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In Equity and Quality in Digital Learning: Realizing the Promise in K-12 Education, based on their 10 years of research in preK-12 settings, authors Carolyn Heinrich, Jennifer Darling-Aduana and Annalee Good offer a book that bridges the gap between theory and practice as it applies to effective digital learning.

With the onslaught and array of digital resources readily available to educators now, this book shares how those resources either “support or impede the equitable and effective implementation of digital learning” in the schools.

Now in its third edition, Better Learning Through Structured Teaching is the definitive guide to the gradual release of responsibility—an instructional framework any teacher can use to help students to be more successful and self-directed learners.

How do you ensure that no student is invisible in your classroom? How do you make the distinction between equity as the vehicle versus equity as the goal for each of your students? What measures do you take to ensure that you are growing as a culturally relevant practitioner? Can your students, particularly your Black students, articulate, beyond emotional reactions, the injustices that surround them? The foregoing are not trick questions. Rather, they are those that best-selling author Baruti K. Kafele poses and on which he suggests you deeply reflect as a teacher of Black students. The questions that Kafele asks in this book will help enhance your own understanding of race, systemic racism, and racial justice and guide you in developing strategies and lessons that speak to Black students in ways that truly support their achievement.

What does it take to be a good school principal? No two principals work exactly the same way, but research shows that effective principals focus on a core set of factors critical to fostering success among all students.

Assessment is an essential part of teaching and learning, but too often it leads to misleading conclusions—sometimes with dire consequences for students. How can educators improve assessment practices so that the results are accurate, meaningful, informative, and fair?

Educator and best-selling author Myron Dueck draws from his firsthand experience and his work with districts around the world to provide a simple but profound answer: put student voice and choice at the center of the process.

The Power of Place offers a comprehensive and compelling case for making communities the locus of learning for students of all ages and backgrounds.

Explore ways to help all your students develop the skills necessary to engage in autonomous learning and take positive action within and beyond the classroom.

Your Students, My Students, Our Students explores the hard truths of current special education practice and outlines five essential disruptions to the status quo. Authors Lee Ann Jung, Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, and Julie Kroener show you how to

• Establish a school culture that champions equity and inclusion.
• Rethink the long-standing structure of least restrictive environment and the resulting service delivery.
• Leverage the strengths of all educators to provide appropriate support and challenge.
• Collaborate on the delivery of instruction and intervention.
• Honor the aspirations of each student and plan accordingly.

A student creates a Web site that contains fake obituaries of fellow students. The school suspends him. The parents then sue and win in court.

Incidents of bullying, harassment, and threats in schools are growing, but the line between students’ rights to expression and the school’s rights to protect children and faculty is increasingly blurred. To create effective disciplinary and management polices, educators need to understand the legal ramifications of their actions. Bullying and Harassment: A Legal Guide for Educators provides the practical information that they need to help students while avoiding litigation pitfalls.

Your Students, My Students, Our Students explores the hard truths of current special education practice and outlines five essential disruptions to the status quo. Authors Lee Ann Jung, Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, and Julie Kroener show you how to

• Establish a school culture that champions equity and inclusion.
• Rethink the long-standing structure of least restrictive environment and the resulting service delivery.
• Leverage the strengths of all educators to provide appropriate support and challenge.
• Collaborate on the delivery of instruction and intervention.
• Honor the aspirations of each student and plan accordingly.

"They don't care about their education." "They are not capable of learning." "I can't work with them." "I can't get through to them." Just as you may have thought these things about your students, they, too, may have similar thoughts about you: "She doesn't care about my education." "He is not capable of understanding me." "I can't work with her." "I can't get through to him."

Have you ever imagined yourself as a teacher leader but weren't quite sure whether you really had—or could develop—the necessary skills? Have you wondered what the first steps toward becoming a teacher leader might be, what kinds of approaches work best, and how you could overcome the inevitable challenges that come with leading your colleagues on a journey toward improvement as professionals?

Educators learn to assess, develop, and reflect on Martin Haberman's key dispositions of Star Teachers, which enable teachers and students to truly thrive in the classroom.

How can you energize yourself to maintain or regain a positive outlook and love of teaching? What specific, immediate actions can you take to enhance your well-being and thrive both on and off the job?

Award-winning teacher Chase Mielke draws from his own research, lesson plans, and experiences with burnout to help you change your outlook, strengthen your determination to be a terrific teacher, and reignite your core passion for teaching.

Often lighthearted, yet thoroughly grounded in research on social-emotional learning and positive psychology, The Burnout Cure explains how shifts in awareness, attitudes, and actions can be transformational for you and for your students. The book describes specific steps related to mindfulness, empathy, gratitude, and altruism that you can use on your own and with students via classroom lessons and activities. Equipped with these tools, teachers can be their best, so they can givetheir best to the learners in their care.