yet, even though research has repeatedly shown that student questioning increases ownership of learning and narrows opportunity gaps, studies show that students ask less than five percent of the questions in classrooms today.How do you turn this teacher-centric dynamic around? In this book by bestselling author and education expert Jackie Walsh, the author shifts the focus to student-centric learning and how to develop student questioning strategies, including self-questions, academic questions, exploratory questions, and dialogic questions. Other highlights include:¿ Vignettes of quality questioning in action in various grade-level and content-area classrooms¿ Examples of how to use questioning to harness the power of formative assessment and create a culture of inquiry¿ Student questioning models for distance learning
Presents convincing evidence-based arguments about the necessity and possibility for breaking the traditional boundaries that limit learning.
Presents a teacher's collection suitable for brain-compatible instruction. In this book, the author provides teachers with the practical strategies and understanding needed to reach every student in the general and inclusive classroom including the challenged, challenging, and accomplished students.
The expert¿s guide to making LISC work for you!In over twenty years of research, Shirley Clarke has found that the key to understanding, creating, and implementing LISC is to focus on the process of learning rather than the product, or end result. In this practical guide, she shows you: · How to phrase learning intentions, organize and plan for them, and share them with students· How to create success criteria to fit each learning intention· How to adapt these practices to different disciplines¿with examples· Implementation strategies based on real-life teacher success stories
Detailed plans for helping elementary students experience deep mathematical learning The mathematical tasks in this guide will challenge your youngest students to do deep problem-based learning. These ready-to-implement tasks connect concepts, skills, and practices and encourage students to reason, problem-solve, discuss, explore, justify, monitor their own thinking, and connect the mathematics they know to new situations. In other words, these tasks allow students to truly do mathematics! Written with a strengths-based lens, this guide includes:¿ Complete task-based lessons, referencing mathematics standards and practices, vocabulary, and materials ¿ Downloadable planning tools, student resource pages, and thoughtful questions, and formative assessment prompts¿ Guidance on preparing, launching, facilitating, and reflecting on each task¿ Notes on access and equity, focusing on students¿ strengths, productive struggle, and distance or alternative learning environments
Simply Stations: Writing shows how to ensure that kids are purposefully and effectively practicing comprehension, deeper thinking, vocabulary, and communication skills every day. Debbie Diller has been refining literacy stations for over 40 years, working with thousands of teachers and students. She gives everything you need to plan, teach, and refresh the Writing station year-round, including: Step-by-step instructions for launching and maintaining the station; Whole-group lesson plans, based on key literacy standards, to introduce and support partner work; Printable teacher and student tools; On-the-spot assessment ideas and troubleshooting tips; Lists of grade-level specific materials; and Countless real-classroom photos so you see the possibilities first-hand.
What if multilingual learners had the freedom to interact in more than one language with their peers during classroom assessment? What if multilingual learners and their teachers in dual language settings had opportunities to use assessment data in multiple languages to make decisions? Just imagine the rich linguistic, academic, and cultural reservoirs we could tap as we determine what our multilingual learners know and can do.Thankfully, Margo Gottlieb is here to provide concrete and actionable guidance on how to create assessment systems that enable understanding of the whole student, not just that fraction of the student who is only visible as an English learner. With Classroom Assessment in Multiple Languages as your guide, yoüll: Better understand the rationale for and evidence on the value and advantages of classroom assessment in multiple languages Add to your toolkit of classroom assessment practices in one or multiple languages Be more precise and effective in your assessment of multilingual learners by embedding assessment as, for, and of learning into your instructional repertoire Recognize how social-emotional, content, and language learning are all tied to classroom assessment Guide multilingual learners in having voice and choice in the assessment processDespite the urgent need, assessment for multilingual learners is generally tucked into a remote chapter, if touched upon at all in a book; the number of resources narrows even more when multiple languages are brought into play. Here at last is that single resource on how educators and multilingual learners can mutually value languages and cultures in instruction and assessment throughout the school day and over time. We encourage you to get started right away. "Margo Gottlieb has demonstrated why the field, particularly the field as it involves the teaching of multilingual learners, needs another assessment book, particularly a book like this. . . . Classroom Assessment in Multiple Languages quite likely could serve as a catalyst toward the beginning of an enlightened discourse around assessment that will benefit multilingual learners."~Kathy Escamilla
When it comes to the hard work of reconstructing our schools into places where every student has the opportunity to succeed, Mirko Chardin and Katie Novak are absolutely convinced that teachers should serve as our primary architects. And by "teachers" they mean legions of teachers working in close collaboration. After all, it¿s teachers who design students¿ learning experiences, who build student relationships . . . who ultimately have the power to change the trajectory of our students¿ lives.Equity by Design is intended to serve as a blueprint for teachers to alter the all-too-predictable outcomes for our historically under-served students. A first of its kind resource, the book makes the critical link between social justice and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) so that we can equip students (and teachers, too) with the will, skill, and collective capacity to enact positive change.Inside yoüll find: Concrete strategies for designing and delivering a culturally responsive, sustainable, and equitable framework for all students Rich examples, case studies, and implementation spotlights of educators, students (including Parkland survivors), and programs that have embraced a social justice imperative Evidence-based application of best practices for UDL to create more inclusive and equitable classrooms A flexible format to facilitate use with individual teachers, teacher teams, and as the basis for whole-school implementation"Every student," Mirko and Katie insist, "deserves the opportunity to be successful regardless of their zip code, the color of their skin, the language they speak, their sexual and/or gender identity, and whether or not they have a disability." Consider Equity by Design a critical first step forward in providing that all-important opportunity."Our calling is to drop our egos, commit to removing barriers, and treat our learners with the unequivocal respect and dignity they deserve."~Mirko Chardin and Katie Novak
Pool your collective wisdom in support of your English learners! Bestselling authors Andrea Honigsfeld and Maria G. Dove have returned with this new resource that compliments and expands on their previous titles on co-teaching and collaboration by addressing collaborative planning in greater depth. Co-planning is positioned as the first step toward integrative language and content instruction as regular and purposeful collaboration ensures that Els/MLs have access to core content.Key features include:· Practical, step-by-step guidance to starting and sustaining collaborative planning for integrated language, literacy, and social-emotional development · An array of checklists, templates, and protocols for immediate implementation· Snapshots from the Field provide real-life examples of co-planning in action· Beautiful full-color design with original sketch notes to bring concepts to life· QR codes that link to author interviews elaborating on key ideas
A multimedia package to help facilitators lead training on differentiating instruction and using metacognitive and scaffolded techniques to improve student achievement in reading comprehension, language arts, and math.
Rebooting Policy Analysis: Strengthening the Foundation, Expanding the Scope is a savvy introduction to policy analysis that gets students thinking, not just about how decisions should be made, but how they are made. The text highlights practical skills needed to advise decision-makers on matters of public policy in ways that are well-informed and solutions-oriented, while managing limitations like time, resources, and information. In a world that has become increasingly complex and partisan, the strength of policy analysis rests not only in its classical academic methods, but on the development of a practical, analytic mindset.
Test Development and Validation by Gary Skaggs frameworks for test development and validation, and guidance for developing tests in straightforward language in one core text. Covering the changes in testing, technical development of tests and determining validity of tests, this book offers clear explanations within a real-world context.
Learn how to take self-care off your to-do list! This book¿s unique and compelling framework empowers you to practice self-care through thoughts and actions that are within your control, enhancing your well-being without taking on extraneous responsibilities. Features include: A checklist for determining your baseline of strengths and needs Self-reflection questions, journaling opportunities, and action-planning exemplars A process for tracking, celebrating, and revising your own tangible objectives Teaching guidance for distance or hybrid education Strategies to share with your students
An equitable, inclusive and practical application of culturally responsive teaching that transcends learning environmentsEducators in the 21st century are teaching diverse learners across a range of learning environments, while attending to critical issues related to equity, inclusion, and social justice. Now there¿s a resource to help you merge the essential skills of embedding culturally responsive teaching practices into online and in person learning settings. Using the Dynamic Equitable Learning Environments (DELE) framework, you can build the knowledge, awareness, skills, and dispositions to pivot instruction to facilitate equitable, inclusive, and anti-racist learning experiences that transcend cultural, social, and linguistic backgrounds¿no matter where, when, or how your students do their learning.Combining an interactive workspace with teacher preparation and professional development, this book provides an action planner and toolkit for embedding culturally responsive teaching into online and in person instruction. Other features include: Demonstrative, inspirational, and culturally responsive practical approaches for online and in person educational settings Self-reflection questions, anti-bias exercises, and critical-thinking activities that support equity-mindedness Culturally sustaining checklist templates Links to additional responsive online resources, readings, and culturally relevant media Action plan templates to work through in each chapter Additional Call to Action practices to pursue after completing the book
Using Goals to Amplify Student Learning Step Into Student Goal Setting provides an action plan for answering the question: What does this student know and how do I build from it? Research-driven and practical, this guide shows teachers how to integrate formative assessment, student metacognition, and motivational strategies to make goal setting an integral instructional strategy for learning growth and agency. Readers will find: Actionable strategies for incorporating goal setting in instructional practice Tips for using goals as motivational strategies to drive student growth Guidance on how to coach students through setting their own goals Vignettes and examples to demonstrate what goal setting looks like in the classroom
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