FOCUS: Elevating the Essentials to Radically Improve Student Learning

Bestselling author Mike Schmoker describes a plan for radically improving student learning that is built on three core elements: a focused and coherent curriculum (what we teach); clear, prioritized lessons (how we teach); and purposeful reading and writing, or authentic literacy.

With this "less is more" philosophy, educators can help students learn content at a deeper level, develop greater critical thinking skills, and discover more clearly how content-area concepts affect their lives and the world around them.

Both a call to action and a blueprint for creating more effective classrooms, Focus: Elevating the Essentials for Radically Improved Student Learning will challenge your assumptions about schooling and show how educators who have embraced this approach quickly achieved spectacular results.

• Leading with Focus: Elevating the Essentials for School and District Improvement
• Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World (Professional Development)
• The Fundamental 5: The Formula for Quality Instruction
• Effective Supervision: Supporting the Art and Science of Teaching
• Understanding by Design: Professional Development Workbook
• Rethinking Teacher Supervision and Evaluation: How to Work Smart, Build Collaboration, and Close the Achievement Gap
• Focus: Elevating the Essentials to Radically Improve Student Learning, 2nd Edition
• Leverage Leadership: A Practical Guide to Building Exceptional Schools
• Understanding By Design
• Learning to Teach