"A book about the fearless joy, the common sense, and the B.S. detector necessary for good teaching. Brava!" -Michelle Broussard, Assistant Professor McNeese State University "This book is a winner for anyone who loves teaching and who cares about helping students reach beyond expectations." -Gayla LeMay, Teacher Louise Radloff Middle School, Snellville, GA Inspirational, invigorating advice from a veteran teacher! Vickie Gill's time-tested wisdom and practical advice provides the insight teachers need to develop a dynamic, successful classroom. This third edition of her bestseller contains new material that helps teachers work with new technologies, evolving social climates, limited budgets, and standardized testing. Drawing on lessons learned from 21 joyous years of teaching, Gill illustrates each commandment with authentic classroom stories and concrete guidance for staying enthusiastic and committed to excellence. The suggestions show how to: Ask for support from your principal or staff Reach difficult-to-teach students Choose your battles carefully Maintain an open mind and a flexible attitude Focus on why you became a teacher in the first place Rediscover your profound joy for teaching, students, and what Gill calls "the greatest of all professions."
A book about the fearless joy, the common sense, and the B.S. detector necessary for good teaching. Brava!'-Michelle Broussard, Assistant Professor McNeese State University 'This book is a winner for anyone who loves teaching and who cares about helping students reach beyond expectations'-Gayla LeMay, Teacher Louise Radloff Middle School, Snellville, GA Vickie Gill's time-tested wisdom and practical advice provides the insight teachers need to develop a dynamic, successful classroom. This third edition of her bestseller contains new material that helps teachers work with new technologies, evolving social climates, limited budgets, and standardized testing. Drawing on lessons learned from 21 joyous years of teaching, Gill illustrates each commandment with authentic classroom stories and concrete guidance for staying enthusiastic and committed to excellence. The suggestions show how to: - Ask for support from your principal or staff - Reach difficult-to-teach students - Choose your battles carefully - Maintain an open mind and a flexible attitude - Focus on why you became a teacher in the first place - Rediscover your profound joy for teaching, students, and what Gill calls "the greatest of all professions."
Anxious, stressed-out children are becoming the norm and teaching in a traditional way is no longer working. The process of learning is an emotionally charged one and many of life's most important attachments will be made at school. The classroom may be the perfect environment to engineer healthy developmental attachments and systematically repair neural dysregulations that impair the capacity to learn. Bill Adair, a high school teacher, worked with an emotional addiction specialist to develop a new therapeutic model that is showing great results in the classroom and is described in this book. It addresses the emotional hurdles of learning with daily connection intentions (the Six Ps) and a simple 1-2-3 therapeutic learning approach that specifically targets unhealthy attachments and forges a new and empowering story for learning.
Six Entry Points for Nonnegotiable Academic Success
Create space for equity conversations that empower Equity work is not a destination, but a journey. Equity work is nuanced and often difficult to discuss. In The Equity Expression, Hubbard creates space for equity conversations and empowers practitioners to be equity change agents. Built around the framework of six entry points-systems, mindsets, relationships, products, spaces, and processes-this guide serves as a tool for deliberate and productive planning for equitable change. Reaching into the deepest layers of self to identify personal beliefs, practitioners can use this book to tackle hard truths and challenge themselves to do better. This book provides a fresh take on dissecting equity with a lens to positively impact all students, including Concrete sequential steps to work towards solutions A set of tools to identify problems of practice and establish implementation plans through the six entry points for equity Reflection questions to help educators turn findings into actionable plans For those committed to helping students succeed, the steps outlined in this book provide meaningful solutions to embed equity into every learning culture.
More urgent than ever, this framework combines the best of distance learning and classroom instruction, offering a new vision for learning and professional development that capitalizes on the distance learning experience.
Put all English learners on the path to success-right from the start! Beginning English learners are at risk of being lost in a system that doesn't know how to reach them. With more and more ELs entering. schools every year, educators need to act quickly to create school- and classroom-based programs that work. Veteran educators Debbie Zacarian and Judie Haynes provide templates and tools-along with vignettes illustrating real-world challenges-to help teachers and administrators: Learn strategies for teaching beginning level ELs across the curriculum Create a welcoming environment for English learners and their families who are unfamiliar with the American education system Reach out to students from literacy and non-literacy-oriented homes Engage parents to become a part of the school community Develop instructional models for students with limited or interrupted formal education (SLIFE) Build sensitive practices for students who have experienced trauma The Essential Guide for Educating Beginning English Learners provides a realistic and comprehensive framework for effectively reaching and teaching this growing population.
What Every K-12 Coach and School Leader Needs to Know
Grounded in the latest research and practical experience, this book is the essential guide for practicing Student-Centered Coaching across grade levels and content areas.
10 Leadership Strategies for Effective Decision Making
Be the leader your school community needs. The responsibilities of today's school leaders-providing a world-class education while serving as the moral compass of diverse communities-requires deep insight and understanding of communities, cultures and integrity. In this book, based on national standards, real-life vignettes, mental exercises, reflections, checklists, and other templates provide you with practical strategies to understand how ethical standards and core values drive leadership choices and recognize when urgent action is called for and when it's better to methodically consider your actions and their consequences
Many educators, overwhelmed by the increasing demands of the profession and by the effort that the move to the Common Core Standards requires, continue to view fiction text as the primary source for both read aloud experiences and beginning reading instruction. This text helps all educators and prospective educators see nonfiction texts as an important component of all aspects of the PreK-2 curriculum and to provide them with practical, proven tools for selection and use of a wide variety of informational literature, including books, magazines, charts, graphs, digital media, and more. The authors examine why a balance of informational and narrative text is so important, and what recent research reveals about the value of using nonfiction text with young children. Those working most closely with children in kindergarten through second grade classrooms will find this to be a practical resource for understanding the Standards related to nonfiction text, and for selecting and using appropriate informational literature to build young children's background knowledge and their acquisition of foundational reading skills. Individuals responsible for professional development and for coaching teachers' implementation of the reading curriculum should be able to use this text in teacher book club discussion groups, and as the base for design of professional development sessions.
