How Social Connection Can Heal, Empower, and Educate Kids
With his deep knowledge of education, behavior, and neuroscience, Dustin Bindreiff provides a fresh look at the troubling issues our students face and provides practical strategies for building a more hopeful future.
This comprehensive guide offers leaders the tools they need to implement evidence-based identity safe practices across schools and districts where students of all backgrounds feel "seen" and "heard." Strategies and policies are offered that validate all social identities and seek to eliminate negative stereotypes and biases. Leaders will find guiding principles for promoting belonging in a non-colorblind and anti-racist environment with examples and vignettes; professional learning models, assessment strategies, interactive activities and tools to develop an identity safe plan for your school.
Creating a Place Where Kids Want to Learn and Teachers Want to Stay--An Illustrated Playbook
Unlock a treasure trove of learning-make room for belonging in school Belonging is an instinctual feeling: you know when you feel it-and you really know when you don't. Creating a sense of belonging in the classroom has a significant impact on student learning and well-being; it serves as a gatekeeper for other aspects of learning to take root. ......
'The important strength of this book is that it takes the fear out of the reader of a perceived complex system of measurement methodology of benchmarking. The workshop format provides empirical grounding of concepts and methods. Another good aspect of the book is that it prepares the reader in the understanding of the logistical imperatives, the requirement of financial, the time, and the leadership commitments for a benchmarking study' - Benchmarking: An International Journal As schools struggle with the complex tasks of restructuring, they often look to other schools to find models for change. This `benchmarking' process is the theme of this book. By using the strategies presented, school leaders will be able to clearly define their specific restructuring problems, identify what they need to learn from other schools and adapt the solutions to their unique contexts.
Do you enjoy swapping ideas with other teachers? Do you find the staffroom is the best place to learn? Do you wish you had time to attend classroom management seminars? The exchange of ideas often allows teachers to fine tune strategies for managing their classrooms by listening to others who have successfully overcome similar challenges. This inspiring collection of advice from award-winning teachers now brings the best of classroom management practice to your classroom. Best Classroom Management Practices for Reaching All Learners compiles strategies, suggestions, tactics, and plans for improving classroom management approaches. By observing the best run classrooms through the eyes of our best teachers, Stone brings us solutions to teachers' everyday questions and issues. Contributors focus on promoting a positive teaching environment and enriching learning experiences in today's diverse classrooms by covering such topics as: Building classroom community, working with challenging students, and communicating with parents; Rules, rewards, discipline, silence, and shared responsibilities; Homework, posters, newsletters, and reading groups; Computer labs and classroom technology; Invite Randi Stone and 29 expert educators into your classroom and find a virtual staffroom at your fingertips!
This book is filled with ideas, projects, and tips from primary teachers in The United States. Designed to be a helpful resource for practicing as well as future teachers, the book is full of examples for lesson plans, calendars, classroom discussions, uses for new technology, handling communication with parents, and much more.
What Award-Winning Elementary and Middle School Principals Do
This book offers an impressive collection of ideas (conveniently grouped) on enhancing reading skills, originally submitted by the heads of award-winning American schools to NAESP (National Association of Elementary School Principals)
What Award-Winning Elementary and Middle School Principals Do
This book offers an impressive collection of ideas (conveniently grouped) on enhancing reading skills, originally submitted by the heads of award-winning American schools to NAESP (National Association of Elementary School Principals)
