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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER “One of the most important voices we have on the left right now.”—Brian Tyler Cohen, YouTuber and best-selling author of Shameless “A masterpiece that exposes the rot in corporate media.”—Ben Meiselas, cofounder, MeidasTouch Network...

This completely revised second edition pulls from years of research, practice, and results to reanalyze and reevaluate the nine instructional strategies that have the most positive effects on teaching and learning. A new framework organizes the nine instructional strategies that have the most positive effects on teaching and learning in preparation for instructional planning, and it highlights the point that all of the strategies are effective and should be used to complement one another.

In this 2nd edition of Focus: Elevating the Essentials to Radically Improve Student Learning, Mike Schmoker extends and updates the case that our schools could be on the cusp of swift, unparalleled improvements. But we are stymied by a systemwide failure to simplify and prioritize; we have yet to focus our limited time and energy on the most essential, widely acknowledged, evidence-based practices that could have more impact than all other initiatives combined.