academic achievement

Cris Tovani describes how to monitor, assess, and grade students' thinking and performance. Includes lessons from Cris' classroom, assessment templates, and ideas on how to give feedback.

Examines the achievement gap between students of different races and explains the need for candid, courageous conversations about race to help educators understand performance inequality and develop a curriculum that promotes true academic parity.

Offers an assortment of instructional strategies that are designed to help educators address the needs of students from diverse cultural, ethnic, linguistic, and socioeconomic backgrounds.

Discusses research on the role library programs can play in test scores and provides practical guidance for improving the effectiveness of one's school library for that purpose, explaining what administrators, teachers, and parents should know and expect.

This book explores ten ways kids can be a good student, including developing good study habits, asking for help when you don't understand, and helping other students.

Offers advice on how to create staff development programs that measurably improve student achievement,and includes case studies of successful programs, data from related research, and concept illustrations.

Explains how including measures of student achievement in teacher evaluations can help schools focus on meeting higher standards and describes programs implemented by four successful schools.

Describes six schools who have used multiple intelligences theory for five or more years and discusses how it has helped improve student learning.

Offers advice and instruction to educators on how to collect and use data to analyze and report on how the district is meeting the goal of sustained student learning.