Coaching Conversations by Linda M. Gross Cheliotes

Focus the power of your collaborative school community with powerful coaching conversations! Effective coaching conversations are powerful tools to rally your school-community stakeholders to work collaboratively toward transformation, and, ultimately,...

Instructional Coaching with the End in Mind by Stephen G Barkley

Steve Barkley's concept of "backwards planning" shifts the process of teaching practices, coaching, and professional staff development in significant and comprehensive ways. Steve's research suggests that teachers don't cause student achievement;...

Mobile Learning Mindset: The Coach's Guide to Implementation by Carl Hooker

The Coach’s Guide to Implementation shares lessons learned and provides many examples and staff development activities that will help educational coaches prepare teachers who are about to participate in a mobile device initiative or already have. The...

From Project-Based Learning to Artistic Thinking: Lessons Learned from Creating an Unhappy Meal by Raleigh Werberger

This book is an antidote to other books that purport to show teachers an exact formula to follow to get amazing results in the classroom. It will help to create a classroom that is more like play, with much more freedom and less scripting in order to...

The Power of Project-Based Learning: Helping Students Develop Important Life Skills by Scott D Wurdinger

Project-based learning is a teaching approach that motivates and inspires students to learn and helps them to become self-directed learners over time. Students learn not only the content surrounding their projects, but also important life skills such as...

Tutoring Adolescent Readers by Deborah Berrill

Tutoring Adolescent Readers shows teachers how to reap the benefits of one-to-one teaching by using volunteer tutors. It provides the information you need to incorporate a tutoring program that addresses a variety of student needs from students who are...

Student-Driven Learning: Small, Medium, and Big Steps to Engage and Empower Students by Jennifer Harper

Teachers know that their students love to explore and learn. But, how do we make this possible with thirty students, with different needs, learning styles, and backgrounds, all in one small room with one teacher in the class? Designed to help teachers...

Responsive Literacy Coaching: Tools for Creating and Sustaining Purposeful Change by Cheryl Dozier

In Responsive Literacy Coaching, Cheryl Dozier draws on twenty-four years of experience as an elementary classroom teacher and teacher educator to present both a theoretical framework and practical tools to enact responsive literacy coaching. Through...

Poetry Mentor Texts: Making Reading and Writing Connections, K-8 by Lynne R Dorfman

Building on the success of Mentor Texts and Nonfiction Mentor Texts, authors Lynne R. Dorfman and Rose Cappelli now turn their attention to poetry. In Poetry Mentor Texts, Lynne and Rose show teachers how to use poems in both reading and writing...

Mentoring Beginning Teachers: Guiding, Reflecting, Coaching by Jean Boreen

The first edition of Mentoring Beginning Teachers was named an Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association s Choice magazine in 2000. The expanded second edition packed with insights, anecdotes, and updated research provides mentors...

Mentoring Across Boundaries: Helping Beginning Teachers Succeed in Challenging Situations by Jean Boreen

Designed for mentors, administrators, and teacher educators, Mentoring Across Boundaries builds on the foundations of the authors' previous book, Mentoring Beginning Teachers, to explore many of the specific issues that impact the mentoring relationship.

Mentor Texts: Teaching Writing Through Children's Literature, K-6 by Lynne R Dorfman

How do children's book authors create the wonder that we feel when reading our favorite books? What can students and teachers learn from these authors and books if we let them serve as writing mentors? In Mentor Texts, Lynne Dorfman and Rose Cappelli...