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Build and sustain a strong, collaborative professional learning community. This unique Portable Event Package brings together some of the brightest, most respected minds in education. You'll hear dynamic keynotes and watch powerful breakouts designed to help infuse the PLC at Work® process into every aspect of your school or district.

Positively influence the behavior of even your most challenging students. In The Tactical Teacher, author Dale Ripley shares a plethora of tactics, ranging from persuasive dialogue to environmental details, proven to improve classroom behavior and increase student learning.

Small habits can make a big difference. Uncover the role, responsibilities, assumptions, and mindsets of effective teacher team leaders, and explore simple, go-to moves and strategies that transform team collaboration in a Professional Learning Community at Work®. This session equips teacher team leaders with clear priorities, collaborative mindsets, and practical tools to elevate team effectiveness.

Most school districts are familiar with professional learning communities (PLCs) and have done the work to implement a version that works with their teacher teams. At the same time, many districts are not seeing the results they wanted, which usually means they are not implementing the PLC process correctly.

Structured around the author’s IMPACT framework, this book provides grades 6–12 teachers, SEL coordinators, instructional coaches, and administrators with strategies to build meaningful, impactful relationships. Each chapter delves into a letter of the IMPACT acronym: intentional, meaningful, practical, authentic, consistent, and teamwork.

Read, reflect, and act with educator and best-selling author Anthony Muhammad as he dives into the educational hurdles of the past, pairing them with tips to face the current challenges in education and ways to build a better tomorrow—all through the PLC at Work® process, a powerful disrupter in the world of education.

This book helps secondary education teachers understand what personal narrative looks like, how it can empower student writers to create authentic writing, and how it allows students to use their own voices while writing in other genres. Find helpful unit examples and ways to include personal narratives in analytical writing.

In this valuable resource, the authors share recommendations for diverse, culturally relevant, quality children’s literature that explores important aspects of social-emotional learning. In each chapter, book suggestions are paired with activities that promote positive self-reflection and compassionate action toward others.

This easy-to-understand guide pares down the vast field of neuroscience and provides simple brain-compatible strategies that will make a measurable difference in your differentiated classrooms.

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.