In this book, author, consultant, and longtime educator Betsy Moore shows teachers how to use data to make informed instructional changes in their classrooms. Strategies will help them to pinpoint and carry out instructional changes that ensure student success.Teachers will learn to:Compile and make sense of dataAnalyze data - Find out what it means and what to do about itDecide how to do what needs to be doneImplement strategies specific...

The ideas and examples in this book help teachers successfully collaborate to raise student achievement through the use of formative assessments. Here, Todd Stanley and Betsy Moore, educators with over 40 years of combined experience, offer proven formative assessment strategies to teachers in a professional learning community.

Develop your students' critical thinking skills and prepare them to perform competitively in the classroom, on state tests, and beyond. In this book, Moore and Stanley show you how to effectively instruct your students to think on higher levels, and how to assess their progress. As states implement the Common Core State Standards, teachers have been called upon to provide higher levels of rigor in their classrooms. Moore and Stanley demonstrate critical thinking as a key approach to accomp...

Deadly is in the detailsElizabeth and Tom's wedding is nearly here. Family, friends, and festivities are all around in Sherman, Wyoming. . . . But so are fatalities. And Elizabeth and her KWMT-TV cohorts past and present are soon drawn into finding answers to more questions than "Will you take this man . . . ?"It starts when, a week before their wedding, an Army colonel walks up to Elizabeth’s KWMT-TV desk and says a retired sergeant is missing. Ex...

A spooky legend twists grave matters.Sheila Mackey’s dislike for cemeteries can’t fend off her friend Clara’s determination. Amid eerie legends, including a tailgating hearse, the accidental investigator is lured into sorting through deadly questions a century old, revolving around an unidentified victim known as ZigZag Jane.Who was she? How did she come to be found murdered in the cemetery more than a hundred years ago? Why is the third generation...

A cold case death heats upFar from the publishing world that once defined her, Sheila Mackey's plan to escape to a quiet life in small-town Kentucky keeps hitting bumps in the road ... and some of those bumps are dead bodies.Sheila and her friend, Clara, are in for their toughest inquiry yet, when they take on investigating a death that's colder than a cold case, because few in Haines Tavern, Kentucky, think it was a murder in the first place. Suic...

Everything can change … except murder.In the television production world, a body brace is used to shift the weight of the camera to the operator's shoulder. This allows for smoother shots and reduces stress and tiredness. And, at the small-town Wyoming TV station KWMT, cameras are older and bulkier than those used in network news-gathering. Almost as old as some of the equipment used in a historical re-creation that draws Elizabeth “E.M.” Danniher and frie...

A reviled supermarket CEO meets his expiration dateThe executive who’s responsible for widely hated changes at the biggest grocery store in Haines Tavern, Kentucky, arrives for a tour … and doesn’t leave alive. Sheila Mackey and her friend Clara Woodrow are on the scene -- buying dog treats, of course – and on the case. Can they pick out the ingredients for the right solution?This whodunit with humor is the fourth book in USA Today bestselling auth...

“There’s a body in my bed. A dead body.”The call from a friend staying at Sherman’s newest – okay, only – B&B starts Elizabeth “E.M.” Danniher on a twisting, turning journey where appearances not only deceive, they turn deadly.When her TV reporter friend Wardell Yardley comes to visit, they take a weekend trip to Yellowstone Park and encounter a surprising set of people. Including a team-building group from social media mega-force VisageTome, a mys...

Prime suspect: The most annoying man in Sherman, WyomingThat’s right, Thurston Fine, the egotistical anchor at KWMT-TV is the first person deputies want to talk to when his self-described biggest fan is found dead.What’s Elizabeth Margaret Danniher to do? The station’s in an uproar, heading for a train wreck, and desperately needs her experience and leadership. At the same time, here’s an intriguing puzzle right in front of her … which might free o...

A killing to keep old Wyoming secrets and treasuresDeath hits close to home for Elizabeth “E.M.” Danniher – or, rather, close to the Hovel, as she’s dubbed her decrepit rental house. Her elderly neighbor kills a man apparently robbing her of Western artifacts. As a former top-flight national TV reporter, Elizabeth knows self-defense might satisfy the legal system, yet leave her neighbor in danger.Doing what she does best – asking questions – Elizab...

Love and death decisions ...Will murder take a break while Elizabeth Margaret Danniher sorts the future of KWMT-TV and her personal life?Don’t count on it.A young woman comes to Elizabeth at KWMT to solve a kind of theft Elizabeth has never encountered before. That’s challenge enough, with the TV station for sale and the top candidate to buy it known for eliminating news departments. But Elizabeth also senses there something more bothering ...