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Discover student numeracy assessment and practice (SNAP)—a practical approach to help classroom teachers evaluate number sense. With its simple and reliable method, K–8 math teachers can quickly implement SNAP in their daily teaching practices and ignite a sense of wonder and thinking for math in their students.

Author Darlyne de Haan offers interactive methods to help K–12 teachers understand multilingual learners’ unique needs and why culturally responsive teaching is crucial to STEM classrooms. Her claim-evidence-reasoning approach encourages educators to engage students in STEM discussions with confidence, no matter their level of English proficiency.

Accurately report students' academic strengths and weaknesses with standards-based grading.

Drive change by leveraging your school culture with this research-driven guide. It lays the foundation for an effective culture, helping educators explore school vision, behavior, climate, and instructional practices—and offering actionable strategies to enhance learning and foster lasting community engagement.

Offering a neutral analysis of educational research, author Nathaniel Hansford provides a crash course on the science behind reading and writing instruction. This book empowers teachers to confidently make evidence-informed instructional decisions.

Become critical consumers of education research with this user-friendly guide. This book empowers educators to understand complex topics influencing high-quality teaching methods. Learn to read and interpret research, explore teaching pedagogies, and analyze the impact of educational practices on student achievement.

Learn how to evaluate teacher effectiveness and to communicate evaluation findings to teachers in a way that fosters their professional growth.

McCarthy and Torres provide a yearlong plan for teachers to cultivate positive and engaging reading experiences. This planner includes monthly themes, literacy activities, and reflection exercises to help teachers inspire students.

Anyone can learn mathematics and stay in the math game for life once they learn key superpowers that can demystify foundational concepts—from whole numbers, fractions, and place value operations to ratios, proportions, and percentages. This book offers teaching methods to develop a dynamic and flexible understanding of numbers and operations in young learners.

With strategic tools and templates to improve data collection, assessment, and usage, readers of Shared Data, Shared Decisions will develop more effective action plans for school improvement while promoting a dynamic, robust school culture that recognizes, embraces, and encourages individual students in their respective journeys and pursuits.