<p><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Visit Best Practice classrooms without leaving your school</span></strong></p> <p><em><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><i>"In</i> </span></em><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"></span><em><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">, <i>we outline the key qualities of great teaching in each major subject area. But </span></em><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">showing<em> is always better, right? Hence, these video windows into Best Practice classrooms at work."</i><br /> </em><strong>-Harvey "Smokey" Daniels</strong> and<strong> Steven Zemelman</strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">What do great teaching and powerful learning look like, sound like, and feel like? Seeing the<a name="_GoBack"></a> work in action makes all the difference in understanding how to make it your own. <i>The Best Practice Video Companion</i> takes you into exemplary classrooms where the seven structures for top-quality teaching described in <i><em></em> </i>support effective instruction and deeper learning every day.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Steven Zemelman and Harvey "Smokey" Daniels show us that the seven structures work in any context by visiting classrooms across the grades and content areas. You'll see the moves and hear the language of Best Practice teachers as they help students with a wide range of abilities become engaged, insightful learners.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">An ideal professional development support for groups studying <i><em></em>,</i> Fourth Edition, <i><em>The Best Practice Video Companion</i></em>:</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">shares more than 40 glimpses into multiple lessons in 17 outstanding classrooms</span></li> <li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">focuses on the seven research-based Best Practice structures</span></li> <li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">offers two ways to watch-by Best Practice structure or by teacher</span></li> <li><span style="text-indent: -0.25in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">suggests ways to collaborate before, during, and after viewings.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">While the Common Core and other standards outline </span><em style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">what</em><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> children are expected to learn, they don't really explain </span><em style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">how</em><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> to get them there. Use <i></span><em style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The Best Practice Video Companion</em><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </i>and see the how for yourself.<br /> <br /> <strong style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; fo