Designed foremost for grades 3-8 teachers, this accessible, classroom-based primer gently introduces teachers to the Next Generation Science Standards and Engineering Practices and helps teachers better understand and teach key ideas around the Nature of Science.

This book presents competency-specific information and tools teachers can use to support students' development of six key intrapersonal and interpersonal competencies.

This practical resource provides evidence-based strategies for enhancing social skills for children and adolescents diagnosed with high-functioning autism.

Balance With Blended Learning provides teachers with practical strategies to actively engage students in setting goals, monitoring development, reflecting on growth, using feedback, assessing work quality, and communicating their progress with parents.

Discover how inquiry leads to problem-solving and learn specific steps for formative assessment that informs instruction of 21st century skills such as critical thinking and collaboration.

Clearly outlines a professional development program to raise staff's cultural competence to teach diverse students. Outlines how to plan and fund the program, and includes hands-on tools. Teachers increase understanding of themselves, their students, and their families. Involves self-reflection, innovation, and collaboration to transform school culture.

Cloud-based technology offers benefits to the classroom. This book helps your students to learn how cloud-based tools can facilitate learning.

Use this resource to promote academic success for English learners in the K-5 classroom through an approach that integrates inquiry-based science lessons with language rich, hands-on experiences.

Today's and tomorrow's best teachers empower students to ask intelligent questions and persistently seek the answers. In this book you'll find a proven, detailed method for how to do this, by learning a groundbreaking new approach to content delivery and instruction that is geared towards maximizing student discovery, deep thought, exploration, and creativity.

This updated bestseller offers a roadmap for reflective practice that presents research-based information and ideas and strategies for engaging in reflective practice alone, with partners, in small groups, and even schoolwide.