Books

Discover how to design innovative learning environments that increase student ownership so they can achieve at high levels and meet rigorous standards.

These two new editions of Students Taking Charge show you how to create student-driven classrooms that empower learners through problem-based learning and differentiation, where students pose questions and actively seek answers. Technology is then used seamlessly throughout the day for information, communication, collaboration, and product generation.

You’ll find out how to:

• Design an Authentic Learning Unit, which is at the core of the Learner-Active, Technology-Infused Classroom, aimed at engaging students;

• Design and implement the structures needed to support its implementation and empower students;

• Build the facilitation strategies that will move students from engagement to empowerment to efficacy.

The new K–5 edition offers a more detailed look into elementary school implementation and the new 6–12 edition into secondary school implementation. With their practical examples and step-by-step guidelines, you’ll be able to start designing your innovative classroom immediately!

Click here to read chapter 1 of Students Taking Charge In Grades K-5 or Students Taking Charge In Grades 6-12 by Dr. Nancy Sulla

Doing a book study? Use these discussion questions for STC K-5 and STC 6-12!

Students Taking Charge In Grades K-5 by Dr. Nancy Sulla is available through Routledge or Amazon.com

Students Taking Charge In Grades 6-12 by Dr. Nancy Sulla is available through Routledge or Amazon.com

Learn how to create innovative, student-driven learning environments in your school.

In this new book, Nancy Sulla provides a powerful framework for designing Learner-Active, Technology-Infused Classrooms, which she has implemented in districts across the country. You’ll find out how to help teachers make their classrooms more personalized, rigorous places in which students take ownership of their work, pose high-level questions, work on problems together, and actively seek answers. Each chapter provides a wide variety of practical tools for implementation and teacher observation to help you get started.

Click here to read chapter 1 of Students Taking Charge Implementation Guide for Leaders by Dr. Nancy Sulla, Tanya Bosco, and Julie Marks

Students Taking Charge Implementation Guide for Leaders by Dr. Nancy Sulla, Tanya Bosco, and Julie Marks is available through Routledge or Amazon.com

How do we develop executive function skills in the classroom?

Educators clamor to provide top-notch lessons and resources for students, but if students lack executive function, even the best materials won’t produce the desired results. If students haven’t developed the brain-based skills to focus, catch and correct errors, identify cause-and-effect relationships, and more, they can’t make sense of lessons. Executive function is the missing link to student achievement. But how can you develop this in the classroom? In this new book, bestselling author Nancy Sulla has the answers. She explains how building executive function requires a combination of activities, structures, and teacher facilitation strategies aimed at six increasingly complex life skills that should be the goal of any school: conscious control, engagement, collaboration, empowerment, efficacy, and leadership. She also offers a variety of examples, activities, and structures fit for every grade level and subject area. With the book’s practical strategies and tools, you will be inspired, armed, and ready to establish a clear framework for building executive function in all of your students.

Click here to read chapter 1 of Building Executive Function: The Missing Link To Student Achievement by Dr. Nancy Sulla

Doing a book study? Use these discussion questions for Building Executive Function: The Missing Link to Student Achievement!

Building Executive Function: The Missing Link to Student Achievement by Dr. Nancy Sulla is available through Routledge or Amazon.com

How do we prepare students to become problem-finders, innovators, and entrepreneurs who can thrive in a global society?

The Common Core charts a pathway to success, yet we know that checking off each standard one by one will not achieve the kind of results we want. This powerful book by bestselling author Nancy Sulla has the answers. She explains how teachers can bring students to deeper levels of learning by shifting from the what to the how of the CCSS. She offers seven insights that you can use to teach the standards in a more meaningful way, to bring all of your students to true understanding and application. Throughout the book, you’ll find a variety of practical examples from across the curriculum, as well as “Your Turn” opportunities to help you try the ideas in your own classroom. The future may not be easily defined, but it can be shaped by teachers who are right now preparing the next generation of world citizens.

Click here to read chapter 1 of It’s Not What You Teach, But How: 7 Insights to Making the CCSS Work for You by Dr. Nancy Sulla

It’s Not What You Teach But How: 7 Insights to Making the CCSS Work for You by Dr. Nancy Sulla is available through Routledge or Amazon.com