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 ...

From state and Common Core tests to formative and summative assessments in the classroom, teachers are awash in data. Reviewing the data can be time-consuming, and the work of translating data into real change can seem overwhelming.Tapping more than 30 years' experience as an award-winning teacher and a trainer of PLC coaches, Daniel R. Venables, author of The Practice of Authentic PLCs: A Guide to Effective Teacher Teams, soothes the trepidation of even the biggest "datap...

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...

Global Business Communication is a practical, accessible guide designed to help professionals navigate the increasingly interconnected world of international business. As communication becomes more global, understanding how culture, language, expectations, and context shape professional interactions is no longer optional—it is a core skill needed for success in any field. This guide provides the tools, insights, and strategies readers need to build confidence and clarity w...

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...

Who is this book for?Dread providing feedback to others? Worried about their reaction? Concerned that you will knock their confidence when all you want to do is help them to improve their performance? Then this book will be of benefit to you. It details how to deliver positive constructive feedback that leads to higher performance and how to use rewards to further motivate your team.What will I learn?- How to reduce the psychological effects of negative feedback...

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 ...