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  Whatever It Takes: How Professional Learning Communities Respond When Kids Don't Learn

  by Robert E. Eaker

  Whatever It Takes: How Professional Learning Communities Respond When Kids Don't Learn examines the question, What happens when, despite our best efforts in the classroom, a student does not learn? A professional learning community creates a school-wide system of interventions that provides all students with additional time and support when they experience difficulty in their learning. The authors describe the... (more)
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  Transforming Classroom Grading

  by Robert J. Marzano

  Grading can be an invaluable tool for pinpointing strengths and weaknesses in students' understanding, provide a shared language for discussing learning, and help improve student performance over time. Unfortunately, current practices in classroom grading, such as the use of overall letter grades or percentage scores, are not amenable to this type of specific feedback. In fact, they do little more than label... (more)
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  Assessing Student Outcomes: Performance Assessment Using the Dimensions of Learning Model

  by Robert J. Marzano

  The authors provide a brief introduction to the Dimensions of Learning instructional model and then explain how it relates to lifelong learning standards and the content standards developed for mathematics, science, and other subjects. They include numerous examples of performance tasks that help students meet the standards by requiring them to actively construct knowledge for themselves. Teachers will... (more)
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  Double Dutch (Aladdin Fiction)

  by Sharon M. Draper

  secrets Delia loves Double Dutch more than just about anything, and she's really good at it -- so good she and her teammates have a shot at winning the World Double Dutch Championships. Delia would die if she couldn't jump -- but Delia has a secret, and it could keep her off the team next year. Delia's friend Randy has a secret too, one that has him lonely and scared. And while Delia and Randy struggle to... (more)
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  Student Achievement Through Staff Development (3rd Edition)

  by Bruce R. Joyce

  In 1980, Bruce Joyce and Beverly Showers predicted that staff development would become a human resource development system designed to change the nature of education, the status of school personnel, and the relationship between the two. In this third edition of their popular book, Student Achievement Through Staff Development, the authors offer an expanded guide to making that prediction a reality. Through... (more)
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  Classroom Instruction that Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement (ASCD)

  by Robert J. Marzano

  This brief book presents research on the best strategies for raising student achievement through classroom instruction. Readers will find a wealth of research evidence, statistical data, and case studies. Nine categories of instructional strategies—Identifying Similarities and Differences; Summarizing and Note Taking; Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition; Homework and Practice; Nonlinguistic... (more)
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  Results: The Key to Continuous School Improvement, Second Edition

  by Michael J. Schmoker

  How do you know if your school is improving? Do you know what really works in reading programs . . . in writing . . . in math . . . in science? How do we measure what works? What about teaching to the test--or to the vast array of standards being mandated? How do we effectively use cooperative learning--and direct instruction--and alternative assessment? How do we sustain school reform? How do we get... (more)
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  Succeeding With Standards: Linking Curriculum, Assessment, and Action Planning

  by Judy F. Carr

  In many schools and districts, the local curriculum is a hodgepodge of individual initiatives knit together by collective good intentions. Succeeding with Standards: Linking Curriculum, Assessment, and Action Planning describes a practical, school-tested solution to the challenge of creating a curriculum. Building on their work in How to Use Standards in the Classroom, Judy F. Carr and Douglas E. Harris describe... (more)
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  Continuous Improvement Tools: A Practical Guide to Achieve Quality Results (Volume 2)

  by Richard Y. Chang and Matthew E. Niedzwiecki

  This Practical Guidebook is designed as a quick and easy-to-use reference to support your process-improvement activities. Read it when you or your team are working on an effort that is: stalled; unstructured; taking too long; in need of new ideas; or has failed in the past. In Continuous Improvement Tools Volume 1, seven popular planning, analysis, and interpretation tools were discusssed. Now in Volume 2, the... (more)