If students are not engaged, there is little, if any, chance that they will learn what is being addressed in class. A basic premise of The Highly Engaged Classroom is that student engagement happens as a result of a teacher's careful planning and execution of specific strategies. In other words, stu[...]

This text analyzes research from more than 100 studies on classroom management to discover the answers to these questions: How does classroom management affect student achievement? What techniques do teachers find most effective? How important are schoolwide policies and practices in setting the to[...]

Becoming a Reflective Teacher is a practical guide for educators who wish to hone their teaching strategies. Just as successful athletes must identify personal strengths and weaknesses, set goals, and engage in focused practice to meet their goals, author and educator Robert Marzano asserts that tea[...]

In A Handbook for High Reliability Schools: The Next Step in School Reform, authors Robert J. Marzano, Phil Warrick, and Julia A. Simms and their colleagues help educators transform schools into organizations that take proactive steps to prevent failure and ensure success. Using a research-based fiv[...]

Implementing the action steps from ASCD's best-seller The Art and Science of Teaching is much easier when you use this in-depth resource for workshops, professional learning communities, teacher training, and self-help. Hundreds of samples, guidelines, checklists, and activities help teachers in all[...]

For many years, coauthors Rick DuFour and Bob Marzano have been co-travelers on the journey to help educators improve their schools. As Rick has focused on bringing the professional learning community process to life in schools, he has relied heavily on Bob's vast research on effective teaching and [...]

This book will provide teachers and school administrators with: an understanding of the reasons behind their confusion and discomfort by detailing the way that the changing role of schooling and our increasing knowledge about the nature of learning have made classroom assessment much more complex, w[...]