This ultimate guide to portfolios makes the process of developing and using portfolios easier and more rewarding for you and your students. Clear steps guide you through critical decisions in 10 major categories. Hands-on activities, discussion questions, and planning tools help you anticipate and address every key issue. Practical samples and easy-to-use templates and forms ensure that the portfolio process is meaningful to students and manageable...

"This title is a greatly expanded volume of the original Art and Science of Teaching, offering a framework for substantive change based on Marzano's 50 years of education research. While the previous model focused on teacher outcomes, the new version places focus on student outcomes, with strategies teachers can use to help students grasp the information and skills transferred through their instruction. Throughout the book, Marzano details the elements...

Offers practical ideas for incorporating video production into the classroom. Teaches students traditional content and critical thinking skills through video production.

Marion and the other students in Mr. Owen's class are shocked to learn their classmate Grayce copied part of the poem she entered in the Poetry Slam contest, but they soon discover they are all guilty of plagiarism when their teacher reads several identical student reports--all copied from the same Internet source.

A book full of activities that teach and encourage positive behavior in kids ages 4-8.

"With bright art done in the Japanese anime style, each book in this interactive early reading series features three different word families. When kids flip the pages, they get a new word and image within that word family. Word families help children recognize similarities between words that rhyme, and help them connect words with similar long or short vowel sounds. This familiarity helps kids read a word they don't necessarily know"--