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Please use the short form of this list, which is found in your packet, to purchase books.
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($24.95) Delivering on the Promise: The Education Revolution by Richard A. Delorenzo,
Wendy J. Battino, Rick M. Schreiber, and Barbara Gaddy Carrio
Delivering on the Promise is the story of one school district s journey to develop and implement the RISC
(Re-Inventing Schools Coalition) Approach to Schooling a system that represents a dramatic shift for
American education, a literal reinvention of what schooling looks like. In 2001, the members of the district
won the coveted Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for their efforts in developing and
implementing the program. The RISC Approach to Schooling is a standards-based approach to education
designed to educate all students to the highest levels, empower them to own and lead the learning
process, help them realize their dreams, and equip them with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to
succeed in a rapidly changing world. Motivation, engagement, and shared leadership and clarity that
every child can learn are foundational pillars of RISC s whole-child model. The RISC Approach to Schooling
requires much more of students than the traditional approach to K 12 education both in terms of students
academic performance and their ownership of the learning process but this approach makes much more
possible for students as well. Very low-level, just-get-by achievement is no longer sufficient for
advancement. Proficiency is the new bar for every student. There is a shared commitment to ensure that
every student has a solid understanding, a facility with skills, and the ability to interact effectively with
real-world situations in every content area. In addition, students no longer simply wait for teachers to tell
them what to do next. Instead, students, even very young ones, are empowered to partner with their
teachers, lead, and participate in their own educational experience. At the same time, students are
provided with the teaching, coaching, support, and individualized learning experiences they need to
succeed. The most fundamental difference between a traditional education system and a RISC system is
that in a traditional system, time is the constant and learning is the variable. In a RISC system, the reverse
is true: Learning is the constant and time is the variable. In a traditional system, students spend 13 years
in school, kindergarten through grade 12, as they earn a certain amount of seat time each year by
receiving a minimum grade, as low as a D , in each required course. Whether they learn and to what
extent they learn, however, varies greatly from class to class, teacher to teacher, and school to school.
Conversely, in a school or district implementing the RISC approach, students move at their own pace (as
fast or as slow as needed) through developmental levels in standards, rather than age-based grade levels.
In a RISC system, students also must meet an acceptable level of performance, but the bar is set higher.
To move ahead to the next level in any standards area, a student must demonstrate proficient or better
performance on end-of-level assessments the equivalent of a traditional B letter grade or higher.
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($22.95) Designing Personalized Learning for Every Student by Dianne L. Ferguson,
Ginevra Ralph, Gwen Meyer, Jackie Lester, Cleo Droege, Hafdís Guðjónsdóttir, Nadia
Katul Sampson, and Janet Williams
Today’s students are more diverse than ever before—in cultural backgrounds, learning styles and
interests, social and economic classes, and abilities and disabilities. How can schools accommodate these
differences while also dealing with the many other demands for change, from the push for tougher
standards to the call for more discipline in the classroom? This book offers answers—and challenges
schools to reinvent themselves as more flexible, creative learning communities that include and are
responsive to a full range of human diversity.
The authors propose a systemic change framework that structures change efforts at district, school, and
classroom levels. Their approach rests on three main ideas:
 Locate decisions with groups of teachers.
 Create new roles for teachers.
 Redesign individualized education plans
Using these ideas as a starting point, they describe strategies to help teachers design personalized
curriculum and teaching that will accommodate the widest possible student diversity, including students
who are officially designated as disabled. They provide a variety of practical tools for gathering
information about students, developing long-term curriculum plans, planning lessons, tailoring learning
experiences, creating classroom-based assessment systems, writing individually tailored education
reports, and reflecting on one's own teaching.
The book reflects 15 years of collaboration and learning among groups of educators trying to improve
their teaching practices in the face of dizzying changes. The authors believe their synthesis of learning and
professional development finally undoes the separation of general and special education and
accomplishes what they think is the real purpose of schooling—to help all students become active, valued
members of their community.
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($26.95) Getting Smart: How Digital Learning Is Changing the World by Tom Vander Ark
and Bob Wise
In our digital age, students have dramatically new learning needs and must be prepared for the idea
economy of the future. In Getting Smart, well-known global education expert Tom Vander Ark examines
the facets of educational innovation in the United States and abroad. Vander Ark makes a convincing case
for a blend of online and onsite learning, shares inspiring stories of schools and programs that effectively
offer "personal digital learning" opportunities, and discusses what we need to do to remake our schools
into "smart schools."
 Examines the innovation-driven world, discusses how to combine online and onsite learning, and
reviews "smart tools" for learning
 Investigates the lives of learning professionals, outlines the new employment bargain, examines
online universities and "smart schools"
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 Makes the case for smart capital, advocates for policies that create better learning, studies smart
cultures
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($24.95) How to Teach Now: Five Keys to Personalized Learning in the Global Classroom
by William Powell and Ochan Kusuma-Powell
Despite all the diversity teachers face these days, there really is a clear pattern that helps you focus
instruction, regardless of your students’ nationality, culture, religion, or gender. Here’s a book that reveals
that pattern and explains how teachers operate at their most effective when they
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Know the individual student and personalize instruction to match each student’s needs.
Ensure instruction considers the whole diverse community of students and prepares them for living
and working together in our modern, complicated world.
Based on the wisdom of teachers at international schools, the authors outfit you with ideas and strategies
for embracing the paradox of personalized learning in the global classroom, including
 Why and how to gather learning profile data on your students.
 What effects your own cultural frame can have on your teaching approach and how to uncover
those effects.
 What and what not to personalize in your curriculum.
 How to focus inquiry on developing your students’ deep understandings.
 How to emphasize assessments that help students learn how to learn.
Discover an approach to teaching that welcomes your students’ diversity into the classroom, connects
them to a globalized perspective of the world, and prepares them for the new world they are facing and
its many challenges.
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($22.95) It’s Inevitable: Customized Teaching and Learning: A Fieldbook for and from
the Field by James D. Perry, Nancy Hall, and Patricia Peel
It’s inevitable: Customized Teaching and Learning presents practical and powerful next steps on the road
to Mass Customized Learning (MCL), the compelling 21st Century vision for schools put forward by the coauthors of the recent and highly-regarded book titled inevitable. Co-authors Schwahn and McGarvey
challenge the decades-old status quo of familiar school structures such as grade levels, bell schedule,
desks in rows, and class periods. They put forward a vision which restructures schools and maximizes
current technologies for a learner-centered approach to education. Now comes the fieldbook, or how-to
guide, with a rich collection of practical resources and insights to support school leaders with
implementation of the vision. The fieldbook empowers school leaders to “ramp in” to the vision of
customization by capitalizing on initiatives with momentum already happening in their respective schools.
The fieldbook work, led by James Parry in collaboration with Schwahn and McGarvey, empowers school
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leaders with tools and processes to guide and facilitate implementation activities productively. A
comprehensive yet succinct rubric for customized teaching and learning serves as a self-assessment tool
as well as a discussion tool for building shared understanding about the vision. A book study tool provides
provocative and insightful questions for each chapter of inevitable. A description of a robust technology
infrastructure positions school leaders with essential information for planning. Or, a sampling of schools
pursuing customization demonstrates a range of entry points for making progress with the MCL vision.
Subtitled “A Fieldbook For and From the Field,” It’s inevitable: Customized Teaching and Learning is
authored and edited by a team of respected education leaders and practitioners with K-16 experience.
The fieldbook resources are designed to equip school leaders for responding productively to the
opportunity presented by the vision of customization. Also, each fieldbook resource includes a “story”
which reflects firsthand experience from the field. Thus, the fieldbook projects the views of
knowledgeable and skilled practitioners via a friendly, practical, hands-on approach. The fieldbook is
organized around four crucial and interconnected topics: Leadership, Teaching and Learning, Human
Resources, and Technology Resources. Importantly, the fieldbook includes numerous resources for each
topic. Efficiently, the resources are presented in a consistent format so users can readily note the
purpose, audience, rationale, and content. A “readiness” for It’s Inevitable: Customized Teaching and
Learning is reflected in the observation of Rob Monson, Past President of the National Association of
Elementary School Principals. He states: “For good reason, inevitable has captured my attention and the
attention of other leaders on the national scene. The vision of MCL is profound in that it is so obvious and
logical. Foremost, it responds to the needs of learners. Crucially, the vision offers direction for education
stakeholders. As a result, the premise and timing of the fieldbook are ideal for taking meaningful next
steps with implementation.” A similar theme is echoed by inevitable co-author Chuck Schwahn:
“Inevitable has proven the MCL vision to be most desirable. It’s Inevitable: Customized Teaching and
Learning shows it to be doable. Desirable and Doable make the MCL vision an obvious “go” for schools.”
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($34.95) Literacy Is Not Enough: 21st-Century Fluencies for the Digital Age by Lee
Crocket, Ian Jukes, and Andrew Churches
The authors present an effective framework for integrating comprehensive literacy or fluency into the
traditional curriculum to prepare students for a technology-driven and global culture.
Literacy Is NOT Enough goes beyond “why” education needs to change and focuses on “how” to change
by identifying the 21st-century learning environment and detailing the process for developing scenarios
and unit plans that address traditional curriculum, including Common Core Standards, while cultivating
these 21st-century fluencies.
Also included are tools for evaluating these fluencies at the individual or class level, tools for evaluating
how effective a lesson plan is in developing these fluencies in a classroom setting, and samples of
complete unit plans as well as the templates for their development.
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($16.00) MindSet by Carol Dweck
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World-renowned Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck, in decades of research on achievement
and success, has discovered a truly groundbreaking idea–the power of our mindset.
Dweck explains why it’s not just our abilities and talent that bring us success–but whether we approach
them with a fixed or growth mindset. She makes clear why praising intelligence and ability doesn’t foster
self-esteem and lead to accomplishment, but may actually jeopardize success. With the right mindset, we
can motivate our kids and help them to raise their grades, as well as reach our own goals–personal and
professional. Dweck reveals what all great parents, teachers, CEOs, and athletes already know: how a
simple idea about the brain can create a love of learning and a resilience that is the basis of great
accomplishment in every area.
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($33.95) Off the Clock: Moving Education from Time to Competency by Rose Colby and
This text provides a comprehensive approach to implementing a large-scale competency-based reform
initiative that bases student achievement on mastery rather than “seat time.”
The book’s core idea is that student achievement should be based on mastering competencies instead of
“seat time.” In addition, learning does not need to be restricted to a school building or a traditional
school calendar. Bramante and Colby describe a uniquely 21 st century learning environment in which
 Every student is engaged
 Parents and students have more control over learning
 Dropouts are all but eliminated
 Curriculum becomes virtually limitless, project-based, and interdisciplinary.
This text is for educators, policymakers, parents, and community members. The beneficiaries will be our
nation and its children.
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($26.99) The One-World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined by Salman Khan
A free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere: this is the goal of the Khan Academy, a passion
project that grew from an ex-engineer and hedge funder's online tutoring sessions with his niece, who was
struggling with algebra, into a worldwide phenomenon. Today millions of students, parents, and teachers
use the Khan Academy's free videos and software, which have expanded to encompass nearly every
conceivable subject; and Academy techniques are being employed with exciting results in a growing
number of classrooms around the globe.
Like many innovators, Khan rethinks existing assumptions and imagines what education could be if freed
from them. And his core idea-liberating teachers from lecturing and state-mandated calendars and opening
up class time for truly human interaction-has become his life's passion. Schools seek his advice about
connecting to students in a digital age, and people of all ages and backgrounds flock to the site to utilize
this fresh approach to learning.
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In The One World Schoolhouse Khan presents his radical vision for the future of education, as well as his
own remarkable story, for the first time. In these pages, you will discover, among other things:
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How both students and teachers are being bound by a broken top-down model invented in Prussia
two centuries ago
Why technology will make classrooms more human and teachers more important
How and why we can afford to pay educators the same as other professionals
How we can bring creativity and true human interactivity back to learning
Why we should be very optimistic about the future of learning.
Parents and politicians routinely bemoan the state of our education system. Statistics suggest we've fallen
behind the rest of the world in literacy, math, and sciences. With a shrewd reading of history, Khan
explains how this crisis presented itself, and why a return to "mastery learning," abandoned in the twentieth
century and ingeniously revived by tools like the Khan Academy, could offer the best opportunity to level
the playing field, and to give all of our children a world-class education now.
More than just a solution, THE ONE WORLD SCHOOLHOUSE serves as a call for free, universal, global
education, and an explanation of how Khan's simple yet revolutionary thinking can help achieve this
inspiring goal.
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($36.95) Personalized Learning: Student-Designed Pathways to High School Graduation
by John H. Clarke
Move your school toward enriched personalized study with specific tips, guides and answers from those
who have already used the model to improve readiness outcomes.
In this book, you will . . .
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Hear from superintendents, students, teachers, and parents who have implemented and
experienced success with personalized learning
Get specific tips to help your staff implement key processes and measure outcomes
Find answers for naysayers and the big questions that threaten success
Use models of prompts and rubrics to get your pilot program started
($36.95) Project-Based Learning: Differentiating Instruction for the 21st Century by
William N. Bender
This book’s collection of instructional strategies and assessment methods show how to implement and
differentiate project-based learning that fosters 21st century skills in Grades K–12.
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William N. Bender describes how PBL fosters 21st century skills and innovative thinking with this collection
of instructional strategies and assessment methods. He provides detailed instruction on how to . . .
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Design projects for various content areas across all grade levels
Integrate technology throughout the learning process
Use Khan Academy, webquests wikis, and more to foster deeper conceptual learning
Build social learning networks and collaboration among student teams
Differentiate instruction by scaffolding supports for the learning process
Assess understanding in a variety of formats.
The text links PBL to the Common Core State Standards. This is the book that provides guidance and
resources as you implement the primary model of instruction for the 21st century!
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($23.95) Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology: The Digital Revolution and
Schooling in America by Allan Collins and Richard Halverson
The digital revolution has hit education, with more and more classrooms plugged into the whole wired
world. But are schools making the most of new technologies? Are they tapping into the learning potential
of today's Firefox/Facebook/cell phone generation? Have schools fallen through the crack of the digital
divide? In Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology, Allan Collins and Richard Halverson argue that
the knowledge revolution has transformed our jobs, our homes, our lives, and therefore must also
transform our schools. Much like after the school-reform movement of the industrial revolution, our
society is again poised at the edge of radical change. To keep pace with a globalized technological culture,
we must rethink how we educate the next generation or America will be left behind. This groundbreaking
book offers a vision for the future of American education that goes well beyond the walls of the classroom
to include online social networks, distance learning with anytime, anywhere access, digital home
schooling models, video-game learning environments, and more.
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($34.95) Using Common Core Standards to Enhance Classroom Instruction and
Assessment by Robert J. Marzano, Phil Warrick, Tammy Heflebower, David C. Yanoski,
Julia A. Simms, Jan K. Hoegh
Implementing the Common Core standards in your school isn't complete until you link your learning
targets to proficiency scales that teachers can use in their everyday practice to ensure students are
attaining the goals called for in the standards. That's where this book comes in with practical steps and a
clear way to measure improvements. Getting a copy for every teacher in your organization helps them
 Infuse 21st century reasoning and thinking into instruction.
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Create learning goals that directly relate to proficiency scales.
Measure student progress in a way that accurately reflects learning.
Track students progress and assign grades.
Modify instruction to ensure better alignment to the standards.
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Included are hundreds of ready-to-use, research-based proficiency scales for both English language arts
and mathematics for every grade level.
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($19.95) Who Owns the Learning? Preparing Students for Success in the Digital Age by
Alan November
Learn how to harness students' natural curiosity to develop them into self-directed learners. Discover how
technology allows students to take ownership of their learning, create and share learning tools, and
participate in work that is meaningful to them and others. Real-life examples illustrate how every student
can become a teacher and a global publisher. The embedded QR codes link to supporting websites.
Benefits
- Read real-life examples that illustrate how technology is revolutionizing instruction and learning.
- Develop techniques that will enable your students to own and direct their learning.
- Discover hidden opportunities to create your own Digital Learning Farm communities.
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($29.95) World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students by Yong
Zhao
To succeed in the global economy, students need to think like entrepreneurs. Zhao unlocks secrets to
cultivating independent thinkers who can create jobs and contribute positively to the globalized society.
This book presents concepts that teachers, administrators, and parents can implement immediately,
including how to . . .
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Understand and harness the entrepreneurial spirit
Foster student autonomy and leadership
Encourage inventive learners with necessary resources
Develop global partners and resources.
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