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In school, sometimes we focus more on having students complete tasks than on developing their thinking and understanding. This book provides concrete routines teachers can use in their classrooms to promote deeper thinking.
Category Archives: Must Reads for Teachers
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Apr
Jones describes the skills exceptional teachers use to manage their classrooms effectively. This is a must-read for teachers who want help with the common foibles they face in dealing with pesky students.
PD, Classroom Management, Must Reads for Teachers
Running the Room: The Teacher’s Guide to Behaviour by Tom Bennett
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Apr
Teachers must embrace their role as the authority who is running the room through effective planning, teaching, and maintenance of behavior standards. Luckily behavior guru Tom Bennett is here to show you how.
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Apr
Based on the premise that great teaching can be learned, this book helps teachers improve their craft by categorizing, describing in detail, and naming the techniques used by top teachers.
PD, Classroom Management, Must Reads for Teachers
The First Days of School by Harry and Rosemary Wong
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Apr
This is the classic book that has helped millions of teachers start the year successfully with vital classroom management, organization, discipline, and other strategies.
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Apr
This book shows teachers how to develop ethical grading and assessment practices that lead to a clear and accurate report of what students know and can do.
Must Reads for Teachers, Assessment
Classroom Assessment for Student Learning by Richard J. Stiggins et al.
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Apr
You can use formative assessment to actually improve learning and motivate students not just measure student achievement. This book shows you how.
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Apr
Research shows that when teachers use formative assessment, students make twice as much progress! This book includes practical formative assessment strategies for teachers in all grades, K-12.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Must Reads for Teachers
We Got This: Equity, Access, and the Quest to Be Who Our Students Need Us to Be by Cornelius Minor
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Apr
Apr
Minor shows teachers how to address inequities in their classrooms by making their classrooms radically student-centered, listening to students, and changing their mindset and pedagogy to work for students.
Equity, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Must Reads for School Leaders, Must Reads for Teachers
Grading for Equity by Joe Feldman
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Apr
Apr
Improve equity and learning by replacing common grading practices that are harmful with research-based grading practices that are more accurate, less biased, and more motivating.