When teachers create environments that focus on teaching skills rather than punishing individual actions, they reduce behavior problems and nurture the growth of all learners. This book expertly guides early childhood teachers to analyze their classroom elements, routines, and responses to children.
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by James Butler, M.Ed.
Teaching students how to focus and self-regulate at a young age can provide them with skills that will help throughout their schooling and adult lives. Like anyone, they need easy-to-remember tools and strategies to calm their minds and focus on the moment. This interactive, research-based curriculum helps preK and elementary teachers integrate simple, ready-to-use stretching, breathing, and reflective exercises as well as other mindfulness practices into their daily classroom routines.
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by Katia S. Petersen, Ph.D.
Build attitudes of respect and caring, reduce problem behaviors, empower children to solve problems, and educate the whole child with this flexible, user-friendly activity guide. The lessons’ literature-based connections allow teachers to “build in” rather than “add on” social-emotional learning (SEL) throughout the day. Field-tested in classrooms across the United States, these activities when fully implemented have resulted in improved school climate, greater parent engagement, increased academic achievement, and reduction in discipline referrals.
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A Moving Child Is a Learning Child: How the Body Teaches the Brain to Think (Birth to Age 7)
by Gill Connell and Cheryl McCarthy
Grounded in best practices and current research, this hands-on resource connects the dots that link brain activity, motor and sensory development, movement, and early learning. The expert authors unveil the Kinetic Scale: a visual map of the active learning needs of infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and children in primary grades that fits each child’s individual timetable.
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Move, Play, and Learn with Smart Steps: Sequenced Activities to Build the Body and the Brain (Birth to Age 7)
by Gill Connell and Cheryl McCarthy
Build the body-brain connection with step-by-step activities that help children develop physical, cognitive, social, and emotional foundations for early learning and school readiness. The easy-to-follow, full-color format includes diagrams and photos along with teaching tips to advance and automate children’s foundational physical capabilities while providing incremental challenge.
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Attention Restoration Theory indicates that just being in natural environments compels our nervous system to relax into a state of more focused attention and stress recovery.
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In this free webinar, participants will learn strategies for incorporating mindfulness into a daily self-care routine; explore mindful inquiry in their efforts to make sure all students have equitable access to education; engage with simple mindfulness practices that can be woven into synchronous and asynchronous learning opportunities for students; explore how mindfulness fits into education during the coronavirus pandemic; and grow their general understanding of mindfulness in education.
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Intentional Teaching in Early Childhood: Ignite Your Passion for Learning and Improve Outcomes for Young Children
by Sandra Heidemann, M.S., Beth Menninga, M.A.Ed., and Claire Chang, M.A.
Through in-depth self-assessment and reflection, educators reexamine their teaching philosophies, integrate new knowledge and strategies into their practices, and strengthen the impact of their teaching on students. In the midst of a constantly changing education landscape, teachers will become more intentional in their practices and rediscover their unique purpose and passion for teaching young children.
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by James Butler, M.Ed.
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Dr. Richard M. Cash dispelled two common preconceived notions about differentiation: that it doesn’t work and that it is too hard to do.
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By Richard M. Cash, Ed.D., author of
Advancing Differentiation: Thinking and Learning for the 21st Century
In recognizing the diversity among students, educators must also affirm that not all students need to learn, think, and do in the same ways.
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Making Differentiation a Habit: How to Ensure Success in Academically Diverse Classrooms
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Learn the six myths that lead teachers to believe learners are empowered when they might not be.
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Inspiring Student Empowerment: Moving Beyond Engagement, Refining Differentiation
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Dina Brulles, Ph.D., and
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In this free webinar, veteran educator
Patti Drapeau shares practical, evidence-based practices that shift focus from engaging students to empowering them, and from differentiation to personalized learning. You’ll learn how school districts that have focused on student empowerment have seen a rise in test scores, motivation, attention, and self-confidence.
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Differentiating Instruction in the Regular Classroom: How to Reach and Teach All Learners
by Diane Heacox, Ed.D.
In this updated edition of the popular and trusted guide, Diane Heacox provides a practical introduction to differentiation and explains how differentiated instruction can work in a wide range of settings to provide variety and challenge in how teachers teach and in how students learn. Differentiated instruction lesson plans are provided as templates and forms, with examples to illustrate differentiation in many content areas.
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Making Differentiation a Habit: How to Ensure Success in Academically Diverse Classrooms
by Diane Heacox, Ed.D.
In this updated edition of her guide to daily differentiated instruction, Diane Heacox outlines the critical elements for success in today’s classrooms. She gives educators evidence-based differentiation strategies and user-friendly tools to optimize teaching, learning, and assessment for all students.
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Advancing Differentiation: Thinking and Learning for the 21st Century
by Richard M. Cash, Ed.D.
Advancing Differentiation will lead you through the process of creating a thriving, student-centered, 21st-century classroom. Since its initial publication, the book’s materials have undergone rigorous testing and refinement in classrooms all over the world to deliver the best and most effective differentiation strategies.
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Inspiring Student Empowerment: Moving Beyond Engagement, Refining Differentiation
by Patti Drapeau
When students have voice and choice, they gain control over their learning and their actions and feel empowered to work harder and achieve more. Through sample lessons, strategies, and applications, educators will learn how to shift from engagement to empowerment, from differentiation to personalized learning, and practical ways to make these strategies work in the classroom.
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Developing relationships is a complex developmental task. It isn’t just shy kids, kids with negative attention-getting behavior, or kids new to school who can benefit from assistance with relationships. Even high-achieving, highly talented kids can struggle socially.
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By Jean Sunde Peterson, Ph.D., author of
Get Gifted Students Talking: 76 Ready-to-Use Group Discussions About Identity, Stress, Relationships, and More (Grades 6–12)
Dr. Dina Brulles discussed five steps schools can take when implementing cluster grouping.
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By Dina Brulles, Ph.D., coauthor of
The Cluster Grouping Handbook: A Schoolwide Model: How to Challenge Gifted Students and Improve Achievement for All
Author Deb Douglas highlighted three things that frustrate gifted students, and what teachers can do to help.
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By Deb Douglas, M.S., author of
The Power of Self-Advocacy for Gifted Learners: Teaching the 4 Essential Steps to Success
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In this free webinar,
Dr. Diane Heacox explores well-documented research on underlying causes of low performance and creates distinctions between non-producers, selective producers, and underachievers among the gifted populations. Viewers are guided through a process for diagnosing specific performance issues and provided with specific and targeted courses of action.
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Susan Winebrenner, M.S., and
Lisa M. Kiss, M.Ed., describe how to identify twice-exceptional (2e) students—students who are gifted and have another learning difference—and how to meet their academic and social-emotional needs in any classroom.
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Dina Brulles, Ph.D., and
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Start Seeing and Serving Underserved Gifted Students: 50 Strategies for Equity and Excellence
by Jennifer Ritchotte, Ph.D., Chin-Wen Lee, Ph.D., and Amy Graefe, Ph.D.
This reader-friendly guide promotes equity in gifted education by providing teachers with fifty strategies to nurture the academic and affective growth of their gifted students from traditionally underserved populations. The strategies are outlined within five chapters addressing how teachers can see, understand, teach, challenge, and advocate for their underserved gifted learners in all content areas.
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The Power of Self-Advocacy for Gifted Learners: Teaching the 4 Essential Steps to Success
by Deb Douglas, M.S.
Gifted learners are full of potential, but sometimes they’re also frustrated, bored, and even disruptive in class. Many bright students struggle because they have never been taught how to ask for what they really need to improve their school experience. This research-based guide shows educators how to teach self-advocacy skills to gifted students.
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by Dina Brulles, Ph.D., and Susan Winebrenner, M.S.
The Cluster Grouping Handbook offers a guide for schools to create a workable, defensible gifted program; to simplify teachers’ jobs; and to maximize learning for all students. The new edition offers identification and placement guidance for a wide variety of student ages and populations. It directs special attention toward empowering gifted English language learners. It shows teachers how to use the Depth of Knowledge (DOK) framework to differentiate learning tasks, and it offers new ideas for integrating technology into both professional development and student learning.
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Differentiation for Gifted Learners: Going Beyond the Basics
by Diane Heacox, Ed.D., and Richard M. Cash, Ed.D.
Differentiated instruction for gifted learners must go beyond adjusting content levels, task complexity, or product choice—it must truly challenge and support learners on all levels: academic, social, and emotional. A leading resource in the field of gifted education, this book connects the unique learning differences among gifted students to the specific teaching methods used to tailor their learning experiences.
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by Dina Brulles, Ph.D., and Karen L. Brown, M.Ed.
Grouping learners purposefully throughout the school day based on their needs and the curriculum remains the single best way to differentiate instruction. This award-winning guide will help teachers expertly use flexible grouping and differentiation strategies to respond to students’ diverse learning needs, abilities, and interests.
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Author Ezra Werb shared four strategies to give struggling students the confidence that they
can learn.
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By Ezra Werb, M.Ed., author of
Teach for Attention! A Tool Belt of Strategies for Engaging Students with Attention Challenges
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Author Emily Kircher-Morris provided five ideas teachers and parents can use to help kids with executive functioning struggles.
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By Emily Kircher-Morris, M.A., M.Ed., LPC, author of
Teaching Twice-Exceptional Learners in Today’s Classroom
A strong relationship between special and general education teachers is essential to helping students succeed. Learn expert tips for building a successful partnership.
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By Benjamin Farrey-Latz, author of
I Can Learn Social Skills! Poems About Getting Along, Being a Good Friend, and Growing Up
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by Susan Winebrenner, M.S., with Lisa M. Kiss, M.Ed.
A gold mine of practical, classroom-tested teaching methods, strategies, and tips to improve learning outcomes for students who score below proficiency levels. This fully revised and updated third edition provides information on integrated learning, problem solving, and critical thinking. Sidebars throughout highlight special information for working with students on the autism spectrum, and “tech tips” describe technologies that are especially useful for kids with LD.
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by Myles L. Cooley, Ph.D.
Covering topics including PTSD, bipolar disorder, autism spectrum disorder, and many others, this accessible, ready-to-use reference explains how each disorder or difficulty might be exhibited in the classroom and offers straightforward suggestions for what to do (and what not to do).
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RTI Success: Proven Tools and Strategies for Schools and Classrooms
by Elizabeth Whitten, Ph.D., Kelli J. Esteves, Ed.D., and Alice Woodrow, Ed.D.
Response to Intervention allows educators to assess and meet the needs of struggling students before they have fallen too far behind. Three expert authors offer over 100 research-based, instructional techniques and interventions for use in diverse settings, advice on creating personal and positive learning environments, information on co-teaching, and approaches to purposeful grouping.
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Checking in with students does not have to be an intense, deep conversation about mental health. Many times, quick and intentional interactions with students help them develop a larger belief that there are people who recognize their existence and care about their well-being.
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By Stephanie Filio, M.Ed., author of
Responding to Student Trauma: A Toolkit for Schools in Times of Crisis
For some children, relearning not to consider people and places “dangerous” could be challenging. The first day of school jitters alone might be epic. Here are some steps to help adjust during this next, awkward re-opening phase.
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By Summer Batte, author of
Name and Tame Your Anxiety: A Kid’s Guide
Mental health stigma brings shame and stress, and reduces the likelihood that a child will be diagnosed and receive treatment. Learn tips for reducing the harmful stigma of mental illness.
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By Deborah Serani, Psy.D., author of
Sometimes When I’m Sad
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Educators can play a powerful role in providing coping mechanisms for students to help them process and endure our often-chaotic world. In this free webinar, school counselor
Stephanie Filio, M.Ed., will share activities and resources that can assist educators in responding to today’s traumas and help them to prepare for the next crisis.
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One in five K–12 students has a mental health disorder, and an additional 5 percent are classified as learning disabled. In this free webinar, clinical psychologist
Myles L. Cooley, Ph.D., provides guidelines on supporting these students. Dr. Cooley describes various mental health and learning disorders, clarifies misunderstandings, and explains new and revised diagnoses.
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How (and Why) to Get Students Talking: 78 Ready-to-Use Group Discussions About Anxiety, Self-Esteem, Relationships, and More (Grades 6–12)
by Jean Sunde Peterson, Ph.D.
Young people need a safe, supportive place to connect and “just talk” with caring peers and an attentive adult. Through guided group discussions with inclusive language, this books helps young people gain self-awareness, build important verbal communication skills, cope with difficult emotions, practice problem-solving, and more.
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Responding to Student Trauma: A Toolkit for Schools in Times of Crisis
by Stephanie Filio, M.Ed.
This quick reference guide for trauma response gives educators strategies to address the specific needs of their students. Structured according to the source of trauma—self/home, school, community, and country/world—this book provides techniques and tools to:
• understand the layers of trauma
• identify signs of trauma in students
• guide conversations
• take necessary action
• reduce anxiety
by Myles L. Cooley, Ph.D.
Covering topics including PTSD, bipolar disorder, autism spectrum disorder, and many others, this accessible, ready-to-use reference explains how each disorder or difficulty might be exhibited in the classroom and offers straightforward suggestions for what to do (and what not to do).
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The Harvard EASEL Lab (Ecological Approaches to Social Emotional Learning Laboratory) has developed an ideology that takes the abstract concept of SEL and anchors it with small implements, or tools, called SEL kernels that have specific mini goals on several levels.
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By Lydia Bowers, author of
We Listen to Our Bodies
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When students feel confident, they are more likely to be emotionally strong, behaviorally appropriate, and cognitively aware—and thus, more successful learners. In this free webinar,
Dr. Richard Cash discusses specific strategies to build and shape students’ confidence and make your classroom an enjoyable learning environment for all.
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Developing emotional intelligence (EQ) in students is essential to preparing them for success in college, careers, and adult life. In this free webinar,
Dr. Maurice Elias and
Dr. Steven Tobias talk about what EQ is and why and how you can build valuable EQ skills in your students.
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Drawing on insight from years of teaching growth mindset in the classroom, author
Shannon Anderson, M.Ed., shares positive, practical advice on building an improved mindset for kids of all abilities. In this free webinar, you'll learn how to change the way your students think about their challenges and help them set goals, overcome self-doubt, and build resilience.
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In this free webinar,
Jonathan Erwin, M.A., provides a research-based rationale for teaching SEL, shares lessons that teach specific social emotional skills, and shows how you can use SEL content to satisfy state standards. Leverage Erwin’s 30-plus years in education to learn how SEL can be an excellent vehicle for satisfying the requirements of your state’s ELA standards in addition to improving students’ attitudes and behaviors.
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by Richard M. Cash, Ed.D.
To succeed in school, students need more than subject area knowledge—they must learn how to learn. Use this comprehensive, hands-on guide to help students find personal value in learning, develop effective study habits, welcome challenges, seek help, and use failure as a learning tool.
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by Michele Borba, Ed.D.
Based on a practical, six-part framework for reducing peer cruelty and increasing positive behavior support,
End Peer Cruelty, Build Empathy utilizes the strongest pieces of best practices and current research for ways to stop bullying. The book includes guidelines for implementing strategies, collecting data, training staff, mobilizing students and parents, building social-emotional skills, and sustaining progress, and presents the “6Rs” of bullying prevention:
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by Jonathan C. Erwin, M.A.
With dozens of fun and easy-to-do lessons and activities, this book provides everything needed to create a positive learning environment in any classroom or school.
The SEL Solution helps students master critical social and emotional skills, encourages student leadership, provides compassionate behavior management strategies, and increases student success.
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by Maurice J. Elias, Ph.D., and Steven E. Tobias, Psy.D.
This practical resource for middle school educators provides guidelines for teaching fundamental EQ in an intentional and focused way. The core of the book is a series of thirty hands-on lessons, each focusing on critical EQ concepts and centered around productive and respectful discussion.
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Many educators work so hard caring for students, staff, family, and friends, that they neglect their own needs. Click below for self-care habits and routines you can easily incorporate into your summer schedule.
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By veteran school counselor and character coach Barbara Gruener
Teaching can be the most rewarding profession, but it can also be draining. To avoid burnout, follow these three rules for self-care.
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By Beth Baker, M.S.Ed., coauthor of
The PBIS Team Handbook: Setting Expectations and Building Positive Behavior
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Here are tools that can help you stay attuned, connected, and grateful for the work you do each day.
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By Molly Breen, M.A., E.C.E.
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In this free webinar, award-winning teacher, motivational speaker, and author Justin Ashley teaches educators how to:
• Catch happiness in every domain—social, career, physical/emotional, and financial
• Counteract burnout, reduce anxiety, and skillfully navigate through seasons of depression
• Set up fun family field trips without breaking the bank
• Build and live by a family creed
• Create and follow a monthly cash flow plan
• Bounce back from failure at work
• Take advantage of exercise opportunities before, during, and after school
• Increase your quantity and quality of sleep, so you can be fully present while you’re awake
• Inject “Purple Cows” into your lessons that make your classroom feel like an academic playground
• Set four “Rising Sun” goals for the next school year
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Conflicts are inevitable, often hard to navigate, and quick to multiply and become unmanageable. In this free webinar, coauthors
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Christine M. Snyder introduce you to the basics of finding your way through conflict. Using engaging, real-life scenarios to support your self-reflection and understanding, they discuss the critical principles and attitudes required for successful conflict engagement.
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• learn strategies for incorporating mindfulness into a daily self-care routine
• explore mindful inquiry in your efforts to make sure all students have equitable access to education
• engage with simple mindfulness practices that can be woven into synchronous and asynchronous learning opportunities for students
• explore how mindfulness fits into education during the coronavirus pandemic
• grow your general understanding of mindfulness in education
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by Justin Ashley
It wasn’t long after being named North Carolina History Teacher of the Year that Justin Ashley started noticing signs of burnout. In
The Balanced Teacher Path, Justin shares his personal story—illuminating how easy it is to give your job everything you’ve got and leave yourself with nothing outside of school—and shows new teachers and veterans alike the self-care techniques they can employ to create work-life balance and prevent burnout.
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by Sandra Heidemann, M.S., Beth Menninga, M.A.Ed., and Claire Chang, M.A.
Take a guided journey of self-discovery and self-determination to take charge of your professional development and navigate the complexities of a teaching life. This essential book includes:
• In-depth tools for examining your teaching philosophy
• Strategies to chart your growth
• Techniques for problem-solving
• Personal stories from other early childhood educators
• And much more!
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Intentional Teaching in Early Childhood is designed as a professional development resource and can be used to facilitate a book study or as a learning experience for a professional learning community (PLC). Facilitator notes are provided for additional support and explanation in planning and facilitating your school or group’s study sessions or workshops.
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by Chris Amirault, Ph.D., and Christine Snyder, M.A.
Resolving conflict requires self-reflection, understanding, and vulnerability. But knowing how to tackle difficult conversations will strengthen relationships, create a more equitable community, and improve the impact educators have on the children they work with.
This first-of-its-kind book uses authentic conflict scenarios that empower educators to get in and out of conflict in a variety of personal, organization, and cultural contexts.
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Finding Your Way Through Conflict is designed as a professional development resource and can be used to facilitate a book study or as a learning experience for a professional learning community (PLC). Facilitator notes are provided for additional support and explanation in planning and facilitating your school or group’s study sessions or workshops.
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Equip young children with the skills to express their feelings and manage the inevitable difficulties and stressors that come with being human. Read now.
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Teachers and counselors often see students who misbehave or are suffering in various ways. The key question is, what underlies these problems? Read now.
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This summer, take time to get to know what may trigger emotions and how you respond to those emotions. Here are some ideas to help you do that as you gear up for the coming school year. Read now.
