Robert J. Marzano

Learn how to ask targeted questions to enhance students’ reasoning skills and increase rigor in classrooms.

Accurately report students' academic strengths and weaknesses with standards-based grading.

Usher in the new era of school reform. The authors help you transform your schools into organizations that take proactive steps to prevent failure and ensure student success. Using a research-based five-level hierarchy along with leading and lagging indicators, you'll learn to assess, monitor, and confirm the effectiveness of your schools. Each chapter includes what actions should be taken at each level.

Examine how a change in teaching philosophy can help awaken the passion for learning in students. Learn how to promote kindness in the classroom, and understand the power of stories in engaging students

Cultivate a positive mindset, and choose productive actions by examining your emotions and interpretations in the classroom and understanding factors that influence your decisions.

Align instruction and assessment with the new science standards, and create proficiency scales to plan all types of lessons.

Drive student success with 20 research-based instructional strategies that focus on student learning outcomes. This companion to the book The New Art and Science of Teaching offers video demonstrations of Dr. Marzano’s competency-based teaching methods for systematic change.

Competency-based learning drives meaningful transformation in education. Explore the Westminster Public Schools learning model, emphasizing vision, leadership, foundational practices, learner-centered classrooms, data-driven improvement, and the High Reliability Schools process.

This book champions competency-based education, outlining its history and benefits. It explores structural components such as organizing systems, foundational changes, student outcomes, agency, and equity, and procedural components such as assessment, instruction, and teacher facilitation. By embracing these principles, educators can create dynamic, student-centered learning environments.

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.