Best of Skylight

Formerly a SkyLight publication.

This book features key information, activities, and strategies from SkyLight's most popular books, including new works addressing technology and literacy.

Novice and seasoned educators will find ready-to-use assessment and cognitive tools for teaching in today's classrooms. Selections from If Minds Matter, Teaching in the Cyberage, What Is It About Me You Can't Teach?, How to Grade for Learning, and a dozen other titles are included.

James Bellanca founded SkyLight Professional Development in 1982. As its president, he mentored more than a dozen author-consultants as he led SkyLight in pioneering the use of strategic teaching and comprehensive professional development. Prior to meta-analyses that marked the effectiveness of cooperative learning, graphic organizers, and other cognitive strategies on student achievement, Bellanca coauthored more than a dozen texts that advocated the application of these tools across the curriculum, with the theme, "not just for the test but for a lifetime of learning." Currently, Bellanca is building on the theories of cognitive psychologist Reuven Feuerstein to develop more effective responses to the learning needs of low-performing students whose academic achievement continues to lag behind those who have greater learning advantages.