<p><em>"</em><strong>Powerful Lesson Planning</strong><em>is an important book, offering essential guidance in the highly complex task of lesson planning. In this age of content standards and the high-stakes assessment of those standards, the teacher''s challenge in planning for instruction is more profound than ever."</em><br>--From the Foreword by Charlotte Danielson<br><br><strong><em>Revitalize your current practices, expand your repertoire of approaches, and improve learning for students!<br></em></strong><br>Every teacher''s goal is to create a rich instructional environment for their students, and thoughtful, informed lesson planning is a key element in that process. Janice Skowron''s jump-start of a book offers novice and experienced teachers step-by-step, essential guidance in this challenging and oftentimes highly complex task. It brings into focus the decisions teachers face as they plan instruction and provides four progressively complex and nuanced models: basic, integrate