If there's one thing teachers can agree on, it's that social and emotional learning is a hot topic in education. But beyond this, questions still remain. Many educators find themselves wondering, what exactly is SEL? How should it be taught? What does it look like in the classroom? And, is it our job as educators to teach students non-academic life skills?

Based on author Dr. Amy Cranston's experiences with implementing SEL from a practical standpoint, this book defines SEL and digs into the real work of how to incorporate SEL in K-12 schools. It makes the connection between research and practical application and the real-life examples and testimonials of SEL in the classroom will help educators effectively implement SEL programming. Featured case studies demonstrate real-world applications of SEL in different types of K-12 learning environments. It addresses students' different interests and varied learning styles and features Mindful Moments that encourage understanding, learning, and reflection.

By supporting the emotional needs of students, educators will not only address issues such as discipline problems and absenteeism, but will help their students to be more mindful and self-aware. By encouraging spaces where intrapersonal and interpersonal skills are celebrated and cultivated, educators will set the foundation for all students to succeed.

• Makes the connection between research and practical application through real-life examples and testimonials of SEL in the classroom
• Features Mindful Moments that encourage understanding, learning, and reflection
• Defines SEL and digs into the real work of how to incorporate SEL in K-12 schools

Dan Feigelson refocuses reading and writing conferences to help all students reach their full potential. His practical approach centers on active listening—an equitable way to listen to, learn from, and guide students. His book is packed with sample conferences, if/then strategies, rubrics, and tips for starting conferences and keeping them going.

• Practical approach to active listening
• Packed with sample conferences, if/then strategies, rubrics, and tips
• Examples of equitable ways to listen to, learn from, and guide students
• Helps students reach their full potential with active listening

Dr. Sanderlin (Dr. Jackie) believes that all schools, especially those in communities with few resources, should develop a Why Not? attitude when it comes to what can be accomplished by their students. Where do funding and other resources come from to realize students' dreams? The partnerships that schools can form in their own communities with businesses and organizations. Sanderlin shares 10 practical steps what will enable readers to seek out, develop, and sustain powerful partnerships that will help their students in so many ways.

• Provides information and inspiration from an educator with a proven track record of mobilizing communities towards engagement in schools
• Provides step-by-step details on how to engage effectively
• Includes templates for readers to set goals and create an actionable plan

Fluency expert Timothy V. Rasinski teams up with Melissa Cheesman Smith, a veteran fifth grade teacher, to help teachers effectively weave fluency work into their daily reading instruction. The book is packed with engaging text and tools, an assessment scale, and high quality ready-to-use lessons including text phrasing and tonality, echo reading, word ladders, and more! Given the importance of fluency— and its pivotal relationship to comprehension and word recognition—the potential is high for improving students' overall reading achievement, and their performance in other content areas.

• This book will provide an understanding of the building blocks of fluency and its top ten benefits
• This book will help to assess your students' developing fluency easily and effectively
• Will demonstrate why an emphasis on timed-reading is inappropriate and limiting for students as readers
• Support your students' reading at home with fluency fun for the entire family

Dyslexia is no longer a mystery. MRI scans and other tools of neuroscience have advanced our understandings in the last decade. We now know what to do to help students become skilled, confident learners. In Conquering Dyslexia, Dr. Hasbrouck shares the instructional approaches that work best for children who have this disorder, and the most current information for parents so they can advocate for their children and communicate with educators effectively. This book addresses:

• What is dyslexia?
• How to identify it
• Early diagnosis and intervention
• Teaching students
• Supporting English Learners

• This book addresses: - What is dyslexia? - How to identify it - Early diagnosis and intervention - Teaching students - Supporting English Learners
• A must-read for teachers, practitioners, administrators, and others on the frontline of teaching all children to read. Jack M. Fletcher, Ph.D., ABPP (ABCN) Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor University of Houston
• A Guide to Early Detection and Intervention for Teachers and Parents
• Instructional approaches that work best for children who have this disorder, and the most current information for parents so they can advocate for their children and communicate with educators effectively
• 176 pages

Vicki Gibson addresses the special management needs of both elementary and early learning classrooms in these highly readable, practical resources. Topics include:

Age-appropriate routines and procedures
Teaching students how to self-regulate and work cooperatively with peers
Managing whole-group overviews and small-group differentiated instruction
Using learning centers for collaborative practice, exploration, and discovery

• This guide uses learning centers for collaborative practice, exploration, and discovery
• Teaching students how to self-regulate and work cooperatively with peers
• Managing whole-group overviews and small-group differentiated instruction

In this sequel to Cultivating Genius, Gholdy Muhammad adds a fifth pursuit—joy—to her groundbreaking framework. Dr. Muhammad shows how joy, which is rooted in the cultural and historical realities of Black students, can enhance our efforts to cultivate identity, skills, intellect, and criticality for ALL students, giving them a powerful purpose to learn and contribute to the world. Dr. Muhammad's wise implementation advice is paired with model lessons that span subjects and grade levels.

• Offers a repeatable model teachers can use for any type of lesson planning—across grades and subject areas
• Shares detailed examples of lessons following Dr. Muhammad's five-pursuit model from teachers in diverse classrooms
• Includes strategies and tools for assessing students using the five-pursuit model
• Includes companion site with classroom videos, model lessons, and tools for designing and assessing your own lessons

In this latest addition to Scholastics Science of Reading in Practice series, literacy advocate and classroom teacher Lindsay Kemeny shares seven ways K–3 teachers can modify what they are currently doing to transform their reading instruction. Each chapter focuses on a critical area of foundational reading–from the most effective ways to teach phonemic awareness and phonics to the most effective ways to boost comprehension. Kemeny clears up confusing terms and concepts and offers up do-tomorrow strategies to help kids acquire reading skills efficiently and successfully, and transfer those skills to their reading. Readers will find routines and lessons Kemeny uses every day with her students, along with links to video demonstrations showing how she puts them into practice.

• Invites you into Kemenys classroom with video clips of the routines and lessons in action
• Can be integrated with any reading curriculum to provide a stronger foundation for kids
• Stories features fabulous photos to motivate learning and build comprehension

Kagan Structures are revolutionary teaching strategies. Why? Because they create an unparalleled level of student engagement. Kagan Structures create a cooperative and caring class tone by putting students on the same side as they interact in pairs, small teams, and with classmates. Structures ensure every student is individually accountable so no one can hide and take a free ride. Structures create equal participation, which means all students are engaged a much greater percent of the time. In this must-have Kagan reference guide, you get 59 step-by-step Kagan Structures you'll use time and time again. More structures means more tools in your teaching toolbox to create more student engagement, more student learning, and more success!

• Kagan Structures create a cooperative and caring class tone by putting students on the same side as they interact in pairs, small teams, and with classmates
• Revolutionary teaching strategies to boost engagement
• Structures ensure every student is individually accountable so no one can hide and take a free ride
• 59 Ready-to-use activities and resources

The book that started it all—is completely revised! Why would the Kagans update a classic that has sold nearly half a million copies? The answer: So much has changed! Cooperative Learning today is different. This new book presents today's most successful cooperative learning methods. The Kagans make it easier than ever to boost engagement and achievement. You'll still find all the practical and proven Kagan Structures, including Numbered Heads Together, RoundTable, and Three-Step Interview—direct from the man who invented cooperative learning structures. And there's still plenty of ready-to-do teambuilding and classbuilding activities to make your class click. But in this expanded edition, you will find new step-by-step structures, hundreds of helpful management tips, many more teacher-friendly activities and forms, and up-to-date research on proven methods. You hear how schools have used Kagan Cooperative Learning to boost academics, close the achievement gap, improve student relations, and create a more kind and caring school community. After decades of training and working with hundreds of thousands of teachers, Kagan has refined and perfected the most widely used and respected form of cooperative learning ever. The Kagans make it easy for you to dramatically increase engagement and achievement in your class!

• This new book presents today's most successful cooperative learning methods, and makes it easy to boost engagement and achievement
• Many step-by-step structures, hundreds of helpful management tips, many more teacher-friendly activities and forms, and up-to-date research on proven methods
• Kagan Cooperative Learning to boost academics, close the achievement gap, improve student relations, and create a more kind and caring school community