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2000-2001 Missouri Gold Star Schools: Profiles in Excellence

Covers several Missouri school districts and their success stories.

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Offers educators an introduction to “the only mass of matter in the known universe that can contemplate itself,” the human brain.  We all know that the brain is where learning takes place, but how many of us understand the brain’s basic workings and use that understanding in our work with students?  After reading this book, you’ll be able to identify the basic parts of the brain.  You’ll also be able to discuss how the brain learns, remembers, and forgets.

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The performance tasks in this book will engage your students in realistic problems which apply mathematical concepts and skills to authentic contexts.  It will help you align your classroom activities with national mathematics standards.  There are 21 performance tasks and scoring rubrics, along with samples of student work which clarify the tasks and anchor the points of the scoring rubrics.

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Eye on Education, Inc.

The performance tasks in this book will engage your students in realistic problems which apply mathematical concepts and skills to authentic contexts.  It will help you align your classroom activities with national mathematics standards.  There are 24 performance tasks and scoring rubrics, along with samples of student work which clarify the tasks and anchor the points of the scoring rubrics.

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A Collection of Performance Tasks and Rubrics: Primary School Mathematics

Eye on Education, Inc.

This book will help you engage your young students in developmentally appropriate activities which apply mathematical concepts and skills.  The authors have assembled 20 class-tested, easy-to-use performance tasks, corresponding to topics taught in kindergarten, first, second and third grade mathematics.

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A Collection of Performance Tasks and Rubrics: Upper Elementary School Mathematics

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A Mathematical Mystery Tour: Higher-Thinking Math Tasks

A journey through the mathematical patterns of nature using Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Ratio.

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As recently as the early ‘90s, portfolios began to appear in the classroom to support a variety of activities, from helping students and teachers set goals to helping teachers and administrators assess curriculum needs.  For many educators, the portfolio process offers a clear strategy for the achievement of important classroom objectives.  According to accounts from both researchers and practitioners, portfolios can engage students, document learning, and facilitate communication with parents.

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Catalog of instructional materials for adult education

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An ASCD topic pack designed to provide timely information on arts education, including full text articles, ERIC resources, a list of journal articles, and internet resources.

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Assessing Reasoning and Problem Solving: A Sourcebook for Elementary School Teachers

Stephen Krulik and Jesse A. Rudnick

Includes slice-of-life math problems that children can relate to and enjoy solving, teacher’s notes to guide your students in planning and carrying out each project, ready-to-copy student worksheets, ready-to-copy forms for assessing observations, interviews, projects, etc.

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This book showcases assessment practices to motivate your students while providing you with detailed feedback to improve instruction and enhance learning.  Included are open-ended questions and rubrics, journals, projects, presentations, observations, and checklists.

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Pairs fiction with nonfiction, builds comprehension strategies, analyzes character, builds vocabulary, includes a complete graphic organizer, determines what is important, draws conclusions, and teaches to identify the author’s purpose.  A collection of children’s stories and accompanying comprehension questions

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Beyond Hands-On: Techniques for Using Color, Scent, Taste, and Touch to Enhance Learning

This book goes beyond hands-on to minds-on learning with fresh and fascinating tips and techniques for using color, scent, taste, sound and touch to stimulate the process.  Psychologists, scientists and businesses have been utilizing this research on cognition for years.  Now you can put these proven techniques to practical use in your classroom with the ideas and activities in this book.

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Brain-Based Learning

An ASCD topic pack designed to provide timely information on brain-based learning, including full text articles, ERIC resources, a list of journal articles, and internet resources.

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Bringing the NCTM Standards to Life: Exemplary Practices for Middle Schools

This book presents teacher profiles and sample lessons from across the country.  It demonstrates that the NCTM standards reflect successful practices of teachers at the “grass roots” and offers practical advice to help you implement the standards in your classroom.

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Bringing the NCTM Standards to Life: Exemplary Practices from High Schools

Eye on Education, Inc.

By presenting teacher profiles and sample lessons from across the country, this book shows that the NCTM Standards reflect successful practices of teachers at the “grass roots.”

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CAT5: Complete Battery, Level 13, Form A

The California Achievement Test, Fifth Edition

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CAT5: Complete Battery, Level 17, Form A

The California Achievement Test, Fifth Edition

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Catch Them Thinking and Writing

This book helps teachers implement an effective factual thinking and writing program into elementary, middle, and high schools.  Demonstrates seven different models of factual writing: narratives, procedures, descriptions, reports, explanations, persuasive arguments, and discussions of arguments.

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Catch Them Thinking In Social Studies

SkyLight Training and Publishing, Inc.

Offers teachers a wide variety of problem-solving activities in five areas of the social studies curriculum: geography, politics, economics, culture, and history.

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Classroom Instruction that Works

Discusses nine broad teaching strategies that have positive effects on student learning: identifying similarities and differences, summarizing and note taking, reinforcing effort and providing recognition, homework and practice, nonlinguistic representations, cooperative learning, setting objectives and providing feedback, generating and testing hypotheses, questions, cues, and advance organizers.

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Classroom-Ready Activities For Teaching History and Geography in Grades 7-12

Combines a selection of resource and reference materials with specific class-tested activities.  An ideal tool for in-service or pre-service social studies teachers, this book contains a wealth of ideas and information.

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Communication Arts Teacher’s Guide, Level 13/14

A collection of classroom activities.

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Communication Arts Teacher’s Guide, Level 17/18

A collection of classroom activities.

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Comprehensive Reading and Writing Assessment 5

A booklet of reading stories and corresponding assessments.

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Comprehensive Reading and Writing Assessment 2

A booklet of reading stories and corresponding assessments.

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Comprehensive Reading and Writing Assessment 3

A booklet of reading stories and corresponding assessments.

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Comprehensive Reading and Writing Assessment 4

A booklet of reading stories and corresponding assessments.

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Comprehensive Reading and Writing Assessment 5

A booklet of reading stories and corresponding assessments.

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Comprehensive Reading and Writing Assessment 5: Track Student Progress and Improve Performance

A booklet of reading stories and corresponding assessments.

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Comprehensive Reading and Writing Assessment 8

A booklet of reading stories and corresponding assessments.

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Comprehensive Social Studies Assessment

Options Publishing, Inc.

A booklet of historical stories and tests.

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Cooperative Learning & Higher-Level Thinking: The Q-Matrix

A collection of hands-on manipulatives for classroom instruction.

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Designing and Using Portfolios

Beverly D. Shaklee, Nancy E. Barbour, Richard Ambrose, Susan J. Hansford

The authors present a model of portfolio assessment as a decision-making process, then take the reader through the actual decision points step by step including classroom scenarios to show how the process looks in different classrooms.

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Discover Your Child’s Learning Style

Shows you how to assess and nurture your child’s individual learning potential based on his or her talents, interests, disposition, preferred environment, and more.

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Discovering Me: A Guide to Teaching Health and Building Adolescents’ Self-Esteem

Discovering Me is designed to help teenagers develop self-esteem.  Using an interactive format, the book offers guidance on topics teenagers are most concerned about.  The book is an excellent tool for developing essential life skills that can help youth pass through adolescence safely and successfully.

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Early Childhood Assessment

A collection of activities and assessments for use in the classroom.

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Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More than IQ

Argues that our view of human intelligence is far too narrow, ignoring a crucial range of abilities that matter immensely in terms of how we do in life.  Emotional intelligence includes self-awareness and impulse control, persistence, zeal and self-motivation, empathy and social deftness.

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Exploring Classroom Assessment in Mathematics

A guide for professional development which examines teacher investigations and other topics.

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Foreign Language Teacher’s Guide to Active Learning

Deborah Blaz

Eye on Education, Inc.

The easy to implement activities and strategies in this book will help middle and high school foreign language teachers enhance their students’ success.  It shows how to create a classroom in which students can actively experience and discover a foreign language.

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Get Set for Reading: Test Preparation for Reading Assessments Level AA

A collection of short children’s stories and comprehension questions

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Get Set for Reading: Test Preparation for Reading Assessments Level B

A collection of short children’s stories and comprehension questions.

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Get Set for Reading: Test Preparation for Reading Assessments Level D

A collection of short children’s stories and comprehension questions.

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Get Set for Reading: Test Preparation for Reading Assessments Level F

A collection of short children’s stories and comprehension questions.

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Get Set for Reading: Test Preparation for Reading Assessments Level H

A collection of short children’s stories and comprehension questions.

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Get Set for Reading: Test Preparation for Reading Assessments Level I

A collection of short children’s stories and comprehension questions.

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Go For It: Listen, Read, Write Level AA

short children’s stories and comprehension questions.

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Go For It: Listen, Read, Write Level B

short children’s stories and comprehension questions.

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Go For It: Listen, Read, Write Level D

short children’s stories and comprehension questions.

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Go For It: Listen, Read, Write Level F

short children’s stories and comprehension questions.

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Great Performances: Creating Classroom Based Assessment Tasks

The authors discuss a four-step approach for teaching students how to acquire content knowledge - labeled "Info In" - and examine four "Info Out" modes through which students can make their content understanding explicit for evaluation purposes.  It is filled with highly motivating examples of student projects as well as effective assessment tools that teachers can adapt for their own classrooms.

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Offers practical solutions for turning the computer into a valuable teaching tool, inside and outside of your classroom.  This witty and insightful account will show you how a single computer can help ease your administrative burdens, enliven classroom presentations, spark incredible discussions, and foster cooperative learning and critical thinking.

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Hands-On Algebra: Ready-to-Use Games & Activities for Grades

Here’s a cast collection of 159 ready-to-use games and activities to make algebra meaningful and fun for kids of all ability levels.

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Higher-Level Thinking Questions: Life & Earth Sciences

Ready-to-use questions and activities for life and earth sciences.

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Higher-Level Thinking Questions: Intermediate Literature

Ready-to-use questions and activities for intermediate level literature classes.

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Higher-Level Thinking Questions: Social Studies

Ready-to-use questions and activities for social studies classes

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How to Get Better Test Scores: High School Exit Exam

Explains the purpose of a writing test, 6 characteristics of good writing, and common writing problems.

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How to Get Better Test Scores: Language Arts Grade 3

2003

Covers topics such as parts of speech, sentences, combining sentences, writing paragraphs, spelling, research skills, and reference sources.

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How to Get Better Test Scores: Math Grade 8

2003

Covers topics such as working with integers, fractions, decimals, and percents, solving equations and inequalities, statistics and probability, measurement, geometry, and interpreting data.

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How to Plan and Implement a Peer Coaching Program

Describes how schools can implement a peer coaching program that serves as a professional support group.  She describes peer coaching as a process in which two or more colleagues work together to reflect on current practices; expand, refine, and build new skills; share ideas; teach one another; conduct research; or solve problems.

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How to Raise Test Scores

Provides teachers with ten proven instructional strategies to enhance learning and raise student test scores.

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Interdisciplinary High School Teaching: Strategies for Integrated Learning

Organizes twenty years of instructional innovation into a comprehensible framework.  It offers a functional model of interdisciplinary curriculum organization and instruction, supported by examples of excellence drawn from thirty states.  Truly a book by and for teachers, it includes ten full-length case studies from real classrooms plus vignettes and illustrations submitted by hundreds of teachers.

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Interdisciplinary Strategies for English and Social Studies Classrooms

Here in this teacher-friendly format are suggested alternatives to help educators build schools that will provide the highest quality educational experiences for all students.  Nearly 50 interdisciplinary strategies, lasting from one day to a term, link social studies and English classes around common themes.

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Invitations: Changing as Teachers and Learners K-12

The text provides in-depth information for putting whole language theory into practice, as well as step-by-step demonstration lessons.

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Keylinks: The Connection Between Instruction and Assessment: High School Level 9

A collection of stories and comprehension questions.

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Keylinks: The Connection Between Instruction and Assessment: High School Level 10

A collection of stories and comprehension questions.

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Language Arts Assessment Grades 1 - 2

A workbook of writing activities.

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Language Arts Assessment Grades 5 - 6

A workbook of writing activities.

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Learning About Teaching

An interactive tutorial program to facilitate the study of teaching.

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Learning From the Lives of Amazing People

Janice Gudeman

Inspire your students through the lives of amazing people.  This book features twenty notable personalities such as Art Linkletter, Gale Sayers, Dale Evans Rogers and Jesse Owens.  Each of these people faced an adversity or overcame a hardship.  The valuable lessons learned from their exemplary lives will provide students the inspiration and ideas to creatively work through problems and advance through their own adversities.

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Magic Trees of the Mind: How to Nurture Your Child’s Intelligence, Creativity, and Healthy Emotions from Birth Through Adolescence.

Marian Diamond, Ph.D., and Janet Hopson

Leading brain researcher Dr. Marian Diamond draws on decades of experience and scientific study to reveal how a child’s brain physically responds to environmental influences – and how we can provide our children with the nurturing and stimulating conditions they need to develop and thrive.

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Making the Case for Math

A special report on elementary mathematics in the 1990s from D.C. Heath and Company, the Nation’s Leader in Mathematics Education.

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A workbook of math activities.

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Math Maps Teacher’s Guide

Discusses the structure, key words, symbols, and colors of math maps.  Covers activities such as topic preview, topic recall, creation maps, and brainstorming.

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Math Matters: Basic Concepts Through Skill Building and Problem Solving Level C

A math program that will help the student build and strengthen math skills.  The program is designed to help make sense of the math skills students use in the classroom and in real life.

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Math Matters: Basic Concepts Through Skill Building and Problem Solving Level E

A math program that will help the student build and strengthen math skills.  The program is designed to help make sense of the math skills students use in the classroom and in real life.

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Mathematics Assessment, A Video Library, K – 12: Guidebook

An NCTM assessment video library.

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Mathematics Assessment: Myths, Models, Good Questions, and Practical Suggestions

1991

A collection of examples of assessment techniques that focus on student thinking.

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Middle School Assessment

Offers suggestions for how a teacher can pull everything together for the purposes of grading and conferencing, how a teacher can accumulate evidence to back up subjective observations of cooperative groups, how a teacher can involve students and give them ownership of the learning process, and how a teacher can find the time to do all of these new processes.

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Missouri Journal of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance Vol 12

This is the official publication of the Missouri Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance and is published yearly. It contains articles, views and opinions of various authors regarding these subjects.

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Missouri Show-Me Standards Electronic Alignment Tool

Mike Willard

The Missouri Show-Me Standards Electronic Alignment Tool CD-ROM contains a relational database that links Missouri Show-Me Standards and Missouri’s Framework for Curriculum Development, including assessment annotations for communication arts, fine arts, health education, physical education, science, and mathematics as well as the Social Studies Content Specifications and Integrated information and Technology Literacy Skills.

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Guide to Eighth-Grade Mathematics Lessons: United States, Japan & Germany

This teaching module is designed to help you, the moderator, facilitate discussions among educators. The guide will help you to make appropriate decisions about your own sessions and suggest things to consider s you plan for and facilitate the discussion.

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PAL-Prep Level A

Preparation for Performance Assessment in Language Arts

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PAL-Prep Level AA

Preparation for Performance Assessment in Language Arts

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PAL-Prep Level AAA

Preparation for Performance Assessment in Language Arts

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PAL-Prep Level AAAA

Preparation for Performance Assessment in Language Arts

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PAL-Prep Level B

Preparation for Performance Assessment in Language Arts

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PAL-Prep Level C

Preparation for Performance Assessment in Language Arts

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PAL-Prep Level D

Preparation for Performance Assessment in Language Arts

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PAL-Prep Level E

Preparation for Performance Assessment in Language Arts

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PAL-Prep Level F

Preparation for Performance Assessment in Language Arts

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PAM H