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Clearing the Path for Developing Learners
Apply essential literacy skills in every subject matter
All learning is based on the mastery of essential literary skills, and in this impactful title from author and reading specialist Peg Grafwallner, educators will discover tools they need to embed literacy into all subjects. Using this book’s skill-building strategies and reproducibles, educators can effectively teach those literacy skills to support developing students as they learn to read, write, and think critically.
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Not Yet . . . And That’s OK
How Productive Struggle Fosters Student Learning
Every learning challenge is an empowering opportunity to grow. With this teacher-friendly resource, you will learn how to help your students celebrate the academic experience, embrace productive struggle, and deeply value themselves as learners and risk-takers.
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Ready to Learn: The FRAME Model for Optimizing Student Success by Peg Grafwallner
A results-oriented approach for motivating students to learn and achieve academic success
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Ready to Learn introduces the FRAME model, a results-oriented approach for creating meaningful and motivating learning experience across grade levels and content areas. Rely on the model’s five steps—(1) focus, (2) reach, (3) ask, (4) model, and (5) encourage—to help you launch engaging lessons, articulate clear expectations, and offer effective feedback.
Explore how the FRAME model supports teachers in planning and delivering a meaningful learning experience to every student.
Discover strategies for engaging students within the first ten minutes of class and carrying this motivation throughout the lesson.
Understand how encouraging peer observations and feedback among teachers will improve instructional practice.
Study the FRAME model in real-world situations and utilize reflection questions to reinforce learning.
Examine sample lesson plans and receive a template for planning lessons using the FRAME model.
Review of Ready to Learn from Rita Platt at MiddleWeb.
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Lessons Learned from the Special Education Classroom: Creating Opportunities for All Students to Listen, Learn, and Lead by Peg Grafwallner
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Lessons Learned from the Special Education Classroom
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Review of Lessons Learned from the Special Education Classroom by Daniel Monfre, IB Math Teacher
I'm currently teaching at an international school in the Philippines and we recently selected Lessons Learned from the Special Education Classroom as our PLC's book study. Over the past couple months teachers from all grade levels, counselors, specialists, special ed teachers, and admin have met to discuss the chapters of the book. We have used the Questions that are provided in the book to guide our discussions. The process has led to some of the best conversations about school environment I have ever had. Our PLC is a diverse group of colleagues from all over the world and all having various roles in the school, still we have all found the resources, topics, and examples in the book to be very useful. I highly recommend that any one looking for professional growth to better serve all students read this book.