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CLOSING THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP

COACHING & MENTORING

DATA

STAFF DEVELOPMENT

TEACHER SUCCESS (TRAINING)

CLOSING THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP


CLOSING THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP

Featuring Glenn Singleton

All educators will gain new and unique insight into closing the achievement gap. Through this essential program both administrators and teachers will

  • Investigate the Achievement Gap dividing today's students of color and white students regardless of family.
  • Learn to engage in "Courageous Conversations" with colleagues to examine the impact of race in your life.
  • Reach a deeper understanding of the racial experience.
  • Realize the phenomenon of whiteness.
  • Bridge cultures through the creation of community, true equity, and anti-racist leadership.
  • Learn to implement systemic change involving the entire school organization.
  • See how schools
  • Implement equity in the classroom and believe all students can learn.
  • Encourage motivation & high expectations.

    Item no.: JV01770014
    Format: 2 DVDs (With Implementation Guide, Audio CD)
    Copyright: 2004
    Price: USD 445.00

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    DIFFERENTIATING INSTRUCTION TO MEET THE NEEDS OF ALL STUDENTS (ELEMENTARY)

    Presented by Gayle Gregory and Carolyn Chapman

    As teachers learn about the power of differentiation and how it will increase achievement for all students, they will

  • Understand the necessary elements for planning such as Climate, Knowing the Learner, Assessment, Adjustable Assignments, Instructional Strategies, and Curriculum Approaches.

  • Observe classrooms with a primary focus on Knowing the Learner.

  • Understand the importance of continuous assessment before, during, and after instruction.

  • Explore how to adjust learning tasks for different types of students.

  • See how providing choices will motivate and assist all learners.

  • Observe how assorted curriculum approaches such as centers, projects, and contracts can widen the options available for students.

    Item no.: FA01770032
    Format: DVD (With Implementation Guide, Audio CD)
    Copyright: 2002
    Price: USD 355.00

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    DIFFERENTIATING INSTRUCTION TO MEET THE NEEDS OF ALL STUDENTS (SECONDARY)

    Presented by Gayle Gregory and Carolyn Chapman

    As teachers learn about the power of differentiation and how it will increase achievement for all students,they will

  • Understand the necessary elements for planning such as Climate, Knowing the Learner, Assessment,Adjustable Assignments, Instructional Strategies, and Curriculum Approaches.

  • Observe classrooms with a primary focus on Knowing the Learner.

  • Understand the importance of continuous assessment before, during, and after instruction.

  • Explore how to adjust learning tasks for different types of students.

  • See how providing choices will motivate and assist all learners.

  • Observe how assorted curriculum approaches such as centers, projects, and contracts can widen the options available for students.

    Item no.: NC01770033
    Format: DVD (With Implementation Guide, Audio CD)
    Copyright: 2002
    Price: USD 355.00

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    NO EXCUSES! HOW TO INCREASE MINORITY STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT (ELEMENTARY EDITION)

    As educators search to bring success to all students, they must come to know the backgrounds and cultural norms of each one and make the necessary adjustments to meet all of those needs.

    With this dynamic program, all educators will expand their ability to reach students from diverse backgrounds as they
  • Meet the learning requirements of all students.
  • Gain insight into the unique characteristics of African American, Latino, Native American, Asian, Middle Eastern, and Pacific Islander students.
  • Develop strategies and classroom practices to maximize learning among each group.
  • Explore ways to design instruction that helps each student make connections to the curriculum, so learning becomes meaningful and relevant.
  • Address beliefs, biases, and expectations.
  • Develop the ability to make necessary adjustments in the learning for individual students.
  • Observe schools and teachers who have "figured it out," and have proven track records.

    The 4 Powerful Programs in each edition include:

    Program 1 Closing the Achievement Gap
    Introductory program designed for use with all stakeholders, board members, the community, administrators, teachers, and staff .
    Introducing 10 schools that have closed their achievement gaps, and the Equity Framework, based on the practices of the successful schools that have an attitude of, “No Excuses.”

    Program 2 Leadership
    No Excuses begin with leaders, both administrators and teachers, who build equity, provide clear vision and direction, create accountability and sustain innovation.

    Program 3 School Culture
    Create a culture of success by institutionalizing high expectations, a clear focus on students, safe and motivating environment, and strong collaboration among all staff.

    Program 4 Teaching and Learning
    Engage students in a rigorous, standard’s-driven, culturally relevant curriculum. Use assessment data to modify teaching and guide interventions.

    Item no.: BT01770055
    Format: 4 DVDs (With Implementation Guide, Audio CDs)
    Copyright: 2006
    Price: USD 645.00

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    USING DATA TO CLOSE THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP

    Featuring Ruth S. Johnson

    Explore the role of data in changing the academic culture of schools with an emphasis on access and equity for all students. Your staff will learn to

  • Study data to define "the achievement gap" in order to understand student performance.
  • Stimulate change by studying many types of data that reveal the gaps.
  • Discover the critical role of teams in analyzing data,disaggregating it, and changing teaching practices.
  • Believe that all children can learn and that inquiring about data and equity will benefit all students.
  • See teams of educators identify problems,create hypotheses,test assumptions, and gather additional data as a result of conversations over many different forms of data.
  • Observe educators examining outcomes which tell them where student learning is on a set of indicators that include test scores,course enrollment, retention, graduation rates, college enrollment, and other factors.
  • Examine how to use data tools or instruments, existing documents, surveys,informal conversations, and evaluations to extend data?s reach.
  • Recognize the need to connect to data and close the gaps through visioning, planning, implementing, and monitoring.

    Item no.: RU01770105
    Format: DVD (With Implementation Guide, Audio CD)
    Copyright: 2004
    Price: USD 395.00

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    WORKING WITH STUDENTS FROM THE CULTURE OF POVERTY

    Presented by Mary Montle Bacon

    By understanding the world of poverty that some children come from, educators will gain tools to help students achieve in schools that are designed by middle class values.

    In this dynamic program, teachers and administrators will recognize the adjustments necessary to meet the needs of all students as they learn to
  • Accept the differences that students bring and acknowledge the middle class values that frame schools.
  • Understand why some children do not adapt well in school and recognize the variations in learning readiness and preparation.
  • Accommodate differences in instructional approaches.
  • Adjust the school environment to respond to the characteristics poor students bring to the classroom.
  • Recognize the strengths of the children and their families.
  • Create strategies and environments to engage students and help them bridge the gap between their world and the school's.
  • Affirm differences by connecting students with real world situations to expand their thinking skills.
  • Raise expectations, recognizing all students have the ability to achieve at any level they desire.
  • Engage families, learn what they value, honor their beliefs regarding school and work to win their support.
  • Close the economic achievement gap.

    Item no.: SN01770113
    Format: 2 DVDs (With Implementation Guide, Audio CDs)
    Price: USD 395.00

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    COACHING & MENTORING


    COGNITIVE COACHING

    With Arthur L. Costa and Robert J. Garmston

    The greatest resource for improving educators can be found within themselves as they come to understand their beliefs and perceptions and ablility to solve their own problems. Cognitive Coaching is the catalyst to lift educators up to this level.

    Your staff will
  • Learn that Cognitive Coachingsm can be used in any situation requiring effective communication.
  • See how a coach is a mediator of thinking, with intentionality.
  • Learn the tools of Cognitive Coachingsm: trust, rapport,mediative questions, and non-judgmental response behaviors.
  • Explore why teachers who are more reflective have students who learn more.
  • Examine the Coaching Cycle: the planning, the event,and the reflecting.
  • See how the maps of conversation guide the Cognitive Coachingsm conversations.
  • Learn how to apply Cognitive Coachingsm in a variety of professional and personal situations.

    Item no.: TH01770015
    Format: DVD (With Implementation Guide, Audio CDs)
    Copyright: 2002
    Price: USD 395.00

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    EFFECTIVE MENTORING: BUILDING LEARNING-FOCUSED RELATIONSHIPS

    With Laura Lipton & Bruce Wellman

    For beginning teachers, the benefits of skillful mentoring include increased confidence as instructional problem solvers and decision makers. For experienced teachers, mentoring a colleague increases understanding and rekindles a love for learning. We don't learn to teach, we learn from our teaching. -Laura Lipton & Bruce Wellman

    Teacher mentors will gain confidence and expertise as they come to

  • Understand the roles, responsibilities, and intentions of the mentor/growth agent.
  • Identify the functions of a learning-focused relationship offering support, creating challenge, and facilitating a professional vision.
  • Explore the stances for navigating across a continuum of interaction, including coaching, consulting, and collaborating.
  • Apply verbal and non-verbal tools for establishing and sustaining learning-focused relationships.
  • Investigate templates for producing effective planning, reflecting, and problem-solving.
  • Connect the needs of beginning teachers with the hallmarks of teaching expertise.
  • Observe methods for moving novices toward increased capacity and long-time commitment to the profession.

    Item no.: YR01770034
    Format: 2 DVDs (With Implementation Guide, Audio CDs)
    Copyright: 2003
    Price: USD 475.00

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    IINSTRUCTIONAL COACHING: SCHOOL-BASED STAFF DEVELOPMENT FOR IMPROVED TEACHER AND STUDENT LEARNING

    Featuring Joellen Killion, Jim Knight and Stephen Barkley

    Instructional Coaching is the most powerful method for implementing professional learning and change in the classroom! Coaching brings dramatic improvement in teaching practices and student achievement for minimal cost. This in-depth training solution to help you create and establish a coaching program and maximize the effectiveness of coaches. Real coaches-in-action are included with examples from rural, suburban, urban, elementary, and secondary schools. A staff developer in Minnesota recently purchased the series, watched it, and liked it so much she ordered the entire program for each of the 25 coaches in her district! Whether you have, or need reading coaches, math coaches, instructional coaches, school-based staff developers, mentors, differentiation coaches, data coaches, or school achievement coaches, all will greatly benefit from the wealth of information contained in these research-based programs. Likewise, principals and other administrators can benefit from this informative training as they will learn how to help and guide the teachers that they work with. Featuring Joellen Killion, Jim Knight, Stephen Barkley, and many successful coaches, the series contains:

    Program 1: Creating an Instructional Coaching Program: A District Responsibility
    Learn the what and why of coaching.
    Understand the Coaching Framework.

    Program 2: Developing and Training Coaches Understand the key skills necessary for a successful coach. Expand those skills so the coach can be successful.

    Program 3: The Coach in the School Setting
    Learn how to support, monitor and evaluate coaches.

    Program 4: Coaches in Action
    Observe well-trained coaches through the myriad of daily activities coaches engage in.

    Item no.: AG01770060
    Format: 4 DVDs (With Implementation Guide, Audio CDs)
    Duration: Approx. 200 minutes
    Price: USD 675.00

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    NEW TEACHER TRAINING: CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT TO WIN STUDENTS OVER - NOT WIN OVER THEM (SECONDARY)

    With Carol Cummings

    The ultimate goal is to establish a classroom where students feel bonded and connected to their teacher, where they are self-managers and good decision makers, and maximum time is provided to achieve today's high standards. - Carol Cummings

    This program is designed for new teachers but all teachers will benefit as they
  • Examine classroom management strategies for beginning teachers that will help launch rewarding careers.
  • Learn ways to bond and connect students to each other and to the teacher.
  • Observe procedures and routines that are rehearsed to promote self-managing students.
  • Understand why it is important to clearly define work requirements in holding students accountable.
  • Realize how proactive classroom management is anticipating problems and minimizing their impact on learning.
  • Understand how to create self-managers among students.
  • Consider why rights, respect, and responsibility are more productive than a list of rules.
  • Learn how to use "The Law of Least Intervention" to deter misbehavior.

    Item no.: NN01770071
    Format: DVD (With Implementation Guide, Audio CD)
    Copyright: 2001
    Price: USD 355.00

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    NEW TEACHER TRAINING: CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT TO WIN STUDENTS OVER-NOT WIN OVER THEM

    With Carol Cummings

    The ultimate goal is to establish a classroom where students feel bonded and connected to their teacher, where they are self-managers and good decision makers, and maximum time is provided to achieve today's high standards. - Carol Cummings

    This program is designed for new teachers but all teachers will benefit as they
  • Examine classroom management strategies for beginning teachers that will help launch rewarding careers.
  • Learn ways to bond and connect students to each other and to the teacher.
  • Observe procedures and routines that are rehearsed to promote self-managing students.
  • Understand why it is important to clearly define work requirements in holding students accountable.
  • Realize how proactive classroom management is anticipating problems and minimizing their impact on learning.
  • Understand how to create self-managers among students.
  • Consider why rights, respect, and responsibility are more productive than a list of rules.
  • Learn how to use "The Law of Least Intervention" to deter misbehavior.

    Item no.: PM01770070
    Format: DVD (With Implementation Book, Audio CD)
    Copyright: 2001
    Price: USD 355.00

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    DATA


    ASSESSMENTS AND SCORING GUIDES BASED ON STANDARDS (SECONDARY)

    Featuring Douglas B. Reeves

    As teachers realize the value of creating scoring guides and using writing as an assessment tool, they will

  • Help students meet standards with fair and accurate assessments.
  • Learn how to create scoring guides or rubrics.
  • Understand the limitations of standardized tests.
  • Understand why writing is crucial to learning and a key element of assessment.
  • Explore how writing can and should occur in every discipline in every class.
  • Learn how to score writing assignments with consistency

    Item no.: NE01770012
    Format: 2 DVDs (With Guidebook, Audiotape)
    Copyright: 1998
    Price: USD 355.00

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    DEALING WITH TEACHERS WHO ARE RESISTANT TO CHANGE AND RELUCTANT TO IMPROVE

    Presented by Todd Whitaker

    Every principal will find solutions to his/her greatest challenges by
  • Identifying the types of teachers that comprise a school staff:
  • SUPERSTARS, the teachers that principals could never replace.
  • BACKBONES, good, solid, hard-working people.
  • MEDIOCRES, poor teachers who create a negative atmosphere.
  • Understanding how principals can be effective with the backbones and mediocres.
  • Encouraging improvement by being direct, respectful, and honest in pointing out shortcomings.
  • Observing how faculty meetings can generate positive results and take the focus off difficult teachers.
  • Seeing how principals unwittingly empower negative elements.
  • Observing non-confrontational ways to deal with challenging and ineffective teachers.
  • Creating a positive school climate by
  • Not allowing criticism and negative comments in the faculty workroom.
  • Controlling referrals to the office.
  • Understanding why principals should be in classrooms daily.
  • Have high expectations of teachers just as teachers have high expectations of students.
  • Treat all teachers and students with respect and dignity.
  • Seeing numerous examples of positive change in schools.

    Item no.: PJ01770026
    Format: DVD (With Implementation Guide, Audio CDs)
    Copyright: 2004
    Price: USD 395.00

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    FRAZZLED TEACHER'S/PRINCIPAL'S HEALTH AND WELLNESS PLAN, THE (PRINCIPAL)

    Featuring J. Allen Queen

    All educators realize that they are in a very stressful profession. Learning how to deal with the challenges of school and home can positively influence school success. By viewing this program, both principals and teachers will
  • Understand the interrelationships among personal and professional priorities, time, and stress:Examine the impact of stress on the immune system.
  • Develop a personal plan for reclaiming time and managing stress:Explore personal coping strategies,Learn quick and easy stress relievers, deep breathing, and desktop yoga.
  • Deal with time bandits such as perfectionism and procrastination.
  • Consider nutrition to support a healthy lifestyle.

    Item no.: KA01770038
    Format: DVD (With Implementation Guide, Audio CD)
    Price: USD 295.00

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    FRAZZLED TEACHER'S/PRINCIPAL'S HEALTH AND WELLNESS PLAN, THE (TEACHER)

    Featuring J. Allen Queen

    All educators realize that they are in a very stressful profession. Learning how to deal with the challenges of school and home can positively influence school success. By viewing this program, both principals and teachers will

  • Understand the interrelationships among personal and professional priorities, time, and stress:Examine the impact of stress on the immune system.

  • Develop a personal plan for reclaiming time and managing stress:Explore personal coping strategies,Learn quick and easy stress relievers, deep breathing, and desktop yoga.

  • Deal with time bandits such as perfectionism and procrastination.

  • Consider nutrition to support a healthy lifestyle.

    Item no.: WW01770039
    Format: DVD (With Implementation Guide, Audio CD)
    Price: USD 295.00

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    NEW TEACHER TRAINING: CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT TO WIN STUDENTS OVER - NOT WIN OVER THEM (SECONDARY)

    With Carol Cummings

    The ultimate goal is to establish a classroom where students feel bonded and connected to their teacher, where they are self-managers and good decision makers, and maximum time is provided to achieve today's high standards. - Carol Cummings

    This program is designed for new teachers but all teachers will benefit as they
  • Examine classroom management strategies for beginning teachers that will help launch rewarding careers.
  • Learn ways to bond and connect students to each other and to the teacher.
  • Observe procedures and routines that are rehearsed to promote self-managing students.
  • Understand why it is important to clearly define work requirements in holding students accountable.
  • Realize how proactive classroom management is anticipating problems and minimizing their impact on learning.
  • Understand how to create self-managers among students.
  • Consider why rights, respect, and responsibility are more productive than a list of rules.
  • Learn how to use "The Law of Least Intervention" to deter misbehavior.

    Item no.: NN01770071
    Format: DVD (With Implementation Guide, Audio CD)
    Copyright: 2001
    Price: USD 355.00

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    NEW TEACHER TRAINING: CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT TO WIN STUDENTS OVER-NOT WIN OVER THEM

    With Carol Cummings

    The ultimate goal is to establish a classroom where students feel bonded and connected to their teacher, where they are self-managers and good decision makers, and maximum time is provided to achieve today's high standards. - Carol Cummings

    This program is designed for new teachers but all teachers will benefit as they
  • Examine classroom management strategies for beginning teachers that will help launch rewarding careers.
  • Learn ways to bond and connect students to each other and to the teacher.
  • Observe procedures and routines that are rehearsed to promote self-managing students.
  • Understand why it is important to clearly define work requirements in holding students accountable.
  • Realize how proactive classroom management is anticipating problems and minimizing their impact on learning.
  • Understand how to create self-managers among students.
  • Consider why rights, respect, and responsibility are more productive than a list of rules.
  • Learn how to use "The Law of Least Intervention" to deter misbehavior.

    Item no.: PM01770070
    Format: DVD (With Implementation Book, Audio CD)
    Copyright: 2001
    Price: USD 355.00

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    USING DATA TO CLOSE THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP

    Featuring Ruth S. Johnson

    Explore the role of data in changing the academic culture of schools with an emphasis on access and equity for all students. Your staff will learn to
  • Study data to define "the achievement gap" in order to understand student performance.
  • Stimulate change by studying many types of data that reveal the gaps.
  • Discover the critical role of teams in analyzing data,disaggregating it, and changing teaching practices.
  • Believe that all children can learn and that inquiring about data and equity will benefit all students.
  • See teams of educators identify problems,create hypotheses,test assumptions, and gather additional data as a result of conversations over many different forms of data.
  • Observe educators examining outcomes which tell them where student learning is on a set of indicators that include test scores,course enrollment, retention, graduation rates, college enrollment, and other factors.
  • Examine how to use data tools or instruments, existing documents, surveys,informal conversations, and evaluations to extend data?s reach.
  • Recognize the need to connect to data and close the gaps through visioning, planning, implementing, and monitoring.

    Item no.: RU01770105
    Format: DVD (With Implementation Guide, Audio CD)
    Copyright: 2004
    Price: USD 395.00

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    STAFF DEVELOPMENT


    DESIGNING AND EVALUATING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR INCREASED STUDENT LEARNING

    Featuring Stephanie Hirsh & Joellen Killion with Dennis Sparks

    Create lasting professional learning to impact student achievement.

    Program 1 -Applying the Standards of the National Staff Development Council (NSDC)
  • Understand the NSDC standards for professional development with the focus on student learn
  • Determine the value of implementing the Standards.
  • Observe exemplary schools and school systems that have aligned the standards with practices.

    Program 2 -Evaluating the Impact of Staff Development on Student Learning
  • See the importance of evaluating professional development to assess the impact on student learning.
  • Assess the effects of staff development on student achievement
  • Examine the purpose of an evaluation program, the various phases, and the steps to accomplishment.
  • Learn about the Theory of Change.

    Program 3 -Designing Models for Professional Learning and Student Improvement
  • Observe proven designs that provide learning activities for educators and see success in the classroom.
  • View examples of programs from diverse locations.
  • Learn how school and district success is the result of well-defined staff development programs.

    Item no.: LN01770027
    Format: 2 DVDs (With Implementation Guide, Audio CDs)
    Price: USD 445.00

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    TEACHER SUCCESS (TRAINING)


    HIGH-QUALITY ELEMENTARY TEACHING FOR CLASSROOM SUCCESS

    Featuring Outstanding Teachers

    High-quality teaching maintains a balance of quality between pedagogy and content, essential for student success. As educators view exemplary teachers they will

  • Explore the importance of a commitment to students and their learning.
  • Examine why it is critical for elementary teachers to have a broad knowledge of content in all subjects they teach.
  • View students who are actively engaged in the learning, ensuring retention.
  • Realize that high-quality educators are skilled in both the art and science of teaching.
  • Recognize how successful classroom management requires skill.
  • See how adjustments are made to meet student needs.
  • Discover the significance of self-reflection.
  • Understand the value of active involvement in the learning community.

    Item no.: AY01770048
    Format: DVD (With Implementation Guide, Audio CD)
    Price: USD 395.00

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    HIGH-QUALITY SECONDARY TEACHING FOR CLASSROOM SUCCESS

    Featuring Outstanding Teachers

    Student success is the result of high-quality teaching that begins with an overall balance of quality between pedagogy and content. By viewing this program teachers will
  • See why a commitment to students and their learning is essential.
  • Learn the importance of knowing the subject and how to teach it.
  • Understand the pedagogical content knowledge unique to specific disciplines.
  • Discover how to manage and monitor student learning.
  • See the significance of self-reflection.
  • Think systematically about one?s own teaching practice.
  • Exemplify virtues of high-quality teaching.
  • Inspire character in students and intellectual growth.
  • Promote life-long learning.
  • Know the value of active involvement in the learning community.
  • The learning community consists of teachers, parents, administrators, and others who have an interest in the youth of the community.

    Item no.: TA01770049
    Format: DVD (With Implementation Guide, Audio CD)
    Price: USD 225.00

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    STRATEGIES THAT WORK FOR SECONDARY ENGLISH TEACHERS

    Featuring Outstanding Teachers

    Through quality teaching in Language Arts classrooms, students will increase their literacy and communication skills for greater success in school and life.

  • See that reading a wide range of text and literature builds student understanding.
  • Learn to apply strategies that help students compolrehend, interpret, and evaluate.
  • Observe students communicating effectively through written and spoken language.
  • Watch students use skills to research, present, create, and critique.
  • See how students can use language to accomplish their own purposes.

    Item no.: SV01770089
    Format: DVD (With Implementation Guide, Audio CD)
    Price: USD 225.00

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