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One of Andrew Wyeth's most important paintings, Wind from the Sea, a recent gift to the National Gallery of Art, is also the artist's first full realization of the window as a recurring subject in his art. Wyeth returned to windows over the next sixty years, producing more than 250 works that explore both the formal and conceptual richness of the subject. Spare, elegant and abstract, these paintings are free of the narrative element inevitably associated with Wyeth's better-known figural compositions. In 2014 the Gallery will present an exhibition of a select group of these deceptively 'realistic' works, window paintings that are in truth skilfully manipulated constructions engaged with the visual complexities posed by the transparency, beauty and formal structure of windows. In its exclusive focus on paintings without human subjects, this catalogue will offer a new approach to Wyeth's work, being the first time that his non-figural compositions have been published as a group. The authors explore Wyeth's fascination with windows - their formal structure and metaphorical complexity. In essays that address links with the poetry of Robert Frost and the paintings of Edward Hopper, Charles Sheeler and Franz Kline, the authors consider Wyeth's statement that he was, in truth, an 'abstract' painter.

What a year! Twelve months and counting since COVID expanded, stretched, and blurred the boundaries of teaching and learning, at least one thing has remained constant: our commitment as educators to move learning forward. It’s just the context that keeps changing—why Doug Fisher, Nancy Frey, John Almarode, and Aleigha Henderson-Rosser have created a follow-up to The Distance Learning Playbook, their all-new Quick Guide to Simultaneous, Hybrid, and Blended Learning. First, to be clear: simultaneous learning must not be an additive, meaning we combine two entirely different approaches and double our workload. That’s unsustainable! Instead, we must extract, integrate, and implement what works best from both distance learning and face-to-face learning environments. Then and only then—Doug, Nancy, John, and Aleigha insist—can we maximize the learning opportunities for all of our students

Renowned educators Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and Diane Lapp saw it was high time classroom teachers had an encyclopedia’s worth of practical, research-based ideas organized into concise modules. You will love the lively tone, the contemporary research findings, and the abundance of activities that help children become skilled readers. This resource goes deep, it goes wide―and yet most brilliantly, it reveals the crucial connections that make for high-impact instruction.

Your Hands-On Guide to Thriving Your First Year of Teaching You’ve made the incredible decision to become an educator because you want to impact the learning lives of young people. Thank you, and welcome. We welcome you to this amazing profession with open arms, and with an arsenal of experience and essential tools, strategies, and lessons to help you establish a successful and satisfying teaching career. We wanted to make it easier for you to learn and practice these techniques that research shows increase student learning. To do so, we also considered cognitive psychology research that tells us that images and illustrations can help strengthen communication and our own understanding. This helped us develop the unique format for this part hands-on playbook, part professional book, and all highly illustrated, it is designed to make complicated concepts more digestible and memorable. This extensive guide for new teachers provides everything you need to impact learning from your first day on, Teaching is without a doubt one of the most challenging professions there is. But those who chose to accept that challenge are what make teaching the best profession in the world!

Concepts, conversation, collaboration--vocabulary instruction is so much more than lists of words. More is more when it comes to students' vocabulary knowledge, and in The Vocabulary Playbook, educators in K-12 get ideas for transforming all children into curious, capable word learners. The key? Put away the word-list mindset, and embrace active modeling, peer work, and independent practice. Five modules offer direct instruction and effective routines that show how to: Select and teach only the most high-utility, transferable words that are ripe for discussion Use direct instruction to model word-solving in each content area Teach morphology in ways that invite students to apply understandings in reading, writing, talk, and listening Turn academic word-learning into a relevant experience with peer collaboration activities Create a culture of word consciousness by emphasizing concepts, modeling curiosity, and offering "low-risk" routines that make it okay to not yet know Intentional vocabulary instruction is critical in every grade, and in every content area. With The Vocabulary Playbook, your approach is now tactical, transparent, and fun. Whether you are an administrator executing a school-wide plan or a teacher eager for practical strategies, this is the book that will help students build academic success--word by word.

Transform negative behavior into a teachable moment at your school, utilizing restorative practices that are grounded in relationships and a commitment to the well-being of others.

Focusing on evidence-based grading, this book emphasizes the importance of integrity in educational assessments. It provides strategies for implementing fair grading practices that reflect student learning accurately. Through practical examples and research-backed methods, educators can enhance their grading systems to promote transparency and accountability. The text encourages a shift from traditional grading to more meaningful assessments that support student growth and success.

The book delves into the connection between a teacher's credibility with students and the effectiveness of teamwork in educational settings. It emphasizes how building trust and rapport enhances both individual and group performance, ultimately leading to improved student outcomes. By fostering a collaborative environment, educators can leverage their strengths and create a more impactful learning experience.

The book features a comprehensive table of contents that outlines the main topics and chapters covered, providing readers with a clear roadmap of the material. Each section is organized to facilitate understanding and navigation, allowing for easy reference to key themes and concepts. This structured approach enhances the reader's ability to engage with the content effectively.

Disrupting the cycle starts with you. It's human nature to carry implicit bias, which can lead to negative assumptions and labels of students. This book helps you take an active approach toward disrupting the negative effects of labels that interfere with student learning. Inside RemovingLabels, you'll find: · 40 practical, replicable teaching techniques based in research and best practice · Suggestions for actions on an individual, classroom, and schoolwide level · Student-facing printables available for download · Ready-to-go tools to use in planning and instruction

The book emphasizes resilience and personal growth through adversity, highlighting the importance of facing and overcoming defeats. It suggests that experiencing challenges is essential for self-discovery and understanding one's strength. Maya Angelou's powerful words serve as a reminder that setbacks can lead to greater self-awareness and the ability to rise above difficulties.

Let’s make the "next normal" a "better normal" If there ever was a time for our heroic school leadership to persevere, it’s now. Because now, well over one year since the pandemic stretched the resilience and reserves of our school systems, it’s time to "rebound." It’s time to leverage this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reboot teaching and learning as we know it so that we magnify the effective practices from the past while leveraging the so many recent lessons learned. This is where Doug Fisher, Nancy Frey, Dominique Smith, and John Hattie, coauthors of The Distance Learning Playbook series , are ideally equipped to serve as your collaborators. Inside Leading the 20+ Must-Dos to Restart Teaching and Learning you’ll find immediate actions, mindsets, and approaches to take if we’re to reimagine and improve our schools and school systems. What’s more Leading the Rebound is backed up with all kinds of resources--including VISIBLE LEARNING® research, sample planning tools, and other essential tips and strategies--to provide you with a start-to-finish roadmap for navigating this absolutely critical next leg in our journey toward a "better normal."

Time Saving AI Tools that Make Learning More Engaging Busy educators need tools that support their planning and provide them with more time with students. While Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a promising solution, it can only help if we're willing to learn how to use it in ways that improve upon what we already do well. The Artificial Intelligence Playbook: Time Saving Tools that Make Learning More Engaging is here to empower teachers to explore AI's potential and discover practical ways to implement it to enhance their planning and instruction. Two chapters and 6 "Educator Functions" guide teachers step-by-step through how to purposely use AI to: Compose Writing Prompts and Avoid Plagiarism Manage Content Foster Student Engagement Meet Students' Instructional Needs Assess Student Learning Continue Lifelong Learning Though AI has the potential to reduce workload for educators, it will never replace teachers. Your connection with students is irreplaceable--and greatly impacts their learning. Consider AI a valuable tool that provides you with more time to build and sustain those vital relationships with students and that can assist them in learning at the very same time.

Now more than ever, schools need to be places where openness and can-do are baked into every hallway hello and every meeting. This vision-setting starts at the top, and with a combination of strategic thinking and inspiring relationship-building. With Leader Credibility , learn how to attain or amplify the qualities that all school leaders keep in motion each day. Discover efficient, persuasive ways to communicate and mentor growth by

This book emphasizes transforming student learning by focusing on critical reasoning and problem-solving skills, rather than just comprehension. It offers innovative strategies to engage students with texts, encouraging them to analyze, evaluate, and apply information in meaningful ways. The approach aims to empower learners to think critically and creatively, preparing them for real-world challenges.

What does it feel like to walk into your school? Is it a welcoming place where everyone feels valued? While many school improvement efforts focus on academic goals and assessments, the true essence of a learning community often lies in its culture—encompassing relationships, identity, and connections. The authors argue that effective school improvement must address culture, identifying five critical pillars for building a culture of achievement: 1. **Welcome:** All staff should strive to make every student, parent, and visitor feel noticed and valued. 2. **Do no harm:** School rules should guide students in becoming moral and ethical citizens. 3. **Choice words:** Language that fosters a narrative of possibility and potential can enhance student performance. 4. **It's never too late to learn:** Encourage students to exceed minimum expectations and realize their capabilities. 5. **Best school in the universe:** Is your school the ideal environment for teaching and learning? Drawing from their extensive classroom experience, the authors illustrate how these pillars support effective teaching and learning. They also provide 19 action research tools to help cultivate a culture of achievement, ensuring your school or classroom reaches its fullest potential. After engaging with this material, you’ll understand how culture can differentiate between a school that fosters success and one that merely houses students.

It's time to rebound after the pandemic forced changes in teaching and learning. It's time to bounce back, become better and reignite engagement, accelerate learning and move forward with fresh optimism and better systems for schooling

While social and emotional learning (SEL) is most familiar as compartmentalized programs separate from academics, the truth is, all learning is social and emotional. What teachers say, the values we express, the materials and activities we choose, and the skills we prioritize all influence how students think, see themselves, and interact with content and with others. If you teach kids rather than standards, and if you want all kids to get what they need to thrive, Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, and Dominique Smith offer a a comprehensive, five-part model of SEL that's easy to integrate into everyday content instruction, no matter what subject or grade level you teach. You'll learn the hows and whys of

Better Learning Through Structured Teaching describes how teachers can help students develop stronger learning skills by ensuring that instruction moves from modeling and guided practice (situations where the teacher has most of the responsibility) to collaborative learning and, finally, to independent tasks.

Assessments are the essential link between teaching and learning, yet the assessments used in face-to-face classrooms are not always practical or impactful in remote learning environments. Now that teachers are teaching from a distance, how will you assess what your students have learned? Tapping into the expertise of teachers who are successfully engaged in distance learning, The Assessment Playbook for Distance and Blended Learning answers that question. Rich with a wide range of examples, strategies, and assessments that can be leveraged with rigor and fidelity regardless of the learning environment, this practical playbook empowers teachers with the decision-making tools needed to gauge the impact of instructional strategies in today's rapidly evolving educational landscape. -- book cover

If you ever have students who are reluctant to tell you when they don’t understand something—or worse, tell you they understand when they really don't—then here's a book that gives you lots of ways to check for understanding. Learn why typical methods to check for understanding are usually ineffective. And explore formative assessment techniques that work in any subject area and grade level. Extensive classroom examples show you how to use these formative assessments to correct misconceptions, improve learning, and model good study skills for individual students or across multiple classrooms.

Everything you need to create a high-trust, high-achieving learning environment for multilingual students We have never known more than we do now about teaching multilingual students -- nevertheless, we teeter on the edge of retreating to old-think practices. The next generation depends upon our getting this right, and this spare, salient guide helps ensure we do. Kids Come in All Languages provides teachers and leaders with all they need to design high-quality curriculum to support multilingual learners. With this book, learn to: Create a low-anxiety, high-expectation classroom climate that gives multilingual students access to engaging grade-level content Plan clear, cohesive lessons and tasks that motivate students to produce language, use critical thinking skills, and access complex texts Offer ample time for student-led talk that ramps up knowledge and amps up a sense of belonging Use heterogeneous, flexible grouping so children acquiring English don't stall out in fixed-mindset, below-grade level groups And much more Teachers act like tributaries, helping learners access a wider stream of knowledge, and catch the swift current of wanting to learn. It's time to envision this expansiveness for multilingual students. It's time to design learning experiences with optimism for their futures.

Data. Does the word make you cringe? Does it evoke feelings of guilt? Are you unsure how to distill it and use it effectively? Grab this book and learn how to empower yourself and your school community with information gleaned from your school's data. Experienced educators and authors offer simple instructions that can help focus school improvement efforts and result in increasing teacher expertise—a factor that positively affects the quality of life for students long after they have left the classroom. Accepting responsibility for such far-reaching influence requires educators to adopt instructional improvement as a standard by which a school needs to operate and as a means to collaborate and interact with one another. More than that, though, instructional improvement is an important component of successful schools.

Based on the Cornell note-taking format, this resource incorporates writing into the learning process. Directly linked to the student text, this notebook provides a systematic approach to learning science by encouraging students to engage by summarizing and synthesizing abstract concepts in their own words

Stop apathy in its tracks with the 5' C's of engagement Learning loss and disenchantment with school are real. Students and staff alike need to relearn what it's like to be a community. In this daring book, Doug Reeves, Doug Fisher, and Nancy Frey leave no stone unturned in their quest to find the teaching, learning and leadership practices most conducive to cultivating competence and can-do mindset. Best of all, they arrange every practical idea (and every routine they give you permission to quit!) into a powerful framework they call the Five C's of Engagement: Connections -- feeling known, valued, and tethered to others Conditions -- being able to learn in a stable environment in which expectations are high Challenge -- engaging in an endeavor knowing your high jumps in terms of intellectual and creative risks will be supported Control -- the privilege of learning with a balance between ownership and support Collaboration -- deepening one's knowledge and identity as a learner by being skillful at relationship-building

All On-Your-Feet Guide orders receive FREE SHIPPING! Use code SHIPOYFG at check out. In this easy-to-use but comprehensive guide to Guided Reading, Grades K-2, teachers will learn what guided reading is in the primary grades is, how to prepare before, during and after guided reading, and how to assess it. This On-Your-Feet Guide includes: Lesson outline included with “What the teacher says/does and What the student does displayed side-by-side. An If-Then chart that helps teachers troubleshoot common problems. Student language frames for narrative and nonfiction text are included. Both the why and the how of assessing students included Numerous helpful hints On-Your-Feet Guides (OYFGs) provide you with the ultimate “cheat sheet” to implement effective change in your classroom while in the moment of teaching. Designed for accessibility, and providing step-by-step guidance, the OYFGs are written by experts who take research-based practices and make them doable for the busy teacher. Each On-Your-Feet Guide is laminated, 8.5”x11” tri-fold (6 pages), and 3-hole punched. Use the On-Your-Feet Guides When you know the “what” but need help with the “how” As a quick reference to support a practice you learned in a PD workshop or book To learn how to implement foundational practices When you want to help your students learn a specific strategy, routine, or approach, but aren’t sure how to do it yourself

All On-Your-Feet Guide orders receive FREE SHIPPING! Use code SHIPOYFG at check out. In this easy-to-use but comprehensive guide to Guided Reading, Grades 3-5, teachers will learn what guided reading is in the upper elementary grades is, how to prepare before, during and after guided reading, and how to assess it. In this On-Your-Feet Guide, teachers will find: Lesson outline included with “What the teacher says/does and What the student does displayed side-by-side. An If-Then chart helps teachers troubleshoot common problems. Student language frames for narrative and nonfiction text are included. Both the why and the how of assessing students included. On-Your-Feet Guides (OYFGs) provide you with the ultimate “cheat sheet” to implement effective change in your classroom while in the moment of teaching. Designed for accessibility, and providing step-by-step guidance, the OYFGs are written by experts who take research-based practices and make them doable for the busy teacher. Each On-Your-Feet Guide is laminated, 8.5”x11” tri-fold (6 pages), and 3-hole punched. Use the On-Your-Feet Guides When you know the “what” but need help with the “how” As a quick reference to support a practice you learned in a PD workshop or book To learn how to implement foundational practices When you want to help your students learn a specific strategy, routine, or approach, but aren’t sure how to do it yourself

All On-Your-Feet Guide orders receive  FREE SHIPPING!  Use code  SHIPOYFG  at check out. In this easy-to-use but comprehensive guide to Interactive Writing, teachers will learn what interactive writing is, how to prepare before, during and after interactive writing, and how to assess it. In this On-Your-Feet Guide, teachers will   On-Your-Feet Guides (OYFGs) provide you with the ultimate "cheat sheet" to implement effective change in your classroom while in the moment of teaching. Designed for accessibility, and providing step-by-step guidance, the OYFGs are written by experts who take research-based practices and make them doable for the busy teacher. Each On-Your-Feet Guide is laminated, 8.5"x11" tri-fold (6 pages), and 3-hole punched. Use the On-Your-Feet Guides

All On-Your-Feet Guide orders receive FREE SHIPPING! Use code SHIPOYFG at check out. In this easy-to-use but comprehensive guide to Shared Reading, teachers will learn what shared reading is, how to prepare before, during and after shared reading, and how to assess it. In this On-Your-Feet Guide, teachers will find: Lesson outline included with “What the teacher says/does and What the student does displayed side-by-side. An If-Then chart that helps teachers troubleshoot common problems. Student language frames for narrative and nonfiction text are included. Assessment advice and helpful hints On-Your-Feet Guides (OYFGs) provide you with the ultimate “cheat sheet” to implement effective change in your classroom while in the moment of teaching. Designed for accessibility, and providing step-by-step guidance, the OYFGs are written by experts who take research-based practices and make them doable for the busy teacher. Each On-Your-Feet Guide is laminated, 8.5”x11” tri-fold (6 pages), and 3-hole punched. Use the On-Your-Feet Guides When you know the “what” but need help with the “how” As a quick reference to support a practice you learned in a PD workshop or book To learn how to implement foundational practices When you want to help your students learn a specific strategy, routine, or approach, but aren’t sure how to do it yourself

All On-Your-Feet Guide orders receive  FREE SHIPPING!  Use code  SHIPOYFG  at check out. In this easy-to-use but comprehensive guide to Guided Writing, teachers will learn what it is, how to prepare before, during and after a Guided Writing session, and how to assess it.  In this On-Your-Feet Guide, teachers will   On-Your-Feet Guides (OYFGs) provide you with the ultimate "cheat sheet" to implement effective change in your classroom while in the moment of teaching. Designed for accessibility, and providing step-by-step guidance, the OYFGs are written by experts who take research-based practices and make them doable for the busy teacher. Each On-Your-Feet Guide is laminated, 8.5"x11" tri-fold (6 pages), and 3-hole punched. Use the On-Your-Feet Guides