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View the Table of Contents to explore the contents of How Scaffolding Works.

The introduction to How Scaffolding Works introduces the concept of scaffolding and how it applies to learning in our schools and classrooms.

Get to know the author, Johnathan Eckert and the purpose and inspiration behind his book Just Teaching.

In the Introduction to Preparing Children for Success in School and Life, expert Marcia Tate shares why parents and early childhood educators have such a critical job and how the lessons in the book can prepare them for the task of preparing children for a successful future.

Welcome to the book study for Melanie Meehan and Kelsey Sorum's The Responsive Writing Teacher, Grades K-5: A Hands-on Guide to Child-Centered, Equitable Instruction. We have deliberately designed this book study to be collaborative so that most weeks the group is splitting the recommended in-class activities among the members of the book study.

This excerpt includes "The Hope Wheel" graphic and how educators can use it to adapt content standards with hope verbs.

This excerpt offers a list of culturally relevant mathematics tasks and also provides an example of how student can find connections between mathematics and real life.

In this introduction from Text Structures and Fables, Gretchen Bernabei and Jayne Hover outline the many ways fables are the perfect teaching tools to encourage thorough, exploratory thinkers and writers, and preview practical teaching methods to introduce fables to your classroom.

"The way we see the problem is the problem. —Stephen Covey (1989)"

"In a world where the responsibilities of educational leaders are constantly expanding, where today’s to-do list is displaced by unanticipated crises, interruptions, and new external demands, it is easy for educational leaders to lose sight of what, among all the important things they could be doing, is more important than the rest."

"Until we solve the problem of developing and retaining more excellent educational leaders, we will struggle to reduce the long-standing disparities in student outcomes that plague many Western education systems."

"There are two prevailing issues with how we work to solve problems in education..."