Product Description: This practical resource demonstrates how to use data in decision making to improve student learning by promoting a school-wide learning community. Help motivate your staff to participate in choosing goals and instructional strategies while keeping the focus on improving student achievement...read more

Product Description: How can educators create a collective method of professional development that results in the genuine, sustained teacher learning essential to improving student achievement? That question is at the heart of this comprehensive and practical guide to process learning circles, a unique and powerful way to develop, strengthen, and enrich professional learning communities...read more

Product Description: This new guide helps clarify the knowledge, attitudes, practices, and skills used by exemplary online professional development facilitators—those who maintain focus on the learners, and assess their current and future needs to match the curve of their learning...read more

Product Description: A framework for weaving common threads into an artful solution Rather than buying individual books about professional learning communities (PLCs), differentiated instruction (DI), and Response to Intervention (RTI), invest wisely in one resource that synthesizes all three...read more

Product Description: Bronze Medal Award Winner--ForeWord Review's 2011 Book of the Year in EducationThe Internet connects us in unprecedented ways. New tools allow us to build global learning networks where we can pursue our intellectual and creative passions with people around the world...read more

Finalist--Association of Educational Publishers 2012 Distinguished Achievement AwardJust as it takes discipline to successfully run a marathon or to master a musical instrument, effective leadership in a professional learning community (PLC) requires more than simply trying harder: it requires training. In The Five Disciplines of PLC Leaders, Dr. Kanold provides a complete, focused system of practices for honing personal leadership skills in the five areas that will have the greatest impact on a school organization's success. PLC leaders must create a compelling vision, allow autonomy within defined boundaries, lead by serving, manage their personal energy levels, and inspire others to create a legacy of excellence. Dr. Kanold digs deep into the critical questions leaders must ask themselves and the practices they must master and model for others. Using research and decades of experiences working in PLCs, he shows leaders how to develop their own leadership skills while also helping others build leadership capacity. This rich resource includes reflection exercises and study guides to help readers find their own path toward effective PLC leadership. Benefits * Helps educators to clarify their personal vision for the PLC and align daily practices with their goals * Explores strategies for cultivating individual and team-level autonomy within a culture of accountability and high expectations * Shows how to create a culture of service that begins with the leader * Explains how to lead a balanced work life that energizes self and others * Describes how to foster networks of commitment within the community

Product Description: How to form a vibrant PLC that truly makes a difference for students If you are looking for an organic approach to purpose-driven professional learning, this is the book for you. Award-winning educator Lois Brown Easton’s latest work provides a compelling case study in narrative form, a chronological PLC planning outline, and first-hand “lessons learned” about how PLCs develop, mature, and sustain themselves...read more

Product Description: ''Dr. Baker-Doyle's book adds an interesting and timely facet--the role of social networks--to the always important discussions about how new teachers can excel in their work. Her research will be of value to those who do professional development with educators and to practitioners alike...read more

Product Description: This is the first comprehensive book about the unconference movement. Author, blogger, and Library Journal Mover & Shaker Michelle Boule explains why traditional conferences and learning environments increasingly fail to meet the needs of professionals...read more

Product Description: Finalist--ForeWord Reviews 2012 Book of the Year AwardHow do you help your students demonstrate mathematical proficiency toward the learning expectations of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS)? This teacher guide illustrates how to sustain successful implementation of the CCSS for mathematics for grades 3-5...read more

Product Description: This teacher guide illustrates how to sustain successful implementation of the CCSS for mathematics for grades 6-8. Discover what students should learn and how they should learn it at each grade level. Acquire strategies for meeting the rigor of the grades 6-8 standards, including the unique content around ratios, proportions, and relationships at grades 6 and 7...read more