Table of Contents
Foreword x
Acknowledgments xii
Introduction xiv
Why do we need this book? xiv
Who is this book for? xv
What's different about this book? What's familiar? xv
How do I use this book? xvi
01 Staying Happy and Healthy in a Demanding Job 1
1.1 Set the Bar Where You Can Jump It 3
1.2 Take the "Good Enough" Test 5
1.3 Establish Core Beliefs 7
1.4 Find the Positive: Be the Positive 10
1.5 Schedule Self-Care and Track What Gets in the Way 13
1.6 Find Your People with Buddies, Mentors, and Study Partners 15
1.7 The Pomodoro Technique and Other Time Management Tips 18
1.8 Make a Happy File 21
1.9 Banish Gossip 23
1.10 Give Wait Time for New Initiatives 25
02 Classroom Environment 28
2.1 Be the Student: Look at Your Room Through a Student's Eyes 30
2.2 Stop Decorating and Turn Classroom Walls over to Students 32
2.3 Ask Students What Serves or Distracts Them 34
2.4 Document the Walls: Who Is Represented? Who Isn't? 36
2.5 Share Responsibility for the Room with Jobs 38
2.6 Remove Obstacles for One and All: Room Design and Tools That Support Everyone 40
2.7 KonMari Your Classroom 42
2.8 Whose Room Is It? Personalize the Space 45
2.9 Organize Your Library 47
2.10 Flexible Spaces for Creating and Collaborating 49
03 Management, Part 1: Routines and Rituals 52
3.1 Cocreate Classroom Norms, Not Rules 55
3.2 Teach Basic Routines, Even Ones Students "Should" Know 58
3.3 Beginnings That Welcome and Set the Tone 61
3.4 Endings That Provide Purposeful Closure and Reinforce Learning 65
3.5 Teach Students How to Do Things So You Don't Have to Do Them 68
3.6 Three Steps to Cooperation 72
3.7 Teacher Notebook, Parts 1 and 2 74
3.8 "Call In" Hurtful Comments to Create a Safe and Kind Classroom Culture 76
3.9 Deescalate Then Restore: How to Diffuse Conflict Then Set It Right Again 79
3.10 Help Students Problem Solve 82
04 Management, Part 2: Relationship Building 86
4.1 Say Their Name and Get It Right 88
4.2 Start Before the Start-Greet Them at the Door 90
4.3 Identity Webs 92
4.4 Go to Them, Outside of Class 95
4.5 Games and Sentence Starters That Build Connections Among Classmates 97
4.6 Dot Activity: Find Out Which Students Need to Be Better Known 100
4.7 Spread Good Gossip About Students 102
4.8 Know Students Better in Two Minutes 104
4.9 Reach Out Early On and Find Common Ground with Caregivers 106
Tech Integration Tip: Create a Class Website 108
4.10 Uncover Brilliance in Students Who May Be Seen as "Less Than" 109
05 Independent Practice 112
5.1 Ask Yourself: "Can They Do This?" 115
5.2 Build Up to Longer Stretches of Independent Work 119
Tech Integration Tip: Flip It in Class 120
5.3 What Questions Do They Need Answered? 121
5.4 Stop and Jot, Turn and Talk 123
5.5 Sentence Starters That Set Up Students to Do More on Their Own 125
5.6 Anchor Charts as Silent Teachers 128
5.7 Track Independent Work Time for Those Who Need It Most 131
5.8 Remove Obstacles for One and All: Tools That Help Everyone Achieve Independence 134
Tech Integration Tip: Give All Students the Tech Tools They Need to Succeed 136
5.9 Be Brain Scientists 138
5.10 Wonder Hour 141
06 Formative Assessment and Feedback 144
6.1 Feedback at a Glance 147
6.2 Kidwatching 150
6.3 Surveys-Don't Wait Until June 152
6.4 Checklists 155
6.5 Make Praise Count 158
6.6 Quick Writes to Tell You What Students Know and Need 160
6.7 Set Your Timer: Partner Feedback 162
6.8 Immediate, Personalized Feedback: Conferences 165
6.9 Compliment Conferences 168
6.10 Learning Progressions 170
07 Planning Matters 172
7.1 Whatever They Do, You Do 175
Tech Integration Tip: Use Digital Tools as Your Students Would 176
7.2 Predictable Isn't Boring 177
7.3 Incorporate Managed Choices 180
7.4 Learn Pop Culture 183
7.5 Plan for Breaks 185
7.6 Part 1: Begin with End Goals in Mind 188
7.7 Part 2: What Evidence Shows If Students Met the Learning Goal? 190
7.8 Part 3: Plan the Day to Day 192
7.9 Plan for a Balance of Whole Group, Small Group, and One-on-One 194
7.10 Mini-Inquiries That Connect to Curriculum 197
Tech integration Tip: Virtual Field Trips 199
8 Teacher-Led Instruction 200
8.1 If It's Important, Teach It. Don't Remind, Correct, Fix, or Tell 203
Tech Integration Tip: Teach Students How to Read, Digitally 205
8.2 On Your Good Days, Show It. On Your Bad Days, Channel Your Inner Actor 206
8.3 Keep Teaching Short and Sweet So Kids Can Do More 208
8.4 Teach a Gifted Class. No Matter What 211
8.5 Make Opting In the Default 213
8.6 Celebrate Mistakes 215
8.7 The Think-Aloud 217
8.8 Ask Authentic Questions 219
8.9 Interactive Modeling 222
8.10 Incorporate Storytelling 224
Tech Integration Tip: Widen Their World with Video Conferring 226
09 Student Talk and Collaboration 228
9.1 Catch Good Conversations on Camera 230
9.2 Active and Focused Listening 232
9.3 Carousel Charts to Prime Student Thinking and Get Kids Talking 235
9.4 Sorting Items to Structure Purposeful, Inquiry-Based Group Talk 238
9.5 Remove Obstacles for One and All: Tools to Help Everyone Collaborate 240
9.6 W Board 243
9.7 What's the Pattern? 245
Tech Integration Tip: Create a Back Channel for Student Discussion 247
9.8 Written Conversation 248
9.9 Circle Structures for Talk 251
9.10 Take Turns Questioning the Text 253
Tech Integration Tip: Build a Recording Booth in Twenty Minutes 254
10 Summative Assessment and Grading 256
10.1 Publish to a Wider Audience Than Yourself 259
10.2 Highlight the Mistake and Leave Off the Grade, for Now 262
10.3 Real-Life Assessments 265
Tech Integration Tip: Don't Just Take it-Make it! 266
10.4 Side-by-Side Grading 267
10.5 Adapted Tests for Equitable Grading 269
10.6 Set a Unit End Date and Stick to It 271
10.7 Design Rubrics with Students by Ranking Examples of Student Work 273
10.8 Stop Grading Homework. Do This Instead 276
10.9 Don't Penalize Late Work 279
10.10 No Zeros. Use Interventions and Incompletes Instead 282
11 (Coda): Keep Growing and Giving Back 285
1 Establish Yearlong Goals 285
2 Get Involved in What's Going on Outside Your Classroom 286
3 Advocate with Students 287
4 Study Your Biases and Then Read on to Challenge Them 287
5 Teacher Research Doesn't Have to Be "Academic" 288
6 Write for Others 288
7 Professional Book Study 289
8 Find a Younger Mentor 290
9 Make Sure Any Discussion Starts with "What Would Most Help Students?" 291
Works Cited 292
