Widely respected, Paragraphs and Essays provides a thorough overview of the entire writing process, and the flexibility to emphasize paragraph and essay writing in the order or combination that best suits individual classes.

Product Description: Discover how award-winning schools advance students’ learning through technology! A companion to the best-selling Leading 21st Century Schools, this inspiring book profiles eight visionary schools and how they approach technology...read more

Product Description: Cultural competence is key to improved student achievement   This book shows you how to provide professional development for teachers that deepens their cultural understanding. The authors provide activities to help educators translate new knowledge into action with activities that focus on the three inseparable insights required for developing teachers’ critical cultural competency:   Understanding themselves Understanding their students Understanding their students’ families and communities   Readers have access to a companion website that contains reproducible resource lists and handouts as well as examples that can serve as models for some of the activities...read more

Product Description: This book represents the results of a 15-year longitudinal study based on in-depth case studies of the development of four teachers' pedagogical thinking. These studies illustrate how teachers' thinking--about children's behavior, development, learning, and teaching--develops over time, based on their personal and professional life experiences...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Explores how to use problem-based learning with novice and expert teachers in every grade level.

Product Description: This book organizes and presents major empirical work done to date on cases and case-based pedagogy. It is timely--not only because it provides a comprehensive review of much of the scholarship that has been done to date, but also because it encompasses a wide range of perspectives on cases and case methods...read more