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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.

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.

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!

Quick Coaching Guide: Teaching with Purpose: Making Connections Between Teaching and Learning

Amy Hildenbrand — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 13:24:17 +0000

Students will understand the “whys” of what they are learning when teachers establish a clear learning purpose and provide students with a context for how the lesson fits with what they have already learned.

This Quick Coaching Guide discusses the importance of having a lesson plan with clear purpose and how to improve your lesson plans with this in mind. 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.

Quick Coaching Guide: Getting to Know and Connect with Students

Amy Hildenbrand — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 13:20:19 +0000

Teachers who form meaningful relationships with students take the time to learn about their personal goals, interests, culture, and the latest happenings in their lives. Building healthy and productive relationships not only helps individual students, it also benefits the teacher’s efficacy and the overall classroom community, as students who feel a connection with their teacher have increased trust and emotional safety.

This Quick Coaching Guide offers a variety of building blocks for getting to know students, including strategies for making meaningful connections with families and strengthening student-teacher relationships. 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.

This hands-on, structured guide helps educators to take stock of their current practice, plan for future growth, and reflect on progress made.

Quick Coaching Guide: Respectful Interactions

Amy Hildenbrand — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 12:23:14 +0000

Respectful interactions are the building blocks of a positive learning community. Respectful interactions build trust with students and provide a safe environment for risk-taking. Educators who nurture positive relationships in the classroom teach students valuable skills for creating, maintaining, and repairing relationships. This Quick Coaching guide offers strategies for improving our own teacher language and ideas for teaching students to talk and listen respectfully. 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.

This hands-on, structured guide helps educators to take stock of their current practice, plan for future growth, and reflect on progress made.

Orders of ten or more include a Leader Guide for facilitating focused professional development for teams of adult learners. Leader Guides offer multiple options for delivering adult instruction, enabling school leaders to choose the method that works best for their time and staff.

Quick Coaching Guide: Leading With Confidence

Amy Hildenbrand — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 12:20:37 +0000

This Quick Coaching Guide leads educators through a reflection process for developing and strengthening their firm and kind leadership style and assists them in setting goals for making positive changes. When educators are leading with confidence, students feel safer, do better academically and socially, and feel more connected to their teachers.
This hands-on, structured guide helps educators to take stock of their current practice, plan for future growth, and reflect on progress made.

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.

Seeing the Good in Students

Amy Hildenbrand — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 14:25:29 +0000

Middle school students are at an age when it’s natural to test limits and try out aspects of adulthood. However, they still need (and crave!) the presence of caring adults who can help them develop healthy identities, relationships, and behaviors. This book shows educators how to tap into young adolescents’ desire for autonomy in order to help them become self-motivated to behave in productive and positive ways to benefit themselves, their peers, and the greater school community.

Filled with practical advice and real-life insights from middle school teachers, this book includes information on how to:

Help students set meaningful personal goals and discover how school rules can help them meet those goals
Build a strong and supportive learning community
Respond to common misbehaviors and ongoing problem behavior in productive ways
Help students who struggle with their behavior due to trauma or toxic stress
And more!

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.