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In this user-friendly guide, the authors draw from best practice and their extensive experience to identify strategies and tools that help new teachers succeed.

Replace an antiquated education system with a flexible, proactive one that ensures learning for all by focusing on three important domains of the alignment process.

Explore the emotional, cultural, and academic needs of diverse students to help them develop the skills to become lifelong learners.

Discover how to select appropriate complex texts and design instruction to meet the needs of every K12 student.

Use the academic tasks students already do for social-emotional learning. Integrate student values into academic instruction and make learning meaningful for students. This book will guide teachers in helping students connect their work to their values, empowering them to redefine success.

Explore a variety of perspectives and examples from educators who have shifted to competency-based education in their classrooms with great results.

Learn how to adapt learning in response to students individual needs, create clear learning targets, prepare effective lessons, and more.

Discover how to incorporate digital games and use them to craft engaging, academically applicable classroom activities that revitalize teaching and learning.

Discover how technological resources can improve the effectiveness and breadth of reading instruction to build student knowledge.

With the adoption of the Common Core State Standards, there is a renewed focus on developing writing skills and, along with it, an awareness that the new digital technologies have much to contribute in this vital area.