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Examine risks and interventions for dropout among boys in poverty. Explore dropout among sensitive, gay, gifted, ADHD, and postadolescent males.

Learn how to leverage the most provocative brain-based learning and neuroscience research to increase your productivity, expand your creative vision, and become a stronger leader. Explore neuroleadership topics such as decision making, change management, and emotional intelligence.

This book provides educators with a whole-school approach to helping English learners achieve academically while they learn English.

Discover how to shift to a competency-based education system that replaces traditional, ineffective practices with a new model that fosters personalized, student-centered learning. This learner-centered approach will help you assess performance to ensure learning for all students.

Presenting information through clearly defined sections—definition, purpose, and examples—author Kjell Fenn provides new and inexperienced teachers with dynamic engagement strategies and a structured approach that builds self-confidence and allows them to work toward creating an orderly and captivating classroom.

The focus is to show how your urban school can make an impact on student achievement and change the trajectory of student lives using the time available during the day, the resources in the book, and the Brilliance in the Building - your amazing staff! The greatness of this webinar is the review of all the resources in the book available for educators to use immediately. I created all of the reproducibles based on 25 years of extensive research and actual use in schools. Leaders and staff in urban schools cannot do this work in isolation; they must work together to accomplish their goals, so therefore the work in this book is grounded in the PLC at Work principles. Let’s go!

Prepare students and measure their comprehension by assigning purposeful work, setting clear expectations, and providing ongoing feedback as the unit of study unfolds.

Activate your students’ creativity and problem-solving potential with breakthrough learning projects that teach students how to generate innovative ideas and then put them into action.

A companion to Teaching Basic, Advanced, and Academic Vocabulary by Robert J. Marzano, this notebook helps students learn and practice more than 5,000 vocabulary terms. Learners can build their literacy skills with a tiered vocabulary of basic English words, organized into word clusters.

Support the growth of your students with meaningful, effective social-emotional learning. You’ll engage in deep reflection and discover ways to refine instruction, lesson planning, and assessment; promote whole-child development; and foster a productive learning environment for all.