Welcome to the NELMS Bookstore

Professional Development Resource:
Effective Classroom Assessment

Catherine Garrison, Dennis Chandler, & Michael Ehringhaus

The latest book in NMSA's Professional Development Series
Research shows that when teachers effectively use formative and summative assessment practices, students who typically perform at the lower level of achievement show the greatest gains. Engaged students take ownership of their learning and become the center of their own success.

Published by NMSA
PLU5865 $25.00

Checking for Understanding: Formative Assessment Techniques for Your Classroom

by Douglas Fisher & Nancy Frey

Learn why typical methods to check for understanding are usually ineffective. And explore formative assessment techniques that work in any subject area and grade level. Extensive classroom examples show you how to use these formative assessments to correct misconceptions, improve learning, and model good study skills for individual students or across multiple classrooms.

Published by ASCD
P5840 $26.95

Professional Development Kit: How to Improve Discussion & Questioning Practices

by Sandra Schurr

A collection of materials and activities that all teachers/teams can use to sharpen their skills in ways that will involve students and increase achievement. This kit is a true "do-it-yourself" staff development experience that will help teachers sharpen their instructional practices and improve students' learning with no outside help required!

Published by NMSA
P5839 $19.00

A School-Wide Approach to Student-Led Conferences:
A Practitioner's Guide

by Patti Kinney, Mary Beth Munroe, & Pam Sessions

No doubt about it, student-led conferences are hot as teachers in more and more middle level schools recognize how powerful these conferences can be in promoting achievement, commitment to learning, and parent involvement. This excellent book discusses all aspects of student-led conferences and provides readers with a step-by-step approach used successfully by experienced teachers and administrators.

Published by NMSA
P5837 $18.50

Getting Excited About Data: Combining People, Passion and Proof to Maximize Student Achievement, second edition

Edie L. Holcomb

Holcomb's resource provides guidance for educators who are ready to explore more sophisticated uses of data. Precise and on target, this excellent new resource enables educators to effectively use their schools' data.

Published by Corwin Press
P5797 $38.95

Members receive a 10 to 20% discount

Differentiated Assessment Strategies: One Tool Doesn't Fit All

Carolyn Champan & Rita King. Foreward by Marti Richardson

With this classroom-friendly guide, you'll become a better teacher as you learn to assess students before, during, and after instruction. It's packed with tools, surveys, questionnaires, assignments, organizers, and rubrics to address learners of all types and levels, including K-12, special needs, and gifted students.

Published by Corwin Press
P5759 $33.95

Classroom Assessment and Grading That Work

Robert J. Marzano

Discover how classroom assessments--from quizzes and projects to term papers and tests--provide your school with the most powerful tool to boost achievement. Get clear advice on how to immediately create better assessments for a single classroom or an entire system.

Published by ASCD
P5817 $27.95

Results Now: How We Can Achieve Unprecedented Improvements in Teaching and Learning

Mike Schmoker

Mike Schmoker describes a sure and fast route to immensely better schools. Using research evidence, case studies, and anecdotes from all kinds of schools, this book identifies the most pervasive obstacles to school improvement and the quickest ways to overcome them.

Published by ASCD
P5814 $26.95

Members receive a 10 to 20% discount

Professional Development Kit: Looking at Student and Teacher Work to Improve Students' Learning

Association of Illinois Middle Schools (AIMS)

This professional development kit providess all the why's and how's of looking at student and teacher work through the use of protocols guidelines and structures for conversations.

Published by NMSA
P5804 $19.00

Professional Development Kit: The What, Why, and How of Student-Led Conferences

Jack Berckemeyer & Patti Kinney

Student-led conferences have been billed as "the biggest breakthrough in communicating about student achievement in the last century." And this resource provides everything a team or a faculty needs to engage in a practical, professional development study. The seven modules contain 20 tasks that will carry participants through the steps needed to understand and initiate what is coming to be regarded as an essential feature of a high-performing middle school.

Published by NMSA
P5805 $19.00

A Professional Development Kit: Assessing Student Progress

Sandra Schurr & John Lounsbury

This do-it-yourself resource will help teachers, teams, or an entire faculty develop ways more effective than grades to assess student progress. Tasks lead users to reassess current practices, consider and experiment with alternative approaches, and initiate portfolios to help studetns become responsible for their own learning.

Published by NMSA
P5650 $19.00

Members receive a 10 to 20% discount

Common Formative Assessments
How to Connect Standards-Based Instruction and Assessment

Larry Ainsworth & Donald Viegut

Now you have powerful means to closely align curriculum, instruction, and assessment to the standards essential for student success. You will learn how teams of teachers in the same content area or grade level can collaboratively develop, test, and refine common formative assessments in order to gain reliable and timely feedback on student progress. The results provide teachers with critical insight into how well students are understanding the standards, what changes are needed in instructional strategies, and how to best meet the needs of every student!

Published by Corwin Press

P5857 $31.95

Return to top of page