Let's make grammar instruction exciting, relevant, and accessible for all learners!

Grammar is the forgotten foundational skill! It plays a critical role in helping students become skilled readers and writers. Yet, traditional approaches to teaching grammar, through drills and memorization, no longer resonate with students.

In today's fast-paced world, students need a more engaging and meaningful way to learn grammar that connects to their real-world experiences. That's where Not Your Granny's Grammar comes in—offering an innovative approach to teaching grammar that is both efficient and effective.

In this book, authors Patty McGee and Tim Donohue introduce Grammar Study, their classroom-tested approach that blends explicit instruction and inquiry to address the challenges and gaps in traditional grammar lessons. The book includes 40+ engaging and innovative, research-based lessons that are organized in flexible lesson progressions to provide teachers with easy-to-implement, fun, and learning-rich experiences for students in Grades 2-8.

Guiding educators step-by-step in nurturing grammar knowledge and usage for both themselves and their students, this book

• Offers lessons and strategies that allow students to study grammar in the context of everyday reading and writing
• Emphasizes that grammar is not a static set of rules but an ever-evolving system that differs from community to community
• Provides time management principles for teachers to creatively integrate meaningful grammar instruction into their literacy or ELA block
• Highlights the importance of grammar in writing and clarifies the difference between spoken and written grammar
• Includes a robust grammar refresher to help teachers feel more confident in their grammar knowledge as well as an appendix showing alignment with Common Core Standards

Drawing from the science of writing, Not Your Granny's Grammar revolutionizes grammar instruction so teachers can help students build actionable and detailed grammar knowledge and skills that enrich their academic writing for years to come.

Uncover innovative and effective ways to confront challenging behavior

Complicated and intense student behavior often requires coordinated and powerful support, but that support need not be overwhelming or difficult to implement. Success with the most challenging students requires a team approach.

Optimistic Teaming is your ultimate guide to building and sustaining healthy interactions as teams working with challenging students. Drs. Ben Springer and Ben Belnap share humorous insights and critical strategies that help build successful school teams and rally those teams around your students. You'll discover how to:

• Remain optimistic and coordinate the best response to even the most aggressive student behaviors
• Identify the research and evidence base of leveraging optimism individually and in teams
• Use principles of positive psychology to produce successful outcomes for students and educators alike

With this guide, you will discover the framework and strategies to not only remain optimistic, but make lasting, positive changes in the lives of students and their families.

Anything is possible – even building a better relationship with math!

This is much more than a book about math. This is a book about hope. Imagine failing 11th grade math – twice! – and going on to be known affectionately as The Lady Gaga of Math. That is the story of author Vanessa “The Math Guru” Vakharia.  Thanks to an inspiring teacher who helped Vanessa heal her own relationship with math, Vanessa was then able to see math in a way that literally changed the trajectory of her life. 

Most people have experienced math trauma at least once, but by early-mid elementary school, many students have gotten the message that either they are a math person or they are not. In Math Therapy™, Vanessa shows that with the right tools and strategies, teachers can foster a culture in which every student is capable of building a better relationship with math – and with themselves.

Through the five M’s of Math Therapy™—Mythbust, Moderate, Motivate, Makeover, and Measure—teachers can help their students overcome math trauma, cultivate a positive math identity, and develop a mathematical mindset.

Written in a fun and conversational style, and grounded in research on math education and neuropsychology, this book 

• Provides practical, hands-on strategies and tools that make it easy and fun for teachers to implement each step of Math Therapy™ in their classroom
• Helps teachers unpack their own math history before diving in to what they can do to help their students
• Addresses the trauma-induced stumbling blocks that many students face when tackling mathematics
  Includes humorous and engaging real-life vignettes—from celebrating Pi Day by visiting a prison, to setting off a confetti cannon to celebrate a student’s milestone, to the time Vanessa's band opened for Bon Jovi, and more! 

Much more than a book about helping students kick butt in math class, this book is about empowering students to develop the skills they need to live a life in which they truly believe that anything is possible, even a better relationship with math!

Essential strategies for school trustees and superintendents.

Addressing the urgent challenges of school leadership in our divided, post-pandemic landscape, The Governance Core 2.0 is an essential guide for school trustees and superintendents dedicated to making a meaningful difference in their districts. Davis Campbell, Michael Fullan, and Babs Kavanaugh provide useful tools and techniques to improve local governance culture, emphasizing the importance of collaboration between board members, district leaders, and school staff to support the success and wellbeing of every student. 

This thoroughly updated edition is now structured around three pillars–Governance Mindset, Governance Culture, and Governance Infrastructure–providing a comprehensive framework that addresses the core principles and responsibilities of effective school governance. Additional features include: 

• Practical strategies for fostering collaboration, onboarding new trustees, and leading transformative change in a school district
• New real-world examples of effective board governance
• A board planning calendar and self-evaluation tools
• A new “Suggestions for Implementation” section to support the application of lessons from the book

Offering guidance on developing a shared moral imperative and systems thinking and establishing clear norms and protocols, this book is a necessary resource for both new and experienced trustees, superintendents, and district leaders.

Collaborative assessment practices lead to strong partnerships

Join bestselling authors Margo Gottlieb and Andrea Honigsfeld on an engaging journey to showcase collaborative assessment within assets-driven instructional practices. Integrating instructional and assessment cycles, explore how multilingual learners can interact with each other and their teachers to form lasting partnerships. Using evidence-based, research-informed strategies, Gottlieb and Honigsfeld invite educators to form partnerships to fortify linguistically and culturally sustainable assessment within their classroom routines.

Throughout the learning journey, Collaborative Assessment for Multilingual Learners and Teachers offers:

• Practical tips and adaptable templates to reinforce assessment during instruction
• Vignettes that bring practical application of key concepts to life
• Protocols and tools for teachers and multilingual learners to engage in reflective conversations about their learning
• Recurring colorful icons that capture the travel theme and much more…

Collaborative assessment approaches AS, FOR, and OF learning encourage relationship building to foster multilingual learners’ academic, linguistic, cultural, and social-emotional development. This practical guide supports educators in implementing collaborative assessment and welcomes multilingual learners to be partners in the process.

Foster a love of mathematics by creating a more inclusive and empowering learning environment through asset-based teaching!

An asset-based perspective on math education means starting with what students already know instead of focusing on what’s missing. This approach elevates student thinking and reasoning skills. In this way, educators acknowledge that all students bring prior experiences, strengths, talents, and resources to the learning process and can contribute meaningfully in an authentic learning environment. Transform Your Math Class Using Asset-Based Teaching for Grades 6-12 provides insight into asset-based perspectives in mathematics education to create an environment where all students feel valued and capable of being doers of mathematics. In the book, Michael Steele and Joleigh Honey highlight the importance of using language, instructional routines, and systemic structure that positively impact student engagement, their math identity, and ultimately their outcomes.

Providing a wealth of knowledge and practical strategies that can be used to transform math classrooms into inclusive, supportive, and empowering learning environments, this book:

• Introduces an asset-based perspective that focuses on students' strengths, assets, and potential to learn mathematics
• Includes a variety of frameworks and tools that teachers can use to build and grow their sense of asset-based perspectives
• Offers strategies for promoting a growth mindset in mathematics, encouraging productive struggle in math, and promoting equitable math instruction
• Supports teachers in reflecting on their decisions, self-awareness, and self-management
• Includes a companion online study guide to support teachers individually or as part of a professional learning community

Adopting asset-based perspectives is about movement over time, not about flipping a switch. This book paves the path for an asset-based journey that ultimately helps to transform our math classrooms and advance all students’ learning and development.

Discover engaging lessons to transform your elementary writing instruction

While we sometimes perceive that our students aren’t “ready to write”, every student brings literacy experiences from their home and family lives that can be leveraged to create meaningful writing experiences in the first days of school. Write From the Beginning, Grades K–5 empowers educators to cultivate a vibrant writing culture in their classrooms, where students can find their voices and flourish as confident writers.

Getting better at any skill requires practice to gain experience. This rich resource offers opportunities for daily writing that easily embed in your ELA block, helping you save on prep time and build your students’ literacy foundations. Through a collection of 43 meticulously crafted lessons, Rebecca G. Harper melds standards-based instruction with innovative writing strategies, guiding young learners to explore the art of crafting sentences, storytelling, writing persuasively, and finding their voice as a writer.

Designed to engage students in joyful and meaningful writing activities, this book

• Transforms writing into a real-world activity for students, providing an authentic and relevant view of the complex writing process
• Offers adaptable lessons that align with developmental stages and instructional goals to meet students where they are in their writing journey
• Highlights the significance of digital literacy in today's world and how it can be incorporated into the classroom
• Includes student samples, downloadable resources, mentor texts, and lesson plan extensions for easy implementation

With a focus on the characteristics of skilled writing rather than rigid genres, this book is a versatile resource that enriches any curriculum or writing instruction model. Dive into Write From the Beginning, Grades K–5 and watch your students' writing skills blossom with creativity and confidence.

You belong in this world of computer science education—and because of you, adults of the future will understand how to responsibly participate in high-tech environments with confidence.

Districts, cities, and states are moving toward computer science requirements for all K-12 classrooms, even in courses that were not previously associated with technology. These new requirements leave many teachers feeling anxious and unprepared when it comes to integrating computer science into existing curriculum. This book is here to support educators in that shift by inviting them to explore computer science and coding in an approachable and unintimidating way.

Let's All Teach Computer Science: K-12 is a source of inspiration and empowerment for educators who are moving into this technological wonderland. Kiki Prottsman has more than 15 years of experience in computer science education, and her insight informs thoughtful discussions on promoting creativity, problem-solving, and collaboration in students. The book positions computer science  in a way that supports other essential skills–such as reading, writing, and mathematics– by providing customizable frameworks that help to seamlessly integrate computer science into core subjects. This book:

• Provides powerful insights for creating innovative and inclusive learning environments
• Offers practical examples of integrating computer science into traditional subjects like math, history, art, and more
• Highlights the importance of addressing implicit biases and promoting computer science as an inclusive field for all students
• Includes insights on classroom technology and educational technology, as well as AI and its role in education
• Encourages educators to work together to nurture digital innovators while recognizing potential challenges and frustrations

Let's All Teach Computer Science is an essential guide that equips K-12 teachers with the knowledge and tools necessary to begin teaching computer science immediately–and does so in an enjoyable way, thanks to Prottsman’s friendly and playful style.

To understand a school’s values and priorities, look at its schedule.

When schedules do not meet the instructional needs of students, the result is a pipeline from PreK through grade 12 that leaks students, an outcome disproportionately experienced by students of color and other marginalized student groups. This practical and thoughtful guide demonstrates how school and district scheduling teams can become ”Architects of Equity”—highly effective teams who design schedules that reflect their commitment to student achievement and social-emotional wellbeing. Including strategies to shift collective mindsets around scheduling, organize and support teaching teams, and ensure fiscal responsibility in scheduling, Equitable School Scheduling is a vital resource for secondary school leaders committed to dismantling systemic inequities inherent in school structures.

Readers will learn how to

• Self-assess site and/or district data through a deep examination of the course of study, site schedule(s), transcripts, and graduation cohort outcomes.
• Design and implement an Equitable Core—a guaranteed set of courses that all students experience as a part of a meaningful graduation.
• Prioritize underestimated and historically underserved students in the planning of the schedule.

Equitable School Scheduling helps school and district administrators use scheduling as a tool to transform the leaky pipeline to graduation into a meaningful path to post-secondary success for all students.

Foster a culture of student achievement through authentic relationships and student leadership

Expanding her groundbreaking study on Warm Demander pedagogy, Franita Ware offers educators a framework for restoring their ideals about teaching and creating more rewarding and engaging learning experiences. Beginning with a deep dive into Radical Self-Care, the author addresses the harmful effects of stress on teachers and students.

Subsequent chapters instruct educators on how to start their journey to become Warm Demander Teachers. Exposing the challenges that educators face, the author encourages them to develop healthy identities for themselves. From there, Ware lays out a path toward collective healing from the harms of an inequitable education system, systemic racism, and intersecting systems of oppression. Engaging and eye opening throughout, Ware provides:

• Reflection-practice activities in every chapter
• Guidance for facilitators to support shared learning
• Real-world examples from Warm Demander Teachers

Warm Demander Teachers presents a new perspective and framework for promoting culturally responsive practices: fundamentally, high expectations for students are grounded in trusted, supportive relationships, and instructional strategies highlight culturally responsive inquiry and positive student learner identities. Ware’s insightful delivery provides the necessary support for educators to become healthy, whole, and transformational.