About Management in the Active ClassroomA well-managed classroom almost runs itself. Students are focused and respectful, whether they are silent at their desks or active throughout the classroom--collaborating, experimenting, discovering, and creating. This book is a guide for teachers who want their classrooms to run well in all settings, where students are self-directed and self-disciplined learners. It is a book of proven, practical strategies harvested from successful schools across the United States. Strategies are described in concrete language, illustrated through classroom examples, and illuminated by companion videos. This guide will equip teachers, whether veterans or brand-new, to join inspired, collaborative learning with a calm and thoughtful classroom culture.

Management in the Active Classroom

Education & Teaching

Berger, Ron

Woodfin, Libby

Strasser, Dina

Schools & Teaching

EL Education Inc. - EL Ed Publications

This essential guide to the EL Education K–5 Language Arts Curriculum is one part roadmap to the curriculum, one part orientation to its instructional practices, and one part coach—to answer your questions, relieve your stress, and put you and your students on the path to success.
Your Curriculum Companion explores the foundations of the curriculum, including the principles and research it was built on and the instructional practices that make it unique. The book is designed to help you “look under the hood” at practices embedded throughout the curriculum so that you can sharpen your instruction, support students to be leaders of their own learning, and make well-informed changes necessary to best meet your students’ needs.
Key features of Your Curriculum Companion include: <ul>
<li>Twenty-seven accompanying videos—see the curriculum in action</li> <li>Task cards for guidance on how to plan when the planning has been done for you</li> <li>The why, what, and how of the K–2 Reading Foundations Skills Block</li> <li>A deep dive into the purpose and structure of close reading and close read-alouds, including two sample annotated lessons.</li> <li>An exploration of the relationship between reading and writing and how the curriculum is designed to help students become strong communicators, including an annotated “read-think-talk-write” lesson.</li> <li>Detailed descriptions of the ways in which English language learners and other students who may need additional support are challenged, engaged, and empowered throughout the curriculum.</li> <li>Guidance for turning evidence of student progress into usable data that can inform your instruction.</li> <li>Support for school leaders</li> </ul>

Your Curriculum Companion: The Essential Guide to Teaching the EL Education K-5 Language Arts Curriculum

Plaut, Suzanne Nathan

There Is More in Us Than We Know: A Book of Readings
Readings have a long history at EL Education, rooted deeply in the organization's heritage with Outward Bound and its founder, Kurt Hahn. The readings in this book are a powerful source of inspiration and reflection, curated specifically with educators and students in mind.
What makes a book of readings such a powerful tool for educators?
As Scott Hartl states in the Preface, readings "serve as a bridge between our unique personal experiences and the accumulated wisdom of our shared experience." In the Introduction, Cyndi Gueswel echoes his words: "A well-chosen reading serves as a brief, yet powerful offering that provides a group with a touchstone, an inspiration, a provocation. Over time, readings become like a series of tiny webs that bind groups across time and space. Imagine each reading as a fine thread catching dew and light, stitching us together as we read them again and again, with fresh eyes each time." 
The readings in this book fall into the following categories: <ul>
<li>Challenge</li> <li>Character</li> <li>Craftsmanship</li> <li>Crew</li> <li>Engagement</li> <li>Equity and Social Justice</li> <li>Leadership</li> <li>Nature and Adventure</li> <li>Service and Contribution</li> <li>Teaching and Learning</li> </ul>

There Is More in Us Than We Know: A Book of Readings

EL EDUCATION

Religion & Spirituality

Core Practices: A Vision for Improving Schools

In this short, provocative book, Ron Berger paints a portrait of what a public school culture of high standards can look like, sharing stories and structures from his school and classroom. Berger describes how his sixth-grade students in a rural Massachusetts town conducted a scientific study of the radon levels in homes throughout their town. His students learned the fundamentals of data analysis, experimental technique, and scientific writing. They interviewed community members, conducted surveys, wrote letters, worked with college students in a geology lab to use testing equipment, drafted tables and graphs, and put together a professional-quality report for the town, which is still used to this day as a record of radon levels in the town. A Culture of Quality is a master class in the importance of school culture for setting expectations for the quality of student work and character. There are no quick fixes and easy solutions in education. However, when students understand that their work has meaning and value, and when they are held to high standards for quality in their work, their thinking, and their behavior, they will rise to the occasion.

A Culture of Quality: A Reflection on Practice

This essential guide to the EL Education 6-8 Language Arts Curriculum is one part roadmap to the curriculum, one part orientation to its instructional practices, and one part coach--to answer your questions, relieve your stress, and put you and your students on the path to success. 
Your Curriculum Companion explores the foundations of the curriculum including the principles and research it was built on and the instructional practices that make it unique. The book is designed to help you "look under the hood" at practices embedded throughout the curriculum so that you can sharpen your instruction, support students to be leaders of their own learning, and make well-informed changes to best meet your students' needs. 
Key features of Your Curriculum Companion include: <ul>
<li>Twenty-two accompanying videos--see the curriculum in action</li> <li>Task cards for guidance on how to plan when the planning has been done for you</li> <li>A deep dive into the purpose and structure of close reading, including a sample annotated lesson</li> <li>An exploration of the relationship between reading and writing and how the curriculum is designed to help students become strong communicators, including an annotated "read-think-talk-write" lesson</li> <li>The why, what, and how of supporting students to meet grade-level expectations, supporting students who need additional challenges, and supporting English language learners </li> <li>Guidance for turning evidence of student progress into usable data that can inform your instruction</li> <li>Support for school leaders</li> </ul>

Your Curriculum Companion: The Essential Guide to Teaching the EL Education 6-8 Curriculum (Second Edition)

Norris, Sarah Boddy

Crew is two things. It is a schoolwide culture that supports social and emotional wellness, character development, and academic and life success for students and staff. It is also a unique and transformational meeting structure for secondary school advisories, elementary school morning and closing circles, and for staff collaboration. We Are Crew provides guidance for bringing Crew to your school or district and highlights numerous examples from successful schools that have used Crew to foster student and staff success for more than 25 years. We Are Crew is paired with an online toolkit of resources and a suite of open-source videos.

We Are Crew: A Teamwork Approach to School Culture

Vilen, Anne

This anthology, first published in 2000, explores EL Education's roots in the educational philosophy of Kurt Hahn. Hahn, the founder of Outward Bound, started two schools and inspired many other educational initiatives. Roots includes an excellent essay on Hahn's educational thought, The Only Mountain Worth Climbing, by Thomas James, and the transcript of a speech on the educational contributions of Outward Bound, The Missing Dimension, by Paul Ylvisaker. This edition, published in 2021, includes a new foreword by Sydney Chaffee, a teacher at Codman Academy in Boston and the 2017 National Teacher of the Year.

Roots: From Outward Bound to EL Education

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