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.

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.

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.

• 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.

• 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.

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.

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• The Responsive Advisory Meeting Book: 150+ Purposeful Plans for Middle School
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• Seeing the Good in Students: A Guide to Classroom Discipline in Middle School
• Middle School Motivators!: 22 Interactive Learning Structures
• The Language of Learning: Teaching Students Core Thinking, Listening, and Speaking Skills
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• The Language of Learning: Teaching Students Core Thinking, Listening, and Speaking Skills
• The Power of Our Words: Teacher Language that Helps Children Learn
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• The First Six Weeks of School
• Energizers!: 88 Quick Movement Activities that Refresh and Refocus
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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.

The first days of school are buzzing with excitement and questions as students meet new peers, start new routines, and look ahead to a year’s worth of learning, covering the crucial first day, and each of the first four weeks of school, this guide gives you the tools you need to foster key social-emotional and academic skills in your students. With practical information on:

• Nurturing a healthy and productive Middle School learning community
• Making the most of Advisory
• Helping students set goals and invest in the classroom rules
• Responding to misbehavior in constructive ways
• …and much more!