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You don’t want this book—you need this book. Why this confident claim? Think about how many times you’ve walked away from school conversations, sensing they could be more productive, but at a loss for how to improve them. Enter instructional coaching expert Jim Knight, who in Better Conversations honors our capacity for improving our schools by improving our communication. Asserting that our schools are only as good as the conversations within them, Jim shows us how to adopt the habits essential to transforming the quality of our dialogues.

The digital environment has radically changed how and what students need and want to learn, but has educational delivery radically changed? Get ready to be challenged to accommodate today’s learners as opposed to allowing default classroom practices. With its touches of humor and choose-your-own-adventure approach, the audiobook encourages listeners to search for interesting, relevant or required material and then jump right in. 

Glazed look in your students' eyes? What they need is an Energizing Brain Break—a quick physical and mental challenge to refresh them. This audiobook contains 50 highly effective, classroom-tested ideas for all grades. You'll find directions for activities like Slap Count Letters; Rock, Paper, Scissors, Math; and Bizz-Buzz.

Palestine, 1948. With the winds of war fast approaching, an unscrupulous archaeologist finally finds the remains of the man he's been searching for, unwittingly releasing an ancient evil on the world. White River, Arkansas, 1980. In a secret lab, top-level medical scientists work together to harness the power of a revolutionary new DNA manipulation technique. But when the project finally comes to fruition with the birth of a specially "designed" baby, it just as abruptly comes to a bloody halt.

In a secret lab, top-level medical scientists work together to harness the power of previously unheard of DNA manipulation. When the project finally comes to fruition with the birth of a specially designed baby, it just as abruptly comes to a bloody halt. The facilities and nearly every member of the team are wiped out, silenced forever ... almost.

Schools that routinely fail Black boys are not extraordinary. In fact, they are all-too ordinary. If we are to succeed in positively shifting outcomes for Black boys and young men, we must first change the way school is “done.” That’s where the eight in ten teachers who are White women fit in . . . and this urgently needed resource is made specifically for them as a way to help them understand, respect and connect with all of their students.

Join Dr. Steve Constantino as he outlines a pathway and process to engage every family on the journey toward improved student learning, including the traditionally disengaged. Revisions and additions include updated research to ensure a firmer foundation for each of its five simple principles.