Algebra Out Loud: Learning Mathematics Through Reading and Writing Activities by Pat Mower

A unique resource designed for mathematics instructors who are teaching algebra I and II. This easy-to-use resource is filled with illustrative examples, strategies, activities, and lessons that will help students more easily understand mathematical text and learn the skills they need to effectively communicate mathematical concepts.

Because Digital Writing Matters: Improving Student Writing in Online and Multimedia Environments by National Writing Project

Since writing in and for the online realm often defies standard writing conventions, this book defines digital writing and examines how best to integrate new technologies into writing instruction

The College Student's Research Companion: Finding, Evaluating, and Citing the Resources You Need to Succeed by Arlene Quaratiello

Most students faced with writing a research paper probably start at the same place--Google. Here's a cutting-edge guide that will save your students from fruitless, random web searching. Arlene Quartiello, formerly an academic librarian who now teaches college English, and Jane Devine, coauthor of Going Beyond Google, provide up-to-date guidance for using traditional and online sources.

Differentiated Assessment: How to Assess the Learning Potential of Every Student by Evangeline Harris Stefanakis

This book describes a comprehensive assessment system especially appropriate for multilingual and "differentiated" classrooms with large numbers of underperforming students. Drawing from Multiple Intelligences theory, the approach is specifically aimed at helping teachers understand how each student learns and how best to tailor instruction to serve individual students' needs. Although the program makes use of conventional standardized tests and disability screenings, it places special importance on two approaches in particular: Student Portfolio Assessments and Personalized Learning Profiles.

The ESL/ELL Teacher's Book of Listsby Jacqueline E. Kress

This unique teacher time-saver includes scores of helpful, practical lists that may be reproduced for classroom use or referred to in the development of instructional materials and lessons. The material contained in this book helps K-12 teachers reinforce and enhance the learning of grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and writing skills in ESL students of all ability levels. For easy use and quick access, the lists are printed in a format that can be photocopied as many times as required. A complete, thoroughly updated glossary at the end provides an indispensable guide to the specialized language of ESL instruction.

Geometry Out Loud: Learning Mathematics Through Reading and Writing Activities by Pat Mower

Written for mathematics teachers of students in grades 8-12, this easy-to-use resource is filled with illustrative examples, strategies, activities, and lessons that will help students more easily understand mathematical text and learn the skills they need to effectively communicate mathematical concepts.  Geometry Out Loud outlines the progression of axiomatic geometry through transformational geometry and shows the differences in visual thinking that have occurred over the years. The book is filled with strategies and activities for learning geometry, numerous illustrative examples, and ready-to-use lessons.

Going Beyond Google: The Invisible Web in Learning and Teaching by Jane Devine

Google isn't up to the task when it comes to serious research, and though your patrons and students have heard of the invisible, or deep Web, they have no idea how to tap into it. You need practical tools and strategies for teaching them about the Web sources and specialized databases they will never find using everyday search engines. This book will show you in simple, nontechnical terms how to integrate the invisible Web into teaching opportunities wherever they occur: in a one-on-one teaching moment at the reference desk, or in a formal course.

The Grammar Teacher's Activity-a-Day: 180 Ready-to-Use Lessons to Teach Grammar and Usage by Jack Umstatter

Helps teachers to familiarize students with the type of grammar-related content found on standardized local, state, national, and college admissions tests.

• Includes ready-to-use, yet comprehensive and authoritative activities for use as sponge activities, extra homework, or regular daily lessons
•  Reproducible lessons are designed to be non-intimidating and clear for students

Holding On to Good Ideas in a Time of Bad Ones: Six Literacy Principles Worth Fighting For by Thomas Newkirk

Newkirk shows how to:

• increase your instructional emphasis on writing to reflect the reality that producing text is more important than ever
• help students access deep knowledge and expand their thinking through time to write freely
• build strong connections between school learning and the real world by teaching with popular culture
• propel the development of reading skills by helping students discover the pleasure of reading
• provide the time and space for meaningful, long-lasting teaching and learning by uncluttering the curriculum
•  spark professional growth and avoid stagnation by discussing failure and uncertainty with colleagues.

Igniting a Passion for Reading: Successful Strategies for Building Lifetime Readers  by Steven Layne

When teaching reading, American classrooms often focus exclusively on skills instruction. But how can you teach the “how” without the “why?”  Steve Layne shows teachers how to develop readers who are not only motivated to read great books, but also love reading in its own right. Packed with practical ways to engage and inspire readers from kindergarten through high school .

Reading Ladders: Leading Students from Where They Are to Where We'd Like Them to Be by Teri S. Lesesne

With reading ladders you start with the authors, genres, or subjects your readers like then connect them to book after book-each a little more complex or challenging than the last: 

• select books to create your own reading ladders
• build a classroom library that supports every student's needs
• use reading ladders to bolster content-area knowledge and build independence
• assess where students are at and how far they've climbed.

Reading Teacher's Word-a-Day by Edward B. Fry

Hands-on reference containing 180 challenging and engaging lessons—one for each day of the school year.

The School Counselor's Book of Lists by Dorothy J. Blum

A quick, easy guide for finding information on almost any topic pertinent to school counselors, the book covers everything from writing student assessments and dealing with school crises to setting budgets and running effective meetings. In order to address the transformed role of school counselors, the contents of this comprehensive second edition map to the American School Counselor Association's National Model for Counseling Programs.

• Includes hundreds of helpful lists offering guidelines, strategies, trends, and resources
• Officially endorsed by the American School Counselor Association (ASCA)
• The first edition was a bestselling title for school counselors
• Addresses the pressing issues faced by today's school counselors
•  This revised edition is appropriate for school counseling graduate programs as well as to practitioners in the K-12 field.

Sourcebook for Teaching Science, Grades 6-12: Strategies, Activities, and Instructional Resources by Norman Herr

Filled with innovative tools, dynamic activities, and practical lesson plans that are grounded in theory, research, and national standards, the book offers both new and experienced science teachers powerful strategies and original ideas that will enhance the teaching of physics, chemistry, biology, and the earth and space sciences.

Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College by Doug Lemov

Among the techniques:

• Technique #1: No Opt Out. How to move students from the blank stare or stubborn shrug to giving the right answer every time.
• Technique #35: Do It Again. When students fail to successfully complete a basic task—from entering the classroom quietly to passing papers around—doing it again, doing it right, and doing it perfectly, results in the best consequences.
• Technique #38: No Warnings. If you're angry with your students, it usually means you should be angry with yourself. This technique shows how to effectively address misbehaviors in your classroom.

The book includes a DVD of 25 video clips of teachers demonstrating the techniques in the classroom.  

Teaching Outside the Box: How to Grab Your Students By Their Brains by LouAnne

Filled with no-nonsense advice, checklists, and handouts as well as

• A step-by-step plan to make the first week of school a success
• Approaches for creating a positive discipline plan
• Methods for motivating students, especially reluctant readers
• Strategies for successful classroom management
• Suggestions for creating and grading student portfolios

They Snooze, You Lose: The Educator's Guide to Successful Presentations by Lynell Burmark

a comprehensive guide made especially for teachers and administrators who want to become presentation "stars" in their classrooms, at board meetings, or any time they are in front of an audience

• Describes how to apply the author's proven CHIMES² elements: Connections, Humor, Images, Music, Emotion, Stories, and Senses
• Contains a bonus DVD with premade slides, a study guide, and reproducible images
• Includes key sections on the best ways to integrate technology into your presentations

Thinking Visually: Step-by-Step Exercises That Promote Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic Learning by Oliver Caviglioli

Activities included are designed to:
• teach thinking skills as part of any subject areas;
• improve reading and writing skills;
• support each stage of the learning process;
• demonstrate and develop intelligence;
• encourage four essential learning skills that apply to all students, regardless of the preferred learning style;
• measure intelligence and improvement in learning;
• explore effective classroom practices for planning, teaching, and reviewing.

Writing Assessment and Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities by Nancy Mather

The book offers a review of basic skills-spelling, punctuation, and capitalization-and includes instructional strategies to help children who struggle with these basics. The authors provide numerous approaches for enhancing student performance in written expression. They explore the most common reasons students are reluctant to write and offer helpful suggestions for motivating them.