The authors present educators with strategies for designing diverse ways of gathering, organizing, and reporting evidence of self-directed learning.

The contributors present a strong case for teaching the learning process--which evidence shows can be more effective than the teaching of specific disciplines.

This work describes how curriculum development, instruction, assessment, and teaching are different in a process-oriented learning organization.

This book details the steps that need to be taken to move from a traditional school system to a true learning organization.

Examines why educators need to integrate explicit thinking instruction into daily lessons and illustrates what thinking-and the teaching of thinking-looks and sounds like.

Examines why educators need to integrate explicit thinking instruction into daily lessons and illustrates what thinking-and the teaching of thinking-looks and sounds like.

Are your students poised for success? Need a clear roadmap for achieving the college and career readiness goals of the Common Core and 21st century learning? Grounded in Costa and Kallick's groundbreaking habits of mind work, and informed by current research, this book helps educators: * Build consensus around what attributes and abilities all students should possess by the time they graduate * Develop a common language around these dispositions so that students will encounter them daily * Integrate these dispositions into curriculum design, instruction, and assessment * Create school...

Building on the authors' celebrated work in cognitive coaching, this important book provides teachers, schools, and policy leaders with the rationale and new direction for enhancing the development of the intellectual capacity of educators, their performance and ultimate effects on student learning. The authors focus on assisting teachers in developing awareness in their own ability to make effective judgments based on all their capabilities and experiences.

When teachers weave internal expertise and external criteria together into the exquisite tapestry of teaching and learning, they...