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The responsibility of coaching school sports is rewarding but challenging in many ways. "Coaching Competitive Sports: How to Develop and Assess Student Knowledge, Skills, and Intangibles" takes the guesswork out of this complex endeavor. Writing from vast experience in school athletic coaching, authors Tammy Heflebower and Logan Heflebower detail the specific attributes and behaviors of effective youth sports coaches as well as the intangible ...

In Five Big Ideas for Leading a High Reliability School, Robert J. Marzano, Philip B. Warrick, and Mario I. Acosta present key insights gained from years of guiding schools and districts through the High Reliability Schools (HRS) process. Functioning as a high reliability organization requires strong leadership, and success with HRS depends in part on leaders' awareness of certain concepts-the five big ideas that this book shares. With data-dr...

Data is everywhere, as are the tools to generate and read it, but often, there is so much data it's overwhelming. In Untangling Data-Based Decision Making: A Problem-Solving Model to Enhance MTSS, Jason E. Harlacher, Jon Potter, and Adam Collins tackle how to successfully use data within schools and districts and help educators make decisions rooted in data. With research-backed strategies and tools, the authors demonstrate how educators at al...

As an educator, Julia A. Simms often felt the lack of a comprehensive framework to tie myriad professional learning topics together into a cohesive, easy-to-follow guide. Many teachers have told her the same. In The Marzano Synthesis: A Collected Guide to What Works in K-12 Education, she fulfills that need. Drawing on her years in education as a teacher and working with Robert J. Marzano at Marzano Resources, she delivers a structured explora...

School leadership is an incredibly hard profession, and finding peace in the day-to-day busyness can feel next to impossible. In her new book, Mindfulness First, Jeanie M. Iberlin delivers a research-backed guide to mindfulness designed specifically for school leadership. Strengthen your skills and transform your leadership with a wide variety of tools for better equipping you in your path to practicing mindfulness and compassion"--

In Leading a Competency-Based Secondary School: The Marzano Academies Model, authors Robert J. Marzano and Patrick B. Hardy outline how secondary school leaders can implement an effective competency-based education system. Based on decades of research and refined in the Marzano Academies, the model presented in this book will aid schools in the process of shifting from a traditional school to a high reliability, competency-based organization. ...

Assessment is a fundamental aspect of education, but with so many different standards and learning expectations, educators need to utilize data-driven and information-based instruction. In their new book Assessing Learning in the Standards-Based Classroom, Jan K. Hoegh, Jeff Flygare, Tammy Heflebower, and Philip B. Warrick unpack assessment information and unveil teacher-tested tools designed to improve classroom learning and successfully eval...

Competency-based education (CBE) is an effective means of ensuring growth and learning for all students. To maximize the potential of this framework, teachers should employ instructional strategies purposefully designed for CBE classrooms. In Teaching in a Competency-Based Secondary School: The Marzano Academies Model, authors Robert J. Marzano, Alexander S. Aschoff, and Ashley Avila introduce a model of instruction for secondary teachers faci...

In Leading a Competency-Based Elementary School: The Marzano Academies Model, authors Robert J. Marzano and Brian J. Kosena outline how elementary school leaders can implement an effective competency-based education system. Based on decades of research and refined in the Marzano Academies, the model presented in this book will aid schools in the process of shifting from a traditional school to a high-reliability organization. The authors ident...

Teachers face an overwhelming number of different initiatives and approaches for addressing students' social, emotional, and behavioral needs. Bolstering Student Resilience: Creating a Classroom With Consistency, Connection, and Compassion by Jason E. Harlacher and Sara Whitcomb clarifies major approaches and identifies how to align them in the classroom. From the classroom's physical layout to instructional best practices, the authors discuss...

Competency-based education (CBE) is an effective means of ensuring growth and learning for all students. To maximize the potential of this framework, teachers should employ instructional strategies purposefully designed for CBE classrooms. In Teaching in a Competency-Based Elementary School: The Marzano Academies Model, authors Robert J. Marzano and Seth D. Abbott introduce a model of instruction for elementary teachers facilitating student le...

New teachers are leaving the profession at an alarming rate. Providing professional guidance and support to beginning teachers during their initial years in the classroom is vital to teacher retention and development. In Supporting Beginning Teachers, Second Edition, author Tina H. Boogren provides K-12 mentors, coaches, and school leaders with a framework for designing a meaningful and comprehensive teacher-mentoring program. The author outli...

Large-scale assessments are a common method of measuring students' knowledge and skills, however, performance on such tests may not accurately reflect what students know if they are not familiar with the nuances and idiosyncrasies of the tests themselves. In Ethical Test Preparation in the Classroom, authors Robert J. Marzano, Christopher W. Dodson, Julia A. Simms, and Jacob P. Wipf expose the true nature of large-scale assessments. To help ed...

In The School Wellness Wheel: A Framework Addressing Trauma, Culture, and Mastery to Raise Student Achievement, authors Mike Ruyle, Libby Child, and Nancy Dome provide a framework to respond to students' cognitive, social, and emotional needs. Childhood trauma and stress can have long-lasting repercussions on students' physical and emotional growth. The authors assert that schools can evolve to address student trauma and promote wellness and h...

Implementing standards-based learning is a paradigm shift at all levels of education, and teachers especially must adjust to new instructional practices and tools. In Planning and Teaching in the Standards-Based Classroom, authors Jeff Flygare, Jan K. Hoegh, and Tammy Heflebower provide teachers a comprehensive resource for adjusting to standards-based learning in the classroom. This book provides detailed instructions for everything from less...

In Learner Agency: Building the Mindset and Skill Set of Hope in Our Classrooms, author Bill Zima clarifies what student agency looks and sounds like in the classroom. Zima introduces a framework that K-12 educators can use to organize their instructional practice to create opportunities and the right conditions that give learners control over their thinking. When teachers deliberately plan and structure lessons with the goal of developing stu...

Throughout history education systems have strived to help teachers be as effective as possible in order to help students learn as much as possible. However, these teacher evaluation efforts have long been unhelpful in the pursuit of teacher development. Reflecting on, Observing, and Coaching Teaching presents a case for the necessity of effective teacher evaluation in the name of strong teacher development. Authors Robert J. Marzano, Cameron L...

Standards-based learning has been implemented into schools across the globe, yet it often does not receive the attention and hard work it needs to truly affect a student's learning. A Handbook for Implementing Standards-Based Learning is an all-encompassing Standards-Based Learning guide that authors Tammy Heflebower, Jan K. Hoegh, and Philip B. Warrick have written to help schools properly develop and implement a Standards-Based Learning curr...

Personalized competency-based education (PCBE) is a system of education in which each student learns at his or her individual pace and progress depends on mastery rather than age. While PCBE has countless benefits, one challenge of adopting this system is the difficulty of scheduling classes and organizing learning on a day-to-day basis. Scheduling for Personalized Competency-Based Education guides K-12 school leaders and teachers through reso...

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