education

A collection of inspirational quotes and reflective sayings designed to influence, encourage, and motivate educators, with illustrations on the accompanying CD-ROM that can be used in PowerPoint presentations, memos, newsletters, banners, and more.

A collection of essays addressing topics in standards and assessment to help educators achieve successful results in teaching and student learning.

Offers a hands-on model for creating a curriculum that integrates national standards, instruction, and assessment while still meeting the needs of the students and teachers.

The author explains why he believes in academic standards as the only fair method for assessing student performance, offers guidelines for establishing standards systems, and discusses the role of the school superintendent, board of education, and state and national governments in the standards movement.

A guide for grade 9-12 teachers on integrating the CCSS for English language arts into their instruction, curriculum assessment, and intervention practices, and includes a model on how to use CCSS with Professional Learning Communities at Work.

A guide to teaching the Common Core State Standards for English language arts grades 6-8.

Discusses how to form, implement, and score and analyze performance tasks for assessing student learning.

Describes a variety of memorable teachers, and identifies ten traits selected by the author as characteristic of effective teachers, including personal, teaching, and intellectual traits, each with suggested questions administrators may use when interviewing prospective teachers.