Books published by Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development

Packed with ideas for teachers of K-8 students, this book touches on a variety of topics that are especially relevant to the first week of school. The author provides critical information that includes arranging and navigating the classroom, setting basic expectations, communicating routines, and understanding your students' needs.

Whether they're the result of a mandate from on high, a crisis that needs addressing, or simply a desire for improvement, change initiatives are a constant in most every school. In this book, Jeffrey Benson provides educators with a proven, practical, and broadly applicable system for implementing new practices methodically and effectively.

It's been six months, and I STILL can't get my English language learners to participate in class!How can I help my newcomers feel more comfortable around other students?Am I doing enough to help my English language learners succeed?Have you had these thoughts? Take heart, you are not alone. As schools and districts swell with growing numbers of English language learners, and as administrators and teachers wrestle with federal guidelines for educating these students, many educators are faced with these same challenges and much more. To meet these challenges, it is imperative for educators to learn about and use the theories and teaching strategies that will help English language learners succeed in the classroom.In Getting Started with English Language Learners: How Educators Can Meet the Challenge, Judie Haynes provides a practical resource to help educators who are new to the field of English as a Second Language understand the needs of English language learners. From learning how students acquire a second language to differentiating instruction to exploring practical strategies for teaching newcomers, this book will help educators learn how to create effective learning environments for English language learners.Real-life scenarios from actual classrooms are presented throughout the book. The book also includes a brief overview of different types of ESL programs used in the United States and a helpful glossary of common ESL terminology. New teachers, veteran educators working with English language learners for the first time, and administrators can all use this book to increase their knowledge, improve their practice, and, most importantly, effectively educate and inspire English language learners.

Presents eight keys - each a piece of a puzzle for transforming the K-12 education system of teaching and learning - to intentionally design tomorrow's schools so today's learners are prepared for success... and stand ready to create new industries, find new cures, and solve world problems.

Spurred by her personal experience and extensive exploration of brain-based learning, author Marilee Sprenger explains how brain science - what we know about how the brain works - can be applied to social-emotional learning.

A guide to building a student-centered accountability program through teaching, leadership, the curriculum, and the involvement of parents and the community.

Argues that we should embrace the strengths of neurodiverse students to help them and their neurotypical peers thrive in school and beyond. This innovative book focuses on five categories of special needs: learning disabilities, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism, intellectual disabilities, and emotional and behavioural disorders.

The right kinds of tests, correctly applied, can help every teacher become a better teacher. But unless you know the nuts and bolts of effective test design and application, you may be collecting the wrong data; misinterpreting data; and drawing off-base conclusions about what students know and can do, what to teach next, and how effective your instruction has been.In Test Better, Teach Better, assessment expert W. James Popham explores the links between assessment and instruction and provides a jargon-free look at classroom and large-scale test construction, interpretation, and application. Featuring sample items, testing tips, and recommended resources, this crash course in instructionally focused assessment includes* The four types of instructional decisions that testing will illuminate.* What you really need to know about measurement concepts like validity, reliability, and bias.* The advantages and disadvantages of various test formats and experience-based rules for creating great items in each.* The benefits of assessing student affect and guidelines for doing it in your own classroom.In addition, Popham offers practical advice for dealing with today's myriad testing targets and explains how standards-based achievement tests currently don't (but could) provide both accountability evidence and useful instructional information.

Not a school day goes by without some student facing teasing or slurs in the hallways, classrooms, or playgrounds. Left unchecked, such harassment can escalate and create an oppressive school climate where stress and fear overpower learning.In The Respectful School, Stephen L. Wessler and contributing author William Preble vividly describe how words can hurt--both emotionally and physically--and how words can heal. Drawing on his experience as a former state prosecutor overseeing hate crime enforcement and as current director of the Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence, Wessler discusses what educators can do to create a truly respectful environment that promotes positive interactions among staff and students. He relates the experiences of young victims and the hopeful stories of programs that have reduced harassment, showing how educators can both protect and enlighten students through coordinated efforts such as: * Learning effective intervention skills,* Modeling civility,* Developing student peer leader programs,* Working with student victims and their parents,* Creating comprehensive antiharassment polices,* Confronting perpetrators and their crimes, and* Responding to the effects of terrorist acts and related prejudice. Throughout the book, Wessler and Preble urge us to remember that we need to nurture the courage and compassion of young people to create supportive learning communities. Only then can students and educators join in speaking out for a respectful school, where tolerance and civility overcome the language of hate.

Now that the No Child Left Behind Act has left its mark on public education, educators across the United States are all the more invested in preparing their students for state and national assessments. In Tests That Teach: Using Standardized Tests to Improve Instruction, Karen Tankersley guides you with proven tips and instructional strategies to help your students perform to their potential. Covering all core contents areas-language arts, social studies, math, and science-and respecting all levels of student performance, Tankersley*Examines the various types of questions that routinely appear on these assessments; *Provides sample multiple-choice and constructed-response questions from the tests; *Offers guidelines on how to create daily lessons that encourage students to practice the skills and demonstrate the knowledge they'll need to use on the high-stakes tests; *Suggests word lists, games, discussion topics, and testing ideas for your classroom; and *Describes how school staff can create a learning community that fosters collaboration among teachers and high performance in students.Also included are a wealth of online resources for lesson plans, daily classroom activities, and virtual field trips, as well as links to every state's released materials on its own assessment. As Tankersley explains, teaching students the skills they need to do well on constructed-response tests will better prepare students both to score well on state and national assessments and to take their place as thoughtful and organized thinkers in a rapidly changing, competitive society.

Offers concise, practical advice on how to set up a hybrid mobile technology program or shift an existing 1:1 plan or Bring Your Own Device program to the more flexible, cost-effective, equitable, and learning-focused hybrid approach.

Explains how to use reflection to help students decipher their own learning needs and engage in deep, thought-provoking discourse about progress. Filled with practical tips, innovative ideas, and sample reflections, this book shows you how to incorporate self-assessment in ways that encourage students to grow into mindful, receptive learners.

As digital natives, our students are certainly at home online, but how much do they know about using the Internet as a research tool? Do they know how to ask the right questions, find the best and most credible resources, evaluate the "e;facts"e; they come across, and avoid plagiarism and copyright violations when they incorporate others' work into their own? For too many, the answer is noNand research projects intended to engage students in independent learning wind up wasting time or creating incomplete or faulty understandings.In this step-by-step guide, classroom veteran Erik Palmer explains how to teach students at all grade levels to conduct deeper, smarter, and more responsible research in an online environment. You'll find practical lesson ideas for every stage of the research process and dozens of tips and strategies that will build your students' Internet literacy, establish valuable academic habits, and foster skills for lifelong learning.Note: This product listing is for the Adobe Acrobat (PDF) version of the book.

How can school leaders use technology to be more effective? In this book, award-winning blogger and educational technology expert Steven Anderson explains how and why leaders should use technology and outlines what should be in every leader's digital toolkit.

Combining the goals of the Common Core with the principles of differentiation, differentiated instruction experts Carol Ann Tomlinson and Marcia Imbeau present an eight-step process to help teachers make rich, intellectually rigorous curriculum accessible to a very broad range of students.

Explores what types of assignments are worth engaging online, how teachers and students can leverage global interactions to improve their work, and how teachers can assess digital projects and other work. Along the way, Fisher offers practical advice on rigor and relevance, digital citizenship, formative assessment, and digital portfolios.

Based on research from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the experiences of nearly 3,000 teachers across the United States, Vicki Phillips and Lynn Olson reveal multiple ways to identify effective teaching and provide teachers with actionable, reliable information they can trust to continuously improve their performance.