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Welcome to Reading Workshop
9781625315304
Regular price $40.66 Sale price $30.50 Save $10.16In this practical guide, you’ll find tips and ideas to make these techniques immediately attainable, including:
- Recommendation lists from much loved books to classroom implementation suggestions
- Easy to access video clips to extend learning
- Expert contributions and tips from the field
- A rich appendix with templates, lessons, and resources
- Reflection questions to promote collegial conversations

Shifting the Balance, 3–5
9781625315977
Regular price $44.67 Sale price $33.50 Save $11.17Shifting the Balance 3-5 introduces six more shifts across individual chapters that:
- Zoom in on a common (but not-as helpful-as-we-had-hoped) practice to reconsider
- Untangle a number of “misunderstandings” that have likely contributed to the use of the common practice
- Propose a more science-aligned shift to the current practice
- Provide solid scientific research to support the revised practice
- Offer a collection of high-leverage, easy-to-implement instructional routines to support the shift to more brain-friendly instruction

We're Gonna Keep On Talking
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Regular price $36.00 Sale price $27.00 Save $9.00And how can we build classroom communities that encourage these meaningful conversations about race?
Matthew Kay and Jennifer Orr take on these questions and more in We’re Gonna Keep On Talking: How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Elementary Classroom. A companion work to Kay’s Not Light, But Fire, this book focuses on the unique and powerful role discussions about race can play in the elementary classroom.
Drawing its title inspiration from the lyrics of the freedom song “Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around,” sung by hundreds of children marching against segregation in what came to be known as the Children’s Crusade of 1963, We’re Gonna Keep On Talking is written for teachers who are willing to match children’s courage and brilliance, and who believe that “a foundation in meaningful race discourse will help [children] to seek justice for themselves and their neighbors, to be kinder, [and] more thoughtful.”
Writing with the humility and honest storytelling of two career classroom teachers, Matthew Kay and Jennifer Orr share:
- Strategies for building safe and supportive classroom and school spaces for productive discourse
- Dozens of practical teacher moves for facilitating race conversations
- Classroom stories that allow readers to envision ways into the work through picture books, art, graphs, historical photographs, and current events
- Tips for aligning the work of race conversations to your grade-level standards

6 Tools for Collaborative Mathematics Coaching
9781625313843
Regular price $40.00 Sale price $30.00 Save $10.00- Building Teams: Fostering a Learning Community
- Student Interviews: Learning to Listen
- Visiting Classrooms: Developing Your Lens
- Learning Walks: Focusing the Team on Students’ Thinking
- Rehearsing Routines: Practicing with Colleagues
- Lesson Study: Learning Collectively with Voice, Choice, and Agency
In this easy-to-use, practical guide, Placa introduces each of the 6 Tools with classroom vignettes, step-by-step guidelines for rollout, connections to the literature, resources for further research, planning templates, and opportunities for you to adapt the tool for your particular context.
Whether you're a new coach who loves teaching math to children but is new to adult education, or a more experienced coach who is looking for new strategies to engage your teams, 6 Tools for Collaborative Mathematics Coaching can help you create learning opportunities that honor teachers as professionals. With a collaborative coaching approach, you can improve teaching and learning across your school and for all your students.
"There’s so much to love about how 6 Tools is constructed." --Elham Kazemi

Better Book Clubs
9781625313928
Regular price $37.33 Sale price $28.00 Save $9.33- Structures, teaching methods, and routines that support authenticity and independence in book clubs
- Suggestions for starting, scaffolding, and sustaining effective, student-centered book clubs
- Tips for listening in on clubs as a way to assess academic talk and text understanding
- Methods for moving from observation into instruction that improves conversation and comprehension
- Touchstone anchor charts and sample lessons for launching and maintaining strong clubs at a variety of independence levels

Conferring in the Math Classroom
9781625315137
Regular price $38.67 Sale price $29.00 Save $9.67Inside you will learn to:
- Facilitate math conferences to listen to students, identify and build on their strengths, and encourage them to share their math thinking
- Build a positive math identity that will help nurture student-centered math classrooms
- Ask exploratory questions to gain data-driven insight into their math reasoning and plan the next steps for instruction
- Provide differentiated math instruction based on the individual or small group needs
- Drive fun and interactive math talk in the classroom
Picha includes teacher questioning guides, If-Then charts organized by grade level and math topic, and note-taking templates to help you get started with math conferring right away. This practical and highly accessible approach can help students deepen their math understanding, build confidence in their math abilities, and connect learnings between math subjects.
