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Discover nine key thinking habits to cultivate in your K–12 students. This book helps educators explore habits, from fostering curiosity and taking risks to embracing lifelong learning. Author Nathan D. Lang-Raad dives into the challenge-based learning framework and how to integrate these habits with academic standards and 21st century skills.

Deftly navigate the constant cycles of change and truly thrive in the classroom with the support of this actionable resource. Build strong relationships with classroom management strategies and empowering leadership. Achieve professional fulfillment by responding to changes in education with meaningful self-care.

Rigorous learning prepares students to face academic challenges and navigate the real world. Gain clear, research-supported guidance to balance the core values of teaching with a both innovative and impactful mindset and discover ways to help students take ownership of their learning and thrive academically.

Gain clear guidance for implementing a personalized competency-based education (PCBE) scheduling system that prioritizes student learning needs. Readers can use student data to design a class schedule that facilitates personalized learning.

Become critical consumers of education research with this user-friendly guide. This book empowers educators to understand complex topics influencing high-quality teaching methods. Learn to read and interpret research, explore teaching pedagogies, and analyze the impact of educational practices on student achievement.

Anyone can learn mathematics and stay in the math game for life once they learn key superpowers that can demystify foundational concepts—from whole numbers, fractions, and place value operations to ratios, proportions, and percentages. This book offers teaching methods to develop a dynamic and flexible understanding of numbers and operations in young learners.

The role of an instructional coach is fundamental. The personalized, job-embedded professional development, instructional strategies, and targeted feedback you give to teachers helps them hone their craft. Your work impacts student success and school improvement. If you’ve got questions, this guidebook is for you.

Designed as a guide to school reform, this resource outlines a series of ten small-scale changes powerful enough to make a lasting impact. Promote K–12 student growth through research-based instructional strategies, performance-based assessments, and social-emotional learning (SEL).

This book consolidates decades of research on effective literacy instruction. It provides a clear model for designing effective reading instruction that integrates the science of reading and evidence-based strategies. Teachers and educators can learn to confidently implement these strategies in the classroom.

Research shows that desirable difficulties as achieved with spaced repetition, interleaving, and retrieval (SIR) have positive long-term impacts on student learning, because the learning sticks. This book guides you through these three techniques for a more brain-compatible classroom geared toward student success.