William M. Ferriter

With a short, reader-friendly format, these quick reads deliver practical, high-impact 21st century strategies to enhance instruction and heighten student achievement.

These how-to guides—authored by renowned PLC experts—are packed with user-friendly solutions for you and your entire team.

Expert practitioners address the role of school leaders to model positive change and ignite a shift toward assessments that drive instruction.

Focus on developing people not just improving test scores. The authors examine how staffing decisions can strengthen professional learning communities.

Find the natural overlap between the work you already believe in and the digital tools that define today’s learning.

Discover strategies for infusing digital tools into your PLC, and acquire a list of digital tools your team can use to foster sharing, cooperation, and collaboration.

Schools that truly want to “create lifelong learners” must understand the influence that their actions in the classroom have on realizing this mission. Creating lifelong learners depends on more than good intentions; it depends on intentional actions designed to encourage students to realize that they have the capacity to move their own learning forward regardless of life circumstances or experiences. While this truth is likely something that most teachers already believe, integrating practices that build student self-efficacy into daily instruction remains elusive in most classrooms. Creating lifelong learners happens only when teachers move from knowing about the importance of student self-efficacy to doing something about it.

Gain strategies for reshaping the traditional classroom to give modern students opportunities to exercise choice in their curriculum and master new skills.

William M. Ferriter and Diana Williams share how their students are changing the world for the better by coming together to make microloans to entrepreneurs in the developing world.

You have the power to ignite positive change. Be a leader in your field, whether you’re a classroom teacher or a building-level administrator.