Nicki Newton

Take math instruction to the next level by truly meeting the needs of ALL learners Today's classrooms are more diverse than ever, and teachers face the challenge of meeting not only the academic needs of their students but also their social and emotional growth. Math Workshop Plus, Grades K-8 by Alison J. Mello and Dr. Nicki Newton is here to help educators elevate their math instruction for all learners by more intentionally integrating Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) into the popular Math Workshop model. By reimagining Math Workshop through an equity lens, this book offers practical guidance to designing instruction that meets every child where they are. It addresses unfinished learning, fostering positive math identities, and building the competencies students need to succeed academically and socially. Offering an actionable approach to promote learning environments where every student can thrive, Math Workshop Plus, Grades K-8 includes Practical strategies to seamlessly incorporate UDL and SEL into your Math Workshop for more accessible and inclusive instruction.Classroom-ready resources such as example activities, vignettes, and tools at all grade levels to help you implement changes immediately.Guidance for fostering equity by meeting the diverse needs of all learners, including strategies for differentiation, scaffolding, and supporting students' social-emotional growth.Real-world success stories from educators who have transformed their classrooms with the Math Workshop Plus approach. With Math Workshop Plus, you'll gain the tools and confidence to create a classroom environment that promotes access and excellence for all students. Learn how to personalize instruction, remove barriers to learning, and inspire a love for math in every child.

High-impact tutoring programs are ramping up across the country to address learning recovery post-COVID. But how do you make the most of them? This invaluable book has the answers!You’ll find out the best ways to implement high-dosage tutoring, including what it is and what it is not, how to overcome common challenges, how to establish a program and create a collaborative team, the role of the tutor, relationship building, onboarding and professional development, high-quality curriculum and study skills, assessing students’ needs, incorporating MTSS, and more. In addition, the appendix offers a variety of diagnostic and progress-monitoring tools you can use in your own setting.With this indispensable resource, you’ll have the tools you need to help close the achievement gap so your students can thrive in math and ELA.

High-impact tutoring programs are ramping up across the country to address learning recovery post-COVID. But how do you make the most of them? This invaluable book has the answers!You’ll find out the best ways to implement high-dosage tutoring, including what it is and what it is not, how to overcome common challenges, how to establish a program and create a collaborative team, the role of the tutor, relationship building, onboarding and professional development, high-quality curriculum and study skills, assessing students’ needs, incorporating MTSS, and more. In addition, the appendix offers a variety of diagnostic and progress-monitoring tools you can use in your own setting.With this indispensable resource, you’ll have the tools you need to help close the achievement gap so your students can thrive in math and ELA.

Learn how to help elementary students build mathematical proficiency with purposeful, standards-based, differentiated, engaging small-group instruction with the help of Guided Math in Action: Building Each Student's Mathematical Proficiency with Small-Group Instruction.Bring those lessons to life with Guided Math Lessons, with a book covering every Elementary grade from Kindergarten to Fifth Grade. Author Dr. Nicki Newton shows you the practices and processes that should be worked on in the lessons, so that students not only learn the content but also how to solve problems, reason, communicate their thinking, model, use tools, use precise language, and see structure and patterns.This seven-book bundle provides everything you need as an educator or school leader to deliver great Math teaching and positive outcomes for all students.

Fluency in math doesn’t just happen; it is a well-planned journey. In this book, you’ll find practical strategies and activities for teaching your elementary students basic multiplication and division.The authors lay out the basic framework for building math fluency using a cycle of engagement (concrete, pictorial, abstract) and provide a multitude of examples illustrating the strategies in action. You’ll learn how to help students to model their thinking with a variety of tools; keep students engaged through games, poems, songs, and technology; assess student development to facilitate active and continuous learning; implement distributed practices throughout the year; and boost parental involvement so that students remain encouraged even as material becomes more complex.A final chapter devoted to action plans will help you put these strategies into practice in your classroom right away. Most importantly, you’ll open the door to deep and lasting math fluency.

Fluency in math doesn’t just happen; it is a well-planned journey. In this book, you’ll find practical strategies and activities for teaching your elementary students basic multiplication and division.The authors lay out the basic framework for building math fluency using a cycle of engagement (concrete, pictorial, abstract) and provide a multitude of examples illustrating the strategies in action. You’ll learn how to help students to model their thinking with a variety of tools; keep students engaged through games, poems, songs, and technology; assess student development to facilitate active and continuous learning; implement distributed practices throughout the year; and boost parental involvement so that students remain encouraged even as material becomes more complex.A final chapter devoted to action plans will help you put these strategies into practice in your classroom right away. Most importantly, you’ll open the door to deep and lasting math fluency.

Coaching math workshops? This invaluable resource from beloved guru Dr. Nicki Newton has everything you need to help your teachers and students be successful! Dr. Nicki saves you time and prep work by providing a plethora of tools to help you with each step. She provides an overview of the workshop; getting to know you activities; forms for goal setting, reflections, PD planning, and feedback; calendars; to do lists; data and material logs; lists of things to buy; planning sheets for book studies; and more! With this book's handy checklists and tools, you'll have everything you need to coach math workshop at your fingertips!

How can I get started with math workshop? What are the essential elements of math workshop? What does a math workshop look like in action? A Teacher's Guide to Math Workshop shares a step-by-step process for implementing a math workshop in any classroom and with any math curriculum. Grounded in research-based best practices in math education, this introduction to math workshop is enhanced with classroom videos that bring the content to life. You'll see students engaged in standards-based, differentiated, academically rich mathematics tasks and activities that help them see the value of math and make connections to math in their everyday lives. Vivid pictures, artifacts, classroom video, and writing from three expert educators show you the daily rituals and routines of math workshop: whole group instruction, small, guided math groups, and purposeful partner and individual math workstations.

Schools have been using various approaches to address the struggles that students are having with mathematics learning that have been compounded by the pandemic. There is an overwhelming consensus by both educators and researchers that we need to adapt acceleration rather than remediation as a tool to counteract the challenges that students currently face. Acceleration is about equity, which allows all our students to access an engaging, standards-based, academically rigorous, grade-level curriculum. In this book, educational consultant Dr. Nicki Newton shows K–8 teachers how to accelerate mathematics instruction so that all students learn and work on grade level, receive the right scaffolding when they need it, and feel a sense of achievement and success. Educators will in turn experience lower frustration and the joy of helping students thrive. Taking a deep dive into in-school acceleration, chapters address research, planning, assessment, pedagogy, teaching math vocabulary, lesson planning, goal setting and motivation, and action planning. Readers will learn how to use acceleration to get everybody motivated to learn and to create pathways of achievement. Book Features: Unpacks accelerating instruction as a way of saying "everybody is invited to this party." Looks at how acceleration provides a pathway to helping academically challenged students achieve and move in step with their grade-level standards.Offers detailed ways to plan, implement, and evaluate accelerated math lessons in grades K–8.Provides numerous tools, templates, and strategies so readers can use ideas right away.

Schools have been using various approaches to address the struggles that students are having with mathematics learning that have been compounded by the pandemic. There is an overwhelming consensus by both educators and researchers that we need to adapt acceleration rather than remediation as a tool to counteract the challenges that students currently face. Acceleration is about equity, which allows all our students to access an engaging, standards-based, academically rigorous, grade-level curriculum. In this book, educational consultant Dr. Nicki Newton shows K–8 teachers how to accelerate mathematics instruction so that all students learn and work on grade level, receive the right scaffolding when they need it, and feel a sense of achievement and success. Educators will in turn experience lower frustration and the joy of helping students thrive. Taking a deep dive into in-school acceleration, chapters address research, planning, assessment, pedagogy, teaching math vocabulary, lesson planning, goal setting and motivation, and action planning. Readers will learn how to use acceleration to get everybody motivated to learn and to create pathways of achievement. Book Features: Unpacks accelerating instruction as a way of saying "everybody is invited to this party." Looks at how acceleration provides a pathway to helping academically challenged students achieve and move in step with their grade-level standards.Offers detailed ways to plan, implement, and evaluate accelerated math lessons in grades K–8.Provides numerous tools, templates, and strategies so readers can use ideas right away.

Guided Math Lessons in Fifth Grade provides detailed lessons to help you bring guided math groups to life. Based on the bestselling Guided Math in Action, this practical book offers 16 lessons, taught in a round of 3—concrete, pictorial and abstract. The lessons are based on the priority standards and cover fluency, word problems, fractions, and decimals. Author Dr. Nicki Newton shows you the content, as well as the practices and processes, that should be worked on in the lessons so that students not only learn the content but also how to solve problems, reason, communicate their thinking, model, use tools, use precise language and see structure and patterns.Throughout the book, you’ll find tools, templates and blackline masters so that you can instantly adapt the lesson to your specific needs and use it right away. With the easy-to-follow plans in this book, students can work more effectively in small guided math groups—and have loads of fun along the way! Remember that guided math groups are about doing the math. So throughout these lessons, you will see students working with manipulatives to make meaning, doing mathematical sketches to show what they understand and can make sense of the abstract numbers. When students are given the opportunities to make sense of the math in hands-on and visual ways, then the math begins to make sense to them!

Guided Math Lessons in Fifth Grade provides detailed lessons to help you bring guided math groups to life. Based on the bestselling Guided Math in Action, this practical book offers 16 lessons, taught in a round of 3—concrete, pictorial and abstract. The lessons are based on the priority standards and cover fluency, word problems, fractions, and decimals. Author Dr. Nicki Newton shows you the content, as well as the practices and processes, that should be worked on in the lessons so that students not only learn the content but also how to solve problems, reason, communicate their thinking, model, use tools, use precise language and see structure and patterns.Throughout the book, you’ll find tools, templates and blackline masters so that you can instantly adapt the lesson to your specific needs and use it right away. With the easy-to-follow plans in this book, students can work more effectively in small guided math groups—and have loads of fun along the way! Remember that guided math groups are about doing the math. So throughout these lessons, you will see students working with manipulatives to make meaning, doing mathematical sketches to show what they understand and can make sense of the abstract numbers. When students are given the opportunities to make sense of the math in hands-on and visual ways, then the math begins to make sense to them!

Guided Math Lessons in Third Grade provides detailed lessons to help you bring guided math groups to life. Based on the bestselling Guided Math in Action, this practical book offers 16 lessons, taught in a round of 3—concrete, pictorial and abstract. The lessons are based on the priority standards and cover fluency, word problems, fractions and place value. Author Dr. Nicki Newton shows you the content as well as the practices and processes that should be worked on in the lessons, so that students not only learn the content but also how to solve problems, reason, communicate their thinking, model, use tools, use precise language, and see structure and patterns. Throughout the book, you’ll find tools, templates and blackline masters so that you can instantly adapt the lesson to your specific needs and use it right away. With the easy-to-follow plans in this book, students can work more effectively in small guided math groups—and have loads of fun along the way! Remember that guided math groups are about doing the math. So throughout these lessons you will see students working with manipulatives to make meaning, doing mathematical sketches to show what they understand and can make sense of the abstract numbers. When students are given the opportunities to make sense of the math in hands-on and visual ways, then the math begins to make sense to them!

Guided Math Lessons in Kindergarten provides detailed lessons to help you bring guided math groups to life. Based on the bestselling Guided Math in Action, this practical book offers 16 lessons, taught in a round of three—concrete, pictorial and abstract. The lessons are based on the priority standards and cover fluency, word problems, counting and cardinality, and place value. Author Dr. Nicki Newton shows you the content as well as the practices and processes that should be worked on in the lessons, so that students not only learn the content but also how to solve problems, reason, communicate their thinking, model, use tools, use precise language, and see structure and patterns. Throughout the book, you’ll find tools, templates and blackline masters so that you can instantly adapt the lesson to your specific needs and use it right away. With the easy-to-follow plans in this book, students can more work effectively in small guided math groups—and have loads of fun along the way! Remember that guided math groups are about doing the math. So throughout these lessons you will see students working with manipulatives to make meaning, doing mathematical sketches to show what they understand and can make sense of the abstract numbers. When students are given the opportunities to make sense of the math in hands-on and visual ways, then the math begins to make sense to them!

Guided Math Lessons in Fourth Grade provides detailed lessons to help you bring guided math groups to life. Based on the bestselling Guided Math in Action, this practical book offers 16 lessons, taught in a round of three–concrete, pictorial and abstract. The lessons are based on the priority standards and cover fluency, word problems, fractions and place value. Author Dr. Nicki Newton shows you the content as well as the practices and processes that should be worked on in the lessons, so that students not only learn the content but also how to solve problems, reason, communicate their thinking, model, use tools, use precise language, and see structure and patterns. Throughout the book, you’ll find tools, templates and blackline masters so that you can instantly adapt the lesson to your specific needs and use it right away. With the easy-to-follow plans in this book, students can more work effectively in small guided math groups—and have loads of fun along the way! Remember that guided math groups are about doing the math. So doing mathematical sketches to show what they understand and can make sense of the abstract numbers. When students are given the opportunities to make sense of the math in hands-on and visual ways, then the math begins to make sense!

Guided Math Lessons in Kindergarten provides detailed lessons to help you bring guided math groups to life. Based on the bestselling Guided Math in Action, this practical book offers 16 lessons, taught in a round of three—concrete, pictorial and abstract. The lessons are based on the priority standards and cover fluency, word problems, counting and cardinality, and place value. Author Dr. Nicki Newton shows you the content as well as the practices and processes that should be worked on in the lessons, so that students not only learn the content but also how to solve problems, reason, communicate their thinking, model, use tools, use precise language, and see structure and patterns. Throughout the book, you’ll find tools, templates and blackline masters so that you can instantly adapt the lesson to your specific needs and use it right away. With the easy-to-follow plans in this book, students can more work effectively in small guided math groups—and have loads of fun along the way! Remember that guided math groups are about doing the math. So throughout these lessons you will see students working with manipulatives to make meaning, doing mathematical sketches to show what they understand and can make sense of the abstract numbers. When students are given the opportunities to make sense of the math in hands-on and visual ways, then the math begins to make sense to them!

Guided Math Lessons in Fourth Grade provides detailed lessons to help you bring guided math groups to life. Based on the bestselling Guided Math in Action, this practical book offers 16 lessons, taught in a round of three–concrete, pictorial and abstract. The lessons are based on the priority standards and cover fluency, word problems, fractions and place value. Author Dr. Nicki Newton shows you the content as well as the practices and processes that should be worked on in the lessons, so that students not only learn the content but also how to solve problems, reason, communicate their thinking, model, use tools, use precise language, and see structure and patterns. Throughout the book, you’ll find tools, templates and blackline masters so that you can instantly adapt the lesson to your specific needs and use it right away. With the easy-to-follow plans in this book, students can more work effectively in small guided math groups—and have loads of fun along the way! Remember that guided math groups are about doing the math. So doing mathematical sketches to show what they understand and can make sense of the abstract numbers. When students are given the opportunities to make sense of the math in hands-on and visual ways, then the math begins to make sense!

Guided Math Lessons in Third Grade provides detailed lessons to help you bring guided math groups to life. Based on the bestselling Guided Math in Action, this practical book offers 16 lessons, taught in a round of 3—concrete, pictorial and abstract. The lessons are based on the priority standards and cover fluency, word problems, fractions and place value. Author Dr. Nicki Newton shows you the content as well as the practices and processes that should be worked on in the lessons, so that students not only learn the content but also how to solve problems, reason, communicate their thinking, model, use tools, use precise language, and see structure and patterns. Throughout the book, you’ll find tools, templates and blackline masters so that you can instantly adapt the lesson to your specific needs and use it right away. With the easy-to-follow plans in this book, students can work more effectively in small guided math groups—and have loads of fun along the way! Remember that guided math groups are about doing the math. So throughout these lessons you will see students working with manipulatives to make meaning, doing mathematical sketches to show what they understand and can make sense of the abstract numbers. When students are given the opportunities to make sense of the math in hands-on and visual ways, then the math begins to make sense to them!

Learn how to help elementary students build mathematical proficiency with purposeful, standards-based, differentiated, engaging small-group instruction. This best-selling book from Dr. Nicki Newton provides a repertoire of in-depth strategies for conducting effective guided math lessons, scaffolding and managing learning in small groups, and assessing learning. Dr. Newton shows you the framework for guided math lessons and then helps you develop an action plan to get started.This fully updated second edition features helpful new sections on beliefs, teacher moves, planning, talking and questioning, and kidwatching. It also contains a brand new study guide to help you get the most out of the book and use it with your colleagues. Perfect for teachers, coaches, and supervisors, this popular resource is filled with tools you can use immediately, including anchor charts, schedules, templates, and graphic organizers. With the practical help throughout, you’ll be able to implement Tier 1 and 2 lessons easily. This book will help you guide all your students to becoming more competent, flexible, and confident mathematicians!