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Use this powerful event as a springboard for teachers, administrators, and community members to enter into respectful dialogue that creates a call to action and a plan to do better.

Explore specific biases in education with author ClauDean ChiNaka Kizart. She emphasizes bias origins and how they impact K–12 educators, students, and administrators. From intergroup bias to decision-fatigue bias to scarcity bias, discover insights and strategies for recognizing, managing, and countering these biases in school communities.

Designed for teachers and leaders who want to disrupt the status quo, bust out of PLC Lite, and persistently pursue a culture of continuous improvement, this book carries it all. It emphasizes creating a student-centered approach to teaching and learning in a PLC that prioritizes student agency and efficacy.

Learn how you can transform learning in your district by shifting from a traditional time-based education system to a learner-centered performance-based system.

Wellness for teachers and support staff means so much more than taking time for self-care. It requires systemwide change supported by leadership. This book provides K–12 administrators with a framework and tools to address the stress that impacts daily life for the majority of educators.

Discover how to use Depth of Knowledge (DOK) to enhance teacher clarity around standards and ensure student understanding of learning objectives and outcomes. Examine what distinguishes DOK as a concept, framework, and language for teaching and learning. Explore how to use the DOK levels to develop and deliver teaching and learning experiences that are standards driven and student supportive. Leave with actionable and applicable strategies that will engage and encourage students to demonstrate and discuss their learning at different and deeper levels.

Explore why current grading policies and scheduling are ineffective and learn how a standards-based grading system can transform teaching and learning.

Organized around the four critical questions of PLC at Work®, this resource provides collaborative teams with tools to become agents of positive change. Objectives are organized in an explicit structure to foster best practices in teaching and improve team learning outcomes.

Whether you’re in collaborative teams identifying grade-level standards, school leadership teams assessing Tier 2 interventions, or intervention teams helping at-risk students, this book offers educators the targeted tools necessary to create a highly effective multitiered system of supports (MTSS) that can ensure high levels of learning for every student.

Discover a research-based model you can implement to help English learners, general education students, and special education students master tiered vocabulary.