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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.

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.

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.

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.

Grounded in research-informed strategies, this book helps educators refine literacy instruction for grades 2–6. Explore lesson planning, text selection, and structured reading strategies across three parts, with techniques for before, during, and after reading, along with methods to foster a supportive classroom.

Prepare students in grades 4–5 to succeed with increasingly sophisticated reading and writing challenges. This resource contains literacy and student engagement strategies for educators in a professional learning community, as well as reading and writing strategies.

Prepare your collaborative PLC team to fully support and encourage literacy development in preK through first grade. Foster early literacy and vocabulary with insightful reading and writing strategies that boost student engagement.