Change your approach to teaching writing

"Those who teach writing in any discipline will find this book useful in interrogating their own pedagogy, as well as their own writing. And, like many books and collections in Rhetoric and Composition, a field whose epistemology requires practitioners to ask questions that are not always answered, this book asks many questions that open avenues for further inquiry. Thaiss and Zawacki are to be commended for presenting these questions to us, and for prodding us to ask them of ourselves in our own practice as teachers and professional writers."

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A roadmap to school improvement

A School Leader's Guide to Excellence: Collaborating Our Way to Better Schools by Carmen Fariña and Laura Kotch

Is something—no matter how big or small—holding your school back? If so, turn to Carmen Fariña and Laura Kotch. In New York City they've transformed struggling schools into excellent schools and made good ones great. And in A School Leader's Guide to Excellence they'll show you a direct, detailed road to improving schoolwide achievement.

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Lead students to a new understanding of geometry

The Fostering Geometric Thinking Toolkit: A Guide for Staff Development by Mark Driscoll, Rachel Wing DiMatteo, Johannah Nikula, Michael Egan, June Mark, and Grace Kelemanik

Based on the popular Fostering Geometric Thinking, the Toolkit's 20 two-hour sessions provide a year's worth of math PD for middle and secondary teachers. Its facilitator- and participant-friendly sessions cover the key topics of Fostering Geometric Thinking: geometric properties, transformations, and measurement.

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Put joy into words

Zigzag: A Life of Reading and Writing, Teaching and Learning by Tom Romano

We ask our students to write authentically, in their own voice. We validate their knowledge and their experiences. We want them to know the depth and joy of a lifelong love of reading and writing. In Zigzag Tom Romano writes his life, creating a model for us of the power that words—written, spoken, heard, read, taught—can have in shaping our professional, personal, and spiritual lives.

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