Teacher Guides

Making Sense of Number, K–10

Getting to know your students so you can support the development of their mathematical understanding.

Speaking Our Truth Teacher Guide

A comprehensive guide for teachers using Speaking Our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation, a nonfiction book for middle readers, in the classroom.

Orca Footprints Teacher Guide

A comprehensive guide for using the Orca Footprints, a nonfiction series for middle readers, in the classroom. The guide focuses on three learning clusters: Our Earth, Our Work and Our Global Community.

Inspiring Meaningful Learning

6 steps to creating lessons that engage students in deep learning.

Asking Better Questions

Teaching and learning for a changing world.

Reaching & Teaching Them All

Making quick and lasting connections with every student in your classroom.

Powerful Understanding

Helping students explore, question, and transform their thinking about themselves and the world around them.

What Is a "Good" Teacher?

Cultivating Readers

Everything you need to take reading instruction beyond the skills to addressing the will.

Moving Math

How to use thinking skills to help students make sense of mathematical concepts and support numeracy development.

Take Me to Your Readers

How to use the best children's books to lead students to read, read, read.

Literacy Out Loud

Creating vibrant classrooms where talk is the springboard for all learning.

How Do I Get Them to Write?

Explore the reading-writing connection using freewriting and mentor texts to motivate and empower students.

Keep Growing

How to encourage students to persevere, overcome setbacks, and develop a growth mindset.

Reading, Writing, Playing, Learning

Finding the sweet spots in kindergarten literacy.

Powerful Readers

Thinking strategies to guide literacy instruction in secondary classrooms.

Student Diversity

Teaching strategies to meet the learning needs of all students in K–10 classrooms.

Literacy 101

Questions and answers that meet the needs of real teachers.

The Four Roles of the Numerate Learner

Effective teaching and assessment strategies to help students think differently about mathematics.

Substitute Teaching?

Everything you need to get the students on your side and teach them too! Ready-to-use tools, tips, and lesson ideas for every grade from K-8.

Marvelous Minilessons for Teaching Nonfiction Writing K–3

The Feedback-Friendly Classroom

How to equip students to give, receive, and seek quality feedback that will support their social, academic, and developmental needs.

P.L.A.N. for Better Learning

4 simple steps for designing lessons that boost thinking and maximize learning.

"This Is a Great Book!"

101 events for building enthusiastic readers inside and outside the classroom — from chapter books to young adult novels.