Though classroom instructional strategies should clearly be based on sound science and research, knowing when to use them and with whom is more of an art. In The Art and Science of Teaching: ...more on ebook "The Art and Science of Teaching: A ..."

Making sure that all students read well is a top priority for schools, and literacy coaches are playing an increasingly important role in the effort. Their challenge? To deliver the kind of ...more on ebook "Differentiated Literacy Coaching: S..."

For families, educators, corporations, and communities, The Biggest Job We'll ever Have is nothing less than a new paradigm for reconnecting education with core values. With more than thirty ...more on ebook "The Biggest Job We'll Ever Have: Th..."

What teacher hasn't sometimes believed that the entire class understands a lesson, even though only a few students are nodding their heads and answering questions? Later, the teacher is dism ...more on ebook "Checking for Understanding: Formati..."

With all the talk of failing schools these days, we often forget that schools can fail their brightest students too. Gifted children forced into a "one size fits all" approach to schooling f ...more on ebook "Genius Denied: How to Stop Wasting ..."

The most important factor affecting student learning isn't standards, textbooks, or testing--it's teachers. And when it comes to improving learning, research has shown teachers what works. B ...more on ebook "Improving Student Learning One Teac..."

Severing the Achievement Gap in the education of Students contains powerful learning activities and successful research-based strategies for the classroom, the school, and the distric ...more on ebook ""Severing" the Achievement Gap in t..."

A young schoolteacher struggles to bring literacy and self-respect to a black backwoods South Carolina school in this affecting work. An early, semi-autobiographical novel by the author of ...more on ebook "The Water Is Wide..."

Now that the No Child Left Behind Act has left its mark on public education, educators across the United States are all the more invested in preparing their students for state and national a ...more on ebook "Tests That Teach: Using Standardize..."