Translate the science of learning into strategies for maximum learning impact in your classroom.The content, skills, and understandings students need to learn today are as diverse, complex, and multidimensional as the students in our classrooms. How can educators best create the learning experiences students need to truly learn?How Learning Works: A Playbook unpacks the science of how students learn and translates that kno...

50+ Instructional Strategies for Developing Independent LearnersDiscover over 50 strategies to meet your students where they are and help them succeed.Every teacher faces a recurring question in the classroom: What strategy will help this student learn right now? With hundreds of potential strategies available, the challenge lies in choosing the right approach at the right time. Instructional Strategies to Move Learnin...

How to Activate and Accelerate Student LearningHave you ever given instructions to your students, only to receive blank stares or confusion? Clarity is an essential part of teaching and learning, and every interaction we have with students is the foundation for moving learning forward—we must make every interaction count.Backed by the latest education research on what really works, Teacher Clarity spotlights the newest and best teaching st...

The Latest Time Saving AI Tools that Make Learning More EngagingBusy educators need tools that support their planning and provide them with more time with students. While artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a promising solution, it can only help if we’re willing to continuously learn how to use it in ways that improve upon what we already do well. The Artificial Intelligence Playbook: Time-Saving Tools for Teachers that Make Learning More Engagi...

Provide the perfect structure and support to develop student independence.Effective scaffolding leads to learner autonomy—but too many educators have been airlifting students to right answers, perpetuating a generation who don’t know how to learn. Yes, we know the sweet spot for learning involves giving our students the right blend of productive failure and productive success, but how to do it is cloaked in misconceptions.How Scaffoldi...

Winner of AM&P EXCEL Bronze AwardYour Students, My Students, Our Students explores the hard truths of current special education practice and outlines five essential disruptions to the status quo. Authors Lee Ann Jung, Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, and Julie Kroener show you how to- Establish a school culture that champions equity and inclusion.- Rethink the long-standing structure of least restrictive environment and the resulting service deli...

ASCD Bestseller! Classroom management is traditionally a matter of encouraging good behavior and discouraging bad by doling out rewards and punishments. But studies show that when educators empower students to address and correct misbehavior among themselves, positive results are longer lasting and more wide reaching.In Better Than Carrots or Sticks, longtime educators and best-selling authors Dominique Smith, Douglas Fisher, and Nancy Frey provide a pract...

Transform your PLC collaboration to strengthen student learning across classroomsProfessional Learning Communities hold tremendous potential, but without clear structure and shared purpose, that potential often goes untapped. PLC+ The Texas Way offers Texas educators an evidence-based framework for moving beyond isolated classroom practice toward collaborative inquiry and evidence-based teaching that accelerates learning for every student....

Lay the foundation for inclusive, impactful classrooms where every student thrivesEvery student deserves an education that is meaningful, memorable, and built for them. When we design learning with intentional, universal support, the impact extends beyond individual students—it transforms entire classrooms.In Every Child Deserves a Special Education, the authors introduce five powerful mindframes that reshape the way we think about teaching, learni...

A teacher presents a lesson, and at the end asks students if they understand the material. The students nod and say they get it. Later, the teacher is dismayed when many of the students fail a test on the material. Why aren't students getting it? And, just as important, why didn't the teacher recognize the problem?In Checking for Understanding, Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey show how to increase students' understanding with the help of creative formative assessments. When u...

A professional development assessment tool to elevate learning and instruction in every classroomThis unique, hands-on flipbook is designed as a classroom observation tool that redefines RIGOR, with a focus on five key elements, or indicators, that form a framework to promote a rigorous, scaffolded learning environment. Explore the five indicators to identify teacher strengths and areas for growth, and to set goals:RelationshipsInstruction

Feedback keeps learning moving forward.You have the power to improve everything about teaching and learning—through excellent feedback. Make it precise. Timely. Actionable. Feedback is absolutely necessary for learning, and is the one ingredient that, if missing, will hinder the learning process. In this Playbook, you will not only learn how to give effective feedback—but have abundant opportunities to practice this skill (and get feedback) as you...