evaluation

Presents a tool for assessing the quality of preschool, kindergarten, and child care classrooms in the areas of space and furnishings, personal care routines, language-reasoning, activities, interaction, program structure, and parents and staff, with instructions for administration and scoring.

Offers guidance to educators on conferring with readers and provides instructions and prompts for teachers to set up and conduct conferences with first- through eight-grade students in order to create more independent readers.

The book provides teachers with tasks for instruction and assessment purposes.

Presents a practical guide and tutorial CD that helps educators determine the reading level of students who have comprehension issues, and examines ways in which teachers can help improve their students' overall achievement and motivation.

Provides a teaching plan that will enhance comprehension using procedures, quality literature, and relevant student activities.

An exploration of reliability of digital information sources, discussing how to find reliable information, and how information found online can be misleading, misinformed, or dangerous in some instances.

Provides an overview of climate change, discussing evidence, causes, and effects, and examines what can be done to stop its progression.

"Good enough" schools are not good enough.