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Infusing Technology in the 6-12 Classroom
6-12 teachers will discover how to integrate the tech requirements found within today's academic standards into their everyday curriculum.
Perhaps your district provides current technology development for staff on a regular basis and has instructional coaches to help teachers infuse technology into their curriculum to meet various academic standards. But in reality, most districts don't have this kind of support. In this book (the second in a two-book series), you'll learn how to shift your instructional practice and leverage technology to meet today's curriculum education standards for grades 6-12. This book doesn't cover every 6-12 national standard, but identifies the standards with a technology component and provides resources and lessons to help you teach those standards effectively.
This book includes:
* Classroom-tested lesson ideas in English language arts, math, science and social studies mapped to ISTE and tech-related standards to support college- and career-readiness.
* Lists of technology-embedded college- and career-readiness standards for each grade level, along with practical ideas and up-to-date resources (apps, software and websites) that can be used in meeting these standards.
* Suggestions for addressing roadblocks to incorporating technology in the classroom.
* Ways to incorporate staff development and parental support at the school level.
* Access to a companion website with information on the tools referenced in the text.
With the implementation of these strategies, you'll help your students become self-directed and critical readers, writers and thinkers so they're better prepared for the future!
Audience: 6-12 educators, curriculum specialists, tech coordinators
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Learning in a New Language
Within today's multilingual communities, a growing percentage of students are emergent bilinguals--bringing to school a home language other than English and thus poised to become bilingual as they acquire the new language. As a result, school leaders need to have essential background knowledge and a wealth of strategies at their fingertips to ensure that all students are prepared for college, career, and civic engagement. In \"Learning in a New Language,\" author Lori Helman offers educational leaders a comprehensive and accessible guide to best practices for supporting students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in a school environment that embraces equity. Helman discusses: (1) Changing demographics that require educational leaders to enlarge and enhance their approaches; (2) The importance of engaging families in forming a cohesive school community that contributes to student success; (3) Fundamental approaches to creating equity for linguistically diverse students in the school change process; (4) The role of language in academic learning and what makes learning in a new language unique; (5) Evidence-based strategies for literacy and content-area classrooms; and (6) Practical tips for where to start in supporting emergent bilinguals in the classroom, and presents dozens of online resources for further exploration. The responsibilities of educational leaders continue to expand as they work toward managing school sites and ensuring equity of student opportunity and achievement. Helman provides a one-stop resource for the foundational knowledge and practical guidance needed to strategically take on these responsibilities.
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Middle school superpowers : raising resilient tweens in turbulent times
\"Are you concerned that middle school will wreak havoc on your tween's well-being and sense of self? Wondering how you can ward off the decline in confidence research shows kids experience during these vulnerable years? Seeking strategies that will help your child emerge from middle school with even more resilience than when they started? From the author of Middle School Matters, which set up kids in grades 6 8 to thrive by developing social, emotional, and learning skills, Middle School Superpowers is all about resilience, which Phyllis Fagell, mental health therapist, certified school counselor and journalist, explains is often misunderstood. Fagell does not view it as a trait, like compassion or generosity. Instead, it involves its own set of skills to be better equipped to, as she says, \"navigate future personal challenges and thrive in an increasingly turbulent world.\" With the new skills or \"superpowers\" detailed in Middle School Superpowers-including the power to \"manage change and uncertainty\"; \"find your place and make strong connections\"; \"anticipate problems and make a plan\"; \"learn from missteps\"; \"recover from disappointment\"; \"know when and how to ask for help\"; \"set a reasonable pace and realistic goals\"; and \"identify the slivers of hope and humor\"-Fagell helps parents raise confident, resilient kids by offering them practical, teachable, evidence-based ways they can support their child and foster their independence so they can leverage a range of typical middle school scenarios into the 12 skills they need to preserve their well-being and recover from any setback\"-- Provided by publisher.
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NOW Classrooms, Grades 6-8
Part of the NOW Classrooms series.
Developed specifically for grades 6-8, this resource presents classroom-ready lessons that support the ISTE Standards for Students (formerly NET standards). Use the lessons, which focus on four essential skills (communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity), to take instruction and learning to the next level through the use of technology. Each chapter includes strategies for developing authentic learning experiences and ends with discussion questions for personal reflection.
Integrate digital learning and support the ISTE Standards (formerly National Educational Technology Standards for Students or NETS):
* Understand that real transformational change results from teaching and learning, not ever-changing digital devices.
* Give students opportunities to exercise their voice, choice, and creativity using multimedia and digital tools.
* Implement practical novice-, operational-, and wow-level lessons and tips for using digital tools in classroom lessons.
* Foster digital citizenship, helping students keep themselves and their data safe online and make ethical decisions on the Internet.
* Learn how to get students communicating, collaborating, innovating, and thinking critically in grade 6-8 classroom lessons.
Contents:
Chapter 1: Embracing Creativity
Chapter 2: Communicating and Collaborating
Chapter 3: Conducting Research and Curating Information
Chapter 4: Critically Thinking and Solving Problems
Chapter 5: Being Responsible Digital Citizens
Chapter 6: Expanding Technology and Coding Concepts
Epilogue
Appendix
References and Resources
Books in the NOW Classrooms series:
* NOW Classrooms, Leader's Guide
* NOW Classrooms, Grades K-2
* NOW Classrooms, Grades 3-5
* NOW Classrooms, Grades 6-8
* NOW Classrooms, Grades 9-12
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Working with Kids Who Bully
Shifting our thinking to help break the cycle of bullying We all know bullying impacts the academic and emotional lives of our young people. We see it in our schools and hear about it in the news. If we know it’s a problem, why is it still happening? Often it’s because we fail to address the individuals at the heart of the problem–the kids who engage in the behavior. In Working With Kids Who Bully Walter Roberts challenges us to shift our thinking about these youth and offers innovative approaches to help kids pull back from and stop bullying. Readers will find • Information on a range of topics impacting schools today, including cyberbullying, relational aggression, mediation, building empathy, and bibliomedia therapy • Strategies and sample dialogue to use when intervening with kids who bully • Diagrams and charts to clarify suggested approaches Written by one of the nation’s foremost experts on bullying, this is a book designed to stimulate change and ultimately help create safer learning environments for all kids. “Lots of times we focus on helping the victims, but Walter Roberts addresses how to help parents of children who are bullying, as they need tips rather than ‘shaming.” Brigitte Tennis, Headmistress & Eighth Grade Teacher Stella Schola Middle School “The strengths of Working With Kids Who Bully are the vignettes posed, the reflection for analyzing the “bullying” situation, and the suggestions, almost specific guidance, for responding in a timely and “empathetic” manner.” Dana Salles Trevethan, Interim Superintendent Turlock Unified School District
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Authentic project-based learning in grades 4-8 : standards-based strategies and scaffolding for success
\"Authentic Project-Based Learning in Grades 4-8 provides step-by-step instructions to help educators embed project-based learning (PBL) into your daily classroom routine. The author lays out five clear, standards-based stages you can use to process the what, how, and why of authentic project-based experiences and create PBL challenges in any subject area for your learners. You'll learn how to create projects that: - Align with your content standards - Integrate technology effectively - Support reading and writing development - Utilize formative assessment - Manage and engage with complex projects - Facilitate the development of essential skill beyond school Each chapter includes a variety of practical examples and tools you can use immediately. The tools are also provided on our website as free eResources for ease of implementation\" -- Provided by publisher.
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Solution-Focused Counseling in Schools
The third edition of this widely adopted text covers both the philosophical foundations and nuts-and-bolts essentials of using solution-focused counseling to help preschool 12 students resolve problems. Dr. Murphy sempowering techniques help students focus on doing what works assimply and efficiently as possible by using their strengths, resources, wisdom, and feedback. This edition includes new chapters and information on the restrictive influence of problems on people s thinking,strategies for positive relationship building, collecting client feedback to monitor and improve counseling services, and coconstructing Solvable problems and reachable goals.
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