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Discover how to use questing—a pedagogy tailored to a student’s interests, needs, and abilities—to foster 21st century skills.

Learn how to ask targeted questions to enhance students’ reasoning skills and increase rigor in classrooms.

This anthology presents a collection of powerful stories written by women whose backgrounds are as diverse as their leadership roles. Readers will discover a sense of community among the pages, as well as practical guidance on how to develop the skills and character to achieve success.

This expansion of Whatever It Takes sharpens the focus on the pyramid of interventions strategy and presents new insights.

How can you effectively address the academic and SEL needs of your diverse learners? By activating social-emotional learning within a framework that includes trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and restorative teaching practices.

Discover questioning techniques proven to enhance critical thinking and 21st century skills, deepen student engagement, and improve college and career readiness. This user-friendly guide provides templates, surveys, and checklists for planning instruction, unpacking standards, and increasing rigor in the classroom.

This practical guide offers K–5 teachers, coaches, and leaders 25 strategies to boost student literacy achievement. Organized into before-reading, during-reading, and after-reading text scaffolding strategies, these methods advocate for engaging all students in challenging texts. Learn how to adapt these strategies for whole-class, small-group, and partner instruction.

Activities and athletics are vital to academic success. This book explores their history, their impact on school culture, and practical steps for improvement through the Rally model—raising standards, aligning stakeholders, building learning communities, promoting student leadership, and celebrating achievements.

Support students with disabilities using this three-tiered instructional framework. Covering research-based strategies, assessment, data collection, specially designed instruction, high-leverage practices, and co-teaching, this book details each tier, from foundational instruction to targeted intervention and remediation.

Learn the step-by-step instructional plan for teachers to implement read alouds in preK–8 classrooms. Whether you’re a longtime professional or new to teaching, this resource helps you support young learners emotionally, intellectually, linguistically, and developmentally.