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In this excerpt on I Can and We Can Statements, you’ll explore strategies and learning intentions on how to develop these statements.

"As a former public elementary school principal who believes in taking care of students’ emotional and social needs as well as their academic needs, I was happy to see this book that can be part of an administrator or teacher’s toolkit to help lower suspension rates." Read the full review of Don't Suspend Me! by Mary Langer Thompson on Middleweb. 

Gain insight from Peter DeWitt on professional development ideas and strategies that help leaders foster a more caring school not only for LGBT students, but for all students. 

In this excerpt, the authors outline the importance of educators working with families as a team and how to do so.

In distance learning, caregivers and teachers partner more than ever to help students with writing. Melanie Meehan created this companion to Every Child Can Write for teachers to share with caregivers to help children develop their writing lives—even while learning at home. Each of the eight modules contains video clips that talk caregivers through tools for supporting their student writers, along with downloadable tools that can be used by teachers or caregivers.

In this article by Caitlin Krause, author of Mindful by Design, she provides five research-grounded practices to help educators embrace vulnerability as a strength. 

In this excerpt from Every Child Can Write, Grades 2-5, by Melanie Meehan, you’ll discover how to determine where and how students get stuck in their process, and how we can help them find the right entry point.

Teachers can serve as curators of texts in much the same way as museum curators. Julie Wright, author of What Are You Grouping For?, explains how we can make deliberate moves to pique interest, evoke emotion, and urge action in readers. And we can invite our students to be curators, too.

The number-one fear of mankind is public speaking, according to various studies. While we can’t guarantee that we can alleviate all of your students’ stage fright, we can provide you with this lesson from High-Impact Writing Clinics to make their forays into oral presentations a bit more successful with helpful hints to alleviate their fears.

4 Traits of a Governance Mindset: How School Boards and Superintendents Can Create Effective Governance Systems. Read here. 

In this excerpt from PLC+, the authors discuss factors that can contribute to an individual teacher’s success, including credibility and efficacy, and how, through PLCs, these strengths can become collective to benefit the school as a whole.

Why does engagement plummet as learners advance in school? Why does the stream of questions from curious toddlers slow to a trickle as they become teenagers? Most importantly, what can teachers and schools do to reverse this trend? Join Warren Berger and Elise Foster as they discuss how educators can transform their classrooms into cultures of curiosity.