Anne Conzemius

Carol Commodore

Carol Pulsfus

Jan O'Neill

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Virginia

Using Goals to Improve Student Learning

Presents a comprehensive guide for developing adult and student goal-setting, and provides templates and forms for implementing SMART goals process into schools and classrooms.

The Power of Smart Goals

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Christopher R. Bugaj

Sally Norton-Darr

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The Practical (And Fun) Guide to Assistive Technology in Public Schools

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Shauna Shapiro

Chris White

Christine Carter

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A Loving Approach to Setting Limits and Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child

Kids need both love and limits in order to thrive. In Mindful Discipline, a pediatrician and an internationally recognized mindfulness expert offer parents simple yet powerful tools for raising mindful, respectful, and responsible children. Grounded in mindfulness and the latest research in neuroscience, this book will teach readers how to foster their child's emotional intelligence and self-esteem while also encouraging genuine cooperation. With simple practices, such as honoring a child's strengths, setting limits, and setting a positive example, parents can teach their child the self-discipline and resilience they will need to thrive in life.

Mindful Discipline

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Michael Hass

Jeanne Anne Carriere

"This book focuses on how to write a psychological report that is first and foremost helpful to consumers, while also being technically and legally defensible. Like the reports the authors describe, the book is carefully organized, beautifully written, and accessible to practitioners as well as graduate students. It is a brilliant accomplishment that should be required reading for every school psychologist."

--Brent Duncan, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Humboldt State University, Arcata CA

PRACTICAL GUIDANCE ON WRITING USEFUL, ACCESSIBLE, AND LEGALLY DEFENSIBLE PSYCHOEDUCATIONAL REPORTS

From clearly identifying reasons for referral to making recommendations based on assessment results, Writing Useful, Accessible, and Legally Defensible Psychoeducational Reports offers practical guidance for creating reports that enhance the understanding of children and their strengths and challenges in order to better meet their educational and functional needs.

The authors offer step-by-step guidelines for developing an assessment plan in a collaborative process with parents, teachers, and other professionals, choosing appropriate assessment and data collection tools, gathering relevant information, and providing clear and feasible individualized recommendations that directly respond to referral concerns in a format easily understood by parents and teachers.

Ideal for graduate students in school psychology, school psychologists, and other professionals in related fields who work with children in a school setting, Writing Useful, Accessible, and Legally Defensible Psychoeducational Reports:

 * Provides specific suggestions for increasing the usefulness and accessibility of reports including readability, positive phrasing, and vocabulary
 * Illustrates how to develop well-formed questions and how to choose assessment tools to answer referral questions
 * Reviews the legal mandates of report writing and discusses what must be included
 * Demonstrates how to accurately document and integrate data from record review, interviews, observations, and tests
 * Discusses how the use of the referral-based consultative assessment and report writing model can promote more active involvement in collaboration, prevention, and intervention
 * Features numerous real-world cases, helpful checklists, examples of question-driven referral reports, and a model interview protocol

Writing Useful, Accessible, and Legally Defensible Psychoeducational Reports

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This is an older book but so good and instructive regarding how to teach someone to read. 

Johnny Still Can’t Read 

American Psychological Association Staff

English

Presents a style manual that covers manuscript structure and content, writing style, grammar, quotations, tables, footnotes, results display, and source citation for psychological and social sciences literature.

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association

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Mary Cay Ricci

Philosophy

Building a Culture of Success and Student Achievement in Schools

When students believe that dedication and hard work can change their performance in school, they grow to become resilient, successful students. Inspired by the popular mindset idea that hard work and effort can lead to success, this updated 2017 edition of Mindsets in the Classroomprovides educators with ideas for ways to build a growth mindset school culture, wherein students are challenged to change their thinking about their abilities and potential. The book includes a planning template, a step-by-step description of a growth mindset culture, and Look Fors for adopting a differentiated, responsive instruction model teachers can use immediately in their classrooms. It also highlights the importance of critical thinking and teaching students to learn from failure. The four most important components of a growth mindset learning environment are also presented. The book includes a sample professional development plan and ideas for communicating the mindset concept to parents. This updated edition also presents ways to build the concept of "grit" and includes application to Makerspaces, instructional coaching, grading, and more! With this book's easy-to-follow advice, tasks, and strategies, teachers can grow a love of learning in their students.

Mindsets in the Classroom

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Thomas Armstrong

How Human Development Research Should Inform Educational Practice

Educators, politicians, parents, and even students are consumed with speaking the language of academic achievement. Yet something is missing in the current focus on accountability, standardized testing, and adequate yearly progress. If schools continue to focus the conversation on rigor and accountability and ignore more human elements of education, many students may miss out on opportunities to discover the richness of individual exploration that schools can foster.

In The Best Schools, Armstrong urges educators to leave narrow definitions of learning behind and return to the great thinkers of the past 100 years-Montessori, Piaget, Freud, Steiner, Erikson, Dewey, Elkind, Gardner-and to the language of human development and the whole child.

The Best Schools highlights examples of educational programs that are honoring students' differences, using developmentally appropriate practices, and promoting a humane approach to education that includes the following elements:
 * An emphasis on play for early childhood learning.
 * Theme- and project-based learning for elementary school students.
 * Active learning that recognizes the social, emotional, and cognitive needs of adolescents in middle schools.
 * Mentoring, apprenticeships, and cooperative education for high school students.



Educators in ""the best schools"" recognize the differences in the physical, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual worlds of students of different ages. This book will help educators reflect on how to help each student reach his or her true potential, how to inspire each child and adolescent to discover an inner passion to learn, and how to honor the unique journey of each individual through life.

The Best Schools

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Baruti K. Kafele

Critical Leadership Questions for Inspiring Schoolwide Excellence

"Why do I lead?" With this deceptively simple question, best-selling author Baruti K. Kafele begins a powerful examination of what it takes to make a school community achieve the greatest success in the classroom and beyond. In The Principal 50: Critical Leadership Questions for Inspiring Schoolwide Excellence, Kafele, a veteran school administrator, guides motivated school leaders through 50 self-reflection exercises designed to yield a deeper understanding of the meaning behind the work that they do. Along with many other insights, this book shows how best to * Inspire and motivate students, teachers, and other school staff to approach their work with vigor and purpose; * Ensure that all students, regardless of color, creed, or origin, are valued and represented in the school culture; * Focus mission and vision statements to address students' most critical needs and integrate shared values and objectives into the fabric of the school; and * Engage parents and other community members so that they feel a stake in the school's success. Brimming with passion, written from the heart, and informed by hard-earned experience, this transformative book is essential reading for principals and other building-level administrators determined to reinvigorate their practice, revitalize their staff, and--most importantly--guarantee the strongest outcomes for students.

The Principal 50

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Carol Ann Tomlinson

Responding to the Needs of All Learners

Drawing on nearly three decades of experience, author Carol Ann Tomlinson describes a way of thinking about teaching and learning that will change all aspects of how you approach students and your classroom. She looks to the latest research on learning, education, and change for the theoretical basis of differentiated instruction and why it's so important to today's children. Yet she offers much more than theory, filling the pages with real-life examples of teachers and students using-and benefitting from-differentiated instruction.

The Differentiated Classroom

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Jean M. Twenge

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents--And What They Mean for America's Future

A groundbreaking, revelatory portrait of the six generations that currently live in the United States and how they connect, conflict, and compete with one another—from the acclaimed author of Generation Me and iGen. The United States is currently home to six generations of people: -the Silents, born 1925–1945 -Baby Boomers, born 1946–1964 -Gen X, born 1965–1979 -Millennials, born 1980–1994 -Gen Z, born 1995–2012 -and the still-to-be-named cohorts born after 2012. They have had vastly different life experiences and thus, one assumes, they must have vastly diverging beliefs and behaviors. But what are those differences, what causes them, and how deep do they actually run? Professor of psychology and “reigning expert on generational change” (Lisa Wade, PhD, author of American Hookup), Jean Twenge does a deep dive into a treasure trove of long-running, government-funded surveys and databases to answer these questions. Are we truly defined by major historical events, such as the Great Depression for the Silents and September 11 for Millennials? Or, as Twenge argues, is it the rapid evolution of technology that differentiates the generations? With her clear-eyed and insightful voice, Twenge explores what the Silents and Boomers want out of the rest of their lives; how Gen X-ers are facing middle age; the ideals of Millennials as parents and in the workplace; and how Gen Z has been changed by COVID, among other fascinating topics. Surprising, engaging, and informative, Generations will forever change the way you view your parents, peers, coworkers, and children, no matter which generation you call your own.

Generations

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James Elkins

A Handbook for Art Students

He also addresses the phenomenon of art critiques as a microcosm for teaching art as a whole and dissects real-life critiques, highlighting presuppositions and dynamics that make them confusing and suggesting ways to make them more helpful. Elkins's no-nonsense approach clears away the assumptions about art instruction that are not borne out by classroom practice. For example, he notes that despite much talk about instilling visual acuity and teaching technique, in practice neither teachers nor students behave as if those were their principal goals. He addresses the absurdity of pretending that sexual issues are absent from life-drawing classes and questions the practice of holding up great masters and masterpieces as models for students capable of producing only mediocre art. He also discusses types of art--including art that takes time to complete and art that isn't serious--that cannot be learned in studio art classes.

Why Art Cannot Be Taught

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Geoff Colvin

Reading & Language Arts

These research-based approaches for defusing disruptions such as off-task behavior, disrespect, and noncompliance help teachers avoid escalation, correct misbehaviors, and maintain the flow of instruction!

Defusing Disruptive Behavior in the Classroom

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Patrick M. Lencioni

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A Leadership Fable

In The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni once again offers a leadership fable that is as enthralling and instructive as his first two best-selling books, The Five Temptations of a CEO and The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive. This time, he turns his keen intellect and storytelling power to the fascinating, complex world of teams. Kathryn Petersen, Decision Tech's CEO, faces the ultimate leadership crisis: Uniting a team in such disarray that it threatens to bring down the entire company. Will she succeed? Will she be fired? Will the company fail? Lencioni's utterly gripping tale serves as a timeless reminder that leadership requires as much courage as it does insight. Throughout the story, Lencioni reveals the five dysfunctions which go to the very heart of why teams even the best ones-often struggle. He outlines a powerful model and actionable steps that can be used to overcome these common hurdles and build a cohesive, effective team. Just as with his other books, Lencioni has written a compelling fable with a powerful yet deceptively simple message for all those who strive to be exceptional team leaders.

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

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Todd Henry

Be the Leader That Creative People Need

A practical handbook for every manager charged with leading teams to creative brilliance, from the author of The Accidental Creative and Die Empty. Doing the work and leading the work are very different things. When you make the transition from maker to manager, you give ownership of projects to your team even though you could do them yourself better and faster. You're juggling expectations from your manager, who wants consistent, predictable output from an inherently unpredictable creative process. And you're managing the pushback from your team of brilliant, headstrong, and possibly overqualified creatives. Leading talented, creative people requires a different skill set than the one many management books offer. As a consultant to creative companies, Todd Henry knows firsthand what prevents creative leaders from guiding their teams to success, and in Herding Tigers he provides a bold new blueprint to help you be the leader your team needs. Learn to lead by influence instead of control. Discover how to create a stable culture that empowers your team to take bold creative risks. And learn how to fight to protect the time, energy, and resources they need to do their best work. Full of stories and practical advice, Herding Tigers will give you the confidence and the skills to foster an environment where clients, management, and employees have a product they can be proud of and a process that works.

Herding Tigers

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Nancy Frey

Douglas Fisher

Practical Steps to More Successful Teaching and Learning

Nancy Frey and Douglas Fisher reveal how to create a failsafe assessment system that leads to purposeful lessons, clear indicators of student understanding, and forms of feedback that improve student performance. --from publisher description.

The Formative Assessment Action Plan

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Dominique Smith

Helping Students Develop Essential Skills for the Classroom and Beyond

While social and emotional learning (SEL) is most familiar as compartmentalized programs separate from academics, the truth is, all learning is social and emotional. What teachers say, the values we express, the materials and activities we choose, and the skills we prioritize all influence how students think, see themselves, and interact with content and with others.

If you teach kids rather than standards, and if you want all kids to get what they need to thrive, Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, and Dominique Smith offer a solution: a comprehensive, five-part model of SEL that's easy to integrate into everyday content instruction, no matter what subject or grade level you teach. You'll learn the hows and whys of:
 * Building students' sense of identity and confidence in their ability to learn, overcome challenge, and influence the world around them.
 * Helping students identify, describe, and regulate their emotional responses.
 * Promoting the cognitive regulation skills critical to decision making and problem solving.
 * Fostering students' social skills, including teamwork and sharing, and their ability to establish and repair relationships.
 * Equipping students to becoming informed and involved citizens.



Along with a toolbox of strategies for addressing 33 essential competencies, you'll find real-life examples highlighting the many opportunities for social and emotional learning within the K-12 academic curriculum. Children's social and emotional development is too important to be an add-on or an afterthought, too important to be left to chance. Use this book's integrated SEL approach to help your students build essential skills that will serve them in the classroom and throughout their lives.

All Learning Is Social and Emotional

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Sourcebooks, Inc.

I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks.--William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night Everyone needs a little help from their friends from time to time, and we all know people who deserve a great big "THANKS"! This colletion of heart-warming and thought-provoking quotations is the perfet gift for those who've helped us out in any way. Big or small.

Thank You

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Jim Trelease

Seventh Edition

A new sixth edition of the acclaimed literacy handbook explains the importance of reading aloud to children while offering guidance on how to set up a read-aloud atmosphere in the home or classroom and presenting more than 1,500 children's titles that are ideal for reading aloud. Original. 60,0000 first printing.

The Read-Aloud Handbook

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David Cottrell

12 Powerful Ways to Go from Everyday to Extraordinary

Learn to make the right decisions to achieve greater success

Each of us has a different idea of success. Whether you strive for money, power, happiness, or love, your personal choices, the actions you take, and the relationships you choose to invest time and energy in, will determine whether you reach your goals. Internationally recognized leadership coach David Cottrell will show you how to make the right choices, even when they're hard.

There are character choices that define the person you will be on the road to success. Cottrell shows you how to make The No-Victim Choice to overcome roadblocks, and The Integrity Choice, to listen to your gut and do the right thing, even when it's not the easiest thing to do.

There are action choices you make to continue on your path to success. The Persistence Choice encourages you to bounce back from failure and learn lessons that will lead to your future success. The Do-Something Choice lets you to stop dreaming and start doing the things that will make you happy and successful.

Finally, you make investment choices about the people you spend time with and develop relationships with. The Relationship Choice teaches you to invest your time in other successful people in order to contribute to your own future success.

Learn to make all these choices and many more in Monday Morning Choices, and find yourself on the fast track to success!

Monday Morning Choices

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Meredith McNerney

How to Promote Student Engagement and Self-Regulation

"Discover strategies grounded in neuroscience that help teachers foster a truly calm classroom environment that supports emotional awareness, psychological safety and belonging, and connected relationships"--

Cultivating a Classroom of Calm

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Paula Kluth

Sheila Danaher

100 More Ways to Differentiate Instruction in K-12 Inclusive Classrooms

"Differentiated instruction is simple and fun with this treasure of ready-to-use adaptations for grades K-12. All teachers will love the 100 creative, step-by-step ideas in this illustrated guide, perfect for meeting the learning needs of all students. An effective, time-saving way to boost student skills in key areas such as literacy, math, organization, communication, and behavior, these research-based adaptations will help teachers create classrooms that are more responsive, welcoming, and appropriately challenging."--Page 4 of cover.

From Text Maps to Memory Caps

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Tonya R. Moon

Carol Ann Tomlinson and Tonya R. Moon take an in-depth look at assessment and show how differentiation can improve the process in all grade levels and subject areas. After discussing differentiation in general, the authors focus on how differentiation applies to various forms of assessment-pre-assessment, formative assessment, and summative assessment-and to grading and report cards. Readers learn how differentiation can:
 * Capture student interest and increase motivation.
 * Clarify teachers' understanding about what is most important to teach.
 * Enhance students' and teachers' belief in student learning capacity.
 * Help teachers understand their students' individual similarities and differences so they can reach more students, more effectively.



Throughout, Tomlinson and Moon emphasize the importance of maintaining a consistent focus on the essential knowledge, understandings, and skills that all students must acquire, no matter what their starting point.

Detailed scenarios illustrate how assessment differentiation can occur in three realms (student readiness, interest, and learning style or preference) and how it can improve assessment validity and reliability and decrease errors and teacher bias.

Grounded in research and the authors' teaching experience, Assessment and Student Success in a Differentiated Classroom outlines a common-sense approach that is both thoughtful and practical, and that empowers teachers and students to discover, strive for, and achieve their true potential.

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