Extraordinary times call for fresh, innovative, and engaging ideas to teach students. Educators are being called to meet unprecedented challenges—and they need as much support and encouragement as they can get. Our education publishers can help. ASCD, NSTA, and Learning Sciences International have their fingers on the pulse of what teachers need. See below for some of the newest titles available for translation.
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The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) empowers educators to achieve excellence in learning, teaching,
and leading so that every child is healthy, safe, engaged,
supported, and challenged.
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Discover the difference one teacher can make in student performance. |
In this new edition of the best-selling Improving Student Learning One Teacher at a Time, Pollock & Tolone combine updated research and real-world stories to demonstrate how a good teacher can make good learning happen for every student every day. Their approach expands the classic three-part curriculum-instruction-assessment framework by adding one key ingredient: feedback. This “Big Four” approach offers an easy-to-follow process that helps teachers build better curriculum documents and use feedback from multiple sources to help students monitor their own understanding and help teachers align assignments, quizzes, and tests more explicitly to the standards.
December 2020, 144 pages
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Learn how to put student voice and choice at the center of assessment! |
How can educators improve assessment practices so that the results are accurate, meaningful, informative, and fair? Educator and best-selling author of Grading Smarter, Not Harder Myron Dueck draws from his firsthand experience and his work with districts around the world to provide reveal troubling issues related to traditional approaches and offer numerous examples of educators at all levels who are transforming assessment by using tools and methods that engage and empower students. He shares surprising revelations about the nature of memory and learning that speak to the need for rethinking how we measure student understanding and achievement.
January 2021,189 pages
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Combine social-emotional learning and brain science to improve outcomes. |
Today's teachers face a daunting challenge: how to ensure a positive school experience for their students, many of whom carry the burden of adverse childhood experiences, such as abuse, poverty, divorce, abandonment, and numerous other serious social issues. 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. She offers clear, easy-to-understand explanations of brain activity and dozens of specific strategies for all grade levels. Already a best seller!
September 2020, 219 pages
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NSTA's mission is to promote excellence and innovation in science teaching and learning for all. NSTA publishes high-quality tools to transform science teaching, including lesson plans, classroom strategies, relevant professional learning, and assessment resources for K-12 science educators. |
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STEM isn’t just for
the big kids anymore!
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Researchers agree that STEM education is important in early childhood if today's students are going to be prepared for our hi-tech world. Based in both research and real-world experience, the authors of this best-seller show teachers how to blend authentic, phenomena-driven, integrated STEM teaching and learning into busy K–2 classrooms. They provide professional learning experiences that help teachers make connections between STEM topics and the everyday activities they are already doing with their students.
March 2020, 165 pages
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Learning Sciences International is dedicated to creating sustainable results
that build long-term growth for schools. It helps educators take on top challenges in K-12, building bridges for schools in all communities to continually improve and developing resources to increase student engagement
and motivation in the classroom.
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40 tools every teacher needs to build a better classroom. |
The best teachers pay attention to the little things that make positive impacts on the culture of their classrooms, or as bestselling author and education leader Ron Nash calls them, "big little things." Attending to these things on a regular basis can lift spirits, trigger a smile, and create a climate where students want to engage in their own learning. Filled with testimonials and reflection questions for 40 tools and strategies, this book will help every teacher identify and skillfully address those "big little things" for building a better classroom.
January 2020, 120 pages
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