First:

• Stuart’s These 6 Things: How to Focus Your Teaching on What Matters Most
• Veitch’s The Write Structure ebook
• Kittle’s Write Beside Them
• Gallagher’s Write Like This
• Lent’s This Is Disciplinary Literacy
• Graff and Birkenstein’s They Say, I Say
• Conley’s College Knowledge
• Schmoker’s Focus
• Brown, Roediger, & McDaniel’s Make It Stick
• Marzano’s Building Academic Vocabulary

Third:

Here are some further resources:

Re: Reading

• Academic vocabulary posts [1] and [2] 
• Latin Word Chunk post with the link to the starter kit
• Anchor chart posts [1] and [2]
• Math anchor charts from Chris Painter‘s classroom

Re: Speaking/Listening

• Dave Stuart’s Pop-up debate starter kit
• Chris Painter’s Stand-Up Sit-Down video

Re: Writing

• Schmoker’s Write More, Grade Less
• “Never Grade Everything Again” post
• “3 Mistakes You’re Making When Giving Feedback on Student Writing” post
• Example of Short-Answer Question (SAQ) Brainstorm, Prompt + Rubric
• Pomodoro Time Management Technique for Grading (Focus Keeper for iOS, Marinara for Chrome)

Re: Content Retention

• “7 Strategies to Make Content Stick“ post

Re: Student Motivation

• Stuart’s These 6 Things book, in particular, the chapter on beliefs
  • Student Motivation Course
  • “Belief Drives Behavior“

Re: Sidebar Conversations

• Social Studies Teachers: Germany Fellowship via Transatlantic Outreach Program. (Email me if you’re going to apply, and I’ll share my application and some tips for getting in.)
• Classroom Libraries: Here’s a post about how I organize my books both physically in the class and via the online book check-out system.

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