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Great teaching makes a difference. Whether you are a classroom teacher or school administrator, our professional learning courses, resources and workshops provide the very best support for K-12 educators.

What's New

  • Breaking Barriers: Excellence and Equity for All provides 21 practical, high-impact strategies focused on equity and inclusive education
  • 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.
  • Solutions for Reading Comprehension is made up of classroom-ready solutions to support K–6 striving readers at your fingertips.
  • Comprehension Going Forward is a powerful, lively conversation about how we can improve all readers' comprehension today and join some of your favorite authors as they reach for a tomorrow where every child reads with deep understanding.
  • Reading and Writing Genre with Purpose is about teaching genre differently.
  • The Art of Slow Reading - Explore six time-honored practices of reading—performance, memorization, centering, problem-finding, reading like a writer, and elaboration—to help readers engage in thoughtful, attentive reading.

Teaching & Learning

  • Tuned Out: Engaging the 21st Century Learner is focused on improving student engagement in the 21st century.
  • 13 Parameters: A Literacy Leadership Toolkit - Bring about whole school change with a proven, comprehensive, and easy-to-use toolkit for staff development and literacy improvement.
  • 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 SeriesMath 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."
  • Classroom AssessmentClassroom Assessment for Student Learning is grounded in the research shown to increase student motivation and learning through improved classroom assessment.
  • Seven Strategies of Assessment for Learning - Put it into practice with seven strategies to help embed assessment for learning into everyday instruction.
  • Accessible AssessmentAccessible Assessment - How 9 Sensible Techniques Can Power Data-Driven Reading Instruction