Education/Classroom > Grades 7 to 12
-
Alex J. Packer, Jon Davis Slaying Digital Dragons: Tips and tools for protecting your body, brain, psyche, and thumbs from the digital dark side
Empower teens to take charge of their digital lives. Without avoiding the dark side of technology, this interactive and comprehensive reference book empowers teens to take charge of their digital life and improve their mental health and well-being. Quizzes and exercises guide readers through the process of evaluating their relationships with their screens, social media, and tech in general. With a frank and humorous approach to a timely topic, award-winning author Alex J. Packer, Ph.D., pulls back the curtain on the hidden aspects of the digital world and shares: Signs that screen time is affecting teens’ bodies, brains, and relationships Tips for protecting their privacy, safety, and reputation Ways social media and algorithms can distort their reality and sense of self Tools for finding life balance and resetting their screen scene Slaying Digital Dragons is a call to action to make the choices that are right for teens. It doesn’t demand ditching smartphones or deactivating social media. Instead, it suggests strategies for playing favorite games and posting on favorite apps, while also doing good in the world and bringing joy and encouragement to others. It invites readers to join the resistance and learn how to thwart the manipulative forces trying to control and profit off their users. And it gives teens what they need to stay safe and take charge of their digital life.
$44.95
-
Skillstreaming The Adolescent
Skill streaming the Adolescent employs a four-part training approach—modeling, role-playing, performance feedback, and generalization—to teach essential prosocial skills to adolescents. This book provides a complete description of the Skill streaming program, with instructions for teaching 50 prosocial skills. The widely acclaimed approach developed by Dr. Arnold P. Goldstein and colleagues, now in 8½×11 format with reproducible skill outlines, skill homework reports, and program forms. Now includes forms CD.
$72.95
-
Simplifying Reponse to Intervention
Four Essential Guiding Principles The sequel to Pyramid Response to Intervention advocates that a successful RTI model begins by asking the right questions to create a fundamentally effective learning environment for every student. RTI is not a series of implementation steps, but rather a way of thinking. Understand why bureaucratic, paperwork-heavy, compliance-oriented, test-score-driven approaches fail. Then learn how to create a focused RTI model that works.
$37.50
-
Show Me the Data!
This resource consists of a brief discussion on data collection to help make that once-dreaded task easier and simpler.
$38.95
-
Alais Winton Self-Help Guide for Teens with Dyslexia:
Useful Stuff You May Not Learn at School Offering solutions to common problems students with dyslexia face, Alais describes tried-and-tested techniques for succeeding with reading, spelling, memorizing information and time management, and even a simple method to ensure you never misplace your learning tools (such as pencils and books) again. The strategies are ideal for use in the run-up to exams, helping you to become more organized, less stressed and better prepared. This is a must-read pocket guide for students with dyslexia aged 11 to 18, and will also be a helpful source of ideas for teachers, SENCOs and parents of teens with dyslexia.
$29.95
-
Susan Fitzell RTI Strategies for Secondary Teachers
Susan Fitzell, M. Ed has been touching lives in public schools and beyond since 1980. She has over two decades of experience identifying and meeting the needs of youth with special needs, behavioral and anger management issues, and students who experience bullying. Susan's work focuses on building caring, inclusive school communities and helping students and teachers succeed in the inclusive classroom. She is a dynamic presenter and educational consultant specializing in special education & Response to Intervention topics, co-teaching, bullying prevention, and adolescent anger management. This book provides practical strategies to increase achievement of all students in all classrooms. Susan's motto is, "Good for all, critical for students who learn differently."
$47.95
-
RTI in Middle School Classrooms: Proven Tools and Strategies
This companion to our popular RTI Success focuses on successfully implementing and using the RTI model in middle school. Response to intervention allows educators to assess and meet the needs of struggling students before they have fallen too far behind. In middle school, RTI brings unique advantages, benefits, and challenges. This book provides practical, research based instructional techniques and interventions - geared especially to middle school teachers and administrators - that target and address specific needs of individual students. Included are examples of Response to Intervention strategies in diverse settings; detailed information on how co-teaching dovetails with RTI; and customizable digital templates to streamline assessment, implementation, and documentation.
$40.95
-
Cheryl Bradshaw The Resilience Workbook for Teens: Activities To Help You Gain Confidence, Manage Stress, And Cultivate A Growth Mindset
It’s time to realize your full potential! In The Resilience Workbook for Teens, you’ll learn to bounce back from setbacks, develop grit and a growth mindset, and overcome any obstacle that comes your way. Social media, online ads, and glossy magazines make it look easy to be a teen—everyone seems to be laughing, sun-kissed, beautiful, surrounded by friends, and wearing the perfect clothes. But if you’re like most teens and young adults, reality doesn’t look like a magazine ad, lifestyle blog, or Instagram feed. You may struggle with not fitting in or being bullied. You may feel overwhelmed by stress, experience a significant setback, or lose a parent or loved one. That’s why it’s so important to build resilience—the cornerstone of mental health and wellness. This workbook will show you how. In The Resilience Workbook for Teens, author, psychotherapist, and youth mentor Cheryl M. Bradshaw will show you that the key to building resilience lies in your relationship with yourself. Through activities and interactive exercises, you’ll learn to balance your emotions, rewrite the negative stories you tell yourself, embrace who you are, and believe in your own power to bounce back from life’s biggest challenges. The teen years are a critical time to learn the skills of resilience and to develop positive strategies for coping with stress and mental health challenges. Let this fun and friendly workbook guide you as you build your own resilience. It’s a gift you’ll take with you, beyond high school and well into adulthood.
$28.95
-
Mary Cay Ricci Ready-To-Use Resources For Mindsets In The Classroom
This resource provides educators with tools they need to help students change their thinking about their abilities and potential. The book features ready-to-use, interactive tools for students, teachers, parents, administrators, and professional development educators. This book is perfect for schools looking to implement the ideas in Mindsets in the Classroom so that they can build a growth mindset learning environment. Parent resources include a sample parent webpage and several growth mindset parent education tools. Other resources include: mindset observation forms, student and teacher "look for," lists of books that contribute to growth mindset thinking, and more!
$36.50
-
Leyton Schnellert Pulling Together
Integrating inquiry, assessment, and instruction in today's English classroom Complete with diagrams, graphic organizers, classroom examples, assessment tools, and lists of core understandings, this book presents a comprehensive answer to the current big ideas in teaching-formative assessment, backward design, inquiry learning, strategic teaching, metacognition. The authors show how this collaborative process is reflected in all aspects of the literacy learning, from unit planning and lesson sequences, through the inquiry process and gradual release of responsibility in the classroom, to linking formative and summative assessment for responsive planning.
$24.95
-
Kyla Hadden, Adrienne Gear Powerful Readers: Thinking Strategies to Guide Literacy Instruction in Secondary Classrooms
This book demonstrates that instructions in the key strategies of connecting, visualizing, questioning, inferring, determining importance, and transforming can help students develop their reading skills and get more out of their work with fiction and nonfiction. Step-by-step lessons for introducing and using the strategies, connections to literary devices, and reading lists for each strategy are all part of this valuable resource.
$24.95
-
Positive Discipline Tools for Teachers
Effective Classroom Management for Social, Emotional, and Academic Success In this book, you will learn how to successfully incorporate respectful, solution-oriented approaches to ensure a cooperative and productive classroom. Teachers will be able to focus on student-centered learning, rather than wasting time trying to control their students' behavior. Each tool is specifically tailored for the modern classroom, with examples and positive solutions to each and every roadblock that stands in the way of cooperative learning. (Series of Positive Discipline)
$23.99
-
Shelley Moore One Without the Other: Stories of Unity Through Diversity and Inclusion
Shelley Moore explores the changing landscape of inclusive education. Presented through real stories from her own classroom experience, this passionate and creative educator tackles such things as inclusion as a philosophy and practice, the difference between integration and inclusion, and how inclusion can work with a variety of students and abilities. Explorations of differentiation, the role of special education teachers and others, and universal design for learning all illustrate the evolving discussion on special education and teaching to all learners.
$21.95
-
Mary Cay Ricci Mindsets in the Classroom
Building a Culture of Success and Student Achievement in Schools When students believe they can that dedication and hard work can change their performance in school, they grow to become resilient, successful students. Inspired by the popular mindset idea that hard work and effort can lead to success, Mindsets in the Classroom provides educators with ideas for ways to build a growth mindset school culture, wherein students are challenged to change their thinking about their abilities and potential. The book includes a planning template, step-by-step description of a growth mindset culture, and "look-fors" for adopting a differentiated, responsive instruction model teachers can use immediately in their classrooms.
$32.99
-
Evelín Aquino, Heather Bligh Manchester, Anita Wadhwa The Little Book of Youth Engagement in Restorative Justice: Intergenerational Partnerships for Just and Equitable Schools
This book illuminates a theory of youth engagement in restorative justice that seeks to create systems change for more equitable schools. Youth engagement in restorative justice is partnering with young people most impacted by structural injustice as change-makers in all aspects of restorative practices including community building, healing, and the transformation of institutions. Comparative case studies from different parts of the country of youth led restorative justice programs; An exploration of the cultural and historical context of each region to situate the work. Stories from the authors' own lives that provide context for their interest in the work given their varied racial identities (White, Black, Latinx, South Asian) and upbringing; Literature review of the language of youth engagement vs. youth leadership/youth organizing/youth participation, along with a new definition of youth engagement in restorative justice; Theoretical framing based on Adam Fletcher's Ladder of Youth Engagement , which provides a structure for the book; Exploration of how adults must combat adultism both individually and systematically as a prerequisite to doing this work; Student narratives; Applications of the work in the virtual context.
$7.99
-
Patricia C. Broderick Learning to Breathe, 2nd Edition: A Mindfulness Curriculum for Adolescents to Cultivate Emotion Regulation, Attention, and Performance
A Mindfulness Curriculum for Adolescents to Cultivate Emotion Regulation, Attention, and Performance is a program that tailors the teaching of mindfulness to the developmental needs of adolescents to help them understand their thoughts and feelings and manage distressing emotions. Students will be empowered by learning important mindfulness meditation skills that help them improve emotion regulation, reduce stress, improve overall performance, and, perhaps most importantly, develop their attention. This fully revised and updated second edition offers the same powerful mindfulness interventions, and includes compelling new research and skills in the areas of trauma and compassion. This easy-to-use manual is designed to be used by teachers, but can also be used by any mental health provider teaching adolescents emotion regulation, stress reduction, and mindfulness skills.
$104.95
-
How Rude! Teens Guide to Good Manners
Discussing etiquette and manners from common courtesies to cell-phone smarts to classroom decorum, Alex J. Packer blends outrageous humor with sound advice as he explains why etiquette and manners are important-because people who know how to handle themselves in social situations come out on top, get what they want, feel good about themselves, and enjoy life to the fullest.
$46.50
-
Healthy Relationships Bingo for Teens
Explore what to look for in a healthy relationship, obstacles to a healthy relationship, red flags, green flags, and skills to building a healthy relationship. Includes laminated cards, chips, calling cards, reproducible handouts, and instructions. For up to 16 players. Ages 12-18.
$62.95
-
Leah Aguirre, Geraldine O'Sullivan The Girl's Guide to Relationships, Sexuality, and Consent: Tools to Help Teens Stay Safe, Empowered, and Confident
Are you looking for clear and reliable information about relationships, sexuality, safety, and consent? You can find it in this guide. As a teen, you probably have questions about sex and relationships, like what to do if someone sends or asks you to send explicit pictured or text? How do you know if you are straight, bi, pan, or gay? What do you do if you are being pressured to do something you don't want to do? This book has answers to many of the complicated questions you may feel uncomfortable asking someone. Written by two experts in teen mental health, this guide offers tools to help build self-esteem, clarify your values, understand sexual identity and boundaries, decide what feels right for you, and know what to do when things go wrong. Navigating the world of sex, dating, and relationships, you need to feel empowered and confident to make important decisions for yourself that are grounded in self-respect and safety.
$29.95
-
Randy Kulman The Gaming Overload Workbook: A Teen's Guide to Balancing Screen Time, Video Games, and Real Life
This workbook teaches essential skills and strategies for managing game play and creating a well-balanced life. Gaming can be a challenging, and rewarding activity, but when it interferes with real life, it's time to set limits. This nonjudgmental workbook can help you figure out just how much time you really spend on gaming. It helps you set limits on your screen time and gives you time for other things like family and friends. You don't need to quit gaming; you just need to learn moderation.
$26.95
-
Timothy V. Rasinski The Fluent Reader: Oral & Silent Reading Strategies for Building Fluency, Word Recognition & Comprehension
Tim Rasinski's ground-breaking book as been updated to include coverage of the latest research on fluency, teaching strategies based on that research, new classroom vignettes, and suggestions for using a variety of texts to teach fluency such as poetry, speeches, and monologues and dialogues. You'll also find background information, assessment tools, step-by-step lessons, and teaching tips--plus a DVD with clips showing the strategies in action.
$36.99 $22.19
-
Earl Hipp Fighting Invisible Tigers: Stress Management for Teens
This revised edition teaches teens proven techniques and stress management skills to face the rigors of growing up. Packed with useful information on how stress affects physical and emotional health, readers will learn smart approaches to handle decision-making, easy steps toward greater assertiveness, time management skills to avoid feeling pressure, how to avoid online drama, relaxation and mindfulness exercises to focus their mind, positive self-talk techniques and more! Getting rid of stress is impossible, but learning how to control the response to it can help teens develop healthier relationships, make better decisions, and outsmart those tigers.
$23.50
-
Empowering Underrepresented Gifted Students: Perspectives from the Field
With chapters written by student and expert scholars who specialize in addressing the structural inequity and educational inequality in gifted and advanced learner programs, Empowering Underrepresented Gifted Students recommends practices and strategies for helping underserved high-potential students claim their right to an education that addresses their unique needs. Each chapter has key takeaways and discussion questions, providing a built-in book study guide to prepare educators to engage students in conversation and to help develop their self-advocacy skills.
$66.50
-
Dyslexia Tools Workbook for Teens
Reading comprehension is a crucial skill for students to practice, especially students with dyslexia. The Dyslexia Workbook for Teens provides practice and encouragement for kids ages 12 to 16, with 125 activities that focus on learning big words, prefixes and suffixes, word recognition, language fluency, and more.
$29.99
You have seen 48 out of 62 products