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Standards of Effective Practice 

Standards of Effective Practice Minnesota Teachers

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Resources for Standards for Effective Practices

Standard 1: Foundations of Student Learning 

Resources for The Teacher Candidates

  • Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain by Zaretta Hammond

  • Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck

  • The Whole-Brain Child by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson

Resources  for the Classroom

  • The Day You Begin" by Jacqueline Woodson

  • Brown Girl Dreaming" by Jacqueline Woodson

  • Inside Out & Back Again" by Thanhha Lai

Standard 2: Learning Environments 

Resources for The Teacher Candidates

  • The First Days of School by Harry Wong & Rosemary Wong

  • Drive" by Daniel H. Pink

  • Lost at School" by Ross Greene

Resources for the Classroom

  • Your Hue Looks Good on You by  Maya Marchelle

  • All Are Welcome  by Alexandra Penfold

  • Separate Is Never Equal  by Duncan Tonatiuh

Standard 3 Assessment 

Resources for Teacher Candidates

  • Classroom Assessment: What Teachers Need to Know by W. James Popham

  • Fair Isn't Always Equal: Assessing & Grading in the Differentiated Classroom by Rick Wormeli

  • Visible Learning for Teachers" by John Hattie

Resources for the Classroom

  • Free Printable Exit Ticket Templates

  • Think Pair Share Study Guide

  • Self Assessment Strategies and Examples- Facing Ourselves 

Standard 4 Planning for Instruction

 Resources for Teacher Candidates

  • WIDA (World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment) Consortium

  • The Differentiated Classroom" by Carol Ann Tomlinson

  • Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies" by Django Paris and H. Samy Alim

Resources for The Classroom 

  • The Undefeated" by Kwame Alexander

  • Stamped (For Kids)" by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi

  • Eyes That Kiss in the Corners" by Joanna Ho

Standard 5  Instructional Strategies

Resources for Teachers Candidates

  • Project Based Learning: Your Field Guide to Real-World Projects in the Digital Age  by Suzie Boss and Jane Krauss

  • Teaching for Joy and Justice by Linda Christensenth

  • Deeper Learning: How Eight Innovative Public Schools Are Transforming Education in the Twenty-First Century  by Monica R. Martinez and Dennis McGrath

Resources for The Classroom 

  • The Paper Bag Princess  by Robert Munsch

  • Colorín Colorado for Bilingual Resources and Strategies

  • Smithsonian Learning Lab

Standard 6 Professional Responsibilities

Resources for Teacher Candidates

  • Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony G. Greenwald

  • Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum

  • Rethinking Schools magazine and website

Resources for the Classroom

  • The Other Side" by Jacqueline Woodson

  • A Different Pond" by Bao Phi

  • The Story of Ruby Bridges" by Robert Coles

Standard 7 Collaboration & Leadership

Resources for Teacher Candidates

  • Beyond the Bake Sale: The Essential Guide to Family-School Partnerships" by Anne T. Henderson, Karen L. Mapp, et al

  • Culturally Responsive School Leadership" by Muhammad Khalifa, H. Richard Milner IV, and James Earl Davis

  • Building School-Family Partnerships That Last" by Karen Mapp and Anne Henderson

Resources for the Classroom

  • The Family Book" by Todd Parr

  • Same, Same but Different" by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw​

  • Last Stop on Market Street" by Matt de la Peña

Standards 8 Racial Consciousness

 Resources for Teacher Candidates

  • How to Be an Antiracist" by Ibram X. Kendi

  • Me and White Supremacy" by Layla F. Saad

  • Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Resources for  the Classroom

  • The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas​

  • All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely​

  • An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People" adapted by Jean Mendoza and Debbie Reese

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