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Beginning Teachers

Resources to support teachers in their first years of teaching

New Teachers

You're a Teacher Now! What's Next?

Introducing your guide to navigating the seemingly endless swirl of questions facing new teachers.

New Teacher Confidential

A veteran teacher shares the lessons she learned from more than two decades in the classroom to help prepare new teachers for the realities of a career in education.

Lessons from Great Teachers to Teachers Who Want to Be Great

This book offers insightful and well-researched advice to inspire both new and experienced teachers.

The First-Year Teacher's Survival Guide

The best-selling First Year Teacher's Survival Kit gives new teachers a wide variety of tested strategies, activities, and tools for creating a positive and dynamic learning environment while meeting the challenges of each school day. The new edition is fully revised and updated to cover changes in the K-12 classroom over the past five years.

New Teacher Mindset

A refreshing and hopeful guide to help new teachers thrive in our ever-changing world. This book gives you a fresh take on topics like classroom management, project-based learning, group collaboration, increasing buy-in, and partnering with parents.

How to Get These Books

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Classroom Management

Purpose-Driven Classroom

This book uses dispositional teaching to address productivity and promote positive habits in the classroom, presenting seven productive behaviors that general education teachers can teach to all students across all content areas.

The A-Z of Great Classrooms

The A-Z of Great Classrooms is a celebration of that magical double act of teaching and learning, helping teachers effectively manage their classrooms.

Putting Out Fires

This practical, interactive guide provides a framework for educators to solve a variety of problems they face by leveraging design thinking to evaluate potential solutions.

Becoming a More Assertive Teacher

Being cooperative, empathetic, and accommodating are great qualities for teachers but can also lead to higher rates of burnout. In this book, find out how becoming more assertive can help highly agreeable teachers thrive.

Answers to Your Biggest Questions about Creating a Dynamic Classroom

This insightful, friendly guide to establishing a dynamic classroom is a lifeline of practical support for teachers, providing answers to your biggest questions at the moment you most need them. Through instructional tools, teaching tips, classroom examples, reading suggestions, and more, this book equips teachers to embark on the path of success toward building a positive and energetic learning environment.

Cultivating a Classroom of Calm

Transform your chaotic classroom environment into a classroom of calm by fostering community, trust, and self-reflection. This book will help you promote student engagement and self-regulation using strategies grounded in neuroscience research.

The Teacher's Guide for Effective Classroom Management

Developed by experts on trauma-informed and positive behavior support, this book offers practical guidance for creating a safe, supportive, and smoothly functioning classroom environment for all learners, including those who have experienced trauma.

Classwide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports

This resource provides a vital classroom management and behavior support toolkit, providing step-by-step guidelines for structuring the classroom environment, actively engaging students in instruction, setting clear expectations, and implementing a continuum of strategies to reinforce positive behavior and respond to inappropriate behavior.

Teacher Wellness

Educator Wellness

Educators make thousands of decisions and encounter and experience varied emotions at work; without an efficient wellness routine, educators' jobs can result in prolonged stress. In Educator Wellness: A Guide for Sustaining Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Social Well-Being, authors Timothy D. Kanold and Tina H. Boogren provide a framework to guide and support K-12 educators in continuously sustaining personal and collective wellness plans.

Pause. Breathe. Flourish.

Pause. Breathe. Flourish: Living Your Best Life as an Educator explores the habits, practices and mindset necessary for growth as both an educator and a person.

Educator wellbeing

Educator Wellbeing, written in response to the 2020 Global Pandemic, speaks to the long-ignored expectations that Educators live with and the impact on their wellbeing that going above and beyond to serve their students has. This book is a relatable and practical read for teachers to build tools for life, bringing their wellbeing to the forefront. It provides a toolbox of preventative and responsive strategies to help Educators look after their wellbeing so they can continue with supporting their students

The Day I Reached My Tipping Point...

The main objective of the book is to make educators aware of CF and OSI. CF and OSI in educators can be a slow gradual process where teachers may not even realize the effects until something uncharacteristic occurs because he/she has "just snapped".

From Burnt Out to Fired Up

Learn why burnout happens and what you can do to thrive once again. Explore the five Rs--reflect, reframe, refocus, reconnect, and reveal--and understand how each can help counter burnout.

Burnout

This groundbreaking book explains why women experience burnout differently than men-and provides a simple, science-based plan to help women minimize stress, manage emotions, and live a more joyful life.

Motivating Students

Tackling the Motivation Crisis

"Mike Anderson explores incentive systems, which do not motivate achievement or a love of learning, and the six intrinsic motivators that lead to real student engagement"--

Five Paths of Student Engagement

Five Paths of Student Engagement: Blazing the Trail to Learning and Success covers each facet of engagement and recommends practical approaches for classroom instruction, school leadership, and educational policies.

Letting Go of Perfect

This second edition: Explores a state of mind that manifests in unhealthy ways among kids and teens today--the need to be perfect. Features updated research on perfectionism, new strategies, and resources.

You Can Learn!

In You Can Learn! Building Student Ownership, Motivation, and Efficacy With the PLC at Work® Process, authors Tim Brown and William M. Ferriter offer numerous strategies and protocols designed to build self-efficacy in students.

Beautiful Questions in the Classroom

Beautiful Questions in the Classroom has the answers. Written to be both inspirational and practical, this resource will help educators transform their classrooms into cultures of curiosity.

Distracted

In Distracted, Lang rethinks the practice of teaching, revealing how educators can structure their classrooms less as distraction-free zones and more as environments where they can actively cultivate their students' attention.

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