Product Description: In this book, author and teacher Katy Ridnouer focuses on the potentially overwhelming, sometimes puzzling, often delicate work of engaging both students and parents in the pursuit of learning and achievement. Structured around the questions teachers ask themselves about engagement goals and challenges, Everyday Engagement offers specific strategies to try in your classroom, with your students, and with their parents that will help you* Connect with students and parents as individuals...read more

Product Description: Teaching is as much about students as it is about curriculum, and no one understands this better than middle and high school teachers. But even the most dedicated teacher can sometimes feel defeated by the challenge of reaching distracted, disconnected, and defiant adolescents...read more

Product Description: This book is written for every current or prospective teacher who wants a starting place to begin solving those everyday problems that are oftentimes overlooked in teacher training programs. Stopping the constant chatter, increase attendance, and managing parent conferences are just three of the many concerns that the author discusses...read more