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Reboot, energize, and simplify the professional learning communities (PLC) process with The 15-Day Challenge! This practical guide brings the PLC process to life through seven simple unit design steps, providing a clear road map for creating a guaranteed and viable curriculum. Designed for results, this challenge helps educators navigate the PLC journey with clarity and impact.

Embrace the new normal of hybrid teaching and enhance student learning. Connecting theory and reflective experience this book equips educators with blended learning strategies for both classroom and online environments.

The Digital Projects Playbook is an invaluable resource for the modern educator. With its rubrics, practical advice, personal anecdotes, and assignment templates, classroom teachers can use the six digital projects, including blog posts, presentations, and podcasts, to elevate students’ work and empower their voices.

Support students in developing a deep understanding of multiplication by emphasizing procedural fluency to develop automaticity in mathematics. This book will lead you through a 20-week program that utilizes six tactics to promote reasoning over rote memorization.

Explore seven classroom mindsets and accompanying strategies for counteracting the effects of poverty on education and student success. Discover tools, worksheets, and resources designed to help overcome adversity and poverty in schools.

This practical handbook will guide you through implementing Dr. Robert J. Marzano’s The New Art and Science of Teaching framework to improve student learning outcomes and academic achievement. With this guide, you will better understand and utilize the research-based instructional strategies and teaching methods of the Marzano framework in your classroom, school, or district.

Teachers will learn how to promote self-regulation in the classroom with research-based teaching strategies backed by evidence-based pedagogy—all while equipping students with crucial metacognitive models and the ability to take ownership of their learning.

Accelerate learning with high-impact strategies. Beginning and veteran teachers alike will find insights and practices they can use immediately. No matter what content area you teach, this book will help you develop the strategic reader in every student.

Design assessment for learning and drive student engagement and academic achievement. Gain holistic assessment methods and tools for both summative and formative assessment in the classroom, and transition to a mode of assessment that truly reflects course curriculum and student progress.

Discover art- and music-specific instructional strategies built on the foundation of The New Art and Science of Teaching framework. Teach technical skills alongside artistic development to support students’ portfolios, repertoires, and creative expression.