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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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."
Get organized, plan effectively, and keep your school running smoothly! Developed for both aspiring and experienced elementary school principals, this unique resource-updated from the top-selling first edition-lays out everyday challenges and administrative necessities to help you plan strategically for the academic year. This month-by-month planning tool, designed by veteran administrators, helps you get off on the right foot in July to set your course for a successful school year. Its emphasis is to help principals develop the skills to foresee future calendar events, and to put into operation specific plans to maintain a calm learning environment. Chapters cover key tasks for each month, beginning in July, and contain: Overview of tasks Communications-letters, memos, correspondence, media relations, including sample documents Planning-workshops, orientations, field trips, fundraising activities Personnel-assignments, schedules, rosters, tenure recommendations Checklists to monitor progress with an assortment of tasks Resources to proactively plan and execute effective and decisive leadership The Elementary School Principal's Calendar offers a handy checklist for each month and the flexibility for modification, helping busy administrators avoid reinventing the wheel each year. It's an essential handbook for every principal faced with the complex challenge of managing all aspects of school administration!
Get organized, plan effectively, and keep your school running smoothly! Developed for both aspiring and experienced elementary school principals, this unique resource-updated from the top-selling first edition-lays out everyday challenges and administrative necessities to help you plan strategically for the academic year. This month-by-month planning tool, designed by veteran administrators, helps you get off on the right foot in July to set your course for a successful school year. Its emphasis is to help principals develop the skills to foresee future calendar events, and to put into operation specific plans to maintain a calm learning environment. Chapters cover key tasks for each month, beginning in July, and contain: Overview of tasks Communications-letters, memos, correspondence, media relations, including sample documents Planning-workshops, orientations, field trips, fundraising activities Personnel-assignments, schedules, rosters, tenure recommendations Checklists to monitor progress with an assortment of tasks Resources to proactively plan and execute effective and decisive leadership The Elementary School Principal's Calendar offers a handy checklist for each month and the flexibility for modification, helping busy administrators avoid reinventing the wheel each year. It's an essential handbook for every principal faced with the complex challenge of managing all aspects of school administration!
