Winning in the Locker Room draws on the extraordinary experiences of coaches and consultants at the professional and college level. It explores the seven powerful principles that any sports team, school, or business can adopt to revitalize their organization. Step by step, Coach Mike Smith and Jon Gordon outline a strategy for building a thriving organization.
Adverse childhood experiences, neglect, poverty, divorce, and other childhood stresses have radically changed school culture in the past ten years. In his most recent book, Paul Tough gives educators and care-givers practical, research-based ideas and suggestions for strengthening the non-cognitive skills in students like persistence and grit, relationship building, and developing a growth mindset to support social emotional learning (SEL).
Bring passion, energy, and creativity into your classroom engagement strategies with the Teach Like a Pirate: Book Application professional development course from Fresno Pacific University. Inspired by the bestselling book, "Teach Like a Pirate" by Dave Burgess, this course equips educators with powerful student engagement strategies that capture attention and inspire a love of learning.
Teach Like Finland: Book Application is a professional development course designed for K-12 educators who want to apply Finnish education practices to their own classrooms. Grounded in the world-renowned Finnish education model, this course focuses on building joyful, student-centered learning environments that support engagement, well-being, and meaningful academic growth.
If you are looking for an inspirational read on how to meet the challenges of transforming education for the 21st century, then Sir Ken Robinson, Ph.D., and Lou Aronica's Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education is the book for you. Robinson is one of the world's most influential voices in education, and his engaging 2006 TED Talk on the subject is the most viewed in the organization's history (Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?).
Join an award-winning author, podcaster, instructional technologist and blogger. This Shake Up Learning book application course is for educators wanting to transform their classrooms and schools by rebuilding lesson plans into dynamic learning opportunities. Think through the lens of your students. What do they want from a teacher? What responsibilities do they take for their successes and failures in the classroom? How do they think teaching could be improved?
Read about the story of J.D. Vance, a self-proclaimed hillbilly from Appalachia. Like millions of others, his family left the hills in search of a better life. 'You can take a man out of the mountains, but you can't take the mountains out of the man.' However, Vance points out that the road north was filled with dramatic changes. A stranger in a strange land, his culture and family dysfunction almost destroyed his prospects of a better life.
This course explores "The Whole-Brain Child" by Dr. Dan J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson, helping educators understand the brain's role in student behavior. It examines child cognitive development and how the logical left and emotional right brain develop and integrate, influencing reactions to stress. Educators will learn 12 emotional regulation strategies to integrate whole-brain teaching into their classroom and help students reprogram their responses in healthy ways.
Lost at School, Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges Are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them challenges educators to reconsider the nature of struggling students and how we can help them build the skills they need to be successful learners. Most educators encounter students who seem to defy the classroom norms and are frustrated that standard discipline methods have limited success or have worsened the situation.
Why do some people overcome difficult circumstances and excel while others don't? What makes some people successful? In this class, you will discover what psychologist Angela Duckworth's research has learned about high achievers in her book Grit: The power of passion and perseverance. Her book provides a research-based explanation of her Grit theory, how to develop grit internally and externally and how passion and perseverance relate to social emotional learning (SEL).
How do we cultivate young people who are imaginative, inquisitive, innovative, and intrinsically motivated? In his inspirational book, Creating Innovators, education expert Tony Wagner explores practices that nurture passion, play, and purpose in the society-shapers of tomorrow. Creating innovators doesn't take an immediate overhaul of the school system. Wagner offers small, practical steps readers can take to shape cultures of innovation.
SD. Distance Learning Playbook is an essential hands-on book application course that assists in preparing and delivering distance learning or remote learning experiences that are truly effective and impactful for the students. Effective teaching is effective teaching, no matter where it occurs or the delivery method used. Today, teachers have the opportunity to prepare for distance learning with purpose and intent. Learn what works best to accelerate students' learning, engage students, develop meaningful relationships, all the while maintaining an indelible focus on equity.
Our teen years are filled with heightened emotions, the push and pull of independence, and excitement of applying abstract principles. Instead of giving readers a toolbox of how to "deal" with the struggles of emerging teens, Dr. Siegel informs us of how the rapidly growing brain is affecting actions and choices, and he invites us into coming alongside this age group with healthy guidelines and appropriate encouragement.
Are you aware that experiences you had as a young child (some you may not even be able to remember) are still influencing you and your behaviors today, as an adult? Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, MD explores the long-term effects of childhood adversity in her book and gives strategies for how to heal them.
Technology has expanded the ways teachers design learning experiences for students, but the ever-growing list of educational tools and apps can be overwhelming for classroom teachers. This book application course introduces teachers to an exciting and versatile set of tech tools through ready-to-use lessons for any grade level, content area, or curriculum.
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