Ready to Hack Learning? It's What You Can Do Tomorrow! You have problems, but you don’t have time for a 5-year plan. You want practical strategies that you can implement immediately. You don’t need outdated research. You need EduHackers—experienced educators who understand your problems and see quick fixes that may be so simple that they’ve been overlooked. Hacking Education and the Hack Learning Series provide what every teacher, principal, parent, and education stakeholder has been waiting for--realistic solutions to your biggest problems. Read it today—fix it tomorrow! In Hacking Education, Mark Barnes and Jennifer Gonzalez employ decades of teaching experience and hundreds of discussions with education thought leaders, to show you how to find and hone the quick fixes that every school and classroom need. Using a Hacker’s mentality, they provide one Aha moment after another with 10 Quick Fixes for Every School--solutions to everyday problems that any teacher or administrator can implement immediately. Imagine being able to walk into school tomorrow and eliminate: 
<ul>
<li>Hours of wasted meeting time</li> <li>Classroom management issues</li> <li>Interruptions in planning time</li> <li>The need for more books</li> <li>Negative attitudes</li> <li>Technology issues</li> </ul> If you want to improve teaching and learning at your school now, learn how to develop a Hacker’s mentality. Discover How to Solve Problems with <ul>
<li>Pineapple Charts</li> <li>The 360 Spreadsheet</li> <li>Glass Classrooms</li> <li>Track Records</li> <li>Marigold Committees</li> <li>The TQZ</li> <li>More Impactful Hacks</li> </ul> Not Your Average Education Book Hacking Education won't weigh you down with outdated research or complicated strategies. Barnes and Gonzalez provide brilliant ideas woven into a user-friendly success guide that you'll want to keep nearby throughout the school year. Each chapter is neatly wrapped in this simple formula: <ul>
<li>The Problem</li> <li>The Hack (a ridiculously easy solution that you've likely never considered)</li> <li>What You Can Do Tomorrow (no waiting necessary)</li> <li>Blueprint for Full Implementation (a step-by-step action plan for capacity building)</li> <li>The Hack in Action (yes, someone has actually done this)</li> </ul> Are you ready to fix your school and your classroom? Scroll up and grab a copy of Hacking Education now.

Hacking Education: 10 Quick Fixes for Every School (Hack Learning Series)

Education & Teaching

González, Jennifer

Barnes, Mark

Schools & Teaching

Times 10 Publications

How to Go Gradeless -- Assessment That Makes Learning Visible "What's my grade? What's it worth? Is there extra credit? Is this for a mark?" It's time to shift the conversation and make learning visible. Now, you can easily stop reducing students to a number, letter, or any label that misrepresents learning. Now, you can help children see the value in every single assignment. Today, you can make assessment a rich, ongoing conversation that inspires learning for the sake of learning, rather than as a punishment or a reward. All you have to do is go gradeless. Throw out your grade book tomorrow! In Hacking Assessment: 10 Ways to Go Gradeless in a Traditional Grades School, award-winning teacher and world-renowned formative assessment expert Starr Sackstein unravels one of education's oldest mysteries: how to assess learning without grades -- even in a school that uses numbers, letters, GPAs, and report cards. While many educators can only muse about the possibility of a world without grades, teachers like Sackstein are reimagining education. In this unique, eagerly-anticipated book, Sackstein shows you exactly how to create a remarkable no-grades classroom like hers, a vibrant place where students grow, share, thrive, and become independent learners who never ask, "What's this worth?" Learn what formative assessment really looks like. Summative assessment is typically an end-of-unit exam or standardized test, but what is formative assessment? Many teachers struggle with the concept. Hacking Assessment not only explains what formative assessment is, it provides blueprints for implementation and examples from educators around the world, who use this strategy successfully every day. Read It and You Can Take These Actions Immediately: <ul>
<li>Shift everyone's mindset away from grades</li> <li>Track student progress without a grade book</li> <li>Communicate learning to all stakeholders in real time</li> <li>
Maximize time while providing meaningful feedback</li> <li>Teach students to reflect and"self-grade"</li> <li>Deliver feedback in a digital world</li> <li>Create cloud-based learning archives</li> <li>
Inspire Students to share their work openly</li> </ul>
This is not your average assessment book Hacking Assessment won't bore you with outdated research or unrealistic strategies. In her captivating, conversational style, Sackstein provides practical ideas woven into a user-friendly success guide with actionable steps for creating an amazing conversation about learning that does not require a traditional grade. Each chapter is neatly wrapped in this simple Hack Learning Series formula: <ul>
<li>The Problem (an assessment issue that plagues education)</li> <li>The Hack (a ridiculously easy solution that you've likely never considered)</li> <li>What You Can Do Tomorrow (no waiting necessary)</li> <li>Blueprint for Full Implementation (a step-by-step action plan for capacity building)</li> <li>The Hack in Action (yes, someone has actually done this)</li> </ul>
Teachers around the world are going gradeless, and you can too Scroll up and click the Add to cart button; read Hacking Assessment now, and go gradeless tomorrow.

Hacking Assessment: 10 Ways to Go Gradeless in a Traditional Grades School (Hack Learning Series)

Sackstein, Starr

There Is Nothing Common About This Common Core Book
It's finally here: a book that unravels the Common Core State Standards, exposes the myths, and shows educators and parents exactly how to bring back the fun to teaching and learning--even in a standardized world.
In Hacking the Common Core, longtime teacher and CCSS specialist Michael Fisher reveals 10 amazing hacks for teaching the Core in all subjects.
The Common Core Is Not Evil, but. . .
Fisher explains how the CCSS are not evil, while demonstrating their limitations, particularly when teachers trust a vendor product over their own professionalism. Getting to the CORE of contemporary instructional practice and undoing the mass hysteria following the Common Core implementation are both the heart of this book.
What All Education Stakeholders Will Learn
<ul>
<li>How to bring literature back to the classroom</li>
<li>The truth about close reading
</li>
<li>What the instructional shifts really mean for instructional design</li>
<li>Why we must ditch “Rigor” in favor of “Vigor”</li>
<li>How to fix vocabulary with "Morecabulary"</li>
<li>How to upgrade the verb
</li>
<li>The problem with the one-size-fits-all mentality</li>
<li>Why parents need to understand the Common Core</li>
</ul>
Change How You Teach
Hacking the Common Core is the book that every teacher who feels handcuffed by standards and testing has been waiting for. It's time to take back your class, engage all learners, and be amazing for your students. 
The Hack Learning Formula
The Hack Learning Series formula is perfect for Hacking the Common Core. Forget everything you've heard about standardization and the Core. Fisher throws out or upgrades most information and strategies, and in classic Hack Learning style, he gives you:
The Problem (Common Core issues that need a Hacker's mentality) The Hack (ridiculously easy solutions that you've likely never considered) What You Can Do Tomorrow (no waiting necessary; you can make writing immediately) Blueprint for Full Implementation (a step-by-step action plan for capacity building) The Hack in Action (yes, people have actually done this)
 Are you ready to bring the fun back to learning?
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Hacking the Common Core: 10 Strategies for Amazing Learning in a Standardized World (Hack Learning Series)

FISHER, Michael

What happens when creative writing meets the maker space?
Easy! Writing and making collide, revealing the genius inside of even the most reluctant writers.
In Make Writing, teacher, author, writing coach, Angela Stockman, turns teaching strategies and practice upside down. She spills you out of your chair, shreds your lined paper, and launches you and your writer's workshop into the maker space! Who even knew this was possible? In classic Hack Learning style, Stockman provides five right-now writing strategies that reinvent instruction and inspire both young and adult writers to express ideas with tools and in ways that have rarely, if ever, been considered. 
Combining Making and Writing
Many schools are converting classrooms to maker spaces--vibrant places where students demonstrate learning by constructing things, applying newly-learned skills and concepts. With inspired creativity and ingenuity, Stockman shows you how to bring modern maker moves into your writer's workshop, giving birth to a new environment that rockets writers to places that were previously unimaginable. Make Writing is a fast-paced journey inside Stockman's Young Writer's Studio, alongside students who learn how to write and how to make, employing Stockman's unique teaching methods.
Learn How to Enrich Writing Skills by Coaching Maker Moves:
<ul>
<li>Shake them out of their seats</li>
<li>Play through the process</li>
<li>Tinker with text</li>
<li>Draft bit by bit</li>
<li>Make words moveable and mixable</li>
<li>Connect to real audiences</li>
<li>Hack the writing process and repurpose your tools</li>
</ul>
Inspire Creative Writing by Remaking Your Space and Rethinking Your Place
<ul>
<li>Redesign your classroom environment incrementally and economically</li>
<li>Embrace empty spaces and interactive boards and charts</li>
<li>Make writing a physical, collaborative endeavor</li>
<li>Design with gaming in mind</li>
<li>Coach creative theft</li>
<li>Host an exhibition</li>
<li>Unearth your own best teaching methods</li>
<li>Reimagine writers workshop</li>
</ul>
The secret sauce
You may get caught up in the stories about young writers, but you won't get lost, as each chapter is neatly wrapped in the formula that thousands of Hack Learning Series readers have grown love:
<ul>
<li>
The Problem (a single writing issue that needs a Hacker's mentality)</li>
<li>
The Hack (a ridiculously easy solution that you've likely never considered)</li>
<li>
What You Can Do Tomorrow (no waiting necessary; you can make writing immediately)</li>
<li>
Blueprint for Full Implementation (a step-by-step action plan for capacity building)</li>
<li>
The Hack in Action (yes, people have actually done this)</li>
</ul>
Are you ready to Make Writing?
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Make Writing: 5 Teaching Strategies That Turn Writer's Workshop Into a Maker Space (Hack Learning Series)

Stockman, Angela

Hacking Leadership: 10 Ways Great Leaders Inspire Learning That Teachers, Students, and Parents Love (Hack Learning)

The best leaders lead from the middle
When school leaders join teachers, students, and parents in a collaborative effort to improve teaching and learning, achievement soars and schools turn into vibrant communities, filled with enthusiastic members. 
Teaching and learning feel too much like work 
With constant emphasis on higher test scores and teacher accountability, it's easy for schools to become places filled with stress and despair, making teachers dread going to work and students disdain lessons and activities.
It's time to bring fun back to school 
In Hacking Leadership, award-winning school administrators Joe Sanfelippo and Tony Sinanis demonstrate how to increase learning by leaving the office and engaging directly with all teachers and learners. They identify 10 problems with school leadership and provide dynamic, right-now solutions. During this exciting journey toward change, you learn how to:
<ul>
<li>Transform yourself from leader to Lead Learner
</li>
<li>Amplify individual staff needs while maintaining a collaborative vision</li>
<li>
Employ unique strategies to break down the walls between home and school</li>
<li>Empower students and staff to own their space</li>
<li>
Create a culture where “Yes” and “Trust” are the default</li>
<li>Eliminate initiative overload while encouraging teachers to lead, as well</li>
<li>Broadcast student voice</li>
<li>Bring passion into your school</li>
<li>
Embrace technology and social channels in ways rarely considered in education</li>
<li>Eradicate your deficit mindset</li>
</ul>
What makes Hacking Leadership different?
Sanfelippo and Sinanis present leadership strategies in ways few people have ever seen. These experienced, thoughtful, decisive leaders, share amazing, real anecdotes that make you feel like you're listening to trusted friends sitting in your living room. Then, they provide progressive, courageous, and practical solutions that you and all stakeholders will love, using the popular Hack Learning formula:
<ul>
<li>The Problem (a single leadership issue that needs a Hacker's mentality)</li>
<li>The Hack (a surprisingly easy solution that you've likely never considered)</li>
<li>What You Can Do Tomorrow (no waiting necessary; you can lead from the middle immediately)</li>
<li>Blueprint for Full Implementation (a step-by-step action plan for capacity building)</li>
<li>The Hack in Action (yes, people have actually done this)</li>
</ul>
Are you ready to Hack Leadership
Scroll up and grab a copy today.

Hacking Leadership: 10 Ways Great Leaders Inspire Learning That Teachers, Students, and Parents Love (Hack Learning Series)

Sanfelippo, Joe

Sinanis, Tony

What if every single student loved to read? 
Isn't it likely that curiosity, creativity, and achievement would skyrocket?
It's time to build a culture of readers at your school
In Hacking Literacy, classroom teacher, author, and reading consultant Gerard Dawson reveals 5 simple ways any educator or parent can turn even the most reluctant reader into a thriving, enthusiastic lover of books. Dawson cuts through outdated pedagogy and standardization, turning reading theory to practice, sharing powerful reading strategies, and providing what Hack Learning Series readers have come to expect--actionable, do-it-tomorrow strategies that can be built into longterm solutions. 
Ignite lifelong readers today
The struggle to get students to read has ended. With a little commitment from teachers, parents, and school leaders, all of your students will read every single day! It all happens when you implement Gerard Dawson's powerful system, clearly outlined in this book:
<ol>
<li>Focus on the Reader</li>
<li>Adapt Reading Culture to Fit Curriculum</li>
<li>Develop a Classroom Library</li>
<li>Implement Assessments that Build Community</li>
<li>Spotlight Reading in Your School.</li>
</ol>
What separates Hacking Literacy from other reading books?
Dawson provides step-by-step implementation strategies for putting books in kids' hands without breaking the bank and for sparking a genuine love of reading in even the most reluctant readers. This experienced, thoughtful, pragmatic classroom teacher shares amazing, real anecdotes that make you feel like you are a guest at a school filled with avid readers. Along the way, Dawson shares practical solutions that you and all stakeholders will love, using the popular Hack Learning formula:
<ul>
<li>The Problem (a single leadership issue that needs a Hacker's mentality)</li>
<li>The Hack (a surprisingly easy solution that you've likely never considered)</li>
<li>What You Can Do Tomorrow (no waiting necessary; you can lead from the middle immediately)</li>
<li>Blueprint for Full Implementation (a step-by-step action plan for capacity building)</li>
<li>The Hack in Action (yes, people have actually done this)</li>
</ul>
Are you ready for your own culture of readers? Scroll up and grab your copy of Hacking Literacy now.

Hacking Literacy: 5 Ways To Turn Any Classroom Into a Culture Of Readers (Hack Learning Series)

Reference

Dawson, Gerard

Words, Language & Grammar

Are you ready to engage learners like never before? Student engagement is the key to success for every teacher, and this is your engagement strategy blueprint.
Boring lessons and assignments will disappear forever when you learn to build student avatars, banish blandness, ride the podcast tide, and become a total engagement guru.
Many students are bored and disengaged Teachers are handcuffed by outdated textbooks, standardized curriculum, and disinterested students. What if you could solve these problems immediately and excite even your most reluctant learner daily? 
Read it Today and Engage tomorrow! 33-year veteran teacher, author, presenter, and engagement guru James Alan Sturtevant makes it easy, with incredible teacher tips and tools for both the veteran and student teacher--50 engagement tools that you can begin using right now, with no special training or boring professional development.
Easily rebrand your class and connect with all students Are you the teacher students "hate"? Do kids groan when they walk into your classroom? Engaging learners is all about connecting and making education fun. With Sturtevant's education tips and creative teaching tools, students will rebrand you and your class as their favorites. Best of all, they'll engage with every lesson you teach, every single day!
50 Tips and Tools Unlike other education books that weigh you down with archaic research and impossible-to-implement strategies, Hacking Engagement, the 7th book in the popular Hack Learning Series, provides 50 unique, exciting, and actionable tips and tools that you can apply right now. And there's something here for every teacher--no matter what grade or subject you teach. Try one of these amazing engagement strategies tomorrow:
<ol>
<li>Engage the Enraged</li>
<li>Create Celebrity Couple Nicknames</li>
<li>Hash out a Hashtag</li>
<li>Empower Students to Help You Uncover Your Biases</li>
<li>Avoid the Great War on Yoga Pants</li>
<li>Let Your Freak Flag Fly</li>
<li>Become a Proponent of the Exponent</li>
<li>Trade Blah, Blah, Blah for Zen</li>
<li>Transform Your Class into a Focus Group</li>
</ol>
Commit to Engagement Try at least one tip or tool now and witness an amazing transformation in your classroom and school.
Are you ready to engage? Scroll up and grab your copy of Hacking Engagement now.

Hacking Engagement: 50 Tips & Tools To Engage Teachers and Learners Daily (Hack Learning Series)

Sturtevant, James Alan

What happens when students actually choose to learn outside the classroom?
They become independent, lifelong learners, who never need to be told: "do your work." 
It's easy when you say Goodbye to traditional homework
The research is done, the results are in, the debate is over. Kids hate homework, most parents hate homework, and many teachers only assign homework because administrators say it's school policy. Now, traditional homework is being hacked. Learning outside the classroom is being reimagined, and student engagement is better than ever.
A new vision of out-of-school learning
World-renowned author/educator Starr Sackstein has changed how teachers around the world look at traditional grades. Now she's teaming with veteran educator, curriculum director, and national presenter Connie Hamilton to bring you 10 powerful strategies for teachers and parents that promise to inspire independent learning at home, without punishments or low grades.
In Hacking Homework, Sackstein and Hamilton show you how to:
<ul>
<li>Work around the policies and Break Up With Daily Homework</li>
<li>
Teach Organization and Responsibility in Class so it translates to home</li>
<li>Ramp up accountability and time management skills</li>
<li>
Establish positive relationships to motivate learning</li>
<li>Customize Assignments to Meet Student Needs</li>
<li>
Be flexible with timelines</li>
<li>Encourage Students to Play, so they'll want to work</li>
<li>
Support innovation and creativity</li>
<li>Spark Curiosity Before the Lesson</li>
<li>
Make connections that generate interest in learning outside the classroom</li>
<li>Use the Digital Playground and harness social media for learning</li>
<li>
Amplify Student Voice and Incorporate choice in how kids learn at home</li>
<li>Team Up With Families and model instructional strategies for parents</li>
<li>
Display Growth and empower students to track their improvement and display their progress</li>
</ul>
Expert educators love Hacking Homework
"Starr Sackstein and Connie Hamilton have assembled a book full of great answers to the question, 'How can we make homework engaging and meaningful?'" -Doug Fisher &amp; Nancy Frey, authors/presenters
"I hope this book finds its way into the professional library of every classroom teacher and that it is also read carefully by administrators, policymakers and parents." -Ken O'Connor, author/presenter
Are you ready to say Goodbye to traditional homework? Start Hacking Homework today.

Hacking Homework: 10 Strategies That Inspire Learning Outside the Classroom (Hack Learning Series)

Hamilton, Connie

It's time to say Yes to PBL
Project Based Learning can be messy, complicated, and downright scary. When done right, though, PBL and Inquiry are challenging, inspiring and fun for students. Best of all, when project-based learning is done right, it actually makes the teacher's job easier.
Now, you can demystify project-based learning
As questions and mysteries around PBL and inquiry continue to swirl, experienced classroom teachers and school administrators Ross Cooper and Erin Murphy have written a book that will empower those intimidated by PBL to cry, “I can do this!” while at the same time providing added value for those who are already familiar with the process. Hacking Project Based Learning demystifies what PBL is all about with 10 hacks that construct a simple path that educators and students can easily follow to achieve success.
Hacking Project Based Learning provides a simple blueprint for PBL that helps you:
<ul>
<li>Establish a culture of inquiry and creativity in your classroom</li>
<li>Teach the kind of collaboration skills that harness dissonance</li>
<li>Turn High Impact Takeaways (HITs) into a project based plan</li>
<li>Create Umbrella questions that drive the project</li>
<li>Build a Progress Assessment Tool (PAT) that helps students inform and assess their learning</li>
<li>Use formative assessment throughout the entire PBL experience</li>
<li>Seamlessly integrate direct instruction to enhances the process, rather than interfere with it</li>
<li>Practice the patience that inspires a productive struggle, which leads to better understanding</li>
<li>
Teach and embrace reflection during and at the end of the project</li>
<li>Publish work the right way, so all stakeholders can see it</li>
</ul>
Experts rave about Hacking Project Based Learning
"HACKING PROJECT BASED LEARNING is a classroom essential. Its ten simple “hacks” will guide you through the process of setting up a learning environment in which students will thrive from start to finish."
 -Daniel H. Pink, New York Times Bestselling author of DRIVE
"Ross Cooper and Erin Murphy have researched PBL from every angle and offer practical steps to make the PBL experience highly beneficial to students because they are practitioners who use it. This book is a very important “How-to” for every teacher and leader who is interested in PBL.
 -Peter DeWitt, author/consultant, Finding Common Ground blog (Education Week)
"The challenge for educators with project and inquiry based learning is finding the time and having the knowledge to implement effectively. Cooper and Murphy provide a much-needed resource that addresses both of these pain points in a concise, clear manner.
 -Eric Sheninger, Senior Fellow, International Center for Leadership in Education 
Are you ready for an amazing productive struggle in your classroom?
Start Hacking Project Based Learning today.

Hacking Project Based Learning: 10 Easy Steps to PBL and Inquiry in the Classroom (Hack Learning Series)

Murphy, Erin

Cooper, Ross

Here Are 10 Simple Solutions to Some of Education's Biggest Problems
The Hack Learning Anthology brings you the most innovative education Hacks from the first nine books in the Hack Learning Series.
Written by 12 award-winning classroom teachers, principals, superintendents, college instructors, and international presenters, Anthology is every educator's new problem-solving handbook.
See the new formula that is changing how teachers and leaders innovate
A dozen of the world's top educators tackle some of our toughest problems with the revolutionary Hack Learning Formula:
<ul>
<li>
The Problem: An issue that appears impossible to solve</li>
<li>
The Hack: A simple solution that may be difficult to see</li>
<li>
What You Can Do Tomorrow: Strategies for using the Hack immediately</li>
<li>
A Blueprint for Full Implementation: Strategies for capacity building</li>
<li>
Overcoming Pushback: A list of objections and how to handle them</li>
<li>
The Hack in Action: A quick look at someone who uses the Hack in a classroom or school</li>
</ul>
One "Hacky" Book
Hack Learning is different from anything else in education, and so is Anthology because it's both a preview of 9 other books and a full-fledged, feature-length blueprint for solving your biggest school and classroom problems.
The Hacks
<ol>
<li>
Create C.U.L.T.U.R.E: from Hacking Leadership by Joe Sanfelippo and Tony Sinanis</li>
<li>
Teach Students to Self-Grade: from Hacking Assessment by Starr Sackstein</li>
<li>
Pineapple Charts: from Hacking Education by Mark Barnes and Jennifer Gonzalez</li>
<li>
Teach Them to Tinker: from Make Writing by Angela Stockman</li>
<li>
Hash Out a Hashtag: from Hacking Engagement by James Sturtevant</li>
<li>
Spotlight Reading in Your School: from Hacking Literacy by Gerard Dawson</li>
<li>
Amplify Student Voice: from Hacking Homework by Starr Sackstein and Connie Hamilton</li>
<li>
The Progress Assessment Tool (PAT): from Hacking Project Based Learning by Ross Cooper and Erin Murphy</li>
<li>
Vigor Versus Rigor: from Hacking the Common Core by Michael Fisher</li>
<li>
Conclusion: Good Luck: from Hacking Engagement by James Sturtevant</li>
</ol>
Read Hack Learning Anthology today 
And put an innovative solution into action tomorrow.

Hack Learning Anthology: Innovative Solutions for Teachers and Leaders (Hack Learning Series)

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