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Fostering mindfulness is an essential guide to mindfulness activities and strategies that support the needs of today’s students. This timely book shows you how to help students cultivate the skills they need for self-regulation, stress management and learning. Simple activities and practices throughout the book are designed to strengthen areas of the brain that allow students to better manage their own attention, emotions, and behaviour in the classroom and beyond. Child-friendly language is used to explain mindfulness, physiology and brain science.

This book is for educators who believe that schools need to be improved and are hopeful that real change can be achieved. The authors argue that if educators want to create more equitable, socially just and learner focused schools, then they need a more robust, transformational theory of school change - an Uncommon Theory.

Whether students are outgoing or withdrawn, are defiant or inattentive, have developmental disabilities or suffer from mental illness, connecting with them is the key to teaching them. This remarkable book shows you how to connect with students, get to know what makes them tick and discover what makes them behave and learn the way they do (or don't). Reaching & Teaching Them All shows you how to use body language, humour, shared experiences and curriculum to engage students, manage the classroom and support learning. This comprehensive approach to improving your students' learning environment in your classroom is full of fresh strategies for F-12. New and experienced teachers will find valuable insights, checklists and tools for reaching individual students, small groups and a whole class.

Powerful Understanding explores effective ways to build social-emotional skills and help students make connections, question what they read and transform their thinking as they develop into stronger readers and learners. It offers insightful lessons that integrate strategic and critical thinking to deepen student understanding, and introduces a model to use for exploring, interacting with and reflecting on everything you teach. Hands-on activities and student samples illustrate this unique and comprehensive approach to inquiry-based learning. Ideal for new and experienced teachers, this remarkable book features the tools teachers need to help students think more deeply, learn more widely and develop a more powerful understanding of what it means to be responsible and compassionate.

How Do I Get Them to Write? Investigates the vital connection between reading and writing. This remarkable book argues that reading, writing and the inevitable discussions that follow lead students to appreciate the experiences of others, open their minds to new possibilities, gain a glimpse into unknown worlds, make connections to their own live and reflect on their own choices and learning. How Do I Get Them to Write? is committed to helping teachers get all students writing regardless of their attitudes or their current abilities. Based on the premise that all students can learn to write with appropriate teaching, modelling and practice, this is an ideal resource for teachers who love writing as well as for those who find it a challenging process.

Students discuss an issue, then read and interact with a story about it. They connect the story to their own experiences, reflect on their own attitudes and behaviours and recommend solutions. Learn More

For years, students in the United States have lagged behind students in many other countries on such measures of achievement as the PISA and TIMSS assessments. In an increasingly globalised world, such a gap is worrisome. Armed with statistics, examples and cautionary tales from Scandinavia to Japan, James H. Stronge and Xianxuan Xu have written a book that can help educators better prepare students and close that gap. Educators in every country must ensure that their students are as prepared as possible to lead a future generation of citizens. This though-provoking and copiously researched book provides educators with a blueprint for radical improvement based on the hard-learned experiences of their peers around the world.

As educators, it is important that we take the time to get to know our students. Discovering what students are capable of and how they feel about things is the first step in nurturing learning. Helping them develop their social-emotional skills sets the scene for academic growth and achievement. Relationships Make the Difference provides the scaffolding that teachers need to establish strong relationships with their students. Relationships Make the Difference offers effective tools and strategies for getting to know students better and opening emotional doors for them. Throughout the book, teachers will find numerous examples of caring classroom communities that are based on strong relationships with and among students, parents, school administrators and support specialists.