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The Fundamental 5 Revisited: Exceptional Instruction In Every Setting, shares with educators the five high-yield instructional practices that every teacher can, and should, use to dramatically improve instructional rigor and relevance, and student performance. The Fundamental 5 Revisited provides teachers with strategies that will allow them to implement the practices with ease and fidelity. The book provides instructional leaders with the information and insight they need to support teachers as they begin to purposefully use the practices. Used by campuses and teachers across the country, ...

The Fundamental Five: The Formula for Quality Instruction, shares with teachers and school leaders the five practices that every teacher can, and should, use to dramatically improve instuctional rigor and relevance, and student performance. E. Don Brown, a past president of the National Association of Secondary School Principals states, "In a time when both institutions and individuals in education are universally being challenged to ‘do more with less,’ we find two fresh new voices [Cain and Laird] ready to take the challenge by delving into the idea that it is the small changes in ...

Little Things Matter: Management Lessons From Exceptional School Leaders identifies the threads, patterns, and practices that separate the exceptional school leader from their less effective peers. Sean Cain and Mike Laird, authors of The Fundamental 5 and The Fundamental 5 Revisited, share the knowledge and insights gleaned from observing, studying, and collaborating with exceptional school leaders from across the country. School leaders who put processes in place to ensure that teaching and learning is priority one and that their students consistently outperform similar peers and compete,...