Truisms That Help Students Write About Abstract Concepts . . . and Live Happily Ever After, Grades 4-12
This book teaches students how to write using a text structure to organize their writing, then how to choose a text structure. With a little practice, students go from completely dependent on teacher guidance to completely autonomous designers of their pieces. The scaffolding leads the student, but also the teacher, toward more student choices.
A Practical Guide for Cultivating Aware, Advancing, and Authentic Learning Experiences
Mindfulness is the building of three capacities: awareness, advancement, and authenticity. Built upon these core capacities, Mindful by Design provides 24 detailed exercises for teachers and students, including step-by-step mindfulness lessons embedded into specific curriculum areas, ready to implement immediately. This book demystifies mindfulness and allows educators to inspire powerful learning environments.
With educational stakeholders in mind, this book uses real-world experiences and evidence-based strategies to guide implementation of a practical and sustainable social emotional learning program.
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.
How to Create and Sustain a School-Wide Culture of Deep Reading, Writing, and Thinking
With Disciplinary Literacy in Action, learn to pool teacher strengths to use innovative literacy moves tailored to each discipline. This book relies on real-world implementation rather than using inauthentic add-ons for different disciplines.
What leaders love most is the way Cultural Proficiency lays the groundwork for powerful organizational growth with resources to: Engage colleagues in collaborative dialogue about creating powerful teaching and learning environments Recognize and respond to both individual and group differences to break down barriers Use the Cultural Proficiency Continuum to assess the limitations of school practices and identify opportunities to shift the culture
Dave Stuart Jr.'s work is centered on a simple belief: all students and teachers can flourish. These 6 Things is all about streamlining your practice so that you're teaching smarter, not harder, and kids are learning, doing, and flourishing in ELA and content-area classrooms.
How to Guide Small Groups Based on Readers - Not the Book
From must-have beginning-of-the-year strategies to step-by-step advice for implementation, this guide breaks down the processes that support small groups and help create effective instructional reading programs. Based on more than 45 years of combined experience in the classroom, this resource will empower you with tools to ensure that your readers are doing the reading, thinking, and doing - not you.
Introduction to Clinical Mental Health Counseling presents a broad overview of the field of clinical mental health and provides students with the knowledge and skills to successfully put theory into practice in real-world settings. Drawing from their experience as clinicians, authors Joshua C. Watson and Michael K. Schmit cover the foundations of ......
