This book will allow teachers and administrators to facilitate effective collaboration and communication in the classroom and embed critical thinking in students while working with the content being learned. It is designed so that a teacher can use it immediately to enhance classroom instruction, an administrator can facilitate meaningful conversations with teachers, academic coaches can use it a resource, and as a professional development tool to model strategies. It will help make sense of all the standards, initiatives, and other instructional demands on teachers and how to make them work together to provide purposeful, meaningful and effective instruction for their students.