Explore Professional Learning Solutions

New from ASCD

• Enhancing Professional Practice is an acclaimed framework for successful teaching practice—a benchmark for thousands of school systems and educators around the world
• First published in 2001, Classroom Instruction That Works revolutionized teaching by linking classroom strategies to evidence of increased student learning.
• Curriculum 21 is a must-read book that makes a powerful case for why and how schools must overhaul, update, and breathe new life into the K–12 curriculum.
• Teaching 21st Century Skills: An ASCD Action Tool - explains to teachers the new skills students need and provide teachers with tools to teach and reinforce these skills.

• Making formative assessment the norm in every classroom throughout your school is much easier when you have this book's clear guidelines and simple steps.
• In The Art and Science of Teaching, author Robert Marzano presents a model for ensuring quality teaching that balances research-based data with the equally vital need to understand the strengths and weaknesses of individual students.
• Focus boils down solutions for improved schools to the most powerful, simple actions and structures that ensure you prepare all students for college, careers, and citizenship.
• Drawing from the research base that informed the ASCD best-selling series of What Works In Schools titles, this book identifies key principles at the heart of what it takes to help all students become successful learners.

Teaching & Learning

• Tuned Out: Engaging the 21st Century Learner is focused on improving student engagement in the 21st century.
• Breaking Barriers: Excellence and Equity for All provides 21 practical, high-impact strategies focused on equity and inclusive education
• RTI from All Sides: What Every Teacher Needs to Know- Helps you create a safety net that can save struggling readers before the learning gap widens.
• Class Interrupted: Strategies for Positive Behaviour - A practical and easy-to-use resource for K-12 educators. It provides easy access to just-in-time strategies to support all students, as well as those requiring more intensive intervention.

Literacy

• Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI) is designed to bring children quickly up to grade-level competency—in 14 to 18 weeks on average.
• The Benchmark Assessment System is a one-on-one, comprehensive assessment to determine independent and instructional reading levels and for placing students on the Fountas & Pinnell A-Z Text Gradient.
• Units of Study resources present minute-by-minute, live-from-the classroom coaching as they show you how to refine your lessons to meet the needs of the curious minds that you teach.
• Texts and Lessons for Content-Area Reading - Support content-area and language-arts teachers alike by pairing more than 75 short, eproducible nonfiction texts with 33 simple, ready-to-go lessons that deepen comprehension and support effective collaboration.

Numeracy

• Contexts for Learning Mathematics - Building on the ideals of a math workshop, each unit provides a two-week sequence of investigations, minilessons, games, and other contexts for learning.
• Numeracy Nets: Quick Assessment Tasks is a quick and easy-to-use classroom assessment and planning tool that links to curriculum and informs classroom practice.
• Connecting Arithmetic to Algebra - Each chapter is illustrated by lively episodes drawn from the classrooms of collaborating teachers in a wide range of settings.
• Math Process Standards Series - This series gives every elementary teacher the opportunity to explore each one of the NCTM's Process Standards in depth.

Assessment

• Evidence to Action - Get your leadership team or whole school up and running with a selection of resources to help build and sustain an "evidence-based school."
• Fifteen Fixes for Broken Grades advocates the implementation of grading systems based on student achievement—and shows educators how to create them.
• Ten Things that Matter from Assessment to Grading helps to get you started with a practical assessment for learning primer for all educators.
• Graphic Intelligence showcases the value of organizers as tools for assessment and instruction and support for multiple intelligences and modes of expression.