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This excerpt from The Common Core Companion: The Standards Decoded, Grades 9-12, outlines and carefully explains the 9-12 reading standards and provides guidance for your instruction.

These lessons from Writers Read Better: Narrative focus on idea generation and strategies for writing fiction, including drawing together plots and shaping stories that match the meaning that young writers are after. 

This excerpt from PLC+: Better Decisions and Greater Impact by Design emphasizes that the heartbeat of a PLC+ rests in the quality time members invest in one another engaged in inquiry of their practices, which may be accomplished through such practices as Learning Walks.

This excerpt from Visible Learning for Mathematics, Grades K-12, explains how making learning visible starts with teacher clarity and the strategic use of learning intentions and success criteria promote student self-reflection and metacognition. 

This excerpt from Visible Learning for Mathematics, Grades K-12, provides example questions that teachers can use to check for understanding—a crucial aspect of visible learning. 

Use these accountable talk moves from Visible Learning for Mathematics, Grades K-12, to constructively challenge your students' conclusions and misconceptions. 

Use these sample language frames from Visible Learning for Mathematics, Grades K-12, in your mathematics class to guide your students to deeper understanding through a thorough explanation of their process. 

Use this interview template from Power Up Blended Learning to lead you through the initial conversation between coach and teacher and create the foundation of respect and understanding that is essential to the longterm success of this partnership.

Try using this Word Cloud Activity from Power Up Blended Learning with small groups of teachers to explore their values, find commonalities, and start a conversation around teaching according to those values.

Try out these inquiry peer observation methods from Experience Inquiry with your students to further develop their question-asking and question-seeking.

In the following pages from Think Like Socrates, discover a new way to foster group writing with your students. Featured is a step-by-step lesson plan with directions on how to use.

In this lesson from Think Like Socrates, author Shanna Peeples provides complex texts for various grade levels and includes critical questions for debate and discussion amongst your students.