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Live Big, Love Bigger
Winner of a 2020 Catholic Press Association book award (third place, first-time author). Popular blogger Kathryn Whitaker is a Dr Pepper super fan, Aggie-loving, type A mom of six with a personality the size of her native Texas. The stressful premature birth of her fifth child threw her orderly world into chaos and ultimately led her to rethink her priorities. In Live Big, Love Bigger, Whitaker shares her journey and challenges readers to understand that they, too, can live a life of authenticity with joy-filled purpose, love, and faith. Along the way, she’ll help readers see that choosing to say no is the only way they’ll be able to say yes to what matters most—Jesus. It’s not every...
Transforming Teaching Through Relationship-Building and Self-Reflection
Creating connections with and among students is at the heart of all good teaching. In order to do this, we must identify and address the obstacles, conscious and unconscious, getting in the way of this goal. Authors Katherine M. Heavers and Valerie Kearns show how to build authentic relationships that focus on trust and voice while honoring the differences in individuals’ experiences and learning styles. This book covers topics such as fostering trust, wielding language with intention, nurturing emotional safety, offering meaningful feedback, unearthing and confronting bias, and promoting student voice. The authors encourage educators to do their own inner work to embrace vulnerability, wh...
Your First Year
Learn all the essentials for making your first year of teaching a success! In this exciting new book, internationally renowned educator Todd Whitaker teams up with his daughters--Madeline, an elementary teacher, and Katherine, a secondary teacher--to share advice and inspiration. They offer step-by-step guidance to thriving in your new role and overcoming the challenges that many new teachers face. Topics include: Learning classroom management skills such as building relationships and maintaining high expectations and consistency Setting up your classroom and establishing procedures and rules Planning effective lessons and making your instructional time an engaging experience Managing your o...
What Do Great Teachers Say?
Do you remember a time when you used the right words at the right moment, and they made all the difference? With the aim of helping you repeat that experience every day, this book provides hundreds of examples of what we call Great Teacher Language, a technique designed to help all teachers use words to transform student behavior and parent relationships. In their years of working at the K-12 levels, educators Hal Holloman and Peggy H. Yates have identified the exact phrases and key words you can use in your classroom to address inappropriate outbursts, a lack of respect and cooperation, student conflict, and more. Great Teacher Language will enable you to transform student behavior, parent ...
The Silent Sentinels
It is 1976 and the leaders of the ERA movement are just three states short of their dream of legal equality for women. Kate O’Halloran, barely in her 20s and not interested in feminism, has snagged an interview with suffragette legend and ERA proponent Alice Paul, aged 93. Arriving at her small cottage in Connecticut, Kate, unbeknownst to Paul, has no desire to discuss the ERA but to uncover the truth behind Paul’s tortured illegal imprisonment in 1917, a secret that has remained buried for over 50 years. By revealing parts of her past, told through flashbacks, Alice hopes to achiever her biggest coup in the little time she has left. In doing so, both women confront the men in their lives who have aided or stood as roadblocks to their desires. Will both be willing to share their deepest secrets despite the costs? Drama One-act. 40-50 minutes 10-30 actors, large female cast Best One Act Play Award at the 2017 Halo Awards (CT)
Rethinking Weapon Play in Early Childhood
This thought-provoking read invites you to reconsider your automatic "no" when it comes to young children’s weapon play. It offers new perspectives on how weapon play and other risky or controversial play can provide opportunities for healing discussions—including around boundaries, kindness, and consent—and create positive learning experiences for children and teachers alike. Centered in an antiracist framework with applications across diverse communities, the book is written by two educators with unique lived experiences of community violence and safety who each share their perspectives on risky play, questions to consider, and strategies to try in the classroom. Aiming to inspire new ways of thinking, instead of trying to change your mind outright, this book asks deep questions to support you in carefully thinking about the kind of play allowed in your classroom. This book is an essential resource for early years teachers, practitioners, and anyone with a key interest in creating supportive spaces for young children.
The Bridge to School
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Meet the Authors -- Preface -- Help! Index -- 1 How Children Learn to Learn -- 2 The 3R Framework: Room, Routines, and Relationships -- 3 Guiding and Growing the Whole Child -- 4 The Art of Teaching Self-Control -- 5 Language that Supports Young Children -- 6 The Bridge from Play to Instruction, and Instruction to Play -- Appendix 1: Typical Patterns in Development from Ages Four to Six -- Appendix 2: Play-Based Learning that Supports Academic Success -- Appendix 3: Suggested Additional Reading or Viewing -- Glossary
Dispositions Are a Teacher's Greatest Strength
Dispositions Are a Teacher’s Greatest Strength will fuel and reignite your classroom practice. Focusing on 13 dispositions specific to teaching, this book encourages educators to identify, reflect, and develop their dispositions, attitudes, and self-awareness to flourish in the profession. Emphasizing pedagogical knowledge and skills, this text serves as an affirmation of a teacher’s commitment to challenging, complex and rewarding work. It invites educators to consider what a unique privilege it is to teach—to dive into reading, creating space, and embracing dispositions as a teacher’s greatest strength. Each chapter focuses on one of 13 teaching dispositions—such as curiosity, ad...
Find Your Blindspot in the Classroom
Find Your Blindspot in the Classroom offers both an alternative and a complement to standard professional development, instructional coaching, and teacher evaluation. Author Anne Bonnycastle reveals 10 common blindspots that can be challenging for teachers, whether you are in year one or 20. She provides practical strategies to help you find your own blindspot and then shows how you can improve that area by incorporating a professional practice focus. The book’s unique, no-frills, personalized approach will help you improve your classroom instruction, focusing on the effect that your teaching has on students. The research-supported strategies will help you increase your effectiveness, regardless of the supports available within your school. Whether you have a mentor or coach guiding you or are using the book on your own, this book will be your trusty guide as you grow on your journey as an educator.
Teaching with a Social, Emotional, and Cultural Lens
Teaching with a Social, Emotional, and Cultural Lens goes beyond existing social emotional learning programs to introduce a new framework for integrating the development of key skills needed for academic success into daily classroom practice. The framework spells out the competencies, processes, and strategies that effective P-12 educators need to employ in order to build students’ social and emotional learning. The book is based on a decade of pioneering work by the Center for Reaching and Teaching the Whole Child at San José State University, building on the work of the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) and on research about effective teaching and learning and culturally responsive practices. Teaching with a Social, Emotional, and Cultural Lens serves as a critical roadmap for educators, whether they are university faculty searching for how to bring a social, emotional, and cultural lens into their methods or foundations course and field work experiences, or classroom teachers hoping to infuse critical skill building into the everyday academic learning that is the traditional focus of schools.
