Brain-Powered Strategies to Engage All Learners

All Grades

Get students’ synapses firing with easy-to‑implement, brain-based learning strategies that foster higher-order thinking skills. Gain valuable insight into how students learn most effectively using these practical approaches.

• Learn the power that brain research brings to teaching and learning and acquire step‑by‑step methods for engaging students in standards-based instruction.
• Discover the essential qualities of 21st Century Learners and how to motivate them.
• Integrate movement, kinesthetic learning, graphic organizers, brainstorming, critical thinking, and writing into high-yield, student‑centered lessons.
• Apply brain-based learning strategies with constructive planning tasks and lesson writing.

Suggested Resources

Brain-Powered Strategies to Engage All Learners
by LaVonna Roth
All Grades
Product Number: 50772, Price: $99.99

Understanding Learning Styles: Making a Difference for Diverse Learners
by Jeanna Sheve, Kelli Allen, Vicki Nieter
All Grades
Product Number: 50046, Price: $29.99

Higher-Order Thinking Skills to Develop 21st Century Learners

All Grades

Learn effective strategies for developing students’ higher-order thinking skills while understanding the pedagogy underlying the instructional approaches.

• Investigate cognitive and developmental aspects of higher-level thinking.
• Explore, through model lessons and step‑by‑step how-to guides, high-yield strategies for questioning, problem solving, decision making, idea generation, and creative thinking.
• Participate in constructive planning tasks for integrating strategies for
  higher-order thinking skills into curriculum and instruction.
• Discover the essential qualities of a 21st Century Learner.

Suggested Resources

Higher-Order Thinking Skills to Develop 21st Century Learners
by Wendy Conklin
All Grades
Product Number: 50822, Price: $24.99

Leveled Texts for Differentiated Content-Area Literacy
Grades 4-12
Price: $399.99

Align, Implement, and Instruct with the Common Core Standards

All Grades

Explore the Common Core State Standards for Language Arts and Mathematics and what these standards mean for educators and students today. Build understanding of the content with the goal of moving students toward mastery of standards within this new framework.

• Discover what the Common Core State Standards are and explore what they mean to teachers and administrators in your state.
• Unpack the Common Core State Standards to understand the depth and breadth of the content.
• Map curriculum and backwards plan assessments and lessons to align to the Common Core State Standards.
• Move students toward mastery of the standards using effective,
  research-based strategies that incorporate key components of the Common Core.
  • Build content-area literacy through complex, informational text.
  • Develop conceptual understanding of mathematics through real-world problem solving.
  • Build students’ proficiency of Standards for Mathematical Practice.
  • Strategically target college readiness skills and content.

Suggested Resources

Backwards Planning: Building Enduring Understanding through Instructional Design
by Harriet Isecke
All Grades
Product Number: 50633, Price: $29.99

TIME For Kids® Nonfiction Readers
Grades K - 3

Mathematics Readers

Exploring Writing
Grades 1-12

Implementing a Response to Intervention Model

All Grades

Construct an effective Response to Intervention model and implement it with fidelity and sustainability to meet the learning needs of all students.

• Know the key components of a successful Response to Intervention program.
• Develop a Response to Intervention model with a systems of change approach to fit the needs of your district or school.
• Define cultural and linguistic diversity and advocate for a rigorous structure that takes culture and language into account.
• Acquire differentiation strategies to address the needs of all students as they progress through the RTI model, using progress monitoring and diagnostic assessments to inform and guide instruction.
• Learn to implement a systematic intervention curriculum to meet students’ diverse needs.

Suggested Resources

Implementing Response to Intervention
by William J. Donelson and Roberta W. Donelson
All Grades
Product Number: 50516, Price: $99.99

Effecting Change: Intervention for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners
by Almitra Berry
All Grades
Product Number: 50666, Price: $21.99

Targeted Mathematics Intervention

Targeted Reading Intervention

Assessment Strategies for Improving Teaching and Learning

All Grades

Discover a data-driven approach to instruction by utilizing diagnostic, formative, and summative assessments to inform and improve teaching and learning.

• Understand students’ needs by learning to utilize diagnostic tools.
• Acquire easy-to-implement strategies to check for understanding and monitor students’ progress.
• Learn to measure students’ overall mastery of standards with summative assessment strategies, including authentic and performance-based assessments.
• Take inventory of current assessments available through curriculum resources and reflect on current assessment practices.
• Explore the cycle of data analysis and data-driven curriculum planning.

Suggested Resources

Professional Learning Communities: Using Data in Decision Making to Improve Student Learning
by Patrick Baccellieri
All Grades
Product Number: 50518, Price: $29.99

Assessing Comprehension Thinking Strategies
by Ellin Keene
Grades 1-8
Product Number: 10404, Price: $29.99

Exploring Nonfiction: A Differentiated Content-Area Reading Program

Exploring Math: An Intervention and Reinforcement Resource

Professional Learning Communities: Using Data in Decision Making to Improve Student Learning

All Grades

Discover how a continuous cycle of assessments, data analysis, and data-driven curriculum planning can improve the quality of instruction. Learn to analyze data for efficacy of instruction and student learning outcomes.

• Foster continual professional learning in schools and districts, with a focus on student achievement, through the implementation of PLCs.
• Set norms and professional learning goals and learn to structure action plans and tasks.
• Develop methods for self-assessment and reflection and use student data to set professional learning goals.
• Use data to make decisions about selecting standards to target, instructional strategies to employ, and curriculum resources to use.

Suggested Resources

	Professional Learning Communities: Using Data in Decision Making to Improve Student Learning by Patrick Baccellieri All Grades Product Number: 50518, Price: $29.99
	Instructional Coaches and Classroom Teachers: Sharing the Road to Success by Cheryl Jones & Mary Vreerman All Grades Product Number: 50332, Price: $29.99
	Practice, Assess, Diagnose: 180 Days of Math by Jodene Smith Grades K-6
	Product # Grades Product # Grades 50803 K 50807 4 50804 1 50808 5 50805 2 50802 6 50806 3 Price: $19.99 each

Lessons Learned from the Teaching Trenches for Effective Classroom Management

All Grades

Create and manage a successful classroom environment. Learn from seasoned educators how to implement research-based, tried-and-true strategies for effective classroom management. This session is especially relevant for new teacher training sessions.

• Learn classroom management strategies and models that are research-based, simple, and easy to apply to any classroom situation.
• Uncover ways to keep your students actively engaged and on task.
• Maximize instructional time, facilitate student learning, and support differentiated instruction.
• Gain strategies and insight from experienced educators on how to maximize teacher effectiveness in the classroom.

Suggested Resources

A Baker's Dozen of Lessons Learned from the Teaching Trenches
by Danny Brassell
All Grades
Product Number: 50520, Price: $29.99

The New Teacher's Guide to Success
by Matthew Haldeman
All Grades
Product Number: 50319, Price: $29.99

Kids Learn! Mathematics Games

Kids Learn! Reading Games

How to Effectively Implement and Manage an Instructional Coaching Model

All Grades

Learn how to create a culture of coaching, develop strategies to work effectively with teachers, and resolve issues that confront all staff members.

• Discover coaching activities that develop powerful communication among educators enabling them to capture and share a common vision for increasing student achievement.
• Learn about coaching myths and realities, defining roles of the school-based coach, and building the teacher-coach relationship.

Suggested Resources

Instructional Coaches and Classroom Teachers: Sharing the Road to Success
by Kelli Allen, Jeanna Scheve, and Vicki Nieter
All Grades
Product Number: 50332, Price: $29.99

Increasing Rigor, Relevance, and Relationships

All Grades

Provide the tools and strategies needed to promote rigor and relevance in five key areas of school life while fostering relationships among students, teachers, parents, and community.

• Discover tools and strategies for analyzing the current level of rigor in curriculum and instruction.
• Learn to establish collaborative teams to problem solve, plan, and implement a systematic approach for infusing rigor, relevance, and relationships in school life.

Suggested Resources

Differentiating the Curriculum for Gifted Learners
by Wendy Conklin and Shelly Frei
All Grades
Product Number: 9100, Price: $24.99

Instructional Strategies for Diverse Learners
by Wendy Conklin
All Grades
Product Number: 9101
Price: $24.99

Multimodal Learning for the 21st Century Adolescent
by Thomas Bean
Grades 6-12
Product Number: 50517, Price: $24.99

Understanding Learning Styles: Making a Difference for Diverse Learners
by Kelli Allen, Jeanna Scheve, and Vicki Nieter
All Grades
Product Number: 50046, Price: $29.99