Books published by Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development

Reading comes easily to some students, but many struggle with some part of this complex process that requires many areas of the brain to operate together through an intricate network of neurons.As a classroom teacher who has also worked as a neurologist, Judy Willis offers a unique perspective on how to help students not only learn the mechanics of reading and comprehension, but also develop a love of reading. She shows the importance of establishing a nonthreatening environment and provides teaching strategies that truly engage students and help them* Build phonemic awareness* Manipulate patterns to improve reading skills* Improve reading fluency* Combat the stress and anxiety that can inhibit reading fluency* Increase vocabulary*Overcome reading difficulties that can interfere with comprehensionBy enriching your understanding of how the brain processes language, emotion, and other stimuli, this book will change the way you understand and teach reading skills--and help all your students become successful readers.Note: This product listing is for the Adobe Acrobat (PDF) version of the book.

Literacy is the foundation for success in all secondary school courses. If you're a middle or high school administrator, chances are you're looking for a truly effective way to help all your students become better readers, writers, communicators, and learners of standards-based content curriculum. The secret is to combine sound leadership processes with literacy strategies targeted at adolescents. This book shows you how.Along with clear steps and practical guidelines, you'll find examples, resources, and useful templates to help you analyze your school's current literacy climate and kick-start the development of a new, fail-safe system. Authors Rosemarye Taylor and Valerie Doyle Collins explain how to Find hidden sources of information on which students are learning literacy behaviors and which are not. Identify necessary adjustments to current curriculum, learning tools, and instructional approaches. Set appropriate schoolwide expectations for literacy learning. Incorporate literacy-focused professional development. Create a plan for building future capacity and realizing continuous improvement.By the end of this book, you'll be ready to launch a program that will turn struggling students into joyful, independent readers and writers and enhance the success of all students in all classes.

Crafting a set of standards that are at once manageable, attainable, and good for all students has been elusive. With 10 years of research and work in more than 300 schools to guide them, Strong, Silver, and Perini offer four standards that will help all students meet the various standards dictated by states, regions, and districts. Rigor: helping students make sense of challenging texts and ideas. Thought: helping students become adept users of powerful learning disciplines. Diversity: helping students understand themselves and others. Authenticity: helping students apply what they learn to the real world.In this book, the authors go beyond simply showing what each standard looks like in various school settings. They provide research-based teaching strategies that can help all students meet each standard along with assessment practices that allow schools and teachers to respond thoughtfully to the diversity of students' needs.Drawing from the work of educators across the country, the book demonstrates that manageable standards-when married to practical approaches to instruction and assessment-can prepare students to perform well on state tests while preserving the democratic traditions of U.S. education.

This book explores how school leaders can develop responsive, personalized, and differentiated classrooms classrooms in which teachers attend to the learning needs of a particular student or small groups of students. Chapters discuss the theory behind this approach, the conditions that are necessary

Equips general classroom teachers with the information and strategies they need to spot, advocate for, engage, and challenge exceptional learners in their classrooms.

Presents the story of Ana, a newcomer to the US and, in a month-by-month format, reveals how assessment affects students, teachers, families, and school leaders. This book shows teachers how to collect, analyse, and act upon data about multilingual learners, with the goal of improving instruction for this growing population of students.

Self-regulated learning can be taught - in every content area and at every grade level, from preK to high school. In this resource, Carrie Germeroth and Crystal Day-Hess present instructional strategies and ideas you can implement in your classroom to put all your students on the path to positive, empowered learning and greater academic success.