| NEW: Effective Assessment for Effective Learning | | |  Based on an ASCD Educational Leadership article titled Seven Practices for Effective Learning (McTighe & O’Connor, November 2005), this three-part DVD and leaders guide provides a roadmap to how teachers can measure and report learning in a way that also promotes it. The series demonstrates how schools in two high-performing, diverse school districts use well-designed classroom assessments and grading practices to provide specific, personalized and timely information to guide both teaching and learning. Read more | | | Watch a clip of this new resource 
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| | BEST SELLER: Failure Is Not an Option® | | |  This book tells the vivid story of what it takes to turn schools around, continually improve schools that are already good, and succeed with ALL students. Drawing on 15 years of practical research, and an in-depth look at 20 high-performing schools & districts, the book identifies 6 principles that guide sustainable professional learning communities. Read more | | | By Alan Blankstein
with Andy Hargreaves
and Dean Fink
Foreword by Michael Fullan Awards and Acclaim:
• NSDC "2005 Book of the Year"
• Corwin Press best seller |
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Failure Is Not an Option ®
Six Principles for Making Student Success the Only Option
For our children, for our future: failure is never an option! Anchored in the moral purpose of sustaining success for all students, this second edition of the bestseller demonstrates how to reshape school cultures to support continuous student success. With contributions from Pedro A. Noguera, Andy Hargreaves, and Dean Fink, this book outlines the Who, What, and How of becoming a high-performing school and learning community, shows how to avoid ten common routes to failure, provides double the resources, includes many new case stories and examples, and offers new emphasis on: - Diversity
- Assessment for learning
- Intervention and support for students at risk
- Schooling as a community endeavor involving families
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