Highly effective principals have strong communication skills, high levels of knowledge about teaching and learning, and the ability to provide instructional leadership.  This excellent new resource provides principals, administrative teams, and educators with tremendous resources to hone these skills and traits.

This highly organized and user-friendly guide shares practical insights into these ten crucial traits through real-life examples, experiences, research, and personal reflections from students, parents, and educators at all levels.

Cut through all of the Common Core jargon and get to the key points of what students need to learn!  This book will help you zoom in on the main academic skills students are required to learn in reading, writing, speaking/listening, and language.

This book provides a research-based framework and practical strategies for vocabulary development with children from the earliest grades through high school. The authors emphasize instruction that offers rich information about words and their uses and enhances students' language comprehension and production. New to this edition chapters on vocabulary and writing; assessments; differentiating instruction for struggling readers and English language learners, including coverage of RTI.

This easy-to-use book provides model lesson plans for teaching the Common Core State Standards in reading, writing, speaking/listening, and language.  Each lesson plan is ready to go and includes reproducible handouts, assessments, additional resources, and ideas for modifying the lesson for struggling and advanced learners.