As the articles in *Educational Leadership*'s summer 2021 issue illustrate, it's likely that schools' recovery from the pandemic will entail a strong focus on the nuts and bolts—and nuances—of instructional planning in a changing landscape.

Anthony Rebora

Readers Guide

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Standards

Curriculum design and lesson planning

Professional development

Reader's Guide / Instructional Planning in a New Landscape

Instructional Strategies

Professional Learning

Group work has a lot of potential to boost students' learning. But if not designed carefully—especially in terms of ensuring work is distributed evenly among students and assessed fairly—group projects can feel unfair to students, leading to resistance. The authors explain four elements needed for successful group work: establish a purpose for working in groups; use heterogeneous grouping but offer some choice; use flexible seating and tasks that require participation by all; and grade individual learning and gauge collaboration separately.

Part of a theme issue on "Innovative Lesson Planning."

Amir Rasooli

Susan M. Brookhart

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Whole Child

Student engagement and motivation

Engaged

Challenged

Assessment and grading

Active and project-based learning

Planning for Fair Group Work

As an adult diagnosed with autism, Julie Antilla-Garza shares the challenges she has during IEP meetings for her son with autism—and the ways that her son's IEP team has accommodated her to help her feel more comfortable and have control over the decisions made.

Part of a theme issue on "Innovative Lesson Planning."

Julie Antilla-Garza

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Special education

School climate and culture

Inclusion

Family and community engagement

IEP meetings

Autism

Autistic at the IEP Table

Equity

Lisa Westman

Teaching with Empathy: How to Transform Your Practice by Understanding Your Learners (Print book)

Social-emotional learning

Classroom management

Instructional strategies

Differentiated instruction

Teacher effectiveness

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Teaching with Empathy: How to Transform Your Practice by Understanding Your Learners

Social Emotional Learning

Monica Burns

EdTech Essentials: The Top 10 Technology Strategies for All Learning Environments (Print book)

Technology

Blended and hybrid learning

Ed - tech tools and strategies

Online and remote learning

Tech adoption and implementation

Feedback

Formative assessment

College career and citizenship

Citizenship

Collaboration

Listening and speaking

Media literacy

Safe

Supported

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EdTech Essentials: The Top 10 Technology Strategies for All Learning Environments

Gretchen Oltman

Vicki Bautista

What’s Your Leadership Story? A School Leader’s Guide to Aligning How You Lead with Who You Are (Print book)

Instructional leadership

Professional development / learning

School and district leadership

Leadership strategies and support

Teacher leadership

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What's Your Leadership Story? A School Leader's Guide to Aligning How You Lead with Who You Are 

Leadership

Mike Anderson

Tackling the Motivation Crisis: How to Activate Student Learning Without Behavior Charts, Pizza Parties, or Other Hard-to-Quit Incentive Systems (Print book)

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Tackling the Motivation Crisis: How to Activate Student Learning Without Behavior Charts, Pizza Parties, or Other Hard-to-Quit Incentive Systems

Engagement

Douglas Fisher

Nancy Frey

Better Learning Through Structured Teaching: A Framework for the Gradual Release of Responsibility, 3rd Edition (Print Book)

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Better Learning Through Structured Teaching: A Framework for the Gradual Release of Responsibility, 3rd Edition

Angela Di Michele Lalor

Making Curriculum Matter: How to Build SEL, Equity, and Other Priorities into Daily Instruction (Print Book)

Making Curriculum Matter: How to Build SEL, Equity, and Other Priorities into Daily Instruction

Curriculum

Tamera Musiowsky-Borneman

C. Y. Arnold

The Minimalist Teacher (Print Book)

Teacher engagement and motivation

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The Minimalist Teacher

Laurie Barron

Patti Kinney

We Belong: 50 Strategies to Create Community and Revolutionize Classroom Management (Print Book)

student behavior and discipline

Restorative practices

Well-being

We Belong: 50 Strategies to Create Community and Revolutionize Classroom Management

Classroom Management

Marilee Sprenger

The Essential 25: Teaching the Vocabulary That Makes or Breaks Student Understanding (Print Book)

Brain and Learning

Common Core State Standards

Literacy

Next Generation Science Standards

Standardized testing

Vocabulary

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The Essential 25: Teaching the Vocabulary That Makes or Breaks Student Understanding

Carol Ann Tomlinson

So Each May Soar: The Principles and Practices of Learner-Centered Classrooms (Print Book)

Teaching profession

So Each May Soar: The Principles and Practices of Learner-Centered Classrooms

Assessment

Author

Katie Schweitzer

elmagazine InnovativeLessonPlanning Summer 2021

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Innovative Lesson Planning

Partner with ASCD

Teach to Lead Initiative

Become a Partner

School Culture

Educational Leadership Staff

Capacity building

Communication

Leadership and Management

ASCD's Jéri Ogden on Building Community Among Educators

Policy

Dominique Smith

All Learning Is Social and Emotional: Helping Students Develop Essential Skills for the Classroom and Beyond

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