Professional Development and Resources

Based on Mike Mattos’s 1-5-10 team-evaluation activity, this unscripted video will give your team the know-how to transform into a high-performing team.

(2 CEUs)

Provides an introduction to Conscious Discipline, a social and emotional intelligence classroom management program designed to give teachers the discipline skills they need to address the emotional and social issues of children in the twenty-first century.

(5 CEUs)

Take your professional learning community to the next level! Discover a system-wide approach for re-envisioning your PLC while sustaining growth and continuing momentum on your journey.

(1 CEU)

Bridge the great divide between distanced administrative duties and daily classroom impact. This book introduces a top-down power mechanism called defined autonomy, a concept that focuses on district-defined, non-negotiable, common goals and a system of accountability supported by assessment tools.

(1 CEU)

Differentiated instruction is a nice idea, but what happens when it comes to assessing and grading students? What’s both fair and leads to real student learning? An internationally recognized expert on grading practices, Rick Wormeli first examined these questions 10 years ago in the first edition of Fair Isn’t Always Equal.

(3 CEUs)

In GOOD LEADERS ASK GREAT QUESTIONS, John C. Maxwell shows how they can change yours, teaching why questions are so important, what questions you should ask yourself as a leader, and what questions you should be asking your team.

(2 CEUs)

Too many workplaces are driven by cynicism, paranoia, and self-interest. But the best ones foster trust and cooperation because their leaders build what Sinek calls a "Circle of Safety" that separates the security inside the team from the challenges outside.

(2 CEUs)

Sinek illustrates his ideas with fascinating true stories that range from the military to big business, from government to investment banking.

(1.5 CEUs)

Teach Like a Champion offers effective teaching techniques to help teachers, especially those in their first few years, become champions in the classroom.

(3.5 CEUs)

The First Days of School sets the stage for the strategy of procedures in the classroom. ... The information by Harry K. Wong in this book is an absolute must for any new, or experienced, teacher.

(4 CEUs)

Break free of the behaviors that hold you back. FLIP FLIPPEN shows you what those personal constraints are and how you can break free of them.

(2.5 CEUs)

Busy administrators will appreciate this quick read packed with immediate, accessible strategies. Transforming School Culture provides the framework for understanding dynamic relationships within schools.

(1 CEU)

UnSelfie by Dr. Michele Borba explains what parents and educators MUST do to combat the growing empathy crisis among children.

(3 CEUs)

An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life, published on September 8, 1998, is a motivational business fable. The text describes change in one's work and life, and four typical reactions to those changes by two mice and two "little people", during their hunt for cheese.

(1 CEU)

By Darlene Sweetland and Ron Stolberg, which offers insight into the social, emotional, and neurological challenges unique to this generation.

(4 CEUs)

A 90-Day Plan for Coaching New Teachers, Paul Bambrick-Santoyo shares instructive tools of how school leaders can effectively guide new teachers to success.

(4 CEUs)

All Write - A Student Handbook for Writing and Learning

Are They Really Reading?

Beginning Essentials in Early Childhood Education

Best Practices in Gifted Education

Bringing Words to Life

Catching Up or Leading the Way

Challenges of Educating the Gifted in Rural Areas

Creative Strategies for Reaching Adolescents with Anger Problems

Crossroads - Classic Themes in Young Adult Literature

Differentiated Instruction Guide for Inclusive Teaching

Differentiating by Student Interest - Strategies and Lesson Plans

Differentiating by Readiness - Strategies and Lesson Plans for Tiered Instruction Grades K - 8

Differentiating Instruction in a Whole-Group Setting 3 - 8

Differentiating Instruction in a Whole-Group Setting 7 - 12

Differentiating Textbooks - Strategies to Improve Student Comprehension and Motivation

Differentiating the Curriculum for Gifted Learners

Differentiation - From Planning to Practice - Grades 6 - 12

DVD - Project Based Learning in a K-8 School: Philosophy & Practice in Our Standards Driven Era

DVD - The New Science of Learning

Expert Approaches to Support Gifted Learners

Fair Isn't Always Equal

Get Wise - Mastering Grammar Skills

Getting Started with English Language Learners - How Educators Can Meet the Challenge

Guided Reading Management

Human Geography

Leadership in PLC (DVD)

Leading and Managing in a Differentiated Classroom

Literacy Assessment of Second Language Learners

Literacy Teaching and Learning - Current Issues and Trends

Mobilizing the Community to Help Students Succeed

Motivating Students Who Don't Care

Multi-Cultural Voices

Productive Group Work

Professional Learning Communities at Work - Best Practices for Enhancing Student Achievement

Reader's Handbook - A Student Guide for Reading and Learning

Reading the Content Areas - Mathematics

Reading, Writing & Learning in ESL

Research-Based Strategies for English Language Learners - How to Reach Goals and Meet Standards, K-8

Rethinking Homework - Best Practices that Support Diverse Needs

Rigor is Not a Four Letter Word

School to Work - A Student Handbook

Shocks - 15 Startling Stories to Shock and Delight - With Exercises for Comprehension and Enrichment

Skills Training for Children with Behavior Problems

Step Up to Writing - various books and reference materials in each package

Teaching Children to Read

Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language

Teaching Gifted Kids in Today's Classroom

Teaching Language Minority Students in the Multicultural Classroom

Teaching Reading to Black Adolescent Males

Teaching Strategies for Ethnic Studies, 6th Edition

Teaching Teens & Reaping Results

Teaching What Matters Most

Teaching with the Brain in Mind

The 4 Minute Mile

The Adventures of Dr. Alphabet

The Art and Science of Teaching

The Differentiated Classroom - Responding to the Needs of all Learners

The Language-Experience Approach to the Teaching of Reading

The Limitless School

The Nuts and Bolts of Teaching Writing and Small Moments: Personal Narrative Writing (two book set)

The Perfect Mile

Total Participation Techniques

Visible Learning

Vocabulary Workshop - Level D

Vocabulary Workshop - Level E

Vocabulary Workshop - Level F

Vocabulary Workshop - Level G

Vocabulary Workshop - Level H

What Great Teachers Do Differently

When Gifted Kids Don't Have All the Answers

Why Before How

Write on Track - A Handbook for Young Writers, Thinkers, and Learners

Write Source - A Book for Writing, Thinking, and Learning

Writers Express - A Handbook for Young Writers, Thinkers, and Learners

Writers Inc. - A Student Handbook for Writing and Learning