Solution Tree Press imprint: 339 books
From Leading to Succeeding
The Seven Elements of Effective Leadership in Education (A Change Readiness Assessment Tool for School Initiatives)
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Utilizing the crucial elements of effective leadership—purpose, trust, focus, leverage, feedback, change, and sustainability—education leaders can overcome the many challenges they face in their profession and learn the skills and characteristics they need to succeed. This book synthesizes research...
Professional Learning Communities at Work TM and Virtual Collaboration
On the Tipping Point of Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Now is the time to transform education! By combining the capacities of the PLC at Work™ process and powerful technology tools, teams of educators can meaningfully modify teaching and learning. Realize the potential of virtual collaboration to support the PLC process, and discover research-based...
by Douglas Reeves
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Encourage a culture of innovation and creativity. Innovation and creativity are imperative to educational success and require the contributions of teachers, students, administrators, and policymakers. Explore the four essentials for developing a creative, mistake-tolerant culture; investigate teaching...
Balanced Assessment: From Formative to Summative
From Formative to Summative
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Learn how to integrate formative and summative assessments seamlessly into instruction. The research, rationale, strategies, and examples provided in this book will help teachers develop their own repertoire of formative and summative assessments to monitor, grade, and make inferences about a student’s...
by Roger C. Schank
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Bring meaning and curiosity back to school. In this reader-friendly guide, the author engages educators and leaders in a powerful conversation about modern learning. Explore the 10 criteria for new curricula, encourage students to develop their skills and passions, and consider changes in teaching that can make school fun and relevant to students’ lives in the real world.
Redefining Fair
How to Plan, Assess, and Grade for Exellence in Mixed-Ability Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Learn how to define proficiency accurately and differentiate to help all students achieve it. With a focus on mixed-ability classes, the author outlines instructional practices that engage, empower, and motivate students. Using stories, strategies, case histories, and sample documents, he explains how...
by Ryan L. Schaaf
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Combine hard work and deep fun in classrooms with digital game–based learning. Students of the always-on generation gain information through different tools and learn differently than generations before them. Discover how to incorporate digital games and use them to craft engaging, academically applicable...
Game On
Using Digital Games to Transform Teaching, Learning, and Assessment—a practical guide for educators to select and tailor digital games to their students’ needs
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Discover how digital gaming can improve learning and prepare students for successful futures. The authors—both experienced educators and enthusiastic gamers—contend that students of the 21st century communicate and learn differently than previous generations. By incorporating digital games into...
Quest for Learning
How to Maximize Student Engagement (Strategies to Engage Students in the Classroom Using Guided Inquiry Design)
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
With Foreword by Heidi Hayes Jacobs It's crucial for 21st century teachers and students to determine together what a student will learn and at what pace. This book dives deep into quest learning, a customizable inquiry model tailored to a student's interests, needs, and abilities. Learn how...
by Will Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
As we gain access to more and more knowledge and information online, the future will belong to those who are powerful, literate, curious learners. That means emphasis in classrooms must move toward helping students develop the skills, literacies, and dispositions to be powerful, self-organized learners....
Creating a Culture of Feedback
(Empower Students to Own Their Learning)
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
By overemphasizing high-stakes evaluations as tools for reporting what students know and can do, we’ve created a culture of grading instead of a culture of feedback in our schools and classrooms. In this book, the authors urge educators to shift their classroom focus, prioritizing effective feedback...
Enriched Learning Projects
A Practical Pathway to 21st Century Skills
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Translate standards-based content into enriched learning projects that build 21st century skills. A valuable tool for teachers, this book uses an enriched learning projects model to develop student skills in communication, collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, and global and cross-cultural...
Total Instructional Alignment
From Standards to Student Success
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
This book is a teachers’ and administrators’ guide for implementing and sustaining an educational system that ensures students are taught and learn what is required by benchmarks, assessments, and state standards, and to the learning needs of each individual student. This is accomplished by providing a tight alignment between the intended, taught, and tested curricula.
Classroom Habitudes: Teaching Habits and Attitudes for 21st Century Learning
Teaching Habits and Attitudes for 21st Century Learning
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
You know students need to acquire 21st century skills. But how do you work those skills into the curriculum? Learn how to use the content you already teach to challenge students to think critically, collaborate with others, solve new problems, and adapt to change across new learning contexts. Help students...