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This package comes fully stocked with everything you need to bring Solution Tree into your own school. For a hands-on training experience, each DVD includes a keynote presentation or a breakout session. You’ll also receive presentation handouts, web links, and a complimentary book excerpt to keep you moving onthe path toward professional development success.Free Previews Online

Developing Expert TeachersFeaturing Robert J. Marzano

NEW! Gain a blueprint for how schools and districts can develop teacher expertise. Beginning with the premise that excellent teachers are made, not born, Dr. Marzano walks through research-based techniques on how districts and schools can emphasize professional growth, with ties to teacher evaluation. Dr. Marzano delivers speci� c techniques through research, audience participation, and personal re� ection.

130-minute DVD with presentation; CD with presentation handouts and supporting resources17BCE–DVF051 $195.00UPC 811796010469

Standards-Based Reporting and Formative AssessmentOn the Road to a Highly Reliable OrganizationFeaturing Robert J. Marzano

Dr. Marzano outlines strategies for designing, scoring, and using formative assessments. He focuses on the inadequacy of the 100-point scale, a generic template for scale (rubric) design; designing measurement topics; computing � nal status on measurement topics; traditional grading practices in a formatively based system; and new forms of report cards for formative assessment.


Supervising the Art and Science of TeachingA New Approach to Lesson Observationand Lesson DesignFeaturing Robert J. Marzano

Dr. Marzano provides a comprehensive framework for teaching and outlines 10 critical areas of instructional practice. He addresses how administrators might supervise teaching to keep attention focused on student learning and allow teachers � exibility and creativity. He also provides a new framework for lesson observation and design.


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Leadership and LearningSustainable Changes for 21st Century LearningFeaturing Douglas B. Reeves

NEW! Everyone talks about the need for 21st century skills, but too many assessments are indistinguishable from those administered 50 to 100 years ago. If educators want 21st century learning, they need 21st century assessment. Dr. Reeves suggests three fundamental shifts that must take place to achieve 21st century assessments.


The Role of PLCs in Advancing21st Century SkillsFeaturing Richard DuFour

NEW! Dr. DuFour explores the fundamental characteristics of professional learning communities and demonstrates the link between professional learning communities and 21st century skills. Discover how to develop a PLC culture by focusing on a commitment to effectively change behavior and to collaboratively develop strategies to teach 21st century skills.


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Engaging the Nintendo GenerationReal Student AssessmentFeaturing Sharon V. Kramer

Students raised with interactive 21st century technologies like computers and video games approach learning in a very different way than the members of the older generation who teach them. Dr. Kramer explains a new way to think about placing student involvement at the center of the 21st century classroom. With recent research and extensive � rsthand experience, she discusses exciting strategies for promoting student engagement.


Backward DesignFeaturing Jay McTighe

NEW! In this keynote, Jay uses Understanding by Design as the foundation to help participants to distinguish three learning goals—acquisition, meaning making, and transfer—and their implications for instruction, apply the WHERETO framework to instructional planning, and review practical classroom assessment strategies for enhancing student learning.


Defensible DifferentiationWhat Does It Take to Get It Right?Featuring Carol Ann Tomlinson

NEW! One-size-� ts-all instruction approaches do not serve today’s academically diverse student population, and simply claiming to practice differentiation is not a magic bullet. In this keynote, Dr. Tomlinson calls on teachers to implement best practices regarding curriculum, assessment, instruction, and learning environment—and to grasp how these factors interrelate. She examines and invites educators to scrutinize their practices, applying the four foundational principles of effective differentiation.


21st Century Learning in a Networked WorldFor Our Students and OurselvesFeaturing Will Richardson

NEW! Internet access has put the world at our � ngertips, providing a classroom without walls. Discover eight shifts necessary to fully utilize Internet technology as a continuous learning opportunity. Will challenges educators to set aside the old model of schooling and re-envision the foundation of teaching and learning as global and continuous.


Innovation Through TechnologyThe DifferentiatorsFeaturing Cheryl Lemke

NEW! Cheryl shows how to design tomorrow’s curricula by using research in sociology, learning, and neuroscience to reinforce critical thinking, multitasking, multimodal learning, collaboration, and engagement. Connect the theory of 21st century skills to student learning and lesson design, and envision new designs for learning, made possible through digital tools.


21st Century Readiness for Every StudentFeaturing Ken Kay

NEW! The term 21st century education is used to describe myriad trends. In this keynote, Ken argues that for the term to have meaning, 21st century education must be rooted in knowledge and skills that ensure readiness for every student. Providing examples of successful districts and models, he outlines the need for local, state, and federal leaders to create polices that support a new approach for every school.


realize that a one-size-� ts-all approach is not likely to maximize achievement for all learners. Utilize principles of differentiation to make the most of curricular instructional and assessment choices.

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Learning CPRCreating Powerful Responses When Students Don’t LearnFeaturing Austin Buffum

The most signi� cant difference between a traditional school and a PLC is how the site responds when students don’t learn. Learn how to create a highly effective, systematic intervention program and gain practical, proven intervention ideas. Dr. Buffum shows participants how to create a tiered system of interventions that provide supplemental to intensive support.


Tiers Without TearsA Systematic Approach to Implementing RTI in PLC SchoolsFeaturing Austin Buffum

A school’s implementation of RTI should be targeted, timely, and systematic. An intervention can serve multiple tiers of students when staff make it intensive and based on collective responses rather than on the views of individual teachers. Dr. Buffum explains how universal screening devices, diagnostic assessments, and progress monitoring tools align the work of PLCs through RTI—without being “just more testing.”


A Practical Look at Response to InterventionFeaturing Mike Mattos

A system in which struggling students must fail before they can receive additional support is being replaced by comprehensive systems of interventions. In this breakout session, Mike provides an accessible survey of response to intervention (RTI) systems and explains how RTI, combined with a professional learning community foundation, creates a powerful system for achieving high levels of learning for all students.

78-minute DVD with presentation; CD with presentation handouts and supporting resources 17BCE–DVF046 $195.00UPC 811796010421

On Solid GroundHow PLC Practices Create the Foundation for a Successful Intervention ProgramFeaturing Mike Mattos

Decades of research have demonstrated that all students can learn at high levels and that schools control the factors that make it possible. In this breakout session, Mike shows how professional learning community practices provide the foundation for a successful intervention program and offers practical, effective strategies for beginning to build that foundation. Discover straightforward practices for planning and self-assessment that create successful intervention programs.

76-minute DVD with presentation; CD with presentation handouts and supporting resources 17BCE–DVF045 $195.00UPC 811796010438

Transforming School CultureUnderstanding and Overcoming Resistance to Necessary ChangeFeaturing Anthony Muhammad

Improving schools is a challenge that school leaders wrestle with. Many educators agree that the key lies within a school’s culture. Dr. Muhammad addresses the major issues in the age-old battle of overcoming resistance to critical change. He provides tools to transform a school’s culture into one that embraces the PLC model.


Rede� ning the Norm Learning for ALLFeaturing Anthony Muhammad

Educators often � nd that the technical aspects of professional learning communities are much easier to implement than the cultural ones. Understanding and changing human behavior is key to any signi� cant paradigm shift. Dr. Muhammad focuses on the historical, sociological, and psychological aspects of school cultures that make implementing PLCs a challenge. Learn how leaders can identify resistance and turn it into high levels of learning for all students.

91-minute DVD with presentation; � ash drive with presentation handouts and supporting resources17BCE–DVF019 $195.00UPC 811796010254

Our RTI experts present strategies to provide all children with equal acess to quali� ed teachers, a strong

curriculm, and research-based instructional methods.


Raising Questions and Finding Answers in Our Grading PracticesFeaturing Tim Brown

As schools focus on learning rather than on teaching, they must examine their current grading practices, policies, and management systems. Learn useful tools and strategies to examine grading practices in your school or district and establish collective commitments to make grading practices more meaningful.


Making Homework MatterFeaturing Cassandra Erkens

Educators use homework for three primary purposes: practice, preparation, and extension. Research suggests that there is little to no correlation between the use of homework and student achievement results. Cassandra explores considerations for homework design and useas a formative assessment tool to promote and enhance student learning.


Navigating Con� ict and Feeling GoodAbout ItFeaturing Cassandra Erkens

Many leaders avoid addressing con� ict because they fear long-term negative effects. While navigating con� ict feels nerve-racking at the outset, there are speci� c ways leaders can address con� ict to elicit respect, improve rapport, and enable progress. Using humor, personal stories, and participant interaction, Cassandra shares strategies, skills, and guidelines to address con� ict safely and directly.


The Last FrontierTackling the Grading DilemmaFeaturing Ken O’Connor

Transforming the approaches to and attitudes about grades requires major changes, especially in middle and high schools. Ken focuses on eight guidelines that movegrading from traditional to standards-based and result in grades that are accurate, meaningful, consistent, and supportive of learning.


Effective SchoolsReforming the System in PlaceFeaturing Lawrence W. Lezotte

Dr. Lezotte focuses on changing schools from a teacher-centered to a learning-centered system. He draws from effective schools and human learning research and identi� es core principles that form the backbone of a learning-centered system. School leaders must kick-start changes. It is possible to redesign the system, reset the culture, and restructure the system to advance the learning for all mission.


A Celebration of LearningNothing Happens Until People Are Having FunFeaturing Lillie G. Jessie

People of all ages thrive when their work is appreciated, and learning is deeper and longer lasting when students enjoy school and are engaged in their work. Learn how to create a school culture that celebrates learning at the highest levels. With a sense of fun, Lillie offers inventive strategies for fostering joyful student learning.


Forged, Not ForcedImplementation in Professional Learning Communities Featuring Thomas W. Many

Understanding the basic tenets of PLC is important, but knowing is not enough. Roll up your sleeves and engage in the learning process with this step-by-step, side-by-side presentation on successful PLC implementation. Packed full of speci� c strategies, examples, stories, and anecdotes, you’ll see why creating a “learning by doing” culture requires modeling a learner’s behavior � rst.


Transformational LearningFeaturing Cassandra Erkens

Are you guilty of “catch and release” learning transactions? Real learning is not taking in information and reciting it when prompted; it should be transformational. Cassandra offers multiple techniques on how to apply the tenets of professional learning communities to transform your teaching and help students see where they are, where they’re going, and how to close the gap between the two.


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Total Instructional AlignmentFive Big Ideas That Will Transform Your SchoolFeaturing Lisa Carter

Educating all students to meet or exceed rigorous learning standards requires our educational systems to be rede� ned, redesigned, and realigned to meet the learning needs of all students. In her down-to-earth manner, Lisa shares stories and experiences to address the � ve big ideas framework, with the goal of helping schools meet and exceed the challenge of learning for all.


Total Instructional AlignmentThree Deep Understandings for PLCsFeaturing Lisa Carter

The goal of professional learning communities is to ensure all students learn at high levels, and to help meet this challenge, Lisa describes Three Deep Understandings. She demonstrates how alignment of systems, standards, curriculum, assessment, and instruction � ts within the PLC framework; shares stories to address barriers to success; and points to key actions that ensure the learning for all mission.

60-minute DVD with presentation; � ash drive with presentation handouts andsupporting resources17BCE–DVF025 $195.00UPC 811796010162

Getting By or Getting BetterApplying Effective Schools Research toToday’s IssuesFeaturing Wayne Hulley

Improving schools is dif� cult since many staff members are attached to outdated methods. But the question remains: “Are all students learning?” Based on Getting By or Getting Better: Applying Effective Schools Research to Today’s Issues, Wayne shows how following the seven correlates of effective schools, proven to help students succeed, build community support, and increase staff job satisfaction, can improve schools.


Becoming an Authentic Learning LeaderWhatever You Do, Inspire Me!Featuring Timothy D. Kanold

Dr. Kanold helps educators re� ect on their core beliefs about the importance of leadership within a professional learning community and shows how leaders can use those beliefs to inspire the skeptics, cynics, and rebels. By examining eight fundamental disciplines of inspirational leadership, Dr. Kanold provides the support and focus needed to sustain effective leadership over time.


Leadership’s Ten CommandmentsFeaturing Kenneth C. Williams

Learn 10 powerful rules for leading and sustaining change in a professional learning community. Explore the principles behind the rules, and understand why sometimes even believers stray. Ken shares research and re� ects on his own experience to provide speci� c techniques to move educators toward deep PLC implementation.


Content, Then ProcessTeaching Learning Communities in the Service Formative Assessment Featuring Dylan William

To raise student achievement, invest in professional teacher development focused on minute-to-minute and day-by-day formative assessment. In this striking keynote, Dr. Wiliam encourages the building of teacher learning communities (TLCs). He provides practical techniques to embed formative assessment in regular classroom practice, and illustrates how TLCs can be established and sustained within schools and districts to support teachers.


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The Power of Professional Learning Communities at Work™Bringing the Big Ideas to LifeFeaturing Richard DuFour, Robert Eaker,and Rebecca DuFour

Bestseller! Discover how your school can make the shift to a focus on learning, collaboration, and results to radically improve student learning—even in schools facing 21st century challenges like mobile populations, increasing numbers of English learners, and high poverty. Learn from educators in eight diverse PLCs who share their successful strategiesand inspiring experiences in candid conversationsand unscripted team meetings.

Four 20-minute programs on both 4 VHS and 1 DVD (DVD also includes 4 PowerPoint presentations and the Facilitator’s Guide); 70-page Facilitator’s Guide17BCE–VIF094 $595.00ISBN 978-1-934009-09-3

Collaborative Teams in Professional Learning Communities at Work™Learning by DoingFeaturing Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour,Robert Eaker, and Thomas Many

Bestseller! This short program shows exactly what collaborative teams do. Aligned with the best-selling book Learning by Doing, the video features unscripted footage of collaboration in action. Learn how team norms are managed; how teams organize, interact, and � nd time to meet; what products they produce; and what team conversations about the critical questions of student learning “look like.”

30-minute DVD; 40-page Facilitator’s Guide (in print andon CD)17BCE–DVF023 $174.95ISBN 978-1-935249-77-1

Through New EyesExamining the Culture of Your SchoolFeaturing Richard DuFour

This engaging video explores the differences between a traditional school and a professional learning community from a student’s perspective. Perfect for constructing a four-hour training session, it includes step-by-step instructions, guiding questions, and group activities.

30-minute DVD; 44-page Facilitator’s Guide17BCE–DVF007 $174.95ISBN 978-1-932127-84-3

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Leading Dif� cult ConversationsFeaturing Richard DuFour and Rebecca DuFour

NEW! Transforming a school into a professional learning community requires changing behaviors, beliefs, and processes, which can cause resistance and con� ict. This video shows how to hold conversations that lead to higher levels of commitment to core PLC practices. Richard and Rebecca model a principal and a teacher engaging in such a conversation, then the process is analyzed.

30-minute DVD with presentation; 32-page Facilitator’s Guide (in print and on CD)17BCE–DVF047 $174.95UPC 811796010537

Leadership in Professional Learning Communities at Work™Learning by DoingFeaturing Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour,Robert Eaker, and Thomas Many

Bestseller! This short program for PLC leaders uses unscripted interviews and action footage to illustrate the role of effective leadership, particularly from the principal. The educators in this video demonstrate the importance of dispersed leadership, mutual accountability, and aligning a school’s structure and culture with its core purpose. PLC principals discuss how to balance loose and tight leadership, implement change, and confront resisters.

32-minute DVD; 32-page Facilitator’s Guide (in print andon CD)17BCE–DVF024 $174.95ISBN 978-1-935249-76-4

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