A Teacher's Guide to Special Education

Despite the prevalence of students with disabilities in the general education classroom, few teachers receive training on how to meet these students’ needs or how to navigate the legally mandated processes enumerated in the Individuals with...

Boy Writers: Reclaiming Their Voices by Ralph Fletcher

In Boy Writers: Reclaiming Their Voices Ralph Fletcher draws upon his years of experience as staff developer, children's book author, and father of four boys. He also taps the insights from dozens of writing teachers around the US and abroad. Boy...

Building on the Strengths of Students with Special Needs: How to Move Beyond Disability Labels in the Classroom

With Building on the Strengths of Students with Special Needs, special education expert Toby Karten focuses on specific disabilities and inclusive curriculum scenarios for learners in K-12 environments. She offers valuable advice on how to prevent...

Content-Area Conversations: How to Plan Discussion-Based Lessons for Diverse Language Learners by Douglas Fisher

Even on Your Worst Day, You Can Be a Student's Best Hope by Manny Scott

As Manny Scott travels the world speaking to students and educators, he meets young people whose stories sound a lot like his own--a childhood that was marked by poverty, instability, violence, and despair until a few caring educators showed him how to...

Guided Listening: A Framework for Using Read-aloud and Other Oral Language Experiences to Build Comprehension Skills and Help Students Record, Share, Value and Interpret Ideas by Lisa Donohue

Effective listening skills are essential for successful social interaction at home, at school, and in the community. Guided Listening illustrates how teachers can champion purposeful listening and help students better understand their language strengths...

Instruction That Measures Up: Successful Teaching in the Age of Accountability

Teaching in today's schools is different, and teachers have to know what to do to help their students come out as winners in a test-pressured environment. Here's a book that explains how to do that with a practical framework for teaching in the...

Inviting Students to Learn: 100 Tips for Talking Effectively with Your Students

Communication tips, backed by research, to help teachers work with their students. Includes a wealth of specific examples.

Multiple Intelligences of Reading and Writing: Making the Words Come Alive

We normally think of reading and writing as skills that are a part of linguistic intelligence. In The Multiple Intelligences of Reading and Writing: Making the Words Come Alive, Thomas Armstrong shows how involving the other seven...

Neurodiversity in the Classroom: Strength-Based Strategies to Help Students with Special Needs Succeed in School and in Life

A new concept on human diversity has emerged over the past 10 years that promises to revolutionize the way educators provide services to students with special needs: neurodiversity. Just as we celebrate diversity in nature and cultures, so too do we...

Read, Write, Lead: Breakthrough Strategies for Schoolwide Literacy Success

Achieve dramatic academic improvement by entwining successful practices of literacy and leadership in your school.

Reading for Meaning: How to Build Students' Comprehension, Reasoning, and Problem-Solving Skills

Part of a series of PLC Guides designed to help teams of teachers learn, plan, and implement strategies from the ASCD book The Strategic Teacher, this complete professional development resource focuses on Reading for Meaning, a reading and reasoning...