Fisher, Douglas

"Examines student collaboration as a driver of academic and social-emotional growth and offers teachers a new model for improving both learning culture and student outcomes"--Provided by publisher.

"Provides strategies and tips for school leaders to integrate the CCSS for English language arts in their school's instruction, curriculum, assessment, and intervention practices"--Back cover.

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.

A guide for grade 3-5 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 for grade K-2 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.

Provides information on the implementation of guided instruction, covering questioning, prompting, cueing, explaining, and modeling and providing examples for each element.

"... applies the wisdom of Visible Learning research to demonstrate what really works 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"--Back cover.

This book focuses on the quantitative and qualitative factors of text complexity as well as the ways in which readers can be matched with texts and tasks. It also examines how close readings of complex texts scaffold students understanding and allow them to develop the skills necessary to read like a detective. --from publisher description.