This ESR classic is designed to help educators teach students in grades K-5 to think about peace, justice, and conflict in new ways with more than 80 activities. Written by an experienced teacher and tested in classrooms across the country, Elementary Perspectives is a flexible curriculum designed to help students become caring and socially responsible citizens.

Elementary Perspectives 1: Teaching Concepts of Peace and Conflict

William J. Kreidler

Educators for Social Responsibility

Getting Classroom Management RIGHT provides resources specifically designed for teachers who work with adolescents and want to create learning environments that foster fairness, mutual respect, student accountability, and self-discipline. It offers research-based tools, skills, and guiding principles that enable secondary teachers to organize and manage their classrooms for optimal learning; prevent most disruptive behaviors; diagnose and respond to problematic behaviors efficiently; and provide the right kinds of accountable consequences and supportive interventions that will help reluctant and resistant students to turn around their behavior.ESR's five step approach to classroom management, Guided Discipline and Personalized Support, presents case studies and sample responses to six familiar problem types; teacher qualities and skill sets associated with effective classroom management; routines, procedures, and group learning protocols that build a high functioning classroom community; essential practices, strategies, and scripts that invite student engagement, cooperation, and self-correction; individual and group strategies for supporting positive behavior; and specific intervention protocols for chronic unwanted behaviors. 
Getting Classroom Management RIGHT includes three other notable features: - alignment to the three-tiered framework of Response to Intervention (RTI) and Positive Behavior Support (PBS) to meet the needs of all learners; - behavior report forms, problem solving protocols, conduct cards, and learning contracts that can be used in conjunction with teacher-student conferencing and more intensive interventions; and - over 60 protocols that offer suggestions for incorporating classroom management topics into school-based professional development and education courses

Getting Classroom Management RIGHT: Guided Discipline and Personalized Support in Secondary Schools (In the Partners in Learning Series)

Education & Teaching

Carol Miller Lieber

Schools & Teaching

We believe that good teaching not only supports the intellectual development of adolescents-it nourishes their spirits and touches their hearts. Students want teachers who care about them; they want coursework that connects to their lives and the world they live in; and they want to be academically challenged and held accountable for meeting those challenges. Making Learning REAL showcases proven classroom practices that increase students' motivation, effort, and engagement in learning and enable teachers and students to become partners in a high performing community of learners. 
Making Learning REAL is organized around seven core practices: 1. Developing Positive Relationships Among and Between Students and Teachers 2. Personalized Student-centered Learning 3. Multiple Ways of Knowing and Learning 4. Establishing Clear Norms and Boundaries 5. Building a Cohesive Community of Learners 6. Providing High Expectations and High Student Support 7. Affirming Diversity in Your Classroom
A set of readings link theory and research to each of the core practices. The book also includes a guide for assessing student learning, preparation and start-up of the new school year, the first day of class, and the first month of school. Over 60 protocols in a special appendix offer suggestions for incorporating topics from Making Learning REAL into school-based professional development and education courses.

Making Learning REAL: Reaching and Engaging All Learners in Secondary Classrooms

Adventures in Peacemaking includes hundreds of hands-on, engaging activities designed to meet the unique needs of after-school programs, camps and recreation centers. The activities teach the skills of creative conflict resolution to school-age children through games, cooperative team challenges, drama, crafts, music and even cooking. The guide includes easy-to-implement strategies and tips for providers to both reduce conflict in their programs and to intervene effectively when conflict does occur. Parent Connection Handouts are also available for purchase through Educators for Social Responsibility.

Adventures in Peacemaking: A Conflict Resolution Guide for School-Age Programs

Lisa Furlong

Thinking About the Soviet Union

Perkovich, George

School leaders agree that advisory is a core structure for personalizing schooling for adolescents. The challenge is crafting the best program for your students and faculty. The Advisory Guide helps secondary educators design and implement an advisory program tailored to their school s needs and goals. In this comprehensive guide, the design chapters present snapshots of various advisory models, and help planning teams think through nine major issues that should be addressed in order for the program and faculty advisors to get off to a good start. The implementation chapters offer facilitation tips, suggestions for using 15 different formats, and over 130 sample activities organized around ten advisory themes, including student orientation, community building, tools for school and learning, goal-setting and assessment, life skills, and career exploration. Perfect for large and small schools, independent and public. The Advisory Guide is a must-have resource for anyone involved in advisory from study groups and committees thinking through implementation to the advisors in the classroom.

The Advisory Guide: Designing and Implementing Effective Advisory Programs in Secondary Schools

Rachel A. Poliner

Secrecy and Democracy

Politics & Social Sciences

COHEN, Steven

Politics & Government

Trash Conflicts promotes deeper understanding of the impact of waste production and disposal. It goes beyond awareness and increasing students' appreciation of natural resources to initiating critical thinking, decision making, responsibility, and empowerment. The curriculum starts where children are and moves them through a careful analysis of a complex series of interrelated issues, which include technology, economics, power, race, and class. Through science-based experiments, research and analysis, role-plays, and discussions, students learn about the nature of garbage, disposal methods, consumer behavior, toxic waste, and the political process surrounding trash disposal. This comprehensive teacher's guide for grades 6-12 incorporates a variety of activities, student handouts, and readings that help teachers integrate environmental education across subject areas, including science, English, and social studies. As a self-contained or team-taught unit, it can be used in a variety of educational settings ranging from schools to community centers.

Trash Conflicts: An Integrated Science and Social Studies Curriculum on the Ethics of Disposal

Science & Math

Amy Ballin

with Jeffrey Benson and Lucile Burt

Biological Sciences

Highly acclaimed, this guide features 28 skill-building sections to help students address the conflicts that come with adolescence. Recent additions to the guide include seven implementation models; sections on creating a classroom for teaching conflict resolution, developing staff and parent support, and assessing student learning; an infusion section with includes math and science; and a section on adolescent development exploring gender and race. A student workbook is also available for purchase through Educators for Social Responsibility.

Conflict Resolution in the Middle School

Making Choices About Conflict, Security, and Peacemaking (Part I: Personal Perspectives)

Lieber, Carol Miller

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