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ASCD TITLES AT YOUR FINGERTIPS

The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) is an international organization widely recognized for helping educators define, support, and engage in the development of highly effective learning systems. ASCD is dedicated to excellence in learning, teaching, and leading. From the first day of teacher prep to the last day on the job, ASCD supports educators at every position and title throughout their years of service. Committed to helping educators enhance their skills and roles, ASCD provides high-quality, research-based resources and support that educators can trust.

These PD titles are digitally available on Gale’s eBook platform. With Gale eBooks: Professional Learning, administrators can support the 4 Pillars of Effective PD and provide continuing professional development that’s personalized, job embedded, tied to evaluations, and sustainable. Plus, schools have the option to upgrade their ASCD professional learning collections with alignments to the Danielson Framework for Teaching, the Marzano Focused Teacher Evaluation Model, and others. It all begins by putting thousands of titles from expert authors and publishers, like ASCD, at users’ fingertips.

  • Teachers
    • Gain unlimited and simultaneous access to content from top PD publishers.
    • Collaborate with help from G Suite for Education, Microsoft Office 365 tools, and learning management system integrations.
    • Cross-search to uncover relevant content within multiple titles.
    • Translate content into more than 40 languages—on screen and read aloud.
    • Listen at school, at home, or on-the-go.
    • Meet and apply professional learning objectives.
  • Administrators
    • Support teachers’ personal learning plans as well as district and/or school strategic goals and objectives.
    • Connect the dots between professional development days.
    • Customize collections using Gale Admin to highlight specific initiatives.
    • Share content easily, with 100+ social media or email options directly from the application.
    • Build a sustainable, cost-effective professional learning platform by adding continuously releasing collections from top publishers like ASCD, Corwin Press, ISTE, NSTA, Solution Tree, Stenhouse Publishers and Times 10 Publications.

New Teacher PD Subcollection

This subcollection features 22 eBook titles from ASCD, including Never Work Harder Than Your Students & Other Principles of Great Teaching, Where Great Teaching Begins: Planning for Student Thinking & Learning, and What We Know About Grading: What Works, What Doesn’t, & What’s Next.

Social and Emotional Learning Subcollection

This subcollection features 32 eBook titles from ASCD, including Leading and Managing a Differentiated Classroom, Students at the Center: Personalized Learning with Habits of Mind, and Handling Student Frustrations: How Do I Help Students Manage Emotions in the Classroom?

Talented and Gifted Subcollection

This subcollection features 12 eBook titles from ASCD, including Learning for Keeps: Teaching the Strategies Essential for Creating Independent Learners; Leading and Managing a Differentiated Classroom; and Students at the Center: Personalized Learning with Habits of Mind. 

Teacher Self-Care Subcollection

This subcollection features 9 eBook titles from ASCD, including Insights into Action: Successful School Leaders Share What Works, The Burnout Cure: Learning to Love Teaching Again, and Navigating the Principalship: Key Insights for New and Aspiring School Leaders.

Explore Collection 15

This collection features 16 titles from ASCD, including From Behaving to Belonging: The Inclusive Art of Supporting Students Who Challenge Us; Social-Emotional Learning and the Brain: Strategies to Help Your Students Thrive; and Co-Teaching Do’s, Don’ts, and Do Betters.                                                                            

Explore Collection 14

This collection features 15 eBook titles from ASCD, including Taking Social-Emotional Learning Schoolwide: The Formative Five Success Skills for Students and Staff; Teaching for Deeper Learning: Tools to Engage Students in Meaning Making; and Becoming a Globally Competent School Leader.

Explore Collection 13

This collection features 36 eBook titles from ASCD, including Personalized Professional Learning: A Job-Embedded Pathway for Elevating Teacher Voice, The Relevant Classroom: Six Steps to Foster Real-World Learning, and What Makes a Star Teacher: 7 Dispositions That Support Student Learning.

Explore Collection 12

This collection features 35  eBook titles from ASCD, including Keeping Students Safe Every Day: How to Prepare for and Respond to School Violence, Natural Disasters, and Other Hazards; Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom, 4th Ed.; Teaching Students to Communicate Mathematically.

Explore Collection 11

This collection features 35 eBook titles from ASCD, including Learning Transformed: 8 Keys to Designing Tomorrow’s Schools; Today, Building Equity: Policies and Practices to Empower All Learners;  Bold Moves for Schools: How We Create Remarkable Learning Environments.

Explore Collection 10

Featuring  33 eBook titles from ASCD, including Fostering Resilient Learners: Strategies for Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom; Tapping the Power of Personalized Learning: A Roadmap for School Leaders;  The Teacher 50: Critical Questions for Inspiring Classroom Excellence.

Explore Collection 9

This collection features 35 eBook titles from ASCD, including The Principal 50: Critical Leadership Questions for Inspiring Schoolwide Excellence; Better Than Carrots or Sticks: Restorative Practices for Positive Classroom Management; Leading for Differentiation: Growing Teachers Who Grow Kids; and Setting the Standard for Project-Based Learning.

Explore Collection 8

This collection features 35 eBook titles from ASCD, including The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners, 2nd Edition; Hanging In: Strategies for Teaching the Students Who Challenge us Most; How Teachers Can Turn Data Into Action; and Learning in the Fast Lane: 8 Ways to Put ALL Students on the Road to Academic Success.

Explore Collection 7

This collection features 30 eBook titles from ASCD, including Engaging Students with Poverty in Mind: Practical Strategies for Raising Achievement; Closing the Attitude Gap: How to Fire Up Your Students to Strive for Success; Better Learning Through Structured Teaching: A Framework for the Gradual Release of Responsibility, 2nd Edition.

Explore Collection 6

Features 21 eBook titles from ASCD, including Classroom Instruction That Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement, 2nd Edition; The Core Six: Essential Strategies for Achieving Excellence with the Common Core; The Understanding by Design Guide to Advanced Concepts in Creating and Reviewing Units.

Explore Collection 5

This collection features  21 eBook titles from ASCD, including Creating the Opportunity to Learn: Moving From Research to Practice to Close the Achievement Gap; The Understanding by Design Guide to Creating High-Quality Units; Teaching Boys Who Struggle in School: Strategies That Turn Underachievers into Successful Learners.

Explore Collection 4

This collection features 26 eBook titles from ASCD, including Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World; Education Unbound: The Promise and Practice of Greenfield Schooling; Inspiring the Best in Students; Brain-Based Teaching in the Digital Age; and Other Duties as Assigned: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Expert Teacher Leadership.

Explore Collection 3

This collection features  21  eBook titles from ASCD,  including Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids' Brains and What Schools Can Do About It; Catching Up or Leading  the Way:  American Education in the Age of Globalization; Motivating Black Males  to  Achieve in School and in Life.

Explore Collection 2

Featuring 8 eBook titles from ASCD, including The Handbook for Enhancing Professional Practice: Using the Framework for Teaching in Your School; Learning and Leading with Habits of Mind: 16 Essential Characteristics for Success; De-tracking for Excellence and Equity; Qualities of Effective Principals.

Explore Collection 1

This collection features 46 eBook titles from ASCD, including Enhancing Professional Practice:  A Framework for Teaching, 2nd Edition; Mobilizing the Community to Help Students Succeed;   and Learning on Display:  Student-  Created Museums That Build Understanding.

Platform Tools & Features

Collaboration Tools

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Customizations

Administrators can group titles from purchased Gale eBooks PD publisher collections into sub-collections to highlight specific initiatives such as teaching with technology, project-based learning, and building professional learning communities.

On-demand Translation

Content can be translated into 40 languages, while the platform itself can be translated into more than 30 languages. ReadSpeaker text-to-speech technology allows audio files to be downloaded and saved onto any mobile device and read aloud in nearly 25 languages.