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Your Students, My Students, Our Students - Rethinking Equitable and Inclusive Classrooms (Paperback): Lee Ann Jung, Nancy Frey,... Your Students, My Students, Our Students - Rethinking Equitable and Inclusive Classrooms (Paperback)
Lee Ann Jung, Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, Julie Kroener
R802 R650 Discovery Miles 6 500 Save R152 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Winner of AM&P EXCEL Bronze Award Your Students, My Students, Our Students explores the hard truths of current special education practice and outlines five essential disruptions to the status quo. Authors Lee Ann Jung, Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, and Julie Kroener show you how to: Establish a school culture that champions equity and inclusion. Rethink the long-standing structure of least restrictive environment and the resulting service delivery. Leverage the strengths of all educators to provide appropriate support and challenge. Collaborate on the delivery of instruction and intervention. Honor the aspirations of each student and plan accordingly. To realize authentic and equitable inclusion, we must relentlessly and collectively pursue change. This book-written not for ""special educators"" or ""general educators"" but for all educators-addresses the challenges, maps out the solutions, and provides tools and inspiration for the work ahead. Real-life examples of empowerment and success illustrate just what's possible when educators commit to the belief that every student belongs to all of us and all students deserve learning experiences that will equip them to live full and rewarding lives.

Better Learning Through Structured Teaching - A Framework for the Gradual Release of Responsibility (Paperback, 3rd Revised... Better Learning Through Structured Teaching - A Framework for the Gradual Release of Responsibility (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)
Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey
R760 R619 Discovery Miles 6 190 Save R141 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Now in its 3rd edition, Better Learning Through Structured Teaching is the definitive guide to the gradual release of responsibility-an instructional framework any teacher can use to help students to be more successful and self-directed learners.To gradually release responsibility is to equip students with what they need to master content and develop new competencies. On a day-to-day basis, it means delivering lessons intentionally structured to incorporate four interrelated phases: * Focused Instruction ("I do it") that sets students up for cognitive apprenticeship by establishing lesson purpose, modeling strategies and skills, and sharing information and insight. * Guided Instruction ("We do it together") that incorporates targeted prompts, cues, and questions to scaffold understanding. * Collaborative Learning ("You do it together") that allows students to consolidate and extend understanding through accountable group tasks built on discussion and cooperative problem solving. * Independent Learning ("You do it alone") that provides students opportunities to practice and apply the skills and knowledge they've acquired to create authentic products and ask new questions. Authors Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey detail the components of each phase, sharing proven strategies and real-life examples. You'll find a variety of useful tips for classroom implementation, along with new guidance on teacher credibility, social-emotional learning, and embedding assessment throughout all four phases. No matter what grade level or subject you teach, Better Learning Through Structured Teaching is an essential resource for improving your practice and empowering your students.

Intentional and Targeted Teaching - A Framework for Teacher Growth and Leadership (Paperback): Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey,... Intentional and Targeted Teaching - A Framework for Teacher Growth and Leadership (Paperback)
Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Stefani Arzonetti Hite
R779 R639 Discovery Miles 6 390 Save R140 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What is FIT Teaching? What is a FIT Teacher? The Framework for Intentional and Targeted Teaching (R)-or FIT Teaching (R)-is a research-based, field-tested, and experience-honed process that captures the essentials of the best educational environments. In contrast to restrictive pedagogical prescriptions or formulas, FIT Teaching empowers teachers to adapt the most effective planning, instructional, and assessment practices to their particular context in order to move their students' learning from where it is now to where it should be. To be a FIT Teacher is to make a heroic commitment to learning-not just to the learning of every student in the classroom, but to the professional learning necessary to grow, inspire, and lead. This book introduces the powerful FIT Teaching Tool, which harnesses the FIT Teaching approach and presents a detailed continuum of growth and leadership. It's a close-up look at what intentional and targeting teaching is and what successful teachers do to: Plan with purpose. Cultivate a learning climate. Instruct with intention. Assess with a system. Impact student learning. Designed to foster discussion among educators about what they are doing in the classroom, the FIT Teaching Tool can be used by teachers for self-assessment; by teacher peers for collegial feedback in professional learning communities; by instructional coaches to focus on the skills teachers need both onstage and off; and by school leaders to highlight their teachers' strengths and value. Join authors Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Stefani Arzonetti Hite for an examination of what makes great teachers great, and see how educators at all grade levels and all levels of experience are taking intentional steps toward enhanced professional practice.

Student Learning Communities - A Springboard for Academic and Social-Emotional Development (Paperback): Douglas Fisher, Nancy... Student Learning Communities - A Springboard for Academic and Social-Emotional Development (Paperback)
Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, John Almarode
R730 R600 Discovery Miles 6 000 Save R130 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Student learning communities (SLCs) are more than just a different way of doing group work. Like the professional learning communities they resemble, SLCs provide students with a structured way to solve problems, share insight, and help one another continually develop new skills and expertise. With the right planning and support, dynamic collaborative learning can thrive everywhere. In this book, educators Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and John Almarode explain how to create and sustain student learning communities by: Designing group experiences and tasks that encourage dialogue. Fostering the relational conditions that advance academic, social, and emotional development. Providing explicit instruction on goal setting and opportunities to practice progress monitoring. Using thoughtful teaming practices to build cognitive, metacognitive, and emotional regulation skills. Teaching students to seek, give, and receive feedback that amplifies their own and others' learning. Developing the specific leadership skills and strategies that promote individual and group success. Examples from face-to-face and virtual K-12 classrooms help to illustrate what SLCs are, and teacher voices testify to what they can achieve. No more hoping the group work you're assigning will be good enough-or that collaboration will be its own reward. No more crossing your fingers for productive outcomes or struggling to keep order, assess individual student contributions, and ensure fairness. Student Learning Communities shows you how to equip your students with what they need to learn in a way that is truly collective, makes them smarter together than they would be alone, creates a more positive classroom culture, and enables continuous academic and social-emotional growth.

How to Reach the Hard to Teach - Excellent Instruction for Those Who Need It Most (Paperback): Jana Echevarria, Nancy Frey,... How to Reach the Hard to Teach - Excellent Instruction for Those Who Need It Most (Paperback)
Jana Echevarria, Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher
R660 R538 Discovery Miles 5 380 Save R122 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For every teacher it's different, but you know who they are for you-the students who are "hard to teach." Maybe they're reading far below grade level. Maybe they're English learners. Maybe they have diagnosed learning disabilities or behavioral issues. Maybe they're underachieving for reasons that are unknown. They have been overlooked or underserved or frustrated, and they're not learning as they should. Until now. Until you. How to Reach the Hard to Teach presents a thoughtful and practical approach to achieving breakthrough success with linguistically and culturally diverse students who struggle in school. Combining elements of the SIOP (R) Model and the FIT Teaching (R) approach, authors Jana Echevarria, Nancy Frey, and Douglas Fisher take stock of what we know about excellent instruction and distill it into five guiding principles: Set high expectations. Provide access to the core curriculum. Use assessment to inform instruction. Attend to language development-both English and academic. Create a supportive classroom climate. You'll learn specific practices associated with each principle and see how real-life teachers are employing these practices in their classrooms so that all students have the opportunity to learn and receive optimal support for that learning. Every teacher has had the experience of seeing a "hard to teach" student in a new light and realizing all he or she might achieve. This book is about shining that light of possibility on the students who challenge us most, interrogating our beliefs, and taking action to ensure they receive the best instruction we have to offer.

Better Than Carrots or Sticks - Restorative Practices for Positive Classroom Management (Paperback): Dominique Smith, Douglas... Better Than Carrots or Sticks - Restorative Practices for Positive Classroom Management (Paperback)
Dominique Smith, Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey
R751 R609 Discovery Miles 6 090 Save R142 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Classroom management is traditionally a matter of encouraging good behavior and discouraging bad by doling out rewards and punishments. But studies show that when educators empower students to address and correct misbehavior among themselves, positive results are longer lasting and more wide reaching. In Better Than Carrots or Sticks, longtime educators and best-selling authors Dominique Smith, Douglas Fisher, and Nancy Frey provide a practical blueprint for creating a cooperative and respectful classroom climate in which students and teachers work through behavioral issues together. After a comprehensive overview of the roots of the restorative practices movement in schools, the authors explain how to: Establish procedures and expectations for student behavior that encourage the development of positive interpersonal skills. Develop a nonconfrontational rapport with even the most challenging students. Implement conflict resolution strategies that prioritize relationship building and mutual understanding over finger-pointing and retribution. Rewards and punishments may help to maintain order in the short term, but they're at best superficially effective and at worst counterproductive. This book will prepare teachers at all levels to ensure that their classrooms are welcoming, enriching, and constructive environments built on collective respect and focused on student achievement.

Enhancing RTI - How to Ensure Success with Effective Classroom Instruction and Intervention (Paperback): Douglas Fisher, Nancy... Enhancing RTI - How to Ensure Success with Effective Classroom Instruction and Intervention (Paperback)
Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey
R802 R658 Discovery Miles 6 580 Save R144 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Are we missing the opportunity to reach struggling learners from the very beginning? Are we hastily-and unnecessarily- referring students to intervention programs that substitute for high-quality core instruction? What if we could eliminate the need for intervention programs in the first place? Response to Intervention (RTI) programs are only as powerful and effective as the core instruction on which they're built. High-quality instruction, then, is the key ingredient that helps all students excel, and it's at the heart of Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey's unique approach to the RTI model - Response to Instruction and Intervention, or RTI2. In Enhancing RTI, the authors argue that students learn best when classroom instruction and supplemental intervention mirror each other in both content and purpose. This book provides K-12 teachers with the knowledge and tools they need to implement a cohesive RTI2 system that helps all children learn by proactively addressing their needs. To this end, you will learn how to: Integrate and align core instruction and supplemental intervention. Assess your own classroom instruction, in addition to your students' responses to it. Strengthen existing school improvement efforts within an RTI2 framework. Utilize systematic feedback to raise student achievement. Fisher and Frey maintain that the RTI2 model not only promotes active student learning, but it also, when done right, promotes a culture of hardwired excellence at all levels of instruction.

How Tutoring Works - Six Steps to Grow Motivation and Accelerate Student Learning (Paperback): Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, John... How Tutoring Works - Six Steps to Grow Motivation and Accelerate Student Learning (Paperback)
Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, John T. Almarode
R687 Discovery Miles 6 870 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Build students' confidence and competence with tutoring strategies that spark meaningful, accelerated learning. Tutoring is much more than telling students information. Effective tutoring begins with the strong and caring relationship a tutor establishes with a learner to build trust, fuel motivation, and drive critical learning. How Tutoring Works distills the complexity of strategic moves effective tutors make to build students' confidence and competence. Harnessing decades of Visible Learning (R) research, this easy to read, eye-opening guide details the six essential components of any effective tutoring intervention-establishing a relationship and credibility, addressing student confidence and challenges, setting shared goals, helping a student learn how to learn, teaching and learning content, and establishing a habit of deliberate practice. Indispensable for any educator who intervenes with students, this rich resource includes: Examples of impactful tutoring conversations, including what to say and what not to say when building a relationship with a learner. Specific approaches to use when establishing credibility, addressing challenges to learning, leveraging the relevance of knowledge, setting goals, and ensuring practice. Learning strategies, with effect size, for teaching and learning content, including specific strategies for improving reading, writing, and mathematics. Tips and tools for helping students develop powerful cognitive, metacognitive, and affective study skills. Resources and advice for establishing an effective and transformational tutoring program. Done well, tutoring can repair a student's damaged relationship to learning, address unrealized potential, and alter the course of a young person's life. A strong and nurturing relationship between tutor and learner is key.

How Leadership Works - A Playbook for Instructional Leaders (Spiral bound): Cathy J. Lassiter, Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey,... How Leadership Works - A Playbook for Instructional Leaders (Spiral bound)
Cathy J. Lassiter, Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Dominique B. Smith
R752 Discovery Miles 7 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This easy-to-use playbook prompts educators to clarify, articulate, and actualize instructional leadership goals with the aim of delivering on the promise of equity and excellence for all.

Leader Credibility - The Essential Traits of Those Who Engage, Inspire, and Transform (Paperback): Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey,... Leader Credibility - The Essential Traits of Those Who Engage, Inspire, and Transform (Paperback)
Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Cathy J. Lassiter, Dominique B. Smith
R617 Discovery Miles 6 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Passion, vision, relatability-can we ever quantify the facets of successful leadership? Is there sufficient "there-there" behind these feel-good words to transform a school into a culture of learning and bold hope? Yes, and yes! Inspired by John Hattie's impressive research, Fisher, Frey, Lassiter, and Smith bring their trademark clarity to turn aspiration into energized action. For each of the five components that all effective leaders possess-trustworthiness, competence, dynamism, immediacy, and forward-thinking-leaders learn the first steps and bold leaps to mentor others. Each chapter abounds with professional development tools, including: Self-assessments so you know your baseline Pause and ponder questions to envision change REAL features to lead with alacrity Checklists to stay focused and strategic Relevant research to assimilate and share Now more than ever, schools need to be places where openness and trust are baked into every hallway hello and every meeting, so collective talents can take us farther than we ever imagined. Let Leader Credibility be your guide to steering others to that greatness.

The Distance Learning Playbook for Parents - How to Support Your Child's Academic, Social, and Emotional Development in... The Distance Learning Playbook for Parents - How to Support Your Child's Academic, Social, and Emotional Development in Any Setting (Paperback)
Rosalind Wiseman, Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, John Hattie
R504 Discovery Miles 5 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

We are in this together and will get through this together Parent involvement has always been a vital part of any child's education, but the pandemic and resulting remote instruction require that parents and educators partner at a deeper level. Following the tremendous success of The Distance Learning Playbook, K-12, education authorities Doug Fisher, Nancy Frey, and John Hattie have teamed up with New York Times bestselling author and parenting expert Rosalind Wiseman to bring you the consummate guide to support your child's academic, social, and emotional development in any learning environment - while not overwhelming you in the process. This essential guide will arm you with the tools and insight to Create an environment conducive to learning, establish routines, and most importantly, take care of yourself and your child Maximize the time you spend supporting learning by focusing on what is proven to work best in education Help your child develop the cognitive attitudes and habits that foster creativity, critical thinking, and increased responsibility for their learning Support the development of your child's social and emotional learning skills, including the ability to navigate social interactions, build friendships, and regulate emotions at a time when they have never been more important to have, and more challenging to maintain The Distance Learning Playbook for Parents outlines supportive strategies for navigating virtual environments to ensure effective and impactful learning that aligns the needs and expectations of teachers, parents, and students alike.

Checking for Understanding - Formative Assessment Techniques for Your Classroom (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Douglas... Checking for Understanding - Formative Assessment Techniques for Your Classroom (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey
R793 R647 Discovery Miles 6 470 Save R146 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A teacher presents a lesson, and at the end asks students if they understand the material. The students nod and say they get it. Later, the teacher is dismayed when many of the students fail a test on the material. Why aren't students getting it? And, just as important, why didn't the teacher recognize the problem? In Checking for Understanding, Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey show how to increase students' understanding with the help of creative formative assessments. When used regularly, formative assessments enable every teacher to determine what students know and what they still need to learn. Fisher and Frey explore a variety of engaging activities that check for and increase understanding, including interactive writing, portfolios, multimedia presentations, audience response systems, and much more. This new 2nd edition of Checking for Understanding has been updated to reflect the latest thinking in formative assessment and to show how the concepts apply in the context of Fisher and Frey's work on gradual release of responsibility, guided instruction, formative assessment systems, data analysis, and quality instruction.

Productive Group Work - How to Engage Students, Build Teamwork, and Promote Understanding (Paperback): Nancy Frey, Douglas... Productive Group Work - How to Engage Students, Build Teamwork, and Promote Understanding (Paperback)
Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher
R656 R533 Discovery Miles 5 330 Save R123 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The benefits of collaborative learning are well documented-and yet, almost every teacher knows how group work can go wrong: restless students, unequal workloads, lack of accountability, and too little learning for all the effort involved. In this book, educators Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, and Sandi Everlove show you how to make all group work productive group work: with all students engaged in the academic content and with each other, building valuable social skills, consolidating and extending their knowledge, and increasing their readiness for independent learning. The key to getting the most out of group work is to match research-based principles of group work with practical action. Classroom examples across grade levels and disciplines illustrate how to: Create interdependence and positive interaction. Model and guide group work. Design challenging and engaging group tasks. Ensure group and individual accountability. Assess and monitor students' developing understanding (and show them how to do the same). Foster essential interpersonal skills, such as thinking with clarity, listening, giving useful feedback, and considering different points of view. The authors also address the most frequently asked questions about group work, including the best ways to form groups, accommodate mixed readiness levels, and introduce collaborative learning routines into the classroom. Throughout, they build a case that productive group work is both an essential part of a gradual release of responsibility instructional model and a necessary part of good teaching practice.

The Distance Learning Playbook, Grades K-12 - Teaching for Engagement and Impact in Any Setting (Spiral bound): Douglas Fisher,... The Distance Learning Playbook, Grades K-12 - Teaching for Engagement and Impact in Any Setting (Spiral bound)
Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, John Hattie
R693 Discovery Miles 6 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Effective teaching is effective teaching, no matter where it occurs The pandemic teaching of mid-2020 was not really distance learning, but rather crisis teaching. But starting now, teachers have the opportunity to prepare for distance learning with purpose and intent-using what works best to accelerate students' learning all the while maintaining an indelible focus on equity. Harnessing the insights and experience of renowned educators Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and John Hattie, The Distance Learning Playbook applies the wisdom and evidence of VISIBLE LEARNING (R) research to understand what works best with distance learning. Spanning topics from teacher-student relationships, teacher credibility and clarity, instructional design, assessments, and grading, this comprehensive playbook details the research- and evidence-based strategies teachers can mobilize to deliver high- impact learning in an online, virtual, and distributed environment. This powerful guide includes: Learning Intentions and Success Criteria for each module to track your own learning and model evidence-based teacher practices for meaningful learning A diversity of instructional approaches, including direct instruction, peer learning, and independent work that foster student self-regulation and move learning to deep and transfer levels Discussion of equity challenges associated with distance learning, along with examples of how teachers can work to ensure that equity gains that have been realized are not lost. Special guidance for teachers of young children who are learning from a distance Videos of the authors and teachers discussing a wide variety of distance learning topics Space to write and reflect on current practices and plan future instruction The Distance Learning Playbook is the essential hands-on guide to preparing and delivering distance learning experiences that are truly effective and impactful. To purchase from an Authorized Corwin Distributor click here. A Spanish translation of the Distance Learning Playbook, Grades K-12, Aprendizaje a Distancia Guia, Guia de Preescolar a Bachillerator, can be purchased by contacting Irene Yepez from Editorial Trillas at [email protected].

How Scaffolding Works - A Playbook for Supporting and Releasing Responsibility to Students (Spiral bound): Nancy Frey, Douglas... How Scaffolding Works - A Playbook for Supporting and Releasing Responsibility to Students (Spiral bound)
Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, John T. Almarode
R831 Discovery Miles 8 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Provide the perfect structure and support to develop student independence. Effective scaffolding leads to learner autonomy—but too many educators have been airlifting students to right answers, perpetuating a generation who don’t know how to learn. Yes, we know the sweet spot for learning involves giving our students the right blend of productive failure and productive success, but how to do it is cloaked in misconceptions. How Scaffolding Works unveils the essential moves and methods. Ten interactive modules help every K-12 educator structure support in new ways, including knowing how to: Gradually release responsibility to students through intentional and purposeful scaffolding Design lessons and experiences that attend to the affective, metacognitive, and cognitive aspects of learning Collect data before, during, and after learning, so we can place, move, and take away scaffolds with greater intention Promote independence with front-end scaffolds, distributed scaffolds, back-end scaffolds, peer scaffolds, and fading scaffolds Use a blend of demonstration, modeling, coaching, explaining, questioning and choice Promote purposeful practice—in which learners knows where they’re going and how to get there Perhaps we rush in to rescue learners because the world seems fraught; we want to help our students reach the safety of academic success. Our intentions are good, but it’s time to step back, gradually and purposefully, and let them pilot their own learning.

Kids Come in All Languages - Visible Learning for Multilingual Learners: Oscar Corrigan, Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, John Hattie Kids Come in All Languages - Visible Learning for Multilingual Learners
Oscar Corrigan, Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, John Hattie
R811 Discovery Miles 8 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Everything you need to create a high-trust, high-achieving learning environment for multilingual students We have never known more than we do now about teaching multilingual students — nevertheless, we teeter on the edge of retreating to old-think practices. The next generation depends upon our getting this right, and this spare, salient guide helps ensure we do. Kids Come in All Languages provides teachers and leaders with all they need to design high-quality curriculum to support multilingual learners. With this book, learn to: Create a low-anxiety, high-expectation classroom climate that gives multilingual students access to engaging grade-level content Plan clear, cohesive lessons and tasks that motivate students to produce language, use critical thinking skills, and access complex texts Offer ample time for student-led talk that ramps up knowledge and amps up a sense of belonging Use heterogeneous, flexible grouping so children acquiring English don’t stall out in fixed-mindset, below-grade level groups And much more Teachers act like tributaries, helping learners access a wider stream of knowledge, and catch the swift current of wanting to learn. It’s time to envision this expansiveness for multilingual students. It’s time to design learning experiences with optimism for their futures.

The Early Childhood Education Playbook (Spiral bound): Kateri Thunder, John T. Almarode, Alisha Demchak, Douglas Fisher, Nancy... The Early Childhood Education Playbook (Spiral bound)
Kateri Thunder, John T. Almarode, Alisha Demchak, Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey
R774 Discovery Miles 7 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Learn how the Visible Learning (R) research guides our planning and teaching as we partner with families and colleagues to have the greatest impact on the learning and development of young children.

Teaching Reading - A Playbook for Developing Skilled Readers Through Word Recognition and Language Comprehension (Spiral... Teaching Reading - A Playbook for Developing Skilled Readers Through Word Recognition and Language Comprehension (Spiral bound)
Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Diane K. Lapp
R855 Discovery Miles 8 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The comprehensive guide you can trust for evidence-based reading practices It's settled science: developing skilled readers can enhance students' lives. That's why renowned educators Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Diane Lapp wrote this resource with the urgency of a code blue in an ER-because too many children, for many reasons, struggle with learning to become strong readers. Designed to be a one-stop shop for best practices, Teaching Reading is concise, encyclopedic, and essential. Thirteen interactive modules provide easy to read ideas to support you teaching every child to read very well. You will learn how to: Focus on two critical aspects of reading-word recognition and language comprehension. Select the best activities to support students in grades K-6 to learn letters and sound relationships. Provide developing readers with the most effective oral, written, and reading experiences. Recharge your confidence and craft with uplifting new research findings from neuroscience, cognitive science, and child development. Clear up confusions about phonics progressions, reading fluency, morphology, text selection, grammar, and more. Develop background knowledge, vocabulary, and comprehension instruction. Be up to date on how to help students attain deeper levels of comprehension by applying Theory of Mind and other cutting-edge ideas. Reading is a thrilling but complex process. It involves a heady mix of skills, schema, self-concept, and social dimensions. To give all students the chance to reap its rewards, we need a go-big kind of resource. This is it.

PLC+ - A Playbook for Instructional Leaders: Nancy Frey, Dave Nagel, Douglas Fisher, Toni Osborn Faddis, Aida Allen-Rotell PLC+ - A Playbook for Instructional Leaders
Nancy Frey, Dave Nagel, Douglas Fisher, Toni Osborn Faddis, Aida Allen-Rotell
R763 Discovery Miles 7 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Build cohesive PLC+ teams to improve learning outcomes Effective teacher collaboration can amplify student learning and well-being outcomes, increase teacher satisfaction rates, and improve the onboarding of new teachers. Yet developing a cohesive PLC+ team isn’t always so simple. Designed as a companion to PLC+: Better Decisions and Greater Impact by Design and The PLC+ Playbook, this easy-to-use playbook for school leaders provides strategies, techniques, and evidence-based approaches to help leaders foster successful collaboration among teachers and positively impact student learning. Four cross-cutting values are infused within each guiding question: high expectations, activation, individual and collective teacher efficacy, and equity. Building on this framework and drawing from Visible Learning research, the guide offers specific instructional leadership actions and behaviors to promote cohesion in PLC+ teams. Leaders will learn: Contextual information to boost knowledge about effectively engaging with adults Essential information on how to lead PLC+ teams to become strong, interdependent, and productive Leadership tools to support and inspire others to work at optimal levels Examples and insights into time management, decision-making, successes, failures, and learning opportunities Discover how to build social, human, and decisional capital within your organization, equipping teachers with the skills they need to drive school improvement.

The Formative Assessment Action Plan - Practical Steps to More Successful Teaching and Learning (Paperback): Nancy Frey,... The Formative Assessment Action Plan - Practical Steps to More Successful Teaching and Learning (Paperback)
Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher
R706 R574 Discovery Miles 5 740 Save R132 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Join Nancy Frey and Douglas Fisher as they outline a clear-cut, realistic, and rewarding approach to formative assessment. They explain how four discrete steps work in tandem to create a seamless, comprehensive formative assessment system-one that has no beginning and no end. This ongoing approach enhances an active give-and-take relationship between teachers and students to promote learning. Where am I going? Step 1: Feed-up ensures that students understand the purpose of an assignment, task, or lesson, including how they will be assessed. Where am I now? Step 2: Checking for understanding guides instruction and helps determine if students are making progress toward their goals. How am I doing? Step 3: Feedback provides students with valuable and constructive information about their successes and needs. Where am I going next? Step 4: Feed-forward builds on the feedback from step 3 and uses performance data to facilitate student achievement. Dozens of real-life scenarios demonstrate how to apply these steps in your classroom, always focusing on the presence or absence of student learning to guide the action. By enabling teachers and students alike to see more clearly what they need to do for learning to be successful, this approach builds students' competence, confidence, and understanding. No matter what grade level you teach, The Formative Assessment Action Plan will help you make better use of assessment data so you can more quickly adjust instruction to keep every student on the path to success.

The Distance Learning Playbook for College and University Instruction - Teaching for Engagement and Impact in Any Setting... The Distance Learning Playbook for College and University Instruction - Teaching for Engagement and Impact in Any Setting (Paperback)
Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, John T. Almarode, John Hattie
R693 Discovery Miles 6 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First, let's commend ourselves: how in the midst of a pandemic we faculty stepped up at record speed to teach in such a foreign learning environment. Try we did, adapt we did, and learn we did. But to be clear, and we already recognize this, this past spring was less about distance learning and more about crisis teaching. This time around we have the opportunity to be much more purposeful and intentional, and that's where The Distance Learning Playbook for College and University Instruction will prove absolutely indispensable. Much more than a collection of cool tools and apps, The Distance Learning Playbook for College and University Instruction mobilizes decades of Visible Learning (R) research to reveal those evidence-based strategies that work best in an online environment. Supplemented by video footage and opportunities to self-assess and reflect, the book addresses every dynamic that must be in place for students to learn, even at a distance: Faculty-student relationships from a distance Teacher credibility from a distance Teacher clarity from a distance Engaging tasks from a distance Planning learning experiences from a distance Feedback, assessment, and grading from a distance Keeping the focus on learning, from a distance or otherwise What does our post-COVID future hold? "We suspect," Fisher, Frey, Almarode, and Hattie write, "it will include increased amounts of distance learning. In the meantime, let's seize on what we have learned to improve post-secondary education in any format, whether face-to-face or from a distance." "We are all still active faculty members, committed to teaching, scholarship, and service. The unexpected transition to remote learning doesn't mean we no longer know how to teach. We can still impact the lives of our students and know that we made a difference. The Distance Learning Playbook for College and University Instruction will show you how." ~Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, John Almarode, and John Hattie

Visible Learning for Literacy, Grades K-12 - Implementing the Practices That Work Best to Accelerate Student Learning... Visible Learning for Literacy, Grades K-12 - Implementing the Practices That Work Best to Accelerate Student Learning (Paperback)
Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, John Hattie 1
R915 R847 Discovery Miles 8 470 Save R68 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Every student deserves a great teacher, not by chance, but by design" - Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, & John Hattie What if someone slipped you a piece of paper listing the literacy practices that ensure students demonstrate more than a year's worth of learning for a year spent in school? Would you keep the paper or throw it away? We think you'd keep it. And that's precisely why acclaimed educators Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and John Hattie wrote Visible Learning for Literacy. They know teachers will want to apply Hattie's head-turning synthesis of more than 15 years of research involving millions of students, which he used to identify the instructional routines that have the biggest impact on student learning. These practices are "visible" for teachers and students to see, because their purpose has been made clear, they are implemented at the right moment in a student's learning, and their effect is tangible. Yes, the "aha" moments made visible by design. With their trademark clarity and command of the research, and dozens of classroom scenarios to make it all replicable, these authors apply Hattie's research, and show you: How to use the right approach at the right time, so that you can more intentionally design classroom experiences that hit the surface, deep, and transfer phases of learning, and more expertly see when a student is ready to dive from surface to deep. Which routines are most effective at specific phases of learning, including word sorts, concept mapping, close reading, annotating, discussion, formative assessment, feedback, collaborative learning, reciprocal teaching, and many more. Why the 8 mind frames for teachers apply so well to curriculum planning and can inspire you to be a change agent in students' lives-and part of a faculty that embraces the idea that visible teaching is a continual evaluation of one's impact on student's learning.

Teaching Mathematics in the Visible Learning Classroom, Grades 3-5 (Paperback): John T. Almarode, Douglas Fisher, Kateri... Teaching Mathematics in the Visible Learning Classroom, Grades 3-5 (Paperback)
John T. Almarode, Douglas Fisher, Kateri Thunder, Sara Delano Moore, John Hattie, …
R866 R809 Discovery Miles 8 090 Save R57 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

It could happen in the morning during homework review. Or perhaps it happens when listening to students as they struggle through a challenging problem. Or maybe even after class, when planning a lesson. At some point, the question arises: How do I influence students' learning-what's going to generate that light bulb "aha" moment of understanding? In this sequel to the megawatt best seller Visible Learning for Mathematics, John Almarode, Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, John Hattie, and Kateri Thunder help you answer that question by showing how Visible Learning strategies look in action in the mathematics classroom. Walk in the shoes of elementary school teachers as they engage in the 200 micro-decisions-per-minute needed to balance the strategies, tasks, and assessments seminal to high-impact mathematics instruction. Using grade-leveled examples and a decision-making matrix, you'll learn to Articulate clear learning intentions and success criteria at surface, deep, and transfer levels Employ evidence to guide students along the path of becoming metacognitive and self-directed mathematics achievers Use formative assessments to track what students understand, what they don't, and why Select the right task for the conceptual, procedural, or application emphasis you want, ensuring the task is for the right phase of learning Adjust the difficulty and complexity of any task to meet the needs of all learners It's not only what works, but when. Exemplary lessons, video clips, and online resources help you leverage the most effective teaching practices at the most effective time to meet the surface, deep, and transfer learning needs of every student.

The Social-Emotional Learning Playbook - A Guide to Student and Teacher Well-Being (Spiral bound): Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher,... The Social-Emotional Learning Playbook - A Guide to Student and Teacher Well-Being (Spiral bound)
Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, Dominique B. Smith
R740 Discovery Miles 7 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This interactive playbook provides the language, moves, and evidence-based advice you need to nurture social and emotional learning in yourself, your students, and your school.

The Success Criteria Playbook - A Hands-On Guide to Making Learning Visible and Measurable (Spiral bound): John T. Almarode,... The Success Criteria Playbook - A Hands-On Guide to Making Learning Visible and Measurable (Spiral bound)
John T. Almarode, Douglas Fisher, Kateri Thunder, Nancy Frey
R769 Discovery Miles 7 690 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Provide students a clear view of what success looks like for any process, task, or product. What does success look like for your students? How will they know if they have learned? This essential component of teaching and learning can be difficult to articulate but is vital to achievement for both teachers and students. The Success Criteria Playbook catapults teachers beyond learning intentions to define clearly what success looks like for every student-whether face-to-face or in a remote learning environment. Designed to be used collaboratively in grade-level, subject area teams-or even on your own-the step-by-step playbook expands teacher understanding of how success criteria can be utilized to maximize student learning and better engage learners in monitoring and evaluating their own progress. Each module is designed to support the creation and immediate implementation of high-quality, high impact success criteria and includes: * Templates that allow for guided and independent study for teachers. * Extensive STEM-focused examples from across the K-12 STEM curriculum to guide teacher learning and practice. * Examples of success criteria applied across learning domains and grades, including high school content, skills, practices, dispositions, and understandings. Ensure equity of access to learning and opportunity for all students by designing and employing high-quality, high-impact success criteria that connect learners to a shared understanding of what success looks like for any given learning intention.

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