20 Lessons to Guide Young Learners Through the Learning Pit
Twenty compelling Learning Challenge lessons provide teachers with everything needed to facilitate thoughtful, rigorous, dialogue-driven challenges for young learners around topics of current importance.
"Carefully researched and updated, yet filled with practical and immediately usable strategies, this is a must-read book for anyone seeking to understand and influence human behavior." -Pat Wolfe, Educational Consultant "The most important book I have ever had the pleasure of learning from and using. It gives leaders what they need to effectively meet the learning needs of individuals and positively affect organizational adaptability and capacity." -Delise Neely, Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership Cardinal Stritch University Unleash the power of the leadership-brain connection! This updated edition of the groundbreaking book Connecting Leadership to the Brain provides school leaders with a visionary framework for understanding how mindful leadership significantly impacts growth and achievement in educational communities. Offering an approach compatible with the ways individuals naturally process information and learn, this resource links knowledge about the physiological, social, emotional, constructive, reflective, and dispositional nature of the brain to compatible leadership practice. Leaders will find specific examples and reflection exercises focused on how to: Support the mind-body connection Promote social relationships Harness the power of emotion Expedite the construction of knowledge Build a culture of reflection Cultivate productive dispositions Mindful Leadership is an essential companion for helping readers become mindful leaders who consciously attend to the nature of intelligence in the process of influencing the achievement of goals.
How to Lead Change With Clarity, Conviction, and Courage
When we ask schools to change, we are asking human beings to change and this requires special tools and a human-centered approach. This book shows how school leaders can change the heart of the system by enabling the hearts and minds of those who make schools work. It also helps them make sense of challenging change journeys and accelerate implementation as well as understand why resistance is to be expected and how to get through it with this practical framework that includes human-centered tools, resources and mini case studies. Readers will discover three different kinds of change strategies and when to use each one.
Michael Fullan returns with an eminently readable, compelling and practical guide on the three habits of nuance: joint determination, adaptability, and culture-based accountability.
This book helps teachers leverage the most effective teaching practices at the most effective time to meet the surface, deep, and transfer learning needs of mathematics students.
This is a book about collaboration by education professionals on a global scale by first establishing the need for it then outlining how that collaboration can be created.
Plan K-2 math lessons that are purposeful, rigorous, and coherent, and discover your blueprint for building an exceptional foundation in math for your students.
Professional Learning Through Collaborative Inquiry and Student Observation
This book provides observation protocols that encourage teachers to: Plan collaborative inquiry projects by identifying a focus of the inquiry, combing the research literature, and identifying resources needed Observe and analyze student conversations, actions, and products Identify patterns and determine next steps for professional learning
Why a Growth Mindset Makes a Difference in Learning - and What to Do When It Doesn't
Drawing on their work alongside Carol Dweck, the authors answer key questions about Dweck's theory of Mindset and share proven strategies for mindset success.
