I usually write about biographical books about remarkable teachers, but I feel I just have to share this really great resource about pedagogy with everyone. This book, Classroom Instruction that Works by Robert Marzano, provides nine strategies for improving the quality of instruction in any classroom. Many of these strategies are probably ones that you are using already, but this volume explains in easy terms why the strategy works. The strategies that may be new to the reader would be easy to incorporate into any teacher’s lesson plans. All of them are easy to justify to an administrator who may be observing your classroom. At my school, the staff as a whole made a concerted effort to incorporate these strategies as often as possible, and we saw our test scores skyrocket. You can find this very useful and very reasonably priced book at amazon through the following link: Classroom Instruction that Works.