Professional Learning Books

A comprehensive, step-by-step program for developing Phonemic Awareness and Fluent Word Recognition. In recent years, scientists have made great strides in understanding how children learn to read, but also in how to prevent and correct most reading difficulties.  However, the American Federation for Teachers, the Journal...

Building on the success of the original best-seller, this new edition of The Writing Revolution adds valuable guidance for teachers seeking a way to bring their students' writing ability up to rigorous state standards. As thousands of educators have already discovered, The Writing Revolution provides the road map...

A fantastic book to add to your kete, "Explicit Instruction: Effective and Efficient Teaching" by Anita L. Archer and Charles A. Hughes.   This comprehensive guide is an invaluable resource for educators, providing a clear framework for implementing explicit instruction across all grade levels and...

Drawing together the worlds of classroom practice, school leadership and cognitive science, this is an essential how-to guide for initiating and maintaining a school improvement journey based on the science of how we learn.   What we now know about learning and teaching is vast;...

Identify. Learn. Improve.When it comes to improving practice, few professional texts can rival the impact felt by Jim Knight’s Instructional Coaching. For hundreds of thousands of educators, Jim bridged the long-standing divide between staff room and classroom offering up a much more collaborative, respectful,...

Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning empowers educators to harness rigorous research on how students learn and unleash it in their classrooms. In this book, cognitive scientist Pooja K. Agarwal, Ph.D., and veteran K–12 teacher Patrice M. Bain, Ed.S., decipher cognitive science research and...