Elementary teaching and learning are built on the primary relationships between teacher and student, student and student, and school and family. Every child in a diverse classroom and community can and must learn. \nTeaching for Equity helps you assess the needs and interests of students so you can design the rhythm of the day¿s activities to optimize learning and enjoyment of learning for them. Include Personalized Learning, Whole-Class Learning, and Productive Learning Partners into the rhythm of each day. 
Frame your curriculum through Personalized Learning so students can master the skills and content knowledge they need to grow from success to success.\nYou can choose from a broad array of practices to begin making changes that will leverage teaching and learning.

Teaching for Equity

Chip Wood

Linda Crawford

The Origins Program

Chip Wood boldly confronts the epidemic of busy-ness in our nation's K-8 schools. He shows how changing the way we use time will transform our schools from the "fact factories" they have become into the democratic communities of learning which they can and should be, schools in which the pace of the day encourages investigation, contemplation, completion, and community.
Features:
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<li>Highly practical strategies for creating time in the school day for reflection, deeper dialogue, more rigorous academics, and more meaningful social interactions</li>
<li>Guidelines for making changes in how time is structured and used in the classroom</li>
<li>Guidelines for making changes at the administrative and political level</li>
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Time to Teach, Time to Learn

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Northeast Foundation for Children, Inc.

Bring positive behavior to your school through strong, consistent, and positive discipline. Experienced administrators Chip Wood and Babs Freeman-Loftis offer practical strategies for building a safe, calm, and respectful school climate—strategies based on deep respect for children and for staff. See how to:
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<li>Establish signals that get children's quick, quiet attention anytime and anywhere in school</li>
<li>Craft school rules that children take seriously even cherish</li>
<li>Create peaceful recesses, lunchtimes, hallways, and bus rides</li>
<li>Give staff techniques for teaching and reinforcing expected behavior</li>
<li>Help children with especially challenging behaviors avoid discipline problems</li>
<li>Give staff methods for quickly restoring positive behavior when a discipline problem comes up</li>
<li>Involve parents in improving school discipline</li>
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Responsive School Discipline: Essentials for Elementary School Leaders

Babs Freeman-Loftis

Center For Responsive Schools

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Books by Chip Wood