Authors

With its conversational style, Owning It prepares teachers both new and experienced to take command of their many roles in their classrooms, schools, and communities. Learn to embrace the struggles teachers face daily and implement effective teaching strategies to ensure all students succeed and close the achievement gap for youth at risk.

Kyle Palmer draws from his experience as both a principal of a Model PLC at Work® school and a parent to offer practical strategies for including parents or guardians as part of your collaborative culture focused on student learning.

Create more effective co-teaching partnerships with this comprehensive guide. Matthew Treadway helps general and special educators develop a purposeful, sequential approach to co-teaching. Gain strategies that break down instruction into six essential stages to promote equitable learning for all.

This book provides a five-phase process for implementing evidence-based grading, offering practical guidance for teachers and a clear road map for school leaders to improve student assessment, grading, and reporting. The five-phase process helps schools address some of the challenges they encounter with standards-based and competency-based grading models, providing structured steps and solutions. K–12 administrators can use this book to evaluate their system’s effectiveness, reflect on successes and challenges, and continuously refine evidence-based grading practices to enhance student learning outcomes.

Split into two sections for building and refining, this guide provides a comprehensive high school peer tutoring curriculum. Equip students to communicate, advocate, and support through seven peer training modules and tools that bridge general and special education, tailored to your students’ unique needs.

Access simple yet powerful personalized learning plans that any teacher—regardless of grade, existing curriculum, or student load—can adapt, scale, and sustain. Achieve deep learning with teaching strategies that foster students’ cognitive, digital, and social emotional learning (SEL) skills.

Become a highly effective, learning-progressive school that utilizes PLC processes and well-implemented RTI structures to promote student agency. Increase authentic learning, engaging students in personalized learning experiences.

This practical resource introduces personalized learning’s key concepts and reveals structures that empower student voice and choice across a school.

Competency-based learning drives meaningful transformation in education. Explore the Westminster Public Schools learning model, emphasizing vision, leadership, foundational practices, learner-centered classrooms, data-driven improvement, and the High Reliability Schools process.

Empowering educators to cultivate student connections to place, culture, and community, this book provides tools and principles for teaching and learning beyond the classroom walls. Teachers can learn to enrich the traditional curricula with authentic, community-driven experiences that create student ownership.