Teaching Methods & Materials

Learning sticks when it’s relevant to students. In Instant Relevance, author and keynote speaker Denis Sheeran equips you to create engaging lessons from experiences and events that matter to students while helping them make meaningful connections between the real world and the classroom.

When students identify themselves as makers, inventors, and creators, they discover powerful problem-solving and critical-thinking skills. Their imaginations and creativity will shape our future. John Spencer and A.J. Juliani’s LAUNCH process dares you to innovate and empower them.

All 4s and 5s is a practical guide to teaching AP courses and leading AP programs. With twenty-five classroom strategies and twenty-five program strategies, All 4s and 5s equips you to develop a culture of academic and personal success.

Students hate it. Parents wonder if it's worth the tears, frustration, and nightly arguments. Teachers debate whether it's really helpful or just busywork that consumes their precious time.

Packed with practical advice, specific recommendations for tools, and the encouragement you need to revolutionize your classes, Ditch That Textbook will inspire you to create relevant teaching that gets student buy-in so they'l enjoy learning.

Are you ready to break out of the lesson-and-worksheet rut? Use The EduProtocol Field Guide to create engaging and effective instruction, build culture, and deliver content to K–12 students in a supportive, creative environment.

Collaboration—with experts, students, and other educators—helps create interesting and even life-changing opportunities for learning. In Pure Genius, Don Wettrick inspires and equips educators with a systematic blueprint for beating classroom boredom and teaching innovation.

The Kings facilitate a creative breakthrough in the classroom with The Wild Card, a step-by-step guide to drawing on your authentic self to deliver your content creatively and be the wild card who changes the game for your learners.

Big ideas lead to deeper learning, but they don’t have to be profound to have profound impact. Teacher Steve Wyborney explains why and how sharing ideas sharpens and refines them. It’s okay if some ideas fall off the wall; what matters most is sharing and discussing.

Establishing a student-led culture focused on individual responsibility and personalized learning is possible, sustainable, and even easy when it happens little by little. In Shift This!, Joy Kirr details gradual shifts in thinking, teaching, and approach for massive impact in your classroom.

Inspired by his popular TED Talk “3 Rules to Spark Learning,” Musallam combines brain science research, proven teaching methods, and his personal story to empower you to improve your students’ learning experiences by inspiring inquiry and harnessing its benefits.

In Table Talk Math, John Stevens offers parents—and teachers—ideas for initiating authentic, math-based, everyday conversations that get kids to notice and pique their curiosity about the numbers, patterns, and equations in the world around them.

With imagination and preparation, every teacher can be The Classroom Chef using John Stevens and Matt Vaudrey’s secret recipes, ingredients, and tips that help students “get” math. Use ideas as-is, or tweak to create enticing educational meals that engage students.