Resources
Sample Template to Incorporate High-Impact Ratio Techniques into a Lesson Plan
This template can serve as a model for planning lessons that incorporate ratio techniques.
Rubric for High-Impact Ratio Techniques
This rubric can help leaders and teachers evaluate and understand what it looks like to plan and execute lessons that use ratio techniques to put the heavy lifting on students.
Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College (K-12)
Author Doug Lemov offers effective teaching techniques to help teachers, especially those in their first few years, become champions in the classroom.
Reading Without Limits
This is the first book offered in the KIPP Educator Series and is written for anyone who wants to dramatically improve reading achievement. It is authored by Maddie Witter, a founding teacher at one of the top-performing middle schools in New York City, KIPP Infinity Charter School.
Reading Without Limits: Companion Website
Want to dramatically improve reading achievement in your classroom? Explore podcasts, videos, sample lesson plans, grant templates, and other strategies to quickly implement learnings from Maddie Witters book, Reading Without Limits.
Great Habits, Great Readers
This book includes the strategies, systems, and lessons from the top classrooms that bring the habits of reading to life, creating countless quality opportunities for students to take one of the most complex skills we as people can know and to perform it fluently and easily.
Why Don’t Students Like School?
This book, by cognitive scientist Dan Willingham, is designed to help teachers improve their practice by exploring how they and their students think and learn.
Leverage Leadership
Paul Bambrick-Santoyo, Managing Director of Uncommon Schools, shows leaders how they can raise their schools to greatness by following a core set of principles.
Visible Learning
This book synthesizes over 800 meta-analyses on the influences on achievement in school-aged students to build a story about the power of teachers, feedback, and a model of learning and understanding.
Visible Learning and the Science of How We Learn
This book explains the major principles and strategies of learning, outlining why it can be so hard sometimes, and yet easy on other occasions.