Geoff Colvin

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Virginia

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

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

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

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

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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Michael Creekmore

Nita Creekmore

How to Build, Maintain, and Restore Relationships Inside the Classroom and Out

"Every Connection Matters guides teachers through the ins and outs of building, maintaining, and restoring the six type of relationships they need to navigate in a school"--

Every Connection Matters

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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

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

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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Carol Ann Tomlinson

Tonya R. Moon

English

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.

Assessment and Student Success in a Differentiated Classroom

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Joyce Van Tassel-Baska

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Content Based Curriculum for High Ability Learners

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Heather T. Forbes

A Beyond Consequences Approach to Helping Challenging Children in the Classroom

Help for Billy brings a compassionate voice to the thousands of children who attend every school in America who have been impacted by trauma, and the significant disadvantage that stress has on brain development.

Help for Billy

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Sharon Walpole

Michael C. McKenna

Resources for Grades K-3

Tens of thousands of K?3 teachers have relied on this book--now revised and expanded with more than 50% new material--to plan and deliver effective literacy instruction tailored to each student's needs. The authors provide a detailed framework for implementing differentiated small-group instruction over multiweek cycles. Each component of the beginning reading program is addressed--phonological awareness, word recognition, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. In a large-size format with lay-flat binding for easy photocopying, the book includes dozens of reproducible lesson plans, instructional activities, assessment forms, and other tools. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials. New to This Edition *Differentiation 2.0: the approach has been fine-tuned based on field testing, new research findings, and current standards and response-to-intervention frameworks. *Many additional reproducible tools, such as coaching templates and the Informal Decoding Inventory. *Beyond lesson plans and materials, the second edition offers more guidance for designing instruction and grouping students, making it a one-stop resource. *Reproducible tools now available to download and print.

How to Plan Differentiated Reading Instruction

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Martin

Hauth

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This book offers practical guidance on such topics as roles and responsibilities, school environment and culture, classroom organization and management, collaboration with other professionals, and individual professional development.

Survival Guide for the First-Year Special Educ. -2nd Edition

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Emily Schell

This book is of great help to new teachers! 

Teaching and Learning with Authenticity

Social Studies Matters: Teaching and Learning with Authenticity

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Suzie Boss

John Larmer

John Mergendoller

Project based learning (PBL) is gaining renewed attention with the current focus on college and career readiness and the performance-based emphases of Common Core State Standards, but only high-quality versions can deliver the beneficial outcomes that schools want for their students. It’s not enough to just “do projects.” Today’s projects need to be rigorous, engaging, and in-depth, and they need to have student voice and choice built in. Such projects require careful planning and pedagogical skill. The authors—leaders at the respected Buck Institute for Education—take readers through the step-by-step process of how to create, implement, and assess PBL using a classroom-tested framework. Also included are chapters for school leaders on implementing PBL systemwide and the use of PBL in informal settings. Examples from all grade levels and content areas provide evidence of the powerful effects that PBL can have, including * increased student motivation and preparation for college, careers, and citizenship; * better results on high-stakes tests; * a more satisfying teaching experience; and * new ways for educators to communicate with parents, communities, and the wider world. By successfully implementing PBL, teachers can not only help students meet standards but also greatly improve their instruction and make school a more meaningful place for learning. Both practical and inspirational, this book is an essential guide to creating classrooms and schools where students—and teachers—excel.

Setting the Standard for Project Based Learning

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Ruby Payne

Working with Students

It¿s your classroom, here¿s how to manage it for success. Whether you¿re a beginning teacher or a seasoned vet, classroom discipline is an everyday issue that leads to stress or to satisfaction, depending on how the day goes. This powerful little guide will help you get a handle on your classroom management and you won¿t have to take a leave of absence to learn how to do it. You¿ll discover how to handle student bullies, perfectionists, entertainers and others; respond effectively to the various types of parenting; set rules and guidelines for behaviors and consequences; reduce inappropriate behaviors like harassment, cursing, threats, and more; recognize and control your use of "voice" to improve communication; dramatically improve student performance with one simple formula. In a concise and easy to use format, there¿s something here for everyone. Some teachers will find the sections on dealing with individual students and their behaviors most helpful. Others will love the procedures for streamlining daily activities. Still others will appreciate the suggestions for giving students their own management tools. And beyond your particular area of interest, you¿ll learn a proven system that works, not only with your classroom, but also with your school at large. It¿s invaluable!

Discipline Srategies for the Classroom

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A Better Way to Understand Your Gifts, Your Frustrations, and Your Team

New York Times best-selling author Patrick Lencioni unveils a truly groundbreaking new model that will change the way we think about work and teams forever.

The 6 Types of Working Genius is the fastest way to help people identify the type of work that brings them joy and energy, and avoid work that leads to frustration and burnout.

Beyond the personal discovery and instant relief that Working Genius provides, the model also gives teams a remarkably simple and practical framework for tapping into one another's natural gifts, which increases productivity and reduces unnecessary judgment.
 
In classic Lencioni fashion, Pat brings his model to life in a page-turning fable that is as relatable as it is compelling. He tells the story of Bull Brooks, an entrepreneur, husband, and father who sets out to solve his own frustration at work and stumbles into a new way of thinking that changes the way he sees his work, his team, and even his marriage.
 
What sets this book--and the model behind it--apart from other tools and assessments is the speed at which it can be understood and applied, and the relevance it has to every kind of work in life, from running a company to launching a product to managing a family.
 
In addition to this book, Lencioni and the Table Group have created a 10-minute assessment that helps individuals quickly identify their gifts and apply this model to themselves and their teams. Join the hundreds of thousands of people who have already discovered their Working Genius, and experience the transformation in your work, your team, and your life.
 
Learn more about the Working Genius at WorkingGenius.com.

The 6 Types of Working Genius

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Robert D. Ramsey

Communicating Well with Students, Staff, Parents, and the Public

Communicate effectively with all stakeholders through these invaluable tips, including how-to's for dealing with disasters and approaching sensitive topics such as sex, gangs, and substance abuse.

How to Say the Right Thing Every Time

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Wes Moore

One Name, Two Fates

The Other Wes Moore

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Gallup

An updated version of the StrengthsFinder program developed by Gallup experts to help readers discover their distinct talents and strengths and how they can be translated into personal and career successes.

StrengthsFinder 2. 0

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Geoff Colvin

Defusing Disruptive Behavior in the Classroom

Patrick M. Lencioni

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Todd Henry

Herding Tigers

Nancy Frey; Douglas Fisher

The Formative Assessment Action Plan

Nancy Frey; Douglas Fisher; Dominique Smith

All Learning Is Social and Emotional

Michael Creekmore; Nita Creekmore

Every Connection Matters

Sourcebooks, Inc.

Thank You

Jim Trelease

The Read-Aloud Handbook

David Cottrell

Monday Morning Choices

Meredith McNerney

Cultivating a Classroom of Calm

Paula Kluth; Sheila Danaher

From Text Maps to Memory Caps

Carol Ann Tomlinson; Tonya R. Moon

Assessment and Student Success in a Differentiated Classroom

Joyce Van Tassel-Baska

Content Based Curriculum for High Ability Learners

Heather T. Forbes

Help for Billy

Sharon Walpole; Michael C. McKenna

How to Plan Differentiated Reading Instruction

Martin; Hauth

Survival Guide for the First-Year Special Educ. -2nd Edition

Emily Schell

Social Studies Matters: Teaching and Learning with Authenticity

Suzie Boss; John Larmer; John Mergendoller

Setting the Standard for Project Based Learning

Ruby Payne

Discipline Srategies for the Classroom

Patrick M. Lencioni

The 6 Types of Working Genius

Robert D. Ramsey

How to Say the Right Thing Every Time

Wes Moore

The Other Wes Moore

Gallup

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Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

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