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Reading and Writing for Resiliency (DVD)

Alfred Tatum

Pub Date: 3/26/2010
Product Type: DVD
Grade: 6th - 12th

In his staff development companion to Reading for Their Life, Alfred Tatum demonstrates the power enabling texts can have to change the life of African American adolescent males—and every student in the class. Click here to preview Reading and Writing for Resiliency at Heinemann.com. Literacy coaches and staff developers,... more

Inquiry Circles in Middle and High School Classrooms (DVD)

Harvey Daniels , Stephanie Harvey

Pub Date: 10/28/2009
 Product Type: DVD
Grade: 6th - 12th

In small groups, we are smarter. In well-structured groups, we leverage each other’s thinking. We learn more not just because we all bring different pieces of the puzzle, but because, through talk, we can actually make new and better meaning together. —Stephanie Harvey and Harvey “Smokey” Daniels Watch a video overview.Read the... more

Inquiry Circles Staff Development Bundle, Grades K-5

Harvey Daniels , Stephanie Harvey

Pub Date: 10/15/2009
 Product Type: bundle
Grade: K - 5th

Literacy coaches and staff developers, save when you order the Inquiry Circles Staff Development Bundle, K-5­­. Get 10 copies of Comprehension & Collaboration and 1 copy of Inquiry Circles in Elementary Classrooms DVD for 1 low price.  A $410 value for $348.50. Save $61.50. Click here for more information on Comprehension & Collaboration:... more

Inquiry Circles Staff Development Bundle, Grades 6-12

Harvey Daniels , Stephanie Harvey

Pub Date: 10/15/2009
 Product Type: bundle
Grade: 6th - 12th

Literacy coaches and staff developers, save when you order the Inquiry Circles Staff Development Bundle, K-5­­. Get 10 copies of Comprehension & Collaboration and 1 copy of Inquiry Circles in Middle and High School Classrooms DVD for 1 low price.  A $410 value for $348.50. Save $61.50. Click here for more information on Comprehension... more

13 Steps to Teacher Empowerment

Steven Zemelman , Harry Ross

Pub Date: 7/23/2009
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: K - 12th

“What is teacher empowerment? It’s not just some formal administrative position exercised from above. It starts with expanding our professional roles in small everyday actions that make our jobs more fulfilling and less difficult. And then we can take on larger school-improvement tasks as we become ready to tackle them. . . .... more

13 Steps to Teacher Empowerment Book Study Bundle Pack

Steven Zemelman , Harry Ross

Pub Date: 7/15/2009
Product Type: bundle
Grade: K - 12th

Book study groups and professional learning communities, save 15% when you order 15 copies of 13 Steps to Teacher Empowerment a $292.50 value for $248.63. Listen to a podcast where Steve Zemelman and Harry Ross interview two teachers who used the principles in the 13 Steps to get the teaching life they wanted. “What is teacher... more

Literacy Learning Communities

Releah Lent

Pub Date: 9/19/2007
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 6th - 12th

  Why just "sit and get" professional development when you can take charge of it? Schools nationwide are using professional learning communities to revitalize staff development, and Literacy Learning Communities shows you how to adapt this powerful framework to target the literacy strengths and needs of students in... more

50 Essential Lessons

Jim Burke

Pub Date: 11/20/2006
 Product Type: PREPACK
Grade: 9th - 12th

50 Essential Lessons is the result of the lessons Jim Burke learned while asking himself how to teach his students the skills they needed to succeed in school and in the larger world. Anchored in standards shared by a range of national literacy documents, these lessons focus on the core cognitive and personal skills—reading,... more

Letters to a New Teacher

Jim Burke , Joy Krajicek

Pub Date: 1/13/2006
Product Type: Paperback
Grade: 6th - 12th

Joy's questions and Jim's responses evoke in us an appreciation for what it means to do the work called teaching with the "living intensity of soul." May such soulful teaching flourish among us: here is a book that can help it be so. —Parker Palmer and Sam Intrator Every new teacher needs a mentor, someone smart, experienced,... more

Naming the World

Nancie Atwell

Pub Date: 12/19/2005
 Product Type: PREPACK
Grade: 6th - 8th

Harnessing the power of poetry, Nancie Atwell's Naming the World: A Year of Poems and Lessons empowers adolescents to make sense of their personal place in the world while honing their critical reading and writing skills. Naming the World's 200+ poems and accompanying five-to-ten-minute lessons are used by Nancie every day to jumpstart... more