• Focus

  • Elevating the Essentials to Radically Improve Student Learning
  • By: Mike Schmoker
  • Narrated by: Christopher Prince
  • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (90 ratings)

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Focus

By: Mike Schmoker
Narrated by: Christopher Prince
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Publisher's summary

Best-selling author Mike Schmoker describes a plan for radically improving student learning that is built on three core elements: a focused and coherent curriculum (what we teach); clear, prioritized lessons (how we teach); and purposeful reading and writing, or authentic literacy.

With this "less is more" philosophy, educators can help students learn content at a deeper level, develop greater critical thinking skills, and discover more clearly how content-area concepts affect their lives and the world around them.

Both a call to action and a blueprint for creating more effective classrooms, Focus: Elevating the Essentials for Radically Improved Student Learning will challenge your assumptions about schooling and show how educators who have embraced this approach quickly achieved spectacular results.

The book is published by ASCD.

Mike Schmoker is a former administrator, English teacher, and football coach. He has written four books and dozens of articles for educational journals, newspapers, and Time magazine.

©2011 ASCD (P)2012 Redwood Audiobooks

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