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"A resource for teachers, grades 2-5, that combines character education with analogy-making and the interest kids have in plants and animals. At the heart of each of the book's twenty-five lessons is an engaging story, written to kids, describing a particular animal or plant and its distinctive qualities"--
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Accessible, hands-on RTI guidance and strategies for educators at all grade levels
This practical, ready-to-use resource gives teachers and administrators the tools to successfully implement RTI or strengthen an existing program to target students' specific needs. Response to Intervention allows educators to assess and meet the needs of struggling students before they have fallen too far behind. Three expert authors explore this multi-tiered system...
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"This book expands the discussion of talent in kids while also providing touchable tangible steps practitioners and parents can use to give kids every chance to achieve their talent(s). It presents talent as something that all kids should have the chance to go after and provides real-life suggestions for addressing the "untalented" kid"--
"10 tools for developing talents in multiple areas, from academics to arts to athletics, in all kids. Many believe...
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Learn how to engage in and resolve conflict productively to improve work relationships and create a more equitable community for children.
Conflicts are inevitable, often hard to navigate, and can quickly multiply and become unmanageable. And 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...
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A practical, comprehensive guide to help educators go beyond student engagement and differentiation to achieve student empowerment.
Student engagement continues to be an important goal for teachers, but it shouldn't end there. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to teaching anymore. School districts that have begun to shift their focus from engaging students to empowering them, and from differentiation to personalized learning, have seen a rise...
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Immediately effective trauma-response framework for educators to help students during and after crises.
Responding to Student Trauma is an urgent addition to current trauma response practices. Written by a middle school counselor, this easy-to-follow book provides a framework for understanding and responding to the needs of students experiencing trauma. With many schools lacking adequate staff for supporting student mental health, this guide gives...
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This book's goal is to give you frameworks for planning and implementing a variety of strategies to support the emotional development of young children in your care. It serves as a blueprint to design and build an emotion-rich classroom. Unlike a formal curriculum, which might have a pacing guide of skills and plans for each day, this book provides flexible, adaptable strategies and activity ideas. You can intentionally plan and modify these for your...
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If learning is a motor, student engagement is the key. But when teaching students with ADHD and other attention challenges, sometimes even the most finely tuned classroom can sputter. Teach for Attention! is your tool belt of teaching strategies for students with ADHD, low self-confidence, distraction, and other attention challenges. Dozens of true classroom stories show the strategies in action. It's all about making simple fixes so you can reach...
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A revised and updated edition of the best-selling guide for schools implementing PBIS Tier 1. PBIS (positive behavior interventions and supports) is the most important tool educators have to deal with disruptive student behaviors. This revised and updated handbook provides detailed guidelines for implementing and sustaining PBIS for schools and teams. New in this edition is a chapter addressing inequity and bias in behavior referrals and discipline;...
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Definitive resource for implementing, sustaining, and evaluating schoolwide cluster grouping, fully revised and expanded.
In today's standards-driven era, how can teachers motivate and challenge gifted students and ensure that all students reach their potential? This book provides a compelling answer: the Schoolwide Cluster Grouping Model. The authors explain how the model differs from grouping practices of the past, and they present a roadmap for...
11) Teaching Kids to Pause, Cope, and Connect: Lessons for Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness
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Thirty hands-on lessons provide students opportunities to learn and practice self-regulation strategies.
Students today face many challenges that did not exist a generation or two ago, and rates of emotional disorders (including anxiety and depression) have increased steadily over the years. Students must also manage an overwhelming amount of information. With today's reliance on technology and social media, they have fewer opportunities to develop...
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Activities, exercises, and questions invite teens to go deeper into the stories and issues of the updated edition of The Struggle to Be Strong.
Designed for use with the anthology The Struggle to Be Strong, this leader's guide explains how to use the stories in the student book to build teens' resiliency. Activities, exercises, role plays, and questions about the issues in The Struggle to Be Strong help students go deeper into the stories, reflect...
13) Mindful Classrooms™: Daily 5-Minute Practices to Support Social-Emotional Learning (PreK to Grade 5)
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A guide for busy elementary educators on how to easily incorporate mindfulness activities into existing curriculum
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...
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Help underserved high-potential students claim their right to an education that addresses their unique needs.
In gifted education, an important and contentious issue that has yet to be sufficiently addressed is the systemic underrepresentation of gifted students who have been discriminated against in school-based gifted and advanced learner programs because of their race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or other...
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The underrepresentation of students from historically marginalized populations-including English language learners, twice-exceptional students, culturally and linguistically diverse students, and economically disadvantaged students-in our gifted programs and services continues to be a critical issue in education. The importance of a caring and committed teacher who sees and supports the potential in all learners and who respects linguistic diversity...
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“Big Conversations with Little Children” consists of two main parts: Part I: Preparing for Difficult Conversations addresses how to cultivate understanding and partnership among the adults involved. Here you will find suggestions on questions to ask parents to determine the best way to approach a child's questions or concerns. Part I also helps you anticipate three types of conversations or questions to be prepared for: XConversations between...
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Revised and updated edition helps educators increase rigor and depth for all advanced and gifted learners to fulfill their potential.
With increasing numbers of students receiving gifted services every year, it's more important than ever for differentiated instruction to go beyond adjusting content levels, task complexity, or product choice-it must truly challenge and support learners on all levels: academic, social, and emotional.
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A field guide for understanding the complex characteristics and social and emotional needs of gifted kids.
Many bright and gifted kids do not feel understood or supported. For adults wanting to change that, “Bright, Complex Kids” provides guidance for gaining entrance to their internal world. This practical and easy-to-use field guide includes ideas for how and why to:
• listen and respond
• self-monitor adult biases
• avoid communicating...
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This teacher's companion to a classic book for kids provides tools for building self-esteem and personal power.
Without self-esteem, kids doubt themselves and may turn to unhealthy habits as a way of coping. With self-esteem, kids feel secure, are willing to take positive risks, and are resilient in the face of challenges. This teacher's guide expands the messages of Stick Up for Yourself!, teaching self-confidence and how to be assertive with easy-to-use...
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Unique, practical resource helps teachers, counselors, and youth leaders bring students together to talk openly about important issues in their lives.
In our digital era, young people need a safe, supportive place to connect and "just talk" with caring peers and an attentive adult. With more inclusive language, new discussion topics about social media, and a revised introduction, this updated edition of How (and Why) to Get Students Talking addresses...