Sustaining results-oriented team efforts is hard work, and achieving diversified solutions to complex issues over time requires commitment and creativity. To support the momentum of learning communities, Teacher Teams That Get Results: 61 Strategies for Sustaining and Renewing Professional Learning Communities provides an illustrated collection of ready-to-use tools and examples of plans in action for results-oriented faculty and staff.

Focusing on the where, what, why, how, and when to use each of the 61 strategies, best-selling authors Gayle H. Gregory and Lin Kuzmich offer the tools your team needs to succeed. You will learn to:

• Create and sustain a growth-oriented climate that encourages feedback and builds trust
• Share knowledge and skills to expand and optimize results
• Build resilience, develop creative solutions, and manage change
• Determine priorities and create excellence when goal setting, tying data to practice, and analyzing results

An indispensable guide for teachers, teacher leaders, and school administrators, this handbook is ideal for school and district staff serving as meeting and workshop leaders and facilitators.

Designed around Teacher Teams That Get Results, the bestseller by Gayle H. Gregory and Lin Kuzmich, this comprehensive multimedia presentation offers staff developers the necessary materials to help principals and teacher leaders develop results-oriented professional learning communities. Facilitators can illustrate how focused teams promote professional relationships, collaboration, student engagement and achievement, and improved management of the stresses of change and accountability by:

• Developing a growth-oriented climate that is cultivated regularly
• Sharing knowledge and skills to improve instruction
• Building resilience by creating solutions that help teachers better manage their lives inside and outside the classroom
• Determining priorities and creating excellence by responding to colleagues' needs for learning and growth

Teacher Teams That Get Results: A Multimedia Kit for Professional Development includes:

• The companion book Teacher Teams That Get Results, which offers 61 ready-to-implement team development strategies
• A 47-minute, content-rich DVD, with a navigation menu for easy stop-and-search control of video content, that features Gayle H. Gregory and Lin Kuzmich describing the step-by-step process of creating and sustaining strong teacher teams
• A companion CD-ROM with easy-to-understand blank reproducibles allowing facilitators or team leaders to create their own tools and examples
• A step-by-step facilitator’s guide connecting the book to the CD-ROM and DVD and providing workshop outlines, extended workshop activities, discussion questions, and major points of emphasis

This complete, all-in-one multimedia kit is the go-to resource for anyone designing or conducting professional development on supporting and sustaining a results-oriented team.

Differentiated Literacy Strategies for Student Growth and Achievement in Grades K-6 is the resource that gives teachers an instructional and assessment framework designed to promote the multiple competencies their learners need: functional literacy for phonics, spelling, and reading; content-area literacy for vocabulary, concept attainment, and comprehension; technological literacy for information searching, evaluation, and synthesis; and innovative literacy for creativity, growth, and life-long learning.

With a focus on research-based, data-driven, and differentiated strategies, noted authors Gayle Gregory and Lin Kuzmich offer teachers step-by-step guides to:

• Pre-assessing diverse learners for literacy skills, competencies, learning styles, and learning gaps
• Implementing a broad array of high-payoff and developmentally appropriate strategies to move all students to the next stage in their literacy learning
• Creating units, lessons, and adjustable assignments that address all four competencies in literacy learning in the differentiated classroom

With more than 100 planning models, matrixes, rubrics, and checklists included, this book is the ideal resource for all elementary teachers who want to close the achievement gap for emerging learners and insure the growth and development of all learners.

From best-selling authors Gayle Gregory and Lin Kuzmich comes a versatile handbook for middle school and high school educators who need to differentiate literacy instruction for adolescent and teen learners at different stages of development along the literacy continuum.

Covering the relevant brain research and specific instructional and assessment strategies for teens, Differentiated Literacy Strategies for Student Growth and Achievement in Grades 7-12 pays special attention to hooks that appeal to older learners with varying degrees of skills and competencies.

Containing more than 100 planning models, checklists, rubrics, choice boards, lesson plans, and more, this book will aid teachers in:

• Pre-assessing adolescent and teen learners for literacy skills and competencies
• Selecting and differentiating an array of instructional strategies appropriate for specific learner needs
• Using literacy models that can accelerate learning to help diverse learners grow as fast and as far as they can in literacy

Written for classroom teachers, reading specialists, curriculum developers, and instructional leaders, this one-stop source provides an expert guide to working with all of today's adolescent and teen learners, whether struggling, gifted, emerging, developing, or dealing with learning disabilities.

Data driven instruction, standards-based teaching, diagnostic teaching, high-stakes assessments... they're not just buzz words. The research shows that these realities for today's schools in fact offer teachers powerful tools for planning differentiated instruction. This timely and comprehensive guide to collecting, analyzing, and using data to design curriculum, instruction, and assessment offers educators the step-by-step strategies and planning tools they need to help all students learn what they must know and be able to do.

Chapter by chapter, Data Driven Differentiation in the Standards-Based Classroom covers everything you need to know, including:

• Using data to create a positive classroom climate
• Using data to differentiate instruction for student learning styles and multiple intelligences
• Using data for pre-assessment, formative assessment, and final assessment
• Curriculum approaches for data driven instruction
• Adjustable assignments for differentiated learning
• Instructional strategies that increase student learning
• Data driven lesson planning for differentiated learning

Four sample units cover K-12 lesson planning in the basic content areas and are used to demonstrate each and every aspect of the process. The authors also provide a generous collection of templates, grids, rubrics, organizers, and planners to make this book an essential resource for every teacher, curriculum designer, and instructional leader who wants to design differentiated instruction with student success in mind.

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This slipcase collection of 10 compact volumes offers a complete training curriculum for teachers that covers all required essentials for teacher induction, mentoring, and support programs. The 10-book collection can be used for teacher certification and re-certification programs, as well as for fast-track alternative certification programs. Additional highlights embedded within each individual volume include assessment pre-tests and post-tests, resources, and content about urban learners, making this training program ideal for preparing highly qualified teachers for today’s challenging classrooms, particularly in urban areas.

The entire collection allows instructors and staff developers to offer comprehensive teacher training that meets the requirements of the No Child Left Behind legislation. Individual works can be purchased separately and cover "What Every Teacher Should Know About..."

1. Diverse Learners—research-based approaches to working with diverse learners
2. Student Motivation—steps teachers can take to motivate and challenge students
3. Learning, Memory and the Brain—a holistic approach to student learning
4. Instructional Planning—long and short-term goals for lesson planning
5. Effective Teaching Strategies—a bag of teaching tools for the written, taught, and assessed curriculum
6. Classroom Management and Discipline—effective tools to minimize or prevent the most common discipline problems
7. Student Assessment—a state-of-the-art guide to current research on performance assessment
8. Special Learners—effective tools to help students with special needs achieve school success
9. Media and Technology—media that work for each of the student modalities
10. The Profession and Politics of Teaching—effective partnerships with parents, teaching peers, mentor teachers, administrators, and teacher organizations