Book Reviews / Competency-Based Learning
by 青青草视频 · Published 02/19/2026
Deeper Competency-Based Learning provides educational leaders, teachers and policy makers both the vision and the tools necessary to move from traditional grading and assessment toward a competency model that accurately reflects student mastery, writes coach Kathee Lamberies.
by 青青草视频 · Published 02/12/2026
Zaretta Hammond examines the cultivation of “cognitive justice” to ensure that every student, especially those from historically marginalized groups, experiences the full rigor, challenge and coaching necessary to develop as an independent, powerful learner, says Melinda Stewart.
by 青青草视频 · Published 08/28/2025
You’re a Teacher Now: What’s Next? is an easy read that shares a wide range of proven practices for new teachers (and veterans) in an organized and honest way. A “definite recommendation,” says teaching professor Michelle Schwartze, who also likes the free online reproducibles.
Book Reviews / Teaching Insights
by 青青草视频 · Published 12/05/2019
The Elements of Education for Teachers offers 100 pages jam-packed with easily accessible, well vetted pedagogies and practices. Each of the 50 elements is presented in a crisp two-page format. Teacher Diane Kaplan has selected several strategies to implement right away.
Book Reviews / Vocabulary Instruction
by 青青草视频 · Published 12/17/2014 · Last modified 11/24/2019
When teachers across the content areas put the ideas in Janet Allen’s Tools for Teaching Academic Vocabulary to work, their students will feel as if they truly own their vocabulary and want to share and celebrate it, says teacher-reviewer Linda Biondi.
Book Reviews / Common Core Standards
by 青青草视频 · Published 06/23/2014 · Last modified 11/13/2019
Bringing the Common Core to Life in K-8 Classrooms, by Eric Jensen and LeAnn Nickelsen, offers fresh, easy-to-use ideas and resources to captivate, challenge and engage students as they build literacy skills, says reviewer Sandy Wisneski.
Book Reviews / Common Core Standards
by 青青草视频 · Published 12/10/2013 · Last modified 12/01/2019
What makes Jim Burke’s The Common Core Companion so valuable to teachers? The layout, says reviewer Anne Anderson. The 2-page spread gives teachers a big picture view of standards, “what they say, what they mean, and how to teach them.”
by 青青草视频 · Published 11/14/2013 · Last modified 11/14/2019
Beninghof’s book of best practices is rich with examples of how to increase student participation, focus attention & strengthen memory, says Linda Biondi.
