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

Sponsored by the International Network of Principals' Centers-This unique book leads to higher levels of student performance by providing a thoughtful context and practical framework for understanding the potential of technology to enrich teaching and learning.-
--Lois B. Cohn, IBM certified business transformation consultant

-At last educators have a resource that offers a user-friAndly approach to applying technology to student learning and organizational growth.-
--Judith R. Fox, superintendent of schools, Byram Hills School District, Armonk, New York

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This resource provides a user-friendly process for creating a curriculum year overview that meets standards. Includes developed curriculum maps, blank templates, and more!

This resource provides a user-friendly process for creating a curriculum year overview that meets standards. Includes developed curriculum maps, blank templates, and more!

Recharge your math instruction with brain-friendly teaching units! Students??? brains are wired to make them natural, curious learners. The mathematical world around them offers a vast classroom, filled with shapes, spaces, quantities, and experiences to discover and explore, all leading to the construction of understanding. Teachers can use this natural curiosity to tap the inborn neural mechanisms that motivate students to learn???to make relevance and meaning of their surroundings. Brain-Compatible Mathematics, Second Edition bridges the findings from the realms of brain research and...

Data experts provide detailed guidelines on analyzing information from curriculum maps and assessments, making decisions based on data, and changing school culture to enhance learning outcomes.

Teaching students the intelligent behaviors they need to succeed in school and later in life is much easier when you have this collection of stories and observations from teachers who have used the principles of ASCD's book Learning and Leading with Habits of Mind in their classrooms. Through these first-hand accounts, learn how the habits of mind help students at all grade levels successfully deal with the challenges they face in school and beyond. Explore how teachers make thinking skills a foundation of curriculum, not an add-on. And discover lots of model lessons and teaching strategies...

Bena Kallick and Allison Zmuda show how teachers can adjust classroom practices to facilitate personalized learning that is self-directed, dynamic, sometimes messy, and always meaningful.