When ordering your textbook, please check the title, version, and ISBN to be sure you have the correct text, as we often use books that have had multiple editions. You can purchase new, used, or E-books for the online courses. 

Our textbooks are available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other online booksellers. 

 

Accelerated Learning

Brain Matters: Translating Research into Classroom Practice, 2nd Edition by Patricia Wolfe

978-1-4166-1067-0

Beginning with May 2023 sections the required text is:

Accelerating Learning for All, PreK-8

Equity in Action, by Rebecca McKinney and Colleen Urlik. ISBN:

978-1071888988

Achieving Parental Support

Parents and Teachers Working Together by Brett J. Novick

978-1475828887

Adolescent Literacy Strategies

Improving Adolescent Literacy: Content Area Strategies at Work, 5th Edition by Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey

978-0135180877

Brain-Based Teaching for the Adolescent Learner

Teaching for Deeper Learning by Jay McTighe and Harvey F. Silver

978-1416628620

Bringing Excitement to the Science Classroom

Science Formative Assessment, Volume 1: 75 Practical Strategies for Linking Assessment, Instruction, and Learning, 2nd Edition by Page Keeley

978-1483352176

Bully Prevention

The Bully, the Bullied, and the Not-So-Innocent Bystander by Barbara Coloroso

978-0062572165

Character Education in the Classroom

Culturize by Jimmy Casas

978-1-946444-46-2

Classroom Technologies

Edtech for the K-12 Classroom: ISTE Readings on How, When and Why to Use Technology

978-1564846938

Collaborative Classroom

Best Practices in Co-teaching & Collaboration: The HOW of Co-teaching - Implementing the Models by Susan Gingras Fitzell

978-1932995398

Combating the Effects of Poverty in the Classroom

Poor Students, Rich Teaching by Eric Jensen

978-1947604636

Combating Problem Behaviors

From Behaving to Belonging; The Inclusive Art of Supporting Students Who Challenge Us by Julie Causton & Kate Macleod.

978-1-4166-2929-0.

 

Creating Safer Schools

Can We ensure Safe Schools? A Collaborative Guide on Focused Strategies for School Safety edited by Fern Aefsky

978-147584519

Cyberbullying

Bullying Beyond the Schoolyard: Preventing and Responding to Cyberbullying, 2nd Edition by Sameer Hinduja

978-1483-34993-0

Developing Capable Visible Learners

Developing Assessment-Capable Visible Learners Grades K-12 by Nancy Frey, John Hattie, and Douglas Fisher.

978-1506389981

Differentiated Instruction in the Classroom

Differentiating Instruction in the Regular Classroom: How to Reach & Teach All Learners, Updated Anniversary Edition by Diane Heacox

978-1575-42416-3

Disciplinary Literacy Grades 5-12

Literacy in the Disciplines: A Teacher’s Guide for Grades 5-12 by Thomas DeVere Wolsey and Diane Lapp

978-1-462527-92-2

Discipline with Dignity

Discipline with Dignity: How to Build Responsibility, Relationships, and Respect in Your Classroom, 4th Edition by, Curwin, Mendler, Mendler

978-1416625810

Dropout Prevention

Dropout Prevention by C. Lee Goss and Krista J. Arden

ISBN: 978-1-4625-1620-9

Educating Special Needs Students

Commonsense Methods for Children with Special Educational Needs, 8 th Edition by Peter Westwood

978-0367625757

Effective Classroom Management

The First Days of School, 5th Edition by Harry Wong

978-0976423386

Emotional Security in Schools

The Emotionally Connected Classroom: Wellness and the Learning Experience by Bill Adair

978-1-5443-5636-5

English for Speakers of Other Languages

Making Content Comprehensible For English Learners by Jana Echevarria, MaryEllen Vogt and Deborah J. Short

978-0-13-404523-8

Getting to the Core

Pathways to the Common Core: Accelerating Achievement by Lucy Calkins

978-0-325-04355-5

Although this course refers to the Common Core, the strategies, words and activities still apply to standards newly adopted by State’s that have repealed the CCSS. This course unpacks critically important strategies and tools to create an educational framework which will meet the needs of students.

Getting & Keeping Parent Support

Parents on Your Side: A Teachers Guide to Creating Positive Relationships with Parents, 2nd Edition by Lee Canter

978-1-934009-76-5

Health and Wellness

Ready, Set, Go!: The Kinesthetic Classroom 2.0, by Michael S. Kuczala and Traci Lengel

978-150636583

Inclusion

Your Students, My Students, Our Students, Rethinking Equitable and Inclusive Classrooms by Lee Ann Jung, Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, Julie Kroener

978-1-4166-2809-5

 

Innovative Testing Tools

Assessment as Learning: Using Classroom Assessment to Maximize Student Learning, 2nd Edition by Lorna Earl

978-1-4522-4297-2

Integrated Co-Teaching

Best Practices in Co-teaching & Collaboration: The HOW of Co-teaching - Implementing the Models by Susan Gingras Fitzell

978-1932995398

Linguistically Diverse Students & Literacy

Scaffolding Language, Scaffolding Learning- Teaching English Language Learners in the Mainstream Classroom- 2nd Edition, by Pauline Gibbons

Mindset Matters

Mindset: Changing the way you think to fulfill your potential, by Carol Dweck

ISBN-10: 147213995X

Multicultural Education

Crossing Cultures in the Language Classroom, 2nd Edition by Andrea DeCapua, Ed.D and Ann C. Wintergerst, Ed.D

978-0-472036417

New Faces

Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America by Roberto G. Gonzales 

978-0-520-28726-6

Problem Based Learning

Project Based Teaching:  How to Create Rigorous and Engaging Learning Experiences by Suzie Boss with John Larmer.

978-1416626732

Peer Mentoring & Coaching

Mentoring in Action: Guiding, Sharing and Reflecting with Novice Teachers by Carol Pelletier Radford

978-1506345116

Professional Learning Communities

Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work, 3rd Edition by Richard DuFour, et al.

978-1943874378

Reaching Out to Our Gay & Transgender Students

The Educator's Guide to LGBT+ Inclusion by Kryss Shane

978-1787751088

Reaching & Teaching Students with ADD/ADHD

Teaching Teens with ADD, ADHD & Executive Function Deficits: A Quick Reference Guide for Teachers and Parents, 2nd Edition by Chris Zeigler Dendy

978-1-60613-016-2

Response to Instruction/Intervention

Integrated Multi-Tiered System of Support: Blending RTI and PBIS by Kent McIntosh and Steve Goodman

978-1-4625-2474-7

Self-Esteem for Educators

The textbook for this class is embedded within the course.

Service Learning

The Complete Guide to Service Learning: Proven, Practical Ways to Engage Students in Civic Responsibility, Academic Curriculum and Social Action by Catheryn Berger Kaye 

978-1575423456

Social Justice in the Classroom

From Thought to Action: Developing a Social Justice Orientation by Amy Aldridge Sanford

978-1516543380

Strategic Lesson Planning

Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning, 1st Edition by Pooja K. Agarwal and Patrice M. Bain 

978-1119521846

Strategies for Teaching Equity and Social Comprehension

Being the Change;Lessons and Strategies to Teach Social Comprehension by Sara K. Ahmed

978-0325099705

Strategies to Teach Critical Vocabulary

Bringing Words to Life; Robust Vocabulary Instruction by Isabel L. Beck, Margaret G. McKeown and Linda Kucan

978-1462508167

Strategies for Teaching Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Decoding Autism and Learning the Way to Successful Inclusion by Barbara Boroson

978-1416629191

Stress Management for Teachers

The textbook for this course is available digitally within the course.

Study Strategies for School Success

Classroom Instruction that Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement, 2nd Edition by Ceri B. Dean, et al.

978-1416613626

Teachers & Parents

Parents on Your Side: A Teachers Guide to Creating Positive Relationships with Parents, 2nd Edition by Lee Carter

978-1-932127-57-7

Beginning with May 2023 sections the new text is:

The School-Home Connection: Forging Positive Relationships with Parents,

Rosemary A. Olender, Jacquelyn Elias, Rosemary D. Mastroleo

978-1-62914-561-7

Teachers & the Law

A Teacher’s Pocket Guide to School Law, 3rd Edition by Nathan L. Essex

978-0133351910

Teaching Creativity Creatively

Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind by Scott Barry Kaufman and Carolyn Gregoire

978-0399175664

Teaching English to ESOL Learners

Teaching English Language Learners K–12; A Quick-Start Guide for the New Teacher

by, Jerry Jessness. ISBN:0761931872

Beginning with May 2023 sections the new text is:

Unlocking English Learners′ Potential: Strategies for Making Content Accessible,

1st Edition by,Diane Staehr Fenner and Sydney Cail Snyder ISBN: 978-1506352770

Teaching Gifted & Talented Students

When Gifted Kids Don't Have All the Answers: How to Meet Their Social & Emotional Needs, 2nd Edition Revised and Updated by Judy Galbraith and Jim Delisle

978-1575424934

Teaching & Learning with Documents

Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking by Neil Browne

978-0-205-11116-9

Beginning with April 2023 sections the required textbook is: Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking 12th Edition, by Neil Browne

978-0134425610

Teaching & Learning with Groups

Cooperative Learning:  An Effective Teaching Manual by June Belcher-Veasley

978-1-7325767-8-0

Teaching Reading Strategies

Teaching Reading in the Content Area: If Not Me, Then Who?, 3rd Edition by Vicki Urquhart and Dana Frazee

 978-1416614210

Teaching Social and Emotional Learning

All Learning Is Social and Emotional, By Nancy Frey 

978-1416627074

The Digital Classroom

The Google Infused Classroom: A Guidebook to Making Thinking Visible and Amplifying Student Voice by Holly Clark

978-1733646802

Whole Brain Learning

Brain-Based Learning: Teaching the Way Students Really Learn, 3rd Edition by Eric Jensen and Liesl McConchie

978-1-5443-6454-4

Writing Across the Curriculum

Teach Writing Well: How to Assess Writing, Invigorate Instruction, and Rethink Revision by Ruth Culham

978-1625311177