Learn from Kitty Boles and Vivian Troen, authors of The Power of Teacher Rounds and The Power of Teacher Teams, how schools can transform their teams into more effective learning communities that foster teacher leadership.
In this blog post from Pamela Koutrakos, author of Word Study That Sticks and The Word Study That Sticks Companion, she explains that, for word study to be an integral part of your classroom routine, you can't wait until the “perfect time” to get started. Read her tips to going right away.
It is important for teachers, administrators, and coaches to serve as a conduit, connecting current ideas and and explaining classroom practices to our students’ caregivers—our partners in children’s learning. Read this blog from Pam Koutrakos, author of Word Study That Sticks and The Word Study That Sticks Companion, for three ideas that yield buy in and intend to ignite the imagination of families.
Learn the strategies that build conceptual understanding of mathematical ideas and problem solving to help students demonstrate more than a year's worth of growth for every year spent in school. John Almarode and Kateri Thunder, authors of Teaching Mathematics in the Visible Learning Classroom, Grades K-2 and Grades 3-5, help participants learn how. By using the right approach at the right time you can design classroom experiences that maximize mathematics learning.
"Has this ever happened to you?
'My lecture went perfectly! I worked the sample problems. I could tell the students really understood the material.'
The next day: 'I don’t know what went wrong! I thought all my students understood what I went over yesterday...' "
Read more from Frederick Dillon, author of Your Mathematics Standards Companion, High School, and The Common Core Mathematics Companion: The Standards Decoded, High School, on Corwin Connect.
We know that writing skills reinforce reading skills, but what’s the best way to capitalize on this beneficial relationship? By flipping the traditional “reading lesson first, writing lesson second” sequence, Colleen Cruz, author of Writers Read Better: Narrative and Nonfiction, ingeniously helps you make the most of the writing-to-reading connection with carefully matched, conceptually connected lesson pairs. Attend this webinar to discover how you can do the same and establish a healthy reciprocity that effectively and efficiently develops students’ literacy skills.
"Over the 40 years I’ve worked in early childhood education, I’ve believed many times that a revolution in the field was imminent. Heaven knows we’ve certainly needed one, as misguided policies have brought about increasingly inappropriate practices. Surely people who understand child development would finally begin making the decisions about ECE!
Clearly, I’ve been naïve..."
Read the full blog by Rae Pica, author of What If We Taught the Way Children Learn? and What If Everybody Understood Child Development?, regarding her experience in early childhood education and her thoughts on the response of schools to COVID-19.
Read about Valley View School District's success partnering with Larry Ainsworth's CFA 2.0 program.
Hear firsthand from David Horton, author of Leading School Teams, how a powerhouse team can achieve four years of growth in a single calendar year.
Learn from Jenni Donohoo, author of Collective Efficacy, exactly what collective efficacy is and why it has such a profound impact on student achievement.
Discover from Jenni Donohoo, author of Collective Efficacy, what matters most in raising student achievement.
Explore how the instructional coaching cycle from Jim Knight, author of The Impact Cycle, can help teachers and students improve in measurable ways.