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This excerpt from The Common Core Companion: The Standards Decoded, Grades K-2, outlines and carefully explains the K-2 reading standards and provides guidance for your instruction.

This excerpt from The Common Core Companion: The Standards Decoded, Grades 3-5, outlines and carefully explains the 3-5 reading standards and provides guidance for your instruction.

This excerpt from The Common Core Companion: The Standards Decoded, Grades 6-8, outlines and carefully explains the 6-8 reading standards and provides guidance for your instruction.

This excerpt from The Common Core Companion: The Standards Decoded, Grades 9-12, outlines and carefully explains the 9-12 reading standards and provides guidance for your instruction.

This module from The PLC+ Playbook focuses on the significant role that you as the teacher have on student learning and highlights the key components of teaching that strengthen the collective efficacy and credibility of your PLC+. 

These lessons from Writers Read Better: Narrative focus on idea generation and strategies for writing fiction, including drawing together plots and shaping stories that match the meaning that young writers are after. 

Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and John Almarode, authors of PLC+, discuss how they place student learning, effective teaching, and a focus on equity at the heart of what we all strive to accomplish. Learn how PLC+ provides a framework for the planning and implementation of student learning, teacher professional learning, and cycles of assessment and reflection that direct next steps.

Learn the strategies that build conceptual understanding of mathematical ideas and problem solving to help students demonstrate more than a year's worth of growth for every year spent in school. John Almarode and Kateri Thunder, authors of Teaching Mathematics in the Visible Learning Classroom, Grades K-2 and Grades 3-5, help participants learn how. By using the right approach at the right time you can design classroom experiences that maximize mathematics learning.

When it comes to accelerating EL achievement, there is no silver bullet. But this, Andrea Honigsfeld and Maria Dove promise you: when EL specialists and general ed teachers pool their expertise, your ELs’ language development and content mastery will improve exponentially. Hear firsthand from Andrea and Maria, authors of Collaborating for English Learners, what exemplary teacher collaboration looks like, which frameworks must be established, and how integrated approaches to ELD services benefit all stakeholders. 

This excerpt from PLC+: Better Decisions and Greater Impact by Design emphasizes that the heartbeat of a PLC+ rests in the quality time members invest in one another engaged in inquiry of their practices, which may be accomplished through such practices as Learning Walks.

This excerpt from Visible Learning for Mathematics, Grades K-12, explains how making learning visible starts with teacher clarity and the strategic use of learning intentions and success criteria promote student self-reflection and metacognition. 

This excerpt from Visible Learning for Mathematics, Grades K-12, provides example questions that teachers can use to check for understanding—a crucial aspect of visible learning.