A Visual, Step-by-Step Guide for Re-Envisioning Rigor: Powerful Routines for Promoting Learning at High Levels offers practical, actionable protocols to ensure you and your colleagues are able to respond to your students' needs. This playbook is designed to eliminate the guesswork and cut through the conceptual jargon.Strengthens learning at all levels: surface, deep, and transferProtocols are tried and tested in schools and teacher approvedClear,...

A Visual, Step-by-Step Guide for Re-Envisioning Rigor: Powerful Routines for Promoting Student Agency is your blueprint for making student ownership not just possible, but habitual. Grounded in real classrooms and supported by research, this third book in the series transforms agency from a buzzword into a daily practice that supports every learner.Designed for immediate application, it delivers routines and tools to help students take initiative, monitor progress, collabo...

A Visual, Step-by-Step Guide to Re-Envisioning Rigor: Powerful Routines for Promoting Rigorous Problem and Project Based Learning offers a practical roadmap for teachers who want to make every day of learning count-no matter if they're leading full-scale projects or embedding high-level thinking into daily lessons. Designed to support meaningful learning from launch to final reflection, this book provides clear, actionable routines that elevate instruction and empower students. Th...

"This text illustrates the essence of what it really means to be a teacher—to care deeply and to think and act collectively about student and teacher learning."—Barrie Bennet, ProfessorOISE/University of Toronto, Ontario"Daniel Venables has made a terrific contribution to the growing effort of teachers to educate ourselves in professional learning communities through protocols that focus our attention on the right stuff. Happily his writing is as accessib...

About Management in the Active Classroom: A well-managed classroom almost runs itself. Students are focused and respectful, whether they are silent at their desks or active throughout the classroom—collaborating, experimenting, discovering, and creating. This book is a guide for teachers who want their classrooms to run well in all settings, where students are self-directed and self-disciplined learners. It is a book of proven, practical strategies harvested from successful schools across ...

Teaching in the Fast Lane offers teachers a way to increase student engagement: an active classroom. The active classroom is about creating learning experiences differently, so that students engage in exploration of the content and take on a good share of the responsibility for their own learning. It's about students reaching explicit targets in different ways, which can result in increased student effort and a higher quality of work.Author Suzy Pepper Rollins details how ...

Sharpen your instructional leadership skills and guide your school toward equity and excellence for all.Just think about how great schools could be if every instructional leader exercised their influence to create change—maximizing the efforts of others and mobilizing those efforts to work toward a shared goal.How Leadership Works: A Playbook for Instructional Leaders walks educators through the processes of clarifying, articulatin...

Deepen your connections with students, staff, and your larger community.Behind every thriving school or district are deeply interconnected teams that consistently engage in a reciprocal transfer of learning. Leading With Intention aims to make this process visible by helping leaders and teachers understand how their thinking impacts their decision-making and the overall well-being of their learning communities. Through five highly practical chapte...

In a World Where Problems are Everywhere, See Opportunity. Your Essential Guide to Everyday Innovation.Innovation-ish: How Anyone Can Create Breakthrough Solutions to Real Problems in the Real World is your no-nonsense guide to unlocking your innate creativity. Expertly crafted by design strategist Richard Braden and cognitive scientist Tessa Forshaw, this book skips the fluff and dives straight into actionable strategies to ignite your innovative potentia...

In "How to Practice Before Exams: A Comprehensive Guide to Mastering Study Techniques, Time Management, and Stress Relief for Exam Success," readers embark on a transformative journey through the intricacies of exam preparation. This comprehensive guide, spanning eighteen meticulously crafted chapters, navigates the complexities of academic success, offering a holistic approach that goes beyond mere memorization.From unraveling various exam formats in Chapter 1 to delving into the art of c...

The Project Habit provides small doable shifts for busy teachers looking to enhance and innovate their practices. It aims to ensure students develop substantial growth in establishing agency in their own learning, developing rigorous academic content knowledge, and contributing that knowledge and skills to solve real-world problems. The book offers easy-to-implement practices in inquiry-based learning that any teacher can pick and be assured that whether they are done one at a time or all ...

Tried and true teaching strategies to boost student engagement.Students need to be actively engaged to learn—intellectually curious, physically active, and emotionally involved in collaborative work that builds their capacity for empathy. What can teachers do to instill these elements in the classroom?Active Learning: 40 Teaching Methods To Engage Students In Every Class and Every Subject is the actionable tool every new and vetera...