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The number of dual language learners in early childhood classrooms is expanding every year--and teachers often feel underprepared to bridge language barriers and effectively meet these students' learning needs. Help is here in this book--a toolbox of today's best strategies for supporting children and families from diverse backgrounds and ensuring the academic and social success of young dual language learners. Early childhood educators will get an invaluable collection of 45 practical, developmentally appropriate strategies for teaching dual language learners (both Spanish speakers and children who speak other languages). Real-world guidance helps teachers apply each strategy in their own classrooms, and the activities, reflection questions, and resources in Spanish will support educators in strengthening their current teaching practices. A much-needed resource for in-service professional development and preservice courses, this timely book will help educators foster the success of inclusive early childhood classrooms and prevent achievement gaps for dual language learners. DISCOVER HOW TO Set up and organize your learning environment to support dual language learners. Create a diverse classroom community where children (TM)s challenges and needs are anticipated. Use culturally responsive classroom management practices that engage diverse learners. Strengthen social-emotional learning for dual language learners. Promote early academic skills and make learning activities accessible to children of all cultural backgrounds. Use music and movement to increase student engagement and boost language development. Partner with families and engage them in children (TM)s academic and social-emotional learning PRACTICAL MATERIALS: Reinforce your learning with classroom activities; chapter quizzes; reflection questions; Spanish songs, vocabulary, and books for the classroom; lists of additional resources; and a glossary. Sample letters and forms help you communicate with families and evaluate student needs (all forms are photocopiable and available online).

Use research- and brain-based teaching to engage students and maximize learning Lessons should be memorable and engaging. When they are, student achievement increases, behavior problems decrease, and teaching and learning are fun! In 100 Brain-Friendly Lessons for Unforgettable Teaching and Learning K-8, best-selling author and renowned educator and consultant Marcia Tate takes her bestselling Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites one step further by providing teachers with ready-to-use lesson plans that take advantage of the way that students really learn. Readers will find 100 cross-curricular sample lessons from each of the four major content areas: English/language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies. Plans designed around the most frequently taught objectives found in national and international curricula. Lessons educators can immediately replicate in their own classrooms or use to develop their own. 20 brain-compatible, research-based instructional strategies that work for all learners. Five questions that teachers should ask and answer when planning brain-compatible lessons and an in-depth explanation of each of the questions. Guidance on building relationships with students that enable them to learn at optimal levels. It is a wonderful time to be a teacher! This hands-on resource will show you how to use what we know about educational neuroscience to transform your classroom into a place where success is accessible for all.

Introduces both novice and experienced practicing educators to the process of designing and conducting classroom-based action research in order to make their instructional practices more effective. This practical text focuses on the research methods and procedures that educators can use in their everyday instructional practices, classroom activities, and school procedures. Using over 20 years of teaching experience, author Craig A. Mertler provides insightful coverage of the knowledge and skills needed to design research studies, conduct research, and communicate findings to relevant stakeholders.

A decade long ethnographic study of Maywood, Illinois, and the impact of its recent demographic shift from a historically Black middle-class suburb outside of Chicago with roots in the Black Panther Party to, now, a community with a growing Latinx population. It explores the intersection of race, culture, and language--and the ensuing Black-Brown identity politics--as well as the role of community organizations such as interracial faith-based churches and embattled school boards. Against a backdrop of racial tensions and heightened violence, the book also addresses transformative, liminal spaces where coalition building and collaboration bring the Black and Latinx communities together around common causes and unified goals.

This book examines the changing influences of diversity in American higher education. The volume offers evidence and recommendations to positively shape inclusive learning and engagement of students, faculty, staff and community across the complex terrains of urban, suburban, and rural organizations within higher education today. Chapters highlight critical collaborations across student affairs and academic affairs, and delve into milestones addressing access, retention, engagement, and thriving within distinctive institutional types (e.g., research, liberal arts, community colleges, Minority Serving Institutions). Authors also explore the nuanced changes occurring against the contemporary backdrop of COVID-19 experiences - including the rise of anti-Asian racism, the salience of implicit biases, and the disparate access to and impacts of health services. Essential chapters refocus our consideration about the trajectories of  historically underrepresented groups and their peers (including, African Americans, Hispanic/Latino, Indigenous people, individuals with disabilities and those identifying as LGBTQ+, undocumented students, and women) in American higher education.

A teacher who uses effective instructional practices is the single, biggest, school-based influence on student achievement. THE Classroom Instruction Book provides the strategies, tools, and examples for becoming a highly effective teacher capable of producing astounding outcomes with students. It contains sensible, evidence-based instructional practices that have been thoroughly researched and proven to be highly successful in promoting student achievement for all students in all content areas. Its purpose is to show how to create and organize instruction so student success is assured no matter their demographics or circumstances. These practices can be adopted and implemented in classrooms at no cost without any changes to schedules or class size. THE Classroom Instruction Book focuses on one of the three characteristics of an effective teacher-lesson mastery. It was written by three award-winning classroom teachers with input and examples from more than fifty educators. It offers a clear path for closing the achievement gap for all students.

A brand new guide that helps overwhelmed students manage their mental, physical, and social health, and reach and maintain a healthy balance in their college lives. Every year, nearly two million students arrive at college campuses, ready to embark on the best four years of their lives. Yet the reality is that the current cohort of students is one of the most stressed, anxious, and depressed ever. These stressors have real effects on students' grades, social life, and physical health. And the stakes are high! Students with the right community and support services have better outcomes, from increased chances of on-time graduation, to greater ability to take on head-start opportunities (like internships) that have deep impact on post-college life. The Princeton Review is proud to introduce The Campus Wellness Guide, an innovative new book that provides a mix of information, resources, and self-assessment activities to help students reach and maintain their overall health. The book includes: Information on how to assess your college fit academically and socio-emotionally. Self-assessment activities that students can use to ID their specific stressors and ways to alleviate those issues. Sections on physical, mental, and social wellness, each with data-backed insights and research to help define the issues and strategies for handling. Proactive activities for student use, with reflection prompts to help develop roadmaps toward a healthier status quo. Wellness highlights, e.g., information on colleges with exceptional track records in specific wellness issues. Resources for national and college-specific help.

In order to promote effective learning, individuals must feel fully appreciated within their own unique identities (i.e., ethnicities, language differences, socioeconomic status, gender, religions). Culturally competent educators employ practices that acknowledge and build on cultural diversity and that identify students themselves as resources and honors assets possessed within the context of the school community. Designing Culturally Competent Programming for PK-20 Classrooms is a comprehensive research publication that explores strategies and best practices for designing culturally competent curricula and serves as a courier for stakeholders fostering inclusive and forward-thinking opportunities in PK-20 classrooms. Highlighting a wide range of topics such as ethics, leadership, and organizational development, this book is ideal for educators, administrators, academicians, curriculum developers, instructional designers, researchers, and students.

Students are becoming more academically and culturally diverse, making it more important than ever to shift away from a one-size-fits-all approach and toward differentiated instruction. The second edition of this best-selling book will help you create truly effective, brain-friendly classrooms for all learners. The authors share an array of updated differentiated instruction examples, scenarios, and exercises, as well as the latest educational psychology research from cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and pedagogy. Learn more about teaching diverse learners using brain-based learning strategies: Explore how the brain learns and approaches to differentiated instruction. Sharpen your knowledge of developmental cognitive neuroscience and educational psychology to teach the best content in the best possible way. Use the knowledge of educational neuroscience (neuroeducation) to benefit the students you teach. Design and implement strategies for effective differentiated instruction. Create a positive and productive learning environment that supports diversity in the classroom. A joint publication of ASCD and Solution Tree Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: The Nonnegotiables of Effective Differentiation Chapter 2: Mindset, Learning Environment, and Differentiation Chapter 3: Curriculum and Differentiation Chapter 4: Classroom Assessment and Differentiation Chapter 5: Differentiating in Response to Student Readiness Chapter 6: Differentiating in Response to Student Interest Chapter 7: Differentiating in Response to Student Learning Profile Chapter 8: Managing a Differentiated Classroom References and Resources Index

Learn about the strengths and challenges of working with special education students and their families with EDUCATING EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN, 15E, written by luminaries in special education today. You learn how to support the success of students who have disabilities or are gifted and talented. This edition's strength-based approach to student needs presents numerous instructional strategies. You explore the importance of a collaborative team approach and learn how to use the Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) framework to address academic, social, emotional and behavioral needs. The latest research emphasizes how to apply this information in your own teaching, while student examples bring principles to life. Updates also review today's increase in online learning, the importance of "belonging" and strategies to enhance mindfulness in schools. Revisions examine the latest on genetics, neurology, assistive technology, information processing and the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) standards.

Starting from the premise that children learn better when their learning community respects their families and cultures, this thought-provoking resource shows what it means--and what it takes--to include today's diverse parents in their children's learning. Moving readers away from out-of-date practices that can potentially marginalize and devalue the cultural assets of families, the authors provide practical, ready-to-use strategies to help schools re-envision the meaning of parental involvement and engagement. Based on the research and K-12 teaching experience of three educators, chapters address contemporary issues such as the absent parent, homework, vulnerable populations, limitations of current school-based family programs, and pedagogies of hope. Book Features: Provides guidelines and examples of homework that allow multicultural and multilanguage parents to engage with their children around learning. Shows how teachers and school leaders can collaborate to effect more inclusive practices. Reframes the conversation surrounding parental engagement to emphasize community and parental empowerment. Addresses the importance of parental engagement amid today's political discourse surrounding immigration.

How often do you hear, "The only parents who showed were the parents who didn't need to be here." But how often do you consider time of day, lack of child care, cost of dinner, transportation, lan­guage of the presentation, even relevance of the topic--all real-world barriers for families of our historically underserved students. Here at last is a resource that will open up access and reveal all-new ways to forge more culturally inclusive partnerships with families and communities . . .  partnerships that extend well beyond parent-teacher conferences, PTA meetings, and the occasional bake sale. The two big services Equity Partnerships provides? Using the Tools of Cultural Proficiency, you'll Discover new concepts and strategies to engage families and communities--and reduce, if not eliminate, barriers--through four essential principles: communication, connection, collaboration, and community Engage in frequent opportunities to reflect on your own assumptions and values, then collaborate with colleagues to co-create systemic practices and policies for devising, implementing, and assessing family and community engagement actions in your schools and districts We know inherently that family and community engagement is critical to the success of our stu­dents. Let Equity Partnerships be your go-to tool for breaking down the walls that for too long have limited all of us. "Raising the next generation is a shared responsibility and privilege. These authors have been first responders for decades by pro­moting Cultural Proficiency as a means to ensure equity and access for all. In Equity Partnerships, they identify the powerful and critical link of family, school, and community engage­ment to strengthen families, build community support, and increase student success."  --TRUDY ARRIAGA, Associate Dean for Equity and Outreach, California Lutheran University, and Coauthor of Opening Doors

This pioneering book is now in a revised and expanded second edition featuring the latest neuroscientific knowledge and instructional strategies. Kelly B. Cartwright provides a teacher-friendly explanation of executive skills--such as planning, organization, cognitive flexibility, and impulse control--and their role in reading comprehension. Detailed examples illustrate how each skill is deployed by strong comprehenders and ways to tailor instruction for students who are struggling. The companion website features reproducible planning and assessment forms from the book as well as supplemental card sorts to teach and assess cognitive flexibility, all ready to download and print in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size.   New to This Edition *Updated throughout with advances in theory, research, and instruction. *Chapter on word recognition, with particular attention to dyslexia. *Information on the development of the brain's reading network. *Expanded emphasis on oral language comprehension. *Appendix of intervention studies; online-only supplement with card sorts to teach and assess cognitive flexibility.  

Part of The New Art and Science of Teaching series. Rely on this comprehensive guide to help you implement the teaching methods of Dr. Robert J. Marzano's The New Art and Science of Teaching framework, which includes over 330 specific instructional strategies, 43 instructional elements, and 10 design questions. Each chapter outlines actionable steps, tips, and examples of implementation that will set you (and your students) up to succeed with this powerful framework in your classroom. Added insight into Marzano's research-based instructional strategies and teaching methods: Learn the history of Robert J. Marzano's framework of teaching methods first laid out in his best-selling The Art and Science of Teaching. Thoroughly examine the updated The New Art and Science of Teaching framework for competency-based education. Explore numerous instructional strategies that correspond to each of the 43 elements of The New Art and Science of Teaching. Acquire examples that will assist in the realization of the instructional strategies discussed throughout the book. Discover strategies that will improve both the mental and physical environment of the classroom to better support student success. Reimagine how to develop relationships with students and generate student engagement.Access free reproducibles that will assist in implementing The New Art and Science of Teaching framework in classrooms. A joint publication of ASCD and Solution Tree. Contents: Introduction; Part I: Feedback; Chapter 1: Providing and Communicating Clear Learning Goals; Chapter 2: Using Assessments; Part II: Content: Chapter 3: Conducting Direct Instruction Lessons; Chapter 4: Conducting Practicing and Deepening Lessons; Chapter 5: Conducting Knowledge Application Lessons; Chapter 6: Using Strategies That Appear in All Types of Lessons; Part III: Context; Chapter 7: Using Engagement Strategies; Chapter 8: Implementing Rules and Procedures; Chapter 9: Building Relationships; Chapter 10: Communicating High Expectations; Appendix; Reproducibles; References and Resources

Play in the Early Years provides an accessible overview of key concepts, debates and approaches to children's play. This book: Considers play from a variety of perspectives; Offers expert insights into theory and research in each area; Encourages the reader to critically reflect on both theory and practice. With features including key terms, case studies, reflective questions, spotlights on research and an accompanying glossary, this text is perfect for everyone who is interested in Play - from those just starting undergraduate degrees through to those with more advanced knowledge or experience.

Teaching Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Classrooms uses the research-validated ADAPT framework (Ask, Determine, Analyze, Propose, Test) to help teachers determine how, when, and with whom to use proven academic and behavioral interventions to obtain the best outcomes for students with disabilities. Through clear language and practical examples, authors Diane P. Bryant, Brian R. Bryant, and Deborah D. Smith show how to create truly inclusive classrooms through evidence-based practices and hands-on strategies. The Second Edition includes strategically reorganized chapters, a new chapter devoted to differentiated instruction, and new classroom footage and teacher interviews illustrating how readers can implement the strategies discussed in their own classrooms. With the help of this supportive guide, educators will be inspired to teach students with disabilities in inclusive settings and be properly equipped to do so effectively.

In an educational system founded on rigid standards and categories, students who demonstrate a very specific manifestation of intelligence flourish, while those who deviate tend to fall between the cracks. Too often, talents and interests that do not align with classroom conventions are left unrecognized and unexplored in children with extraordinary potential but little opportunity. For twice-exceptional (2e) children, who have extraordinary strengths coupled with learning difficulties, the problem is compounded by the paradoxical nature of their intellect and an unbending system, ill-equipped to cater to their unique learning needs. Twice Exceptional: Supporting and Educating Bright and Creative Students with Learning Difficulties provides cutting-edge, evidence-based approaches to creating an environment where twice-exceptional students can thrive. Viewing the 2e student as neither exclusively disabled nor exclusively gifted, but, rather, as a dynamic interaction of both, leading experts offer holistic insight into identification, social-emotional development, advocacy, and support for 2e students. With chapters focusing on special populations (including autism, dyslexia, and ADHD) as well as the intersection of race and 2e, this book highlights practical recommendations for school and social contexts. In expounding the unique challenges faced by the 2e population, Twice Exceptional makes a case for greater flexibility in our approach to education and a wider notion of what it means to be academically successful.

Transform playtime with your preschooler into an educational and enjoyable experience with The Ultimate Preschool Activity Guide. Written by a mother of three and former schoolteacher, Autumn McKay, this book is a must-have for parents, grandparents, teachers and caregivers of 3-5 year olds. It offers over 200 engaging, hands-on activities that take only minutes to prepare with items you already have in your house. With this guide, you can provide your child with stimulating activities that will help them learn, grow, and bond with you. Benefits of using this book include: ✅ Spark your child's interest and curiosity ✅ Spend less time prepping activities and more time engaging with your child ✅ Create special bonding moments with your child ✅ Help your child love learning and develop a lifelong curiosity What is included in the book? ✅ Over 200 activities with material lists and detailed instructions ✅ 23 themes included - all about me, apples, around the world, bees, bears, birds, body systems, butterflies, construction, cooking, dinosaurs, engineer, family, friendship, gardening, healthy habits, money, opposites, simple machines, scissor skills, sports, spy training, water ✅ 137 low prep activities ✅ A digital download code to print off 71 full-color handouts that correlate to specific activities.

Unlocking the Possibilities: Insider Secrets to College, Career, and Beyond divulges insider secrets for simple but effective strategies to "hack" school, work, and life challenges. Anyone learning something new can benefit from this book, especially 16- to 26-year-olds entering the adult world. The proprietary, efficient study methods in the book will supercharge any student's educational experience and the personal experiences and anecdotes accompanying each secret with entertaining, "been-there-done-that" stories engages readers as equals. Control your destiny! Learn your best options, objectively evaluate them, and choose what's best for you. Then implement the cook-book style directions to make it happen. Unlocking the Possibilities asks the question, "What will your life be like in ten to twenty years if you accept this opportunity to become what you truly want to be?" From launching your adult life to finding a life partner (and acing college in between), you can focus on a clear path to achieve what you want.

How can educators leverage neuroscience research about how the human brain learns? How can we use this information to improve curriculum, instruction, and assessment so our students achieve deep learning and understanding in all subject areas? Upgrade Your Teaching: Understanding by Design Meets Neuroscience answers these questions by merging insights from neuroscience with Understanding by Design (UbD), the framework used by thousands of educators to craft units of instruction and authentic assessments that emphasize understanding rather than recall. Readers will learn: How the brain processes incoming information and determines what is (or is not) retained as long-term memory. How brain science reveals factors that influence student motivation and willingness to put forth effort. How to fully engage all students through relevance and achievable challenge. How key components of UbD, including backward design, essential questions, and transfer tasks, are supported by research in neuroscience. Why specific kinds of teaching and assessment strategies are effective in helping students gain the knowledge, skills, and deep understanding they need to succeed in school and beyond. How to create a brain-friendly classroom climate that supports lasting learning. Authors Jay McTighe and Judy Willis translate research findings into practical information for everyday use in schools, at all grade levels and in all subject areas. With their guidance, educators at all levels can learn how to design and implement units that empower teachers and students alike to capitalize on the brain's tremendous capacity for learning.

Covering both theoretical and practical approaches, Writing the Research Paper guides students studying in English as a second or additional language through the skills necessary for success in university-level writing and research. The book begins with theoretical considerations, such as research, argumentation and critical thinking. It then offers a broad range of practical assistance covering all aspects of the writing process, including topic selection, argument, counter-argument, paragraph structure and cohesion. The book is accompanied by a companion website, writingtheresearchpaper.com. The website hosts many features, including chapter summaries, exercises, quizzes, PowerPoints, additional learning material, and technology assistance. The website also hosts numerous authentic examples of student papers at each of the critical stages of the writing process.