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Take your professional learning community to the next level! Discover a systemwide approach for re-envisioning your PLC while sustaining growth and continuing momentum.

Examine the ways your school can better use student achievement data, nonacademic student data, staff data, and parent/community data to identify areas for improvement.

Build a framework for data-driven dialogue in school-improvement efforts. This book articulates the elements of high-performing teams with an inquiry-driven model for structuring dialogue. Explore tools and strategies for effective data-based planning, problem solving, and organizational capacity building.

Acquire actionable steps you can take throughout the school year to alleviate student test anxiety and create brain-friendly classrooms full of focus and learning. Understand what causes testing anxiety and discover how to implement social-emotional learning strategies in the classroom to help prepare students mentally, emotionally, and physically for high-stakes assessments.

If your understanding of depth of knowledge (DOK) is a little cloudy, you’re not alone. This resource is your one-stop-shop for learning what it is and how to use it to provide learning experiences that are academically rigorous, socially and emotionally supportive, and student responsive.

Change efforts often fail to meet their desired ends. Learn how to make a real, sustainable impact with Deep Change Leadership. This school leadership resource highlights engagement, inquiry, and focused action as part of an effective leadership model.

This book details a framework for implementing student-led classroom discussions that improve learning, motivation, and engagement across all levels and subject areas.

Discover deeper learning, a process that promotes higher-order thinking, reasoning, and problem solving to better educate 21st century learners.

From research to experience, authors Matt Navo and Amy Williams offer a doable framework for multitiered system of supports (MTSS) that supports every student’s diverse needs. This pragmatic approach gives collaborative leadership teams the tools to implement sustainable processes to address the whole child.

“The singular contribution of this book is shifting the focus of assessment from external audiences to students,” writes author and assessment expert Douglas Reeves in the foreword. Design in Five [Second Edition] inspires educators to rethink old ways of assessing student learning and empowers them to create meaningful, relevant assessments to ensure high levels of learning.