Goals and strategies for new teachers and the mentors who support them. Learn strategies for time management, engaging students, lesson planning, classroom management, and more.
A framework of best practices, exercises, and activities to ethically use AI tools in the high school English classroom.
A research-based framework for infusing hip-hop culture into content lessons for deeper student engagement and understanding.
A guidebook to creating classroom communities that foster identity and belonging in Grades K-6.
A framework for building adolescents' identities as scribes--writers from diverse backgrounds, cultures, and interests who write from their lived experiences. How to transform reluctant writers into students who want to write as translators and interpreters of their culture.
How to implement a student-centered math workshop in middle and high school classrooms.
A framework for improving students' critical reading skills using five questions to ask any text.
Teaching practices to build students' prior knowledge, a key component to reading comprehension.
Lindsey Moses provides 50 research-based strategies and scaffolds to support multilingual learners in elementary classrooms.
A new edition of the bestselling Growing Language and Literacy, tailored for secondary teachers! Practical strategies that can be applied across grade levels and content areas to support adolescent multilingual learners.
Get The Writing Strategies Book and Companion Charts for one great price! The anchor charts, tools, and other visuals from The Writing Strategies Book are now available in a tabletop flip chart to save you preparation (and drawing) time! In the companion charts flip chart, you'll find the enlarged versions of every chart corresponding to the 300 strategies in an easy-to-use trifold stand. Ready to use at your table for small groups or conferring, or you can slide a chart under a document camera and project it when teaching a whole-class lesson.
Teaching Beyond the Timeline: Engaging Students in Thematic History is a practical guide for shifting the the way we teach history in the middle and high school classroom. In order for our students to be truly engaged, we need to help them see the relevance of events in the past, moving from simple rote memorization to requiring students to meaningfully connect historical concepts, people, and events using patterns of comparison, causation, and elements of continuity and change over time. Courses organized around central themes also help to ensure inclusive and relevant curriculum for all our diverse students, a challenge that is difficult to overcome with a traditional, chronological approach.
As humans who teach, there is so much that we want for our students and for ourselves. We want to make our classrooms welcoming and equitable places for students, and we want to lead lives full of peace, love, and joy. However, the ways in which we have been socialized can hold us back. In Humans Who Teach: A Guide for Centering Love, Justice, and Liberation in Schools, Shamari Reid lays out a path for working toward liberation for our students and for ourselves by honoring our own humanity and choosing love over fear.
Georgia Heard's best-selling resource for teaching poetry, now fully updated with new lessons, exercises, and writing prompts that engage today's kids.
As trauma and adversity become increasingly common, teachers and educators need the tools to support their students through these challenges. Trauma-Responsive Pedagogy is an actionable guide that offers research and inclusive frameworks to help you create a trauma-responsive classroom.
Centered on the whole child, this resource promotes healing and wellness for both students and educators. Turn wounds into wisdom and create a safe, supportive space for learning with Trauma-Responsive Pedagogy.
50 action steps teachers can take to improve their writing instruction and achieve better results.
Improve secondary students' writing skills with 100-word stories, a popular form of flash fiction that teaches kids a wide variety of literary skills and devices. Lessons and writing prompts accompany each mentor text and give you tools to use this instructional method in your writing classroom today.
Tom Newkirk, lifetime educator and bestselling author of Minds Made for Stories, discusses eight powerful literacy practices-- and the democratic values that connect them. Newkirk argues that "the house of literacy has a thousand doors, and our job is to help students find one that will let them in." Yet for many students reading and writing is made unnecessarily difficult and uninviting. We need to tell a better story. Literacy's Democratic Roots celebrates eight door-opening ideas that can help us make room for all students.
How to get started with math workshop in any classroom and with any math curriculum. Classroom videos and online resources support the foundational content in this new Classroom Essentials text.
