When students are meaningfully involved and emotionally invested in content, they learn more—and perform better. In 20 Strategies for Increasing Student Engagement, Dr. William N. Bender provides practical examples, guidelines, and the research behind his teaching tips to help educators focus on specific strategies for engaging students in the classroom.Bender’s teaching tips are categorized into four sections so it’s easy to find specific engagement strategies for organiz...

School leaders significantly impact student achievement, but they need support, training, vision, and tools to be truly effective. In School Leadership for Results: Shifting the Focus of Leader Evaluation, education authorities Beverly Carbaugh, Robert Marzano, and Michael Toth discuss transforming evaluation into a model that:• Improves the performance of school leaders• Aligns school leaders’ vision, mission, and goals• Connects goals with practices that impact teach...

In this essential new book, best-selling author and researcher Robert J. Marzano and teacher-effectiveness expert Michael D. Toth lay out a framework for the "next generation" of teacher evaluation: a model focused primarily on helping educators develop and improve their practice. By taking into account multiple accurate, data-rich measures of teacher performance and student growth, the model ensures that all teachers receive fair, meaningful, and reliable evaluations. The book includes

This story will ring familiar to every teacher working to prepare students for an increasingly complex, rapidly changing world. The young squirrels and blue jays must learn to fly to a nut tree far in the distance, a task that has never been accomplished before, but the flight instructors aren’t sure how to teach all of them to do it. After trying direct instruction to no avail, they realize that the only way to help the youngsters succeed is to give them the skills they’ll need to figure ...

The Essentials for Achieving Rigor model of instruction and corresponding series of books were developed to help teachers provide that caliber of truly rigorous instruction. This guide, developed by authors of the Essentials series, brings it all together, with valuable tips and guidance to help teachers leverage essential strategies to:Conduct standards-based planning and instructionEstablish conditions for learning and criteria for successUse formative a...