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We're bringing out the heavy hitters—120 of them, to be exact. Consultants like Michael Fullan and practitioners like Douglas Reeves all weigh in on challenges to teaching, learning, and professional development. This isn't your typical, one-day training session with a guest speaker. These experts give the theory and show how to implement it in short, on-demand video segments that are making changes from Boston to LA.

Bottom line: It's some of the world's most effective training, period.

• - A -

• Jamie Almanzan - No Excuses! How to Increase Minority Student Learning
• Betty Ashbaker - Training Paraprofessionals and the Teachers that Work with Them

• - B -

• Mary Montle Bacon - Working with Students from the Culture of Poverty
• Stephen Barkley - Instructional Coaching: School-Based Staff Development for Improved Teacher and Student Learning
• Barrie Bennett - Integrating Teaching Models

• - C -

• Robert Lynn Canady - Elementary Parallel Block Scheduling and Middle School Block Scheduling
• Cindy Cantrell - The Art of Guided Reading
• Cathy Caro-Bruce - Action Research
• John Champlin - Managing Change
• Carolyn Chapman - Differentiating to Meet the Needs of All Students
• James P. Comer - Community Involvement: Working Together to Improve Schools
• Arthur L. Costa - Cognitive Coaching and Teaching Intelligent Behaviors: Habits of Mind

• - D -

• Willard R. Daggett - Developing Rigorous and Relevant Academic Skills
• Bonnie Davis - No Excuses! How to Increase Minority Student Achievement
• Terrence Deal - Principals: Leader of Change
• Rebecca DuFour - Elementary Principals as Leaders of Learning
• Richard P. DuFour - Leadership in the Age of Standards and High Stakes: Building Professional Learning Communities

• - E -

• Fenwick English - Developing, Aligning, and Auditing Curriculum
• H. Lynn Erickson - Creating Concept-Based Curriculum for Deeper Understanding

• - F -

• Michael Fullan - What's Worth Fighting For In Education and Managing Change

• - G -

• Robert Garmston - Cognitive Coaching
• Yvelyne Germain-McCarthy - Teaching Mathematics to Increase Student Achievement
• Cheryl Gholar - Ensuring Success for "Low Yield" Students: Building Lives and Molding Futures
• Margery Ginsberg - Encouraging Motivation Among All Students
• Diane Gossen - Helping Disruptive and Unresponsive Students
• Gayle Gregory - Applied Differentiation: Making It Work in the Classroom
• Thomas Guskey - Grading and Reporting Student Progress to Enhance Learning

• - H -

• Robert Hanson - Strategies for Elementary, Middle, and High School Teachers, Instructional Strategies for Greater Student Achievement
• Andy Hargreaves - What's Worth Fighting for in Education
• Stephanie Hirsh - Designing and Evaluating Professional Development for Increased Student Learning
• Judson Hixson - Ensuring Success for "Low Yield" Students: Building Lives and Molding Futures
• David Hyerle - Visual Tools: From Graphic Organizers to Thinking Maps

• - J -

• Heidi Hayes Jacobs - Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening Across the Curriculum, Integrating Curriculum
• Ruth S. Johnson - Using Data to Close the Achievement Gap
• Irving C. Jones - Secondary Principals as Leaders of Learning

• - K -

• Laurie Kagan - Cooperative Learning and Multiple Intelligences
• Spencer Kagan - Cooperative Learning and Multiple Intelligences
• Bena Kallick - Portfolio Assessment
• Joellen Killion - Instructional Coaching: School-Based Staff Development for Improved Teacher and Student Learning
• Jim Knight - Instructional Coaching: School-Based Staff Development for Improved Teacher and Student Learning
• Lin Kuzmich - Applied Differentiation: Making it Work in the Classroom

• - L -

• Marian Leibowitz - The Heterogeneous Classroom
• Valerie Lewis - Evaluation, Intervention
• Blanch and John Linton - Coaching and Learning Framework
• Curtis Linton - Courageous Conversations About Race
• Laura Lipton - Effective Mentoring

• - M -

• Bruce Marlowe - Creating the Constructivist Classroom
• Bernice McCarthy - 4Mat? System
• Marilyn McGuire - Evaluation to Promote Teacher Growth and Student Learning
• Jay McTighe - Designing Performance Assessments
• Cecil Mercer - Reading for Older Struggling Students
• Verne Meyer - Writing Across the Curriculum
• Margaret Mooney - Achieving Reading Success in the Early Years
• Jill Morgan - Training Paraprofessionals and the Teachers that Work with Them
• Darrell Morris - Helping Struggling Readers Beyond Grade One
• Carlene Murphy - Whole-Faculty Study Groups

• - N -

• Jane Nelsen - Positive Discipline in the Classroom

• - O -

• Steven J. Olsen -

• - P -

• Marilyn Page - Creating the Constructivist Classroom
• Kent D. Petersen - Principals: Leaders of Change
• Stephen M. Preston -

• - Q -

• Salle Quackenboss - What Works in Classroom Instruction: Research-Based Strategies
• J. Allen Queen - The Frazzled Teacher's/Principal's Health and Wellness Plan

• - R -

• Patricia and Douglas Ramsay - Teaching and Learning Framework, Intervention Program
• Douglas B. Reeves - Assessments and Scoring Guides Based on Standards, Accountability for Greater Student Learning, Standards that Work: Helping Teachers Understand Standards
• Michael Rettig - Block Scheduling
• Dorothy Rich - How Families Can Help Children Learn
• Ernestine Riggs - Ensuring Success for "Low Yield" Students: Building Lives and Modeling Futures
• Pam Robbins - The Collaborative Workplace and Peer Coaching
• Eleanor Renee Rodriguez - All Means All: "What Is It About Me You Can't Teach?"
• Virginia Rojas - Helping Students of Limited English Skills in the Regular Classroom
• Patricia Roy - Cooperative Learning

• - S -

• Carol Santa - Reading in the Content Areas with Research-Based CRISS Strategies
• Beth Sattes - Questioning to Stimulate Learning and Thinking
• Philip Schlechty - Working on the Work
• Mike Schmoker - Data-Driven Decisions
• Steve Shaha - Evaluation and Assessment, Intervention Program
• Harvey Silver - Instructional Strategies for Greater Student Achievement
• Glenn Singleton - Closing the Achievement Gap, Courageous Conversations about Race
• Rick Smith - Unlocking the Secrets of Great Teachers: What the Best Teachers Do Everyday
• David Sousa - Brain Research
• Dennis Sparks - Professional Development for Increased Student Learning
• Rick Stiggins - Assessment
• Cindy Strickland - Applied Differentiation: Making It Work in the Classroom
• Richard Strong - Instructional Strategies for Greater Student Achievement
• Nancy Sulla - The Technology-Infused Classroom

• - T -

• Beverly Daniel Tatum - No Excuses: How to Increase Minority Student Learning

• - W -

• Jackie Walsh - Questioning to Stimulate Learning and Thinking
• Bruce Wellman - Effective Mentoring
• Todd Whitaker - Dealing with Teachers Who Are Resistant to Change and Reluctant to Improve
• Raymond Wlodkowski - Encouraging Motivation Among All Students
• Pat Wolfe - Brain Research
• Harry Wong - Teacher Induction, Mentoring, and Renewal