In this extensively revised and expanded second edition, we find updated descriptions of progressive teaching in six subject areas: reading, writing, mathematics, science, social studies, and the arts.

Best Practice: New Standards for Teaching and Learning in America's Schools, Second Edition

Education & Teaching

Daniels, Harvey

Zemelman, Steven

Hyde, Arthur

Schools & Teaching

Heinemann

With Best Practice: New Standards for Teaching and Learning in America's Schools, authors Zemelman, Daniels, and Hyde highlight the consensus among the many recent national standards documents: all the experts are calling for schools that are more challenging, authentic, and collaborative. Drawing on these three core principles, their book offers ideas, strategies, and examples of exemplary programs to achieve better teaching and learning. But Zemelman, Daniels, and their colleague Marilyn Bizar didn't stop there. They helped start a new inner-city high school that puts Best Practice into action. This video offers an insider's look at this new, complex, and emerging school.Zemelman, Daniels, and Bizar take us directly into the classrooms at Best Practice High School, where real kids and teachers are cocreating a rich curriculum and a supportive community. You'll observe teachers frankly discussing the challenge of standards and change, and the rewards Best Practice offers. You'll see kids involved in some key innovative structures - integrated curriculum, peer mediation, flexible scheduling, weekly internships, inclusion special education. There are also helpful discussions of the practical, everyday procedures that make Best Practice work, and of the ways students make choices and take on responsibilities on a daily basis. Teachers, principals, and administrators will be inspired and engaged by this practical look at what can be achieved by a group of dedicated educators, students, and community members. They'll also discover how - despite the typical constraints of district mandates, required curriculum, and standardized tests - we can all achieve higher standards and a new vision for schools across the nation.

Rethinking High School: Best Practice in Action

Bizar, Marilyn

We've read educational essays packed with ideas, and we've read narrative accounts of individual schools. Rethinking High School is a rare and delightful marriage of the two. . . . It's hard to imagine anyone involved with high schools who won't come away from this book both impressed and enlightened. - Alfie Kohn, Author of The Case Against Standardized Testing and The Schools Our Children Deserve 
 Rethinking High School is an important book for anyone who has ever wondered about what high schools could look like at their best. . . . This is a book for dreamers and doers, a book that shows us that ordinary people working together can accomplish the extraordinary. Daniels, Bizar, and Zemelman show us how. - William Ayers, Professor of Education, the University of Illinois at Chicago, Coeditor of A Simple Justice: The Challenge of Small Schools 
 Secondary educators will cherish this book, as it will promote important conversations in their staff rooms and improved practice in their classrooms. The authors help us reimagine public education with page after page of practical and simultaneously profound ideas. Readers will wish Best Practice High School were just around their corner. - Shelley Harwayne, Acting Superintendent, Community School District Two, Manhattan 
 Anyone who seriously wants to make high schools better should start right here. Organized around the principles of "best practice," Rethinking High School is packed with rich examples of wonderful learning, great teaching, substantive curriculum, democratic organization, and all the other ingredients of a really good school. - James Beane, Author of Curriculum Integration: Designing the Core of Democratic Education 
 Today, as our nation's attention turns to the reform of secondary education, Rethinking High School offers a lively guide for that crucial journey of renewal. 
 In their previous book - Best Practice: New Standards for Teaching and Learning in America's Schools - Daniels and his colleagues drew on the national curriculum standards to define good teaching and learning. Then, the authors personally put those standards to work on the West side of Chicago, starting the city's first new public high school in thirty years. Now, in Rethinking High School, they take us along on that adventure, from the earliest planning meetings to the school's first graduation six years later. They tell exactly how Best Practice High School got started, what worked and what didn't, where they stumbled and soared, and what is still left to do. 
 But this is more than the story of one innovative school. Rethinking High School is designed to be a template for change. Organized around eleven fundamental choices that all secondary schools must make, the book serves as a checklist, an agenda, and a study guide for high school reform. Instead of dictating right answers, the authors pose key questions and recount a range of creative alternatives developed by schools around the country. By offering this rich array of stories and models, the book speaks directly to readers who wish to improve existing high schools, to break larger schools into smaller ones, or start new high schools from the ground up. 
 Rethinking High School - complete with a companion website - articulates a clear vision of successful secondary school reform. Acknowledging the monumental challenges of renewing high schools, it shows how ordinary but determined people, working together, can accomplish the extraordinary.

Rethinking High School: Best Practice in Teaching, Learning, and Leadership

Meier, Deborah

Grades 7-12 Finally, a book about content-area reading that’s just as useful to math, science, and history teachers as it is to English teachers! Lively, practical, and irreverent, Subjects Matter points the way to activities and materials that energize content and engage students across all subject areas. This book features: <ul>
<li> 23 practical classroom activities that help students understand and remember what they read, in mathematics, science, social studies, English, and more </li> <li> a tough analysis of today’s textbooks, along with specific ways to use them more effectively </li> <li> a new “balanced diet” of reading, including 150 books of interest to teenagers </li> <li> instructions for growing a rich classroom library in your subject area </li> <li> plans for setting up student book clubs and reading groups in any discipline </li> <li> group-building techniques that create a productive community of readers </li> <li> a do-it-yourself exploration of the ways smart readers think </li> <li> models for developing ambitious thematic units within your classroom or with colleagues </li> <li> special help and materials for students who struggle </li> <li> scientific proof that the book’s recommended activities do improve reading and learning. </li> </ul>

Subjects Matter: Every Teacher's Guide to Content - Area Reading

Reference

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Recognizing that the themes of American education have changed dramatically, Steven Zemelman, Harvey Daniels, and Arthur Hyde reconvened, and their new edition provides fresh, inspiring examples of state-of-the-art teaching methods in action.

Best Practice, Today's Standards for Teaching and Learning in America's Schools

There are three truths about teaching writing, one that's widely known, one that isn't, and one that will change your teaching forever: 
<ul>
<li>the ability to write is essential for students in every subject area</li> <li>writing is the most powerful and efficient tool that teachers have for helping students connect with content and deepen their understanding of it</li> <li>every teacher, including you, is ready to coach middle and secondary writers successfully right now.</li> </ul> No matter what subject you teach, Content-Area Writing is for you, especially if you're juggling broad curriculum mandates, thick textbooks, and severe time constraints. It not only shows that incorporating carefully structured writing activities into your lessons actually increases understanding and achievement, but also proves how writing can save, not consume, valuable instructional time. Following up on Subjects Matter - the book that changed how tens of thousands of language arts, math, science, and social studies teachers use reading in their classrooms - Harvey Daniels, Steven Zemelman, and Nancy Steineke now present the most thorough and practical exploration available of writing in the subject areas. Content-Area Writing guides you strategically through the two major types of writing that every student must know: <ul>
<li>
Writing to Learn: the quick, exploratory, and extemporaneous in-class writing that helps kids engage deeply with content, build connections, and retain what they've learned</li> <li>
Public Writing: planned, constructed, and polished writing in which students demonstrate knowledge and reflect on what they've learned.</li> </ul> With their contagious combination of humor, irreverence, and classroom smarts, Daniels, Zemelman, and Steineke give you dozens of valuable lessons for encouraging growth in both types of writing with subject-specific ideas for planning, organizing, and teaching, as well as samples of student work and guidelines for evaluation and assessment. They also include detailed information on how their strategies fit into the writing process, how they can be used in writing workshops across the curriculum, and how they prepare students for testing and other on-demand writing situations. With writing, you can help students learn better, retain more, meet content- and skills-based standards, and tackle any test with confidence. No matter what you teach, read Content-Area Writing and discover for yourself that classroom time spent writing is classroom time well spent.

Content-Area Writing: Every Teacher's Guide

Business & Money

Daniels, Harvey "Smokey"

Steineke, Nancy

Education & Reference

"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. . . . This book, then, is about extending one's professional role in small ways and large in the school community, in order to improve one's teaching, one's work life, and the school as a whole-and that is what we mean by teacher empowerment." Steven Zemelman and Harry Ross Experts talk about teacher empowerment, but this is the first book with direct, easy-to-take steps for teacher self-empowerment. Drawing from research, the experiences of practicing teachers, and the principles of community organizing, Steven Zemelman and Harry Ross prove that school leadership isn't just for those at the top of the ladder. Whatever your position, use the 13 Steps to Teacher Empowerment to deepen your professionalism and achieve: <ul>
<li>more effective teaching and deeper job satisfaction </li> <li>more enjoyment in your work </li> <li>more exciting collaboration with your colleagues </li> <li>more resources and professional opportunities. </li> </ul>
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. Take one step at a time or pick and choose the strategies you most need right now. Or use the study guide with colleagues in PLCs or teacher study groups and together bring the 13 Steps of Teacher Empowerment to life. You'll not only develop your own professional power-you'll help make your school community more supportive and productive. "As I sat down and began to read this book, the voice in my head first whispered, then spoke a little louder, and finally screamed-Where have you been all my life?...I can't overemphasize the importance of this book. We need this book and we need it now. It is a road map to a vibrant, thriving, long-lasting teaching life." Stephanie Harvey Coauthor of Comprehension &amp; Collaboration

13 Steps to Teacher Empowerment: Taking a More Active Role in Your School Community

Harvey, Stéphanie

Ross,Harry

"The single most powerful variable in student achievement is the quality of teaching. But what does quality mean? What does it look like in real classrooms? It looks like the teaching in this book." -Steven Zemelman, Harvey "Smokey" Daniels, and Arthur Hyde Best Practice is back, and with it Steve Zemelman, Smokey Daniels, and Arthur Hyde invite you to greet today's most important educational challenges with proven, state-of-the-art teaching. Linguistic diversity, technology, Common Core, high-stakes testing-no matter the hurdle, Best Practice teaching supports powerful learning across our profession. Best Practice, Fourth Edition, is the ultimate guide to teaching excellence. Its framework of seven Best Practice Structures and cutting-edge implementation strategies are proven across the grades and subject areas. BP4 creates common ground for teachers, leaders, and principals by recommending practices drawn from the latest scientific research, professional consensus, and the innovative classrooms of exemplary teachers. BP4 puts top-quality teaching at the fingertips of individual practitioners by sharing real-life instructional scenes that define classroom excellence, increase learning, and improve students' life opportunities. It's also more valuable than ever to PLCs and school reform initiatives thanks to: <ul>
<li>plans and strategies for exceeding state and Common Core Standards</li> <li>cohesive principles and common language that strengthen professional collaboration</li> <li>classroom vignettes that show teachers and kids at work</li> <li>chapters on reading, writing, math, science, and social studies that support unified instructional goals</li> <li>special attention to technology in the classroom, special education, ELLs, struggling readers, and the arts.</li> </ul>
This new educational era demands highly-effective, high-quality instruction that makes a difference for students. Fortunately with Zemelman, Daniels, and Hyde's help every educator can be a world-class, life-changing teacher-a Best Practice teacher.

Best Practice, Fourth Edition: Bringing Standards to Life in America's Classrooms

Visit Best Practice classrooms without leaving your school "In Best Practice, we outline the key qualities of great teaching in each major subject area. But showing is always better, right? Hence, these video windows into Best Practice classrooms at work." Harvey "Smokey" Daniels and Steven Zemelman What do great teaching and powerful learning look like, sound like, and feel like? Seeing the work in action makes all the difference in understanding how to make it your own. The Best Practice Video Companion takes you into exemplary classrooms where the seven structures for top-quality teaching described in Best Practice support effective instruction and deeper learning every day. Steven Zemelman and Harvey "Smokey" Daniels show us that the seven structures work in any context by visiting classrooms across the grades and content areas. You'll see the moves and hear the language of Best Practice teachers as they help students with a wide range of abilities become engaged, insightful learners. An ideal professional development support for groups studying Best Practice, Fourth Edition, The Best Practice Video Companion: <ul>
<li>shares more than 40 glimpses into multiple lessons in 17 outstanding classrooms</li> <li>focuses on the seven research-based Best Practice structures</li> <li>offers two ways to watch-by Best Practice structure or by teacher</li> <li>suggests ways to collaborate before, during, and after viewings.</li> </ul>
While the Common Core and other standards outline what children are expected to learn, they don't really explain how to get them there. Use The Best Practice Video Companion and see the how for yourself. Save $ and create powerhouse PD with on a Staff Development Bundle that combines 10 copies of Best Practice with the Best Practice Video Companion.

Best Practice Video Companion: Watching the Seven Structures That Create Exemplary Classrooms

"To help every kid fall in love with at least one field of knowledge, our students must encounter our fields' most galvanizing, tantalizing, and pivotal documents. This book is about making those encounters as compelling as we can make them." -Harvey "Smokey" Daniels and Steven Zemelman We are specialists to the bone-in science, math, social studies, art, music, business, and foreign language. But now, the Common Core and state standards require us to help our students better understand the distinctive texts in our subject areas. "Nobody's making us into reading teachers," write Smokey Daniels and Steve Zemelman, "but we must become teachers of disciplinary thinking through our students' reading." If this shift sounds like a tough one, Subjects Matter, Second Edition is your solution. Smokey and Steve, two of America's most popular educators, share exactly what you need to help students read your nonfiction content closely and strategically: <ul>
<li>27 proven teaching strategies that help meet-and exceed-the standards</li> <li>how-to suggestions for engaging kids with content through wide, real-world reading</li> <li>a lively look at using "boring" textbooks</li> <li>motivating instruction that's powered by student collaboration</li> <li>specifics for helping struggling readers succeed.</li> </ul>
Subjects Matter, Second Edition enables deep, thoughtful learning for your students, while keeping the irreverent, inspiring heart that's made the first edition indispensable. You'll discover fresh and re-energized lessons, completely updated research, and vibrant vignettes from new colleagues and old friends who have as much passion for their subjects as you do. "We'll be using methods particular to our fields as well as engaging reading materials that help students understand and remember our content better," write Smokey and Steve. "We can realize that vision of the light going on in kids' heads and maybe fill them with enthusiasm about the amazing subject matter that we have to offer. Sound good? Let's get to work." Read a sample chapter from Subjects Matter, Second Edition.

Subjects Matter, Second Edition: Exceeding Standards Through Powerful Content-Area Reading

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