Solution Tree

Nurture positive student-teacher relationships to improve student engagement, behavior, and achievement for youth at risk. Research shows that discipline problems are one of the greatest challenges in education. In Building Bridges, author Don Parker shows educators how to address this issue head-on.

Use the academic tasks students already do for social-emotional learning. Integrate student values into academic instruction and make learning meaningful for students. This book will guide teachers in helping students connect their work to their values, empowering them to redefine success.

Encourage creativity, communication, innovation, and collaboration in students by incorporating engineering design process thinking into existing classwork. Gain strategies for supporting engineering practices that foster creative problem-solving and critical thinking.

Craft a personal blueprint for teaching that ensures student learning stands as the foundation of your classroom. This resource offers research-based instructional design and teaching strategies that bolster K–12 student success throughout the learning process.

Access simple yet powerful personalized learning plans that any teacher—regardless of grade, existing curriculum, or student load—can adapt, scale, and sustain. Achieve deep learning with teaching strategies that foster students’ cognitive, digital, and social emotional learning (SEL) skills.

Learn how to utilize the Youth Employability Skills (YES!) framework to foster confident, well-rounded, career-ready students. This resource helps educators teach 21st century skills, such as problem solving and critical thinking, to ensure that each learner is prepared for the workplace or higher education.

Differentiating for students’ learning preferences can often seem too complex and complicated for too little gain. Learn a better way forward with the guidance of Doable Differentiation. Author Jane A.G. Kise provides a series of straightforward, high-reward strategies that K–12 educators like you successfully use in their daily practice to support, engage, and challenge students with diverse learning styles.

“Common Denominators is a collection of stories braided together with research-informed strategies and tools,” writes author Jennifer A. Lenhardt. Make sense of student engagement and belonging by using mathematics concepts that illustrate our common humanity and illuminate a clear, sustainable path for honoring and meeting all students’ needs.

Using validated strategies and practical actions, K–12 educators can use this book to ensure that all students possess the four positive mindsets foundational to student achievement: (1) “I belong in this academic community,” (2) “I can succeed at this,” (3) “This work has value for me,” and (4) “My ability and competence grow with effort.”

Empower your first- to third-grade learners to think with inquiry-based learning. Using guided rubrics and tools, educators can realistically assess, evaluate, and integrate inquiry into their curriculum. Discover the specific needs and learning stages of elementary students as they explore, synthesize, consolidate, and reflect on their learning.