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.
Use promo code HUMANS20 at checkout to receive 20% off the web/school price and free ground shipping when you order before March 26, 2024.
Georgia Heard's bestselling 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.
Elevate your students' understanding of nonfiction with The Intermediate Comprehension Toolkit. This resource is brimming with ready-to-use lessons that seamlessly integrate into any curriculum or instructional approach: whole class, intervention, small group, and beyond.
Deepen comprehension across the content areas and develop critical thinking with strategies for connecting, questioning, inferring, summarizing, and more. The Intermediate Toolkit Teacher Pack offers all you need for your classroom, helping to nurture lifelong learners and thinkers.
Elevate your students' understanding of nonfiction with The Primary Comprehension Toolkit. This resource is brimming with ready-to-use lessons that seamlessly integrate into any curriculum or instructional approach: whole class, intervention, small group, and beyond.
Deepen comprehension across the content areas and develop critical thinking with strategies for connecting, questioning, inferring, summarizing, and more. The Primary Toolkit Teacher Pack offers all you need for your classroom, helping to nurture lifelong learners and thinkers.
The dramatically new and improved The Reading Strategies Book 2.0 and its flipbook of Companion Charts are designed to be trusted, research-aligned companions for any K–8 reading classroom—no matter your curriculum, subject area, or instructional approach.
Also available as a Standalone Chart or Spiral Bundle.
Reading matters because it changes us. It changes the way we think, the way we see the world, the way we process information and dream new thoughts.
This new edition of When Kids Can’t Read—What Teachers Can Do is a guidebook for those who teach students who struggle with reading. Extensively rewritten by Kylene Beers, it offers practical teaching scaffolds and strategies in the areas of comprehension, vocabulary development, fluency, and engagement.
The Reading Strategies Book 2.0 is designed to be a trusted, research-aligned companion for any K–8 reading classroom—no matter your curriculum, subject area, or instructional approach. Connect crucial research to powerful practice, whether you need engaging lessons for whole-class teaching, support for small-group instruction, ideas for intervention, or ways to fill gaps in a core curriculum. The friendly design makes it easy to find strategies that meet every student where they are now.
Companion Charts available as a Standalone Chart, Spiral Bundle, or Paperback Bundle.
Dramatically improve student writing by teaching with mentor texts in Grades K-5. A foundational guide to finding, analyzing, and teaching with mentor texts.
Easy-to-follow teaching directions for compelling, engaging lessons!
From “Look, Quick!” to “Mystery Sums,” the twenty classroom-tested lessons in this resource provide friendly, meaningful support for using ten-frames. Ten-frames are one of the most important models that teachers can use to help students anchor to the landmark number ten and develop all aspects of number sense. They help students develop the skills they need to become flexible and fluent problem solvers.