Practice Perfect: 42 Rules for Getting Better at Getting Better

How you practice may be a true competitive advantage. Learn how to design successful practice. Deliberately engineered and designed practice can revolutionize our most important endeavors. We love the performance, the big win, the ticking seconds of the clock as the game comes down to the wire. Jossey-Bass. In this book, the authors engage the dream of better, both in fields and endeavors where participants know they should practice and also in those where many do not yet recognize the transformative power of practice.

And it’s not just whether you practice. Discover new ways to think about practice. The “how-to” rules of practice cover such topics as rethinking practice, using feedback, modeling excellent practice, making new skills stick, creating a culture of practice, and hiring for practice. This book puts practice on the front burner of all who seek to instill talent and achievement in others as well as in themselves.

Apply practice across a wide range of realms, both personal and professional The authors include specific activities to jump-start practice Doug Lemov is the best-selling author of Teach Like a Champion A hands-on resource to practice, the rules within will help to create positive outliers and world-changing reservoirs of talent.

This is a journey to understand that practice, not games, makes champions. We watch games and cheer, but if we really wanted to see greatness—wanted to cheer for it, see it happen, understand what made it happen—we'd spend our time watching, sometimes to the point of obsession, obsessing on, and maybe even cheering the practices instead.

Rules for developing talent with disciplined, deliberate, intelligent practice We live in a competition loving culture.

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Teach Like a Champion 2.0: 62 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College

Over 700, 000 teachers around the world already know how the techniques in this book turn educators into classroom champions. With ideas for everything from classroom management to inspiring student engagement, you will be able to perfect your teaching practice right away. Now, updated techniques and tools make it even easier to put students on the path to college readiness.

This teaching guide is a must-have for new and experienced teachers alike. Here are just a few of the brand new resources available in the 2. 0 edition: over 70 new video clips of real teachers modeling the techniques in the classroom note: for online access of this content, please visit my. Teachlikeachampion.

Com a selection of never before seen techniques inspired by top teachers around the world Brand new structure emphasizing the most important techniques and step by step teaching guidelines Updated content reflecting the latest best practices from outstanding educators With the sample lesson plans, videos, and teachlikeachampion.

Com online community, you will be teaching like a champion in no time. One of the most influential teaching guides ever—updated! Teach Like a Champion 2. 0 is a complete update to the international bestseller. The classroom techniques you'll learn in this book can be adapted to suit any context.


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Reading Reconsidered: A Practical Guide to Rigorous Literacy Instruction

Reading reconsidered provides the framework necessary for teachers to ensure that students forge futures as lifelong readers. Jossey-Bass. The authors address the anxiety-inducing world of Common Core State Standards, distilling from those standards four key ideas that help hone teaching practices both generally and in preparation for assessments.

Of all the subjects we teach reading is first among equals. When we teach students to read with precision, rigor, and insight, we are truly handing over the key to the kingdom. Teach your students to read like champions—with rigor, independence, precision, and insight the world we are preparing our students to succeed in is one bound together by words and phrases.

Jossey Bass Wiley. The second half of reading reconsidered reinforces these principles, coupling them with the 'fundamentals' of reading instruction—a host of techniques and subject specific tools to reconsider how teachers approach such essential topics as vocabulary, interactive reading, and student autonomy.

This 'core of the core' comprises the first half of the book and instructs educators on how to teach students to: read harder texts, read nonfiction more effectively, 'closely read' texts rigorously and intentionally, and write more effectively in direct response to texts. Reading reconsidered breaks an overly broad issue into clear, easy-to-implement approaches.

Grounded in advice from effective classrooms nationwide, enhanced with more than 40 video clips,  Reading Reconsidered takes you into the trenches with actionable guidance from real-life educators and instructional champions. Our students learn their literature, history, math, science, or art via a firm foundation of strong reading skills.




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Get Better Faster: A 90-Day Plan for Coaching New Teachers

New and old teachers alike can benefit from the guidance of Get Better Faster and close their existing instructional gaps. What does a teacher actually have to do to make sure students are following? Even the leader delivering this direction may not know, and the first-year teacher almost certainly doesn’t.

Over the course of the book, we break down the most critical actions leaders and teachers must enact to achieve exemplary results. The bottom line is clear: teachers do not need to be evaluated so much as they need to be developed and coached. Packed with practical training tools, planning templates, including agendas, make feedback more frequent, and 35 video clips of real teachers at work, presentation slides, handouts, a coach’s guide, Get Better Faster will teach you: The core principles of coaching: Go Granular,   Top action steps to launch a teacher’s development in an easy-to-read scope and sequence guide The four phases of skill building: Phase 1 Pre-Teaching: Dress Rehearsal Phase 2: Instant Immersion Phase 3: Getting into Gear Phase 4: The Power of Discourse Jossey-Bass.

In get better faster: a 90-day plan for coaching New Teachers, Paul Bambrick-Santoyo shares instructive tools of how school leaders can effectively guide new teachers to success. Though focused heavily on the first 90 days of teacher development, it’s possible to implement this work at any time. Jossey-Bass.

Designed for coaches as well as beginning teachers, Get Better Faster is an integral coaching tool for any school leader eager to help their teachers succeed. It’s the book’s focus on the actionable—the practice-able—that drives effective coaching.


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The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How.

Jossey-Bass. Jossey-Bass. Flawless book with "new book smell" and a beautiful white & gold dust jacket. What is the secret of talent? how do we unlock it? in this groundbreaking work, journalist and New York Times bestselling author Daniel Coyle provides parents, teachers, coaches, businesspeople—and everyone else—with tools they can use to maximize potential in themselves and others.

Whether you’re coaching soccer or teaching a child to play the piano, writing a novel or trying to improve your golf swing, this revolutionary book shows you how to grow talent by tapping into a newly discovered brain mechanism. Drawing on cutting-edge neurology and firsthand research gathered on journeys to nine of the world’s talent hotbeds—from the baseball fields of the Caribbean to a classical-music academy in upstate New York—Coyle identifies the three key elements that will allow you to develop your gifts and optimize your performance in sports, music, art, math, or just about anything.

What everyone doesn’t know is that specific kinds of practice can increase skill up to ten times faster than conventional practice. Ignition--we all need a little motivation to get started. Combining revelatory analysis with illuminating examples of regular people who have achieved greatness, this book will not only change the way you think about talent, but equip you to reach your own highest potential.

Jossey Bass Wiley. The good news about myelin is that it isn’t fixed at birth; to the contrary, it grows, and like anything that grows, it can be cultivated and nourished. But what separates truly high achievers from the rest of the pack? A higher level of commitment—call it passion—born out of our deepest unconscious desires and triggered by certain primal cues.




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Pound The Stone: 7 Lessons To Develop Grit On The Path To Mastery

It can be applied to fulfill your potential in business, in sports, in your relationships, as well as your overall life. Jossey-Bass. Do you want to know what it is?” In the crowd, Jason leaned forward, laser focused. In fact, i believe it is the only thing anyone can do to gain true mastery at anything, and it’s an equal opportunity principle.

Told in the same engaging fable style as chop wood carry water, why courage is contagious, this is a deeper dive into the timeless principles that guide and inspire anyone who seeks greatness in life, to the perfection trap, the value of failure, and covers everything from true success, and why vulnerability can save your life.

But little did he know that the answer he was seeking was about to change his life forever… Pound The Stone is the intense and inspiring story of a young man’s journey through the obstacles, defeats, and eventual victories that come while developing grit on the path to mastery. Jossey-Bass. Kicked off his basketball team after a season-ending fight, his only chance to play ball again was to sell enough books door-to-door over the summer to get back on the team.

Pound the stone will move you, inspire you, and hopefully encourage you to choose love and courage over fear and shame. There’s a secret to mastery that you may have never heard, a single little thing that only the very best in the world know how to do. Flawless book with "new book smell" and a beautiful white & gold dust jacket.




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Teach Like a Champion Field Guide 2.0: A Practical Resource to Make the 62 Techniques Your Own

The book includes: practical approaches to each of the 62 techniques 75+ video clips with analysis of the techniques in play in the classroom note: for online access of this content, please visit my. Teachlikeachampion. Com hands-on activities to bring the 62 techniques from the page into the classroom Teach Like a Champion 2.

0 is a book by educators for educators. Coauthored by fellow educators Joaquin Hernandez and Jennifer Kim, the book is a practical guide for adapting the techniques to fit classrooms and teachers everywhere. The must-have companion workbook to the bestselling Teach Like a Champion 2. 0 teach like a Champion Field Guide 2.

0 is the teacher's hands-on guide to improving their craft. Jossey Bass Wiley. In teach like a Champion 2. 0, improved upon, veteran teaching coach Doug Lemov updated, and replaced the original edition of this global bestseller, setting forth 62 of the most rigorously vetted and critically observed teaching techniques around.

Teach like a Champion Field Guide 2. 0 is the indispensable guide to getting there, one technique at a time. Field Guide 2.


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The Messiah Method: The Seven Disciplines of the Winningest College Soccer Program in America

Whether you're leading a sports program or a business or a school or a church or any other organization, there's a proven method to achieve breakthrough performance-and to sustain it year after year. You can reach him at [email protected]. Edu jossey-Bass. He's also a high school soccer coach and an avid student of the game.

Michael zigarelli is a professor of Leadership and Strategy at Messiah College and the author of several books. They're seven disciplines that can supercharge your team, too. Eleven national titles. It's how excellence happens. Seventeen Final Fours between them during this time. Few programs were even close. Jossey-Bass.

How excellence happens from 2000 to 2010, the messiah college soccer program-the men's team and women's team combined-posted the best record in NCAA soccer: 472 wins, 31 losses, and 20 ties. Unbeaten streaks measured not only in games, but in seasons. How do they do it? what's their secret of success? They use what might be called "the Messiah method, " seven disciplines that propelled these teams from decent to dynasty.

Jossey Bass Wiley. Jossey-Bass.


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The Little Book of Talent: 52 Tips for Improving Your Skills

Whether you’re age 10 or 100, “how do i get better?” “it’s so juvenile to throw around hyperbolic terms such as ‘life-changing, in the classroom or the corner office, whether you’re on the sports field or the stage, this is an essential guide for anyone who ever asked, ’ but there’s no other way to describe The Little Book of Talent.

And yes: life-changing. Tom peters, co-author of In Search of Excellence Jossey-Bass. Brilliant. The product of five years of reporting from the world’s greatest talent hotbeds and interviews with successful master coaches, it distills the daunting complexity of skill development into 52 clear, concise directives.

. The ideal graduation gift—a manual for building a faster brain and a better you! “The Little Book of Talent should be given to every graduate at commencement. Jossey-Bass. Flawless book with "new book smell" and a beautiful white & gold dust jacket. Jossey Bass Wiley. A guidebook—beautiful in its simplicity and backed by hard science—for nurturing excellence.

Charles duhigg, bestselling author of the power of habitthe little book of Talent is an easy-to-use handbook of scientifically proven, your organization’s skills—in sports, art, your kids’ skills, field-tested methods to improve skills—your skills, math, music, and business.


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Great Habits, Great Readers: A Practical Guide for K - 4 Reading in the Light of Common Core

What can be done? 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. But k-4 education seems to widen the gap between stronger and weaker readers, not close it.

A book that brings the habits of reading to life Great readers are not made by genetics or destiny but by the habits they build—habits that are intentionally built by their teachers. Today, the common Core further increases the pressure to reach high levels of rigor. Flawless book with "new book smell" and a beautiful white & gold dust jacket.

Jossey-Bass. Jossey Bass Wiley. Jossey-Bass. Offers clear teaching strategies for teaching reading to all students, guided reading, Great Readers puts the focus on: learning habits, no matter what level Includes more than 40 video examples from real classrooms Written by Paul Bambrick-Santoyo, reading habits, bestselling author of Driven by Data and Leverage Leadership Great Habits, and independent reading.

Note: content dvd and other supplementary materials are not included as part of the e-book file, but are available for download after purchase Jossey-Bass. Great product! The early formal years of education are the key to reversing the reading gap and setting up children for success.


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Leverage Leadership: A Practical Guide to Building Exceptional Schools

Jossey-Bass. E-book customers: please note that details on how to access the content from the DVD may be found in the e-book Table of Contents. Jossey-Bass. Fundamentally, each of these seven levers answers the core questions of school leadership: What should an effective leader do, and how and when should they do it.

Aimed at all levels of school leadership, the book is for any principal, superintendent, or educator who wants to be a transformational leader. Please see the section: "how to access dvd contents"  bambrick-Santoyo has trained more than 1, 800 school leaders nationwide in his work at Uncommon Schools and is a recognized expert on transforming schools to achieve extraordinary results.

There are also many helpful rubrics, extensive professional development tools, calendars, and templates. Explores the core principles of effective leadership Author's charter school, New Jersey, North Star Academy in Newark, received the highest possible award given by the U. S. Department of education; the national Blue Ribbon Print version includes an instructive DVD with 30 video clips to show how it looks in real life.

Jossey Bass Wiley. Great product! Flawless book with "new book smell" and a beautiful white & gold dust jacket.


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