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Master the art of attention in this book, designed to equip educators with practical student engagement strategies to leverage attention-related concepts for student success. Author Julia A. Simms delves into how teachers can harness the power of focus to create classrooms that empower students to achieve their personal and academic goals.

Discover how your collaborative team can address the fourth critical question of a PLC: “How will we extend the learning for students who are already proficient?” Explore five elements of personalized learning and five instructional strategies for extending learning in a competency-based curriculum that motivate students to learn.

Research shows that keeping animals in classrooms can have profound effects on student well-being and success. With this practical guide, you will discover how to select a classroom pet, introduce it to students, and design carefully thought-out lessons centered around the animal.

Take the guesswork out of question four within the PLC at Work® process. Enhance your students’ learning experiences with in-depth strategies for a more personalized learning approach. Gain the tools you need to preassess your students and deliver instructional strategies to further their learning.

This book will help you teach creativity through STEM, focusing on authentic student collaboration and choice while offering examples and field-tested strategies for how to get there.

Nicholas Steven Parscale was diagnosed with cancer in 2016 at the age of 10. In his inspiring memoir, Nicholas shares what he has learned through his journey, openly recounting his own highs and lows, pain and excitement, and relapses and new treatments. His hope is that by reading this book and studying his suggestions and experiences, children with cancer and their families can be just a bit more prepared for the road ahead.

This guide helps educators implement a continuous school-improvement system through application of the seven correlates of effective schools.

What Are You Bringing to the Potluck? offers readers a deeper understanding of how significant a sense of belonging is in schools—and challenges them to set a strong example of how to build respect, and nurture community. By doing so, insightful connections are forged in thoughtful consideration of identities, beliefs, and needs.

Achieve the full potential of PreK–2 classrooms through proven best practices aligned to the PLC at Work® process. Use team tools and take collective responsibility to boost early childhood learning and development.

The impact of Covid-19 will have a long-lasting effect on every facet of our society. Very few institutions were more disrupted than schools. The pandemic affected staffing, funding, morale, and the continuity of student learning. Participants explore the history of the field of education and examine why the tenants of the PLC at Work process were important before the global pandemic and why they are even more important after the pandemic. This is not the time to back away from the PLC at Work process; this is the time to reinforce its foundation.