Sally B. Kilgore

Karen J. Reynolds

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Kansas

English

Reframing Schools for Success

Transform your school’s culture from the inside out You're stunned by the increase in student absenteeism this year and wish you had the luxury of investigating all of the possible causes. From Silos to Systems provides specific application steps for engaging all staff in a systematic approach to dealing with the various causes of schoolwide problems. School leaders who have used this approach find numerous benefits: Teachers have a way for their voices to be heard Principals spend less time integrating all the concerns of various advisory groups Educators realize more dramatic results from their efforts

From Silos to Systems

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Ceri B. Dean

Elizabeth Ross Hubbell

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement

In 2001, Classroom Instruction That Works inspired more than a million teachers to refine their approach to teaching by asking and answering these questions: What works in education? How do we know? How can educational research find its way into the classroom? How can we apply it to help individual students? This all-new, completely revised second edition of that classic text pulls from years of research, practice, and results to reanalyze and reevaluate the nine instructional strategies that have the most positive effects on teaching and learning: * Setting objectives and providing feedback * Reinforcing effort and providing recognition * Cooperative learning * Cues, questions, and advance organizers * Nonlinguistic representations * Summarizing and note taking * Assigning homework and providing practice * Identifying similarities and differences * Generating and testing hypotheses A new framework organizes these strategies in preparation for instructional planning, and it highlights the point that all of the strategies are effective and should be used to complement one another. Each teaching strategy is supported with recommended classroom practices, examples of the strategy in use, tips for teaching, and information about using the strategy with today's learners. Whether you are coming to this book for the first time or are a veritable expert in the nine strategies, this second edition will help you develop your instructional approach, broaden your influence as a teacher, and enhance the learning potential of all your students. We haven't reinvented the wheel. We've taken classroom instruction that works and made it thrive.

Classroom Instruction That Works

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David Allen

Tina Blythe

Tools for Looking Together at Student and Teacher Work

This book is an essential tool for facilitators of groups using protocols, or structured conversations, to collaboratively review student and teacher work. A follow-up to Looking Together at Student Work and Assessing Student Learning, this resource considers the purposes for engaging in collborative review and provides some of the most effective strategies for using protocols to support successful group work. The text includes activities that facilitators can use to apply the frameworks and resources provided in this book.

The Facilitator's Book of Questions

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Richard DuFour

Robert J. Marzano

Has a little bit of highlighting on a few pages, but otherwise in pristine condition


How District, School, and Classroom Leaders Improve Student Achievement

For many years, the authors have been fellow travelers on the journey to help educators improve their schools. Their first coauthored book focuses on district leadership, principal leadership, and team leadership and addresses how individual teachers can be most effective in leading students by learning with colleagues how to implement the most promising pedagogy in their classrooms.

Leaders of Learning

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Betty Achinstein

Jonas F. Soltis

The Ties That Blind

Using richly textured case studies of two very different schools, the author shows when teachers enact reforms in the name of community, what often emerges is conflict. Whether dealing with issues of teachers collaboration or how to meet the needs of a diverse student population, conflicts within professional communities reflect important differences of beliefs and practices. This book reframes conflict as constructive in building educational communities that learn and promote democratic values in schools.

Community, Diversity and Conflict among Schoolteachers

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Reading & Language Arts

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The Life Cycle of Leadership

Timothy D. Kanold

Excellent reference book for professional learning community leadership skills. Great ￼for anyone involved in education.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Business & Economics

Just as it takes discipline to successfully run a marathon or to master a musical instrument, effective leadership in a professional learning community (PLC) requires practice, patience, and skill. PLC leaders at all levels face multiple paradoxes: they must lead by serving, engage stakeholders through strategic disengagement, allow autonomy within defined boundaries, and inspire others through their own humility. In The Five Disciplines of PLC Leaders, Timothy D. Kanold offers a focused framework that will help educators maintain balance and consistent vision as they strengthen the paradoxical skills of PLC leadership. This framework provides the following five key practices, or disciplines: 1.The discipline of vision and values strengthens understanding of personal vision and the ability to forge a coherent, compelling vision with other stakeholders. It ensures that a PLC's mission, vision, values, and goals are in alignment. 2.The discipline of accountability and celebration forms the bridge between the development of a vision and the implementation of a plan. Through practice in this discipline, a PLC leader is able to stay focused on goals and accountability while acknowledging and celebrating achievements along the way. 3.The discipline of service and sharing addresses one of the core components of an effective PLC: leadership requires personal accountability to the shared vision and the integrity of other community members. This discipline strengthens communication, social connections, and relationships between all stakeholders. 4.The discipline of reflection and balance helps a PLC leader manage time and energy. It develops a leader's ability to discern when to take charge in high-energy activities and when to withdraw, fostering engagement and ownership in others. 5.The discipline of inspiration and influence builds a deep awareness of the future impact of today's actions. This discipline is a vital part of the process of turning a group into a team that has a lasting influence on a PLC and its students.

The Five Disciplines of PLC Leaders

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Alan November

Preparing Students for Success in the Digital Age

Learn how to harness students' natural curiosity to develop self-directed learners. Discover how technology allows students to take ownership of their learning, create and share learning tools, and participate in work that is meaningful to them and others. Real-life examples illustrate how every student can become a teacher and a global publisher. The embedded QR codes link to supporting websites.

Who Owns the Learning?

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Donald S. Kachur

Judith A. Stout

Claudia L. Edwards

Engaging Teachers in Classroom Walkthroughs is a practical guide to planning and implementing brief but focused classroom observations that involves teachers in every step of the process. Drawing from their study of 40 schools in the United States and Canada, the authors show how administrators and teacher leaders moved teachers from resisting to embracing the practice. Readers will learn how to:
 * Foster a school culture that supports walkthroughs.
 * Implement the components of successful walkthroughs, such as focus and ""look-fors,"" data collection methods, and meaningful follow-up strategies.
 * Get all teachers involved and actively participating.
 * Evaluate the walkthrough process and measure its effectiveness.
 * Use walkthroughs to support professional development related to the Common Core State Standards.



This book demonstrates that when teachers learn from one another in a cycle of continuous professional growth-through observation, shared inquiry, dialogue, and follow-up-they develop a sense of collegiality and a common mission. By opening their doors to their peers, they also contribute to broader school improvement efforts that positively affect teaching and learning throughout the school.

Engaging Teachers in Classroom Walkthroughs

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This is a gorgeous, sealed edition of the story of King Arthur and his Knights by Howard Pyle. Bonded leather with classic illustrations and ribbon marker, and silver leaf edging. ￼

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

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Jenny Han

Soon to be a streaming series in Summer 2022!

Belly has an unforgettable summer in this stunning start to the Summer I Turned Pretty series from the New York Times bestselling author of To All the Boys I've Loved Before, Jenny Han.

Some summers are just destined to be pretty.

Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and most importantly, away from Jeremiah and Conrad. They are the boys that Belly has known since her very first summer--they have been her brother figures, her crushes, and everything in between. But one summer, one wonderful and terrible summer, the more everything changes, the more it all ends up just the way it should have been all along.

The Summer I Turned Pretty

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Eleanor Dougherty

Making the Connections That Help Students Meet Standards

What exactly is an "assignment," and why does it matter? How can educators ensure that their teaching meets the rigorous demands of the Common Core State Standards, so that all students are well prepared for college or careers? Drawing from her extensive experience as a teacher coach, author Eleanor Dougherty answers these questions and many more, with two aims in mind: (1) to guide teachers and administrators in crafting high-quality assignments, and (2) to help educators understand the powerful impact that assignments can have on teaching and learning. The book explains the critical differences among "assignments," "activities," and "assessments" and thoroughly describes the key elements of an assignment: prompts, rubrics, products, and instructional plans. Readers will learn how to * Follow a seven-step process for crafting effective assignments; * Link assignments to units and courses; * Devise "Anchor" assignments for collaboration and consistency across grades; * Tap into instructional "touchstones" that can enrich any assignment; * Create classroom and school environments that support assignment-making; and * Use assignments as a source of data about teaching and learning. Equipped with the knowledge and expertise gained from Assignments Matter, readers will be able to create meaningful learning experiences for their students and come to appreciate the author's belief that "assignments may well be the missing link in school reform efforts to improve student achievement."

Assignments Matter

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Andrew Vaughan

An in-depth tribute to America's country and pop sweetheart that includes photographs, album artwork and archive memorabilia.

Taylor Swift

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Roland Smith

Thirteen-year-old Q and fifteen-year-old Angela expect their lives to become complicated when his mother and her father, wildly popular musicians, marry, but not that they will face spies and terrorists in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Independence Hall

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Peak

Anthony Horowitz

After a chance encounter with assassin Yassen Gregorovich in the South of France, teenage spy Alex Rider investigates interntional pop star and philanthropist Damian Cray, whose new video game venture hides sinister motives involving Air Force One, nuclear missiles, and the international drug trade.

Eagle Strike

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Horowitz Anthony

Alex Rider does battle with a charity broker con artist who has invested millions of dollars in a form of genetically modified corn that can release an airborne strain of virus capable of knocking out an entire country in one day.

Crocodile Tears

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Seven Untold Adventures from the Life of a Teenaged Spy

"A short story collection that expands the universe of teen spy Alex Rider from author Anthony Horowitz"--

Alex Rider: Secret Weapon

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Fifteen-year-old MI6 agent Alex Rider travels around the world on a dangerous mission to destroy the deadly terrorist organization, Scorpia, once and for all.

Never Say Die

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The Story of an Assassin

Alex Rider is now an IMDb TV/Amazon Original Series!

Alex Rider is an orphan turned teen superspy who's saving the world one mission at a time--from #1 New York Times bestselling author!

Alex Rider's life changed forever with the silent pull of a trigger.

Every story has a beginning. For teen secret agent Alex Rider, that beginning occurred prior to his first case for MI6, known by the code name Stormbreaker. By the time Stormbreaker forever changed Alex's life, his uncle had been murdered by the assassin Yassen Gregorovich, leaving Alex orphaned and craving revenge. Yet when Yassen had a clear shot to take out Alex after he foiled the Stormbreaker plot, he let Alex live. Why?
 
This is Yassen's story. A journey down the darker path of espionage.
 
Like a James Bond for young readers, international #1 bestseller Anthony Horowitz delivers a blockbuster thrill ride.


From the author of Magpie Murders and Moriarty.

Russian Roulette

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When the world's deadliest terrorist organization, Scorpia, stirs up trouble in the Middle East, it is up to fourteen-year-old MI6 agent Alex Rider to thwart their plans.

Scorpia Rising

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Snakehead

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After recovering from a near fatal gunshot wound, teenage spy Alex Rider embarks on a new mission to stop a group of eco-terrorists from sabotaging the launch of the first outer space hotel. Reprint.

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Leaders of Learning

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The Life Cycle of Leadership

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Who Owns the Learning?

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The Summer I Turned Pretty

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Assignments Matter

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Independence Hall

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