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Neurodiversity-Affirming Schools: Transforming Practices So All Students Feel Accepted & Supported

Written by leaders in the field of neurodiversity-affirming education, Neurodiversity-Affirming Schools empowers educators to help neurodivergent students thrive. It offers an accessible introduction to the history, context, science, and culture around neurodiversity and neurodivergence. Additionally, it contains concrete strategies for building school and classroom environments that support neurodivergent students.Chapters include tables and sidebars to help readers retain and reference important information. This book also provides real-world flavor in the form of vignettes of neurodivergent students and how educators support them. These features allow readers to contextualize what they've learned and feel confident as they implement change.

The Empathetic Classroom: How a Mental Health Mindset Supports Your Students-and You

The Empathetic Classroom goes beyond typical books on teacher well-being, focusing on holistic mindsets and strategies that support mental health in K-12 teachers and their students alike. Written by a teacher-turned-therapist, this approachable book uniquely offers a mental health perspective on classroom teaching. Maria Munro-Schuster shares tools for focusing on mental health in everyday practiceTeachers will benefit from sound advice on maintaining boundaries, confronting intrusive thoughts, responding to trauma, incorporating play into classrooms, and many other methods of remaining connected to themselves and their students. The conversational tone and relatable stories make this an easy, entertaining read.

There's Research for That: Your K-5 Literacy Instruction Questions Answered

Raising Awe-Seekers: How the Science of Wonder Helps Our Kids Thrive

What if helping children boost their mental and emotional well-being, strengthen their social ties, and support their curiosity and internal motivation were as simple as rediscovering awe? Through research, interviews, and personal stories, Deborah Farmer Kris explores how awe and wonder can and should be a part of every childhood, and how becoming awe-seekers can change readers lives and their parenting in profound and concrete ways. In this book structured around seven of the most common sources of awe identified by Dacher Keltner and other awe researchers, Farmer Kris breaks down the science of awe, connecting the research to what we know about how kids learn and grow and anchoring it with four of her personal parenting tenets that dovetail with awe-seeking.

Strategies for Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching and Learning, Second Edition

What the Science of Reading Says: Literacy Strategies for Grades 3-5

Bring the science of reading directly into the classroom! Developed for Grades 3-5, this resource provides teachers with meaningful, research-based strategies to boost students' reading and writing skills.

Promote Reading Gains with Differentiated Instruction: Ready-to-Use Lessons for Grades 3-5

Accelerate learning gains using differentiated instruction! This professional development resource supports teachers with differentiated lessons that strengthen students' reading skills and comprehension.

Dive into Close Reading: Strategies for Your 3-5 Classroom

Give grades 3-5 students the tools they need to be successful using this must-have guide. It includes sample lessons showing the key elements of a close reading lesson as well as strategies for analyzing and selecting a text and how to support students.

The Reading Intervention Toolkit

This practical resource contains classroom-tested interventions for struggling readers provided in 5-, 10 to 15-, and 30 to 40-minute settings.

Think It, Show It Mathematics: Strategies for Explaining Thinking

Help students put their thinking onto paper with step-by-step strategies that develop concise writing and discussion skills. Students learn how to express themselves mathematically, think conceptually, and gain essential critical-thinking skills.

Think It, Show It Science: Strategies for Demonstrating Knowledge

Teach students to think and express themselves scientifically through step-by-step strategies that develop concise writing and discussion skills. Students learn how to express themselves scientifically and gain essential critical-thinking skills.

Think It, Show It Social Studies: Strategies for Communicating Understanding

This practical resource supports writing instruction in the social studies classroom to meet the demands of the C3 Framework. Creative strategies and resources guide students in communicating their historical thinking through writing and speaking.

Creating Strategic Readers: Techniques for Supporting Rigorous Literacy Instruction

Meet the challenges of educating students with this balanced, whole-child approach to rigorous reading instruction. This updated, best-selling book co-published with the International Literacy Association (ILA) offers over 125 engaging techniques!

Information Literacy: Separating Fact from Fiction

Help students achieve digital literacy and become 21st century thinkers in a world of information overload! This resource provides educators with the tools they need to help students actively analyze and assess information from multiple online sources.

Implementing Guided Math: Tools for Educational Leaders

Support the implementation of the Guided Math framework with this guide by Laney Sammons. This resource provides school leaders with strategies for supporting teachers as they embark on teaching the components of the framework in their classrooms.

Strategies for Effective Balanced Literacy

This easy-to-follow guide is filled with practical approaches to help teachers transition towards a balanced literacy framework. It offers simple techniques to nurture reading and writing skills through reading and writing activities.

Content Area Writing that Rocks (and Works!)

Create an innovative classroom where students develop writing skills by learning strategies based on their interests in technology, social media, and other topics. Students apply these tools and strategies to build college and career readiness skills.

Guided Math Conferences

Use conferencing successfully within your Guided Math classroom with this resource full of suggestions, tips, management, and implementation methods.

Guided Math Workshop

This must-have resource helps teachers plan, organize, implement, and manage Guided Math Workshop. It provides practical strategies to allow time for teachers to conduct small-group lessons and math conferences to target student needs.

Connecting Content and Language for English Language Learners

Bridge the gap between content and language and put research into practice to instruct English language learners with strategies that meet their needs in language development and literacy.

Teaching with Text Sets

Increase student engagement, differentiate instruction, and integrate more informational texts into the curriculum. This product provides sample text sets and models as well as provides guidance in how to teach with text sets and put them into action.

Just the Facts: Close Reading and Comprehension of Informational Text

Effectively use informational text in the classroom! This resource provides a clear explanation of engaging strategies for instruction with informational text and includes practical tips, suggestions, lesson ideas, and digital resources.

50 Strategies for Summer School Engagement

Designed to provide K-8 educators with practical, research-backed ideas to enhance the summer school experience, this book is an invaluable resource for teachers seeking innovative and engaging approaches to summer learning.

Teaching Civics Today: The iCivics Approach to Classroom Innovation and Student Engagement

Learn how to teach civics in today's classrooms! This professional book explores key civics topics and offers strategies for incorporating civics into social studies instruction. Includes best practices, implementation tools, and more teacher support.