Powerful resources for building robust K-8 schools!
Designed to support elementary and middle school educators, the Successful K-8 School Collection provides critical guidance for developing or transitioning to a K-8 school. Teachers, school leaders, and staff developers will find strategies, sample lessons, assessment methods, content standards, rubrics, and essential topics related to effective curriculum, reading instruction, differentiation in math and science, teacher leadership, cultural proficiency, afterschool programs, service learning projects, and family involvement. The Successful K-8 School Collection includes:
- Developing Successful K-8 Schools
- Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction for the Thinking Classroom
- Seven Strategies of Highly Effective Readers
- Differentiating Math Instruction, Second Edition
- Differentiated Instructional Strategies for Science, Grades K-8
- Eight Essentials for Empowered Teaching and Learning, K-8
- The Culturally Proficient School
- The Principal′s Guide to Afterschool Programs, K-8
- Service Learning in Grades K-8
- Reaching Out
About the Author :
Jon Wiles is a highly experienced educator who has provided curriculum leadership to schools and educational agencies for over thirty years. His specialty is the creation and implementation of curriculum plans. Wiles's work as an educational consultant has taken him to hundreds of agencies in more than forty states and a dozen foreign nations in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean.
Wiles is the author or coauthor of twelve widely used books addressing curriculum and educational leadership. His text, Curriculum Development: A Guide to Practice (Seventh Edition), has been used for nearly thirty years in colleges and universities throughout the world to train curriculum leaders. Other areas of publication by Wiles include teacher training, administration, school supervision, theory of change, politics of education, middle grades education, and technology.
