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In this chapter, learn how to keep small group members on track and how to select math routines.

In this activity, students connect composing and decomposing a 10 to your current grade-level content. Material list and discussion points included.

In this activity, students connect comparing numbers presented as sets of objects to your current grade-level content. This excerpt includes the material list and discussion points.

Explore the shifts required to move towards curriculum-based professional learning in this excerpt from Transforming Teaching Through Curriculum-Based Professional Learning.

"This work resulted in a core set of research-based actions, approaches, and enabling conditions that effective schools and systems have put in place to reinforce and amplify the power of high-quality curriculum and skillful teaching. We call these the Elements of curriculum-based professional learning, or simply the Elements." - Transforming Teaching Through Curriculum-Based Professional Learning

"This book points the way toward a coherent set of policies, tools, and practices designed that educational systems can use to ensure quality teaching in all communities." - Linda Darling-Hammond on Transforming Teaching Through Curriculum-Based Professional Learning

Hope is not simply an emotion. Hope is a science. Hope is one of the most robust predictors of GPA, future academic attainment, and overall resiliency. Measuring and raising hope levels can combat the effects of trauma and adverse childhood experiences, build motivation, and drive achievement. This webinar combines scientific research, tools, and strategies to increase hope and improve equity and life outcomes for both students and staff.

"Being a peer leader poses unique challenges, but also offers unexpected advantages. In the following pages, I explore five understandings that skillful team leaders (STLs) have about peer leadership." - Intentional Moves.

Explore moves skillful team leaders (STLs) can employ to manage conflict in this excerpt from Intentional Moves. 

Even goals that technically meet the SMART criteria—specific, measurable, attainable, results-driven, and time-bound—don't always advance student learning.  Skillful team leaders align goals to priorities and ensure people have a heartfelt commitment to reaching them.  

This webinar explores the use of mastery learning instructional strategies to personalize and differentiate instruction for diverse students.

There are two versions of this routine with systems of linear equations—choosing different strategies (e.g., Use Tables or Use Graphs) and making choices within a strategy (e.g., For which variable will I substitute? Or Which variables will I eliminate?).