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This user-friendly resource provides practical recommendations and strategies for designing units of study that center on students writing narrative fiction and nonfiction.

This book champions narrative-based approaches to boost student engagement and creativity. It explores how to use storytelling to craft meaningful assessments, weaving together research, practical classroom strategies, and diverse cultural perspectives.

Discover student numeracy assessment and practice (SNAP)—a practical approach to help classroom teachers evaluate number sense. With its simple and reliable method, K–8 math teachers can quickly implement SNAP in their daily teaching practices and ignite a sense of wonder and thinking for math in their students.

Designed specifically for K–12 teachers, this guide provides a sequential approach to implementing standards-based education in the classroom. Transition to more effective instructional strategies and use standards-based grading and assessment methods to better measure student learning.

In this practical guide, the authors present a model of instruction and assessment designed to help students succeed in the ever-changing knowledge economy of the 21st century.

Combining educational neuroscience, formative assessment, and differentiated instruction strategies to improve student achievement, Nickelsen and Dickson create a four-step instructional cycle that educators can easily implement.

Educators learn to analyze test question structures in English language arts and mathematics. This book provides strategies to incorporate these structures into classroom content, instruction, and student preparation. K–12 teachers and school leaders can explore methods for integrating testing structures into daily work and examine the role of school leadership in facilitating these new methods.

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.

Leave behind one-size-fits-all lessons, tests, and grades in favor of a student-centered approach that is interactive, individualized, and rigorous. This resource details teaching practices that enhance student engagement through interactive instruction and academic rigor.

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