The Third Edition of
Why Didn’t I Learn This in College?
is now available!
Download the 26-page Sneak Peek
While new teachers may say they need classroom management skills, what they really need to know is how to design rigorous and appropriately scaffolded lessons and how to create learning-centered classrooms where high-level engagement and learning can occur. We must help new teachers learn that the end they should have in mind for their students is not that they are well-managed, but that they are well-educated. Click here to learn more.
In the News
The Just ASK Closing of School Checklist and a special edition written by the Just ASK Team titled “2020 School Closing – What Do We Do Now?” are now available.
The Spring 2020 Special Edition Mentoring Calendar
is now available!
The May 15th issue of EmpowerED 3.2.1 titled “Thriving or Surviving” is now available. Each issue features 3 Big Ideas, 2 Quotes, and 1 Question with lots of links to resources from different perspectives such as business and industry, medicine, athletics, economics, recreation, and parenting as well as music and the arts. The goal of Marcia’s brief commentaries is to advance our thinking about how that wide array of information connects and supports our work as educational leaders.
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The most recent issues of Making the Standards Come Alive! focus on classroom meetings. Heather Clayton writes with a strong voice about how we can (and should) integrate the development of our students as well-grounded, intellectually curious, and compassionate people into their school experiences every minute of the day. Do check out “Classroom Meetings,” “Classroom Community Building Circles,” and also revisit “Let’s Hear It for Civility!” and “Let’s Hear it for Empathy!”
