CRS Published Products Archives | Responsive Classroom

Morning Meeting 4th Edition

Andrew Rhyand — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 12:00:57 +0000

Promote positive connections, academic growth, and productive behavior by starting each school day with Morning Meeting. Give your students a consistent time and place to gather, explore and practice social skills, build a sense of community, and prepare for the day of learning ahead.

The latest edition of The Morning Meeting Book preserves the essential content and guidelines for each of the four components that have helped thousands of elementary school teachers launch each school day with Morning Meeting. It also contains updates and a new format designed to meet the needs of today’s educators.

The 4^th edition of this comprehensive, user-friendly book includes:

A full-color interior with photographs, icons, charts, and color coding to help you easily navigate the book’s content
Expanded implementation guidance, including suggestions for resolving common Morning Meeting stumbling blocks
QR codes that connect you to videos of Morning Meeting in action
Online planning guides and other digital tools
A multitude of ideas for each component, from the tried-and-true to the new and innovative
A new chapter devoted to harnessing the power of the Morning Meeting structure to build community and foster connections outside the classroom setting

50 More Energizers! Purposeful Play That Leads to Learning

Andrew Rhyand — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 21:14:22 +0000

These 50 energizers are easy to learn and teach. By weaving energizers into the school day, you will infuse joy into learning, deepen student engagement, and meet students’ needs for significance, belonging, and fun.

Energizers can be used anywhere, anytime, with minimal setup. Two or three minutes of moving, laughing, chanting, and singing together can build community, reinforce academic concepts, and calm or invigorate bodies and minds. Whatever your lesson’s purpose, there’s an energizer for it!

How to Bullyproof Your Classroom K-5 (Second Edition)

Emily Hemingway — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 15:31:19 +0000

The revised and updated edition of this classic book uses time-tested and developmentally responsive strategies to create a classroom in which bullying and meanness diminish and kindness flourishes. This second edition incorporates recent studies, updates references, and a new chapter on cyberbullying.

Veteran educator Caltha Crowe offers a proactive approach to bullying prevention that shows you how to create a positive classroom environment and how to respond to mean behavior before it escalates into bullying. In the new edition, you’ll learn how to:

Help children get to know each other (a first step toward kindness) and work together respectfully (a key to a climate of inclusion)
Create rules that children believe in
Identify behaviors that are gateways to bullying and learn how to stop them
Recognize potential bullying situations outside of the classroom
Involve parents in preventing and responding to bullying
Recognize, respond to you, and prevent cyberbullying

The second edition also includes updates lessons plans for teaching elementary children about gateway and bullying behaviors and many other valuable resources educators can use right away.

Free discussion questions now available! These chapter-by-chapter questions will deepen your learning and help you apply the book’s strategies to your own setting.

Strengthening the Parent-Teacher Partnership

Responsive Classroom — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 18:56:33 +0000

With strategies and resources for productive digital communication, positive conferences, mutually beneficial classroom involvement, and more, this book empowers teachers to collaborate confidently with their students’ families.

Key topics:

Making all parents feel welcome
Understanding a culturally plural classroom
Communicating effectively with families to support student success
Leveraging the power of parent-teacher conferences
Strengthening family connections through parent involvement in the classroom
Conveying the importance of teaching self-discipline
Managing challenging parent encounters/situations
Getting to know and partner with the community

Free discussion questions now available! These chapter-by-chapter questions will deepen your learning and help you apply the book’s strategies to your own setting.

Make Learning Meaningful

Responsive Classroom — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 18:52:33 +0000

This book offers a brain-based approach to sustaining student engagement and provides examples of what the natural learning cycle looks and sounds like for teaching academics, discipline, and social-emotional skills in grades K–8.

Key topics:

The three phases of the natural learning cycle and how to deepen learning by connecting to the cycle
Background research and strategies to successfully engage students in the natural learning cycle
How to create a foundation for success by knowing your students and establishing a positive classroom environment
Effective teacher language for leveraging the natural learning cycle
How to use the natural learning cycle to teach discipline and rule-following behaviors, social-emotional competencies, and academic concepts and skills

Free discussion questions now available! These chapter-by-chapter questions will deepen your learning and help you apply the book’s strategies to your own setting.

Empowering Educators: A Comprehensive Guide to Teaching Grades 6, 7, 8

Responsive Classroom — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 18:42:45 +0000

Filled with tried-and-true tips and firsthand knowledge, the Empowering Educators series includes information on how to:

Implement developmentally responsive teaching practices
Establish schedules, routines, and procedures, and set up the physical classroom space
Build and maintain a positive classroom community
Set high expectations and engage all learners
Partner with parents to better support students and their families
Understand educators’ own needs to be effective and fulfilled

Free discussion questions now available! These chapter-by-chapter questions will deepen your learning and help you apply the book’s strategies to your own setting.

Empowering Educators: A Comprehensive Guide to Teaching Grades 3, 4, 5

Responsive Classroom — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 18:30:23 +0000

Filled with tried-and-true tips and firsthand knowledge, the Empowering Educators series includes information on how to:

Implement developmentally responsive teaching practices
Establish schedules, routines, and procedures, and set up the physical classroom space
Build and maintain a positive classroom community
Set high expectations and engage all learners
Partner with parents to better support students and their families
Understand educators’ own needs to be effective and fulfilled

Free discussion questions now available! These chapter-by-chapter questions will deepen your learning and help you apply the book’s strategies to your own setting.

Empowering Educators: A Comprehensive Guide to Teaching Grades K, 1, 2

Responsive Classroom — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 18:29:36 +0000

The book provides valuable insight and inspiring anecdotes geared toward new and experienced teachers alike. Read it from cover to cover or focus on specific chapters—either way, you’re sure to find high-quality, helpful information to guide you in planning for the school year.

Filled with tried-and-true tips and firsthand knowledge, the Empowering Educators series includes information on how to:

Implement developmentally responsive teaching practices
Establish schedules, routines, and procedures, and set up the physical classroom space
Build and maintain a positive classroom community
Set high expectations and engage all learners
Partner with parents to better support students and their families
Understand educators’ own needs to be effective and fulfilled

Free discussion questions now available! These chapter-by-chapter questions will deepen your learning and help you apply the book’s strategies to your own setting.

The Responsive Classroom Assessment Tool for Middle School Teachers

Amy Hildenbrand — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 13:52:49 +0000

Teacher effectiveness is one of the most important factors in determining how successful students are in school. Using this assessment tool will help improve your Responsive Classroom practice and deepen your understanding. Whether you have been using Responsive Classroom practices in your middle school classroom for several months or several years, this easy-to-use assessment tool offers a meaningful structure for reflecting on learning, identifying areas of strength and areas of development and growth, and setting goals.

Quick Coaching Guide: Dining with Self-Discipline

Amy Hildenbrand — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 13:40:14 +0000

This Guide provides guidance for those who supervise the cafeteria and gives suggestions on how they can enhance the dining experience for students by offering support that allows them to practice their social-emotional skills and demonstrate the self-discipline taught in class. A multifaceted tool for ongoing, embedded professional development, Quick Coaching Guides encapsulate a specific topic through the Responsive Classroom lens and offer educators unique tools for reflection, learning, and planning for change.

Order 10 or more of the same Quick Coaching Guide to receive a free Leader Guide to help coach educators in this topic!