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Dozens of online educational resource service companies are making their materials available for free during the crisis. Here's an amazing and growing list for K-12 teachers. Please contact your librarian to set up a trial for access.
Please contact your librarian if you need help to set up remote student access to anything offered on this list.
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Vaughan, Lauri. “LibGuides: Remote Learning: Tips, Professional Development, and LID Updates.” Library.Harker.Org, 28 Aug. 2020, library.harker.org/remotelearning. Accessed 1 Sept. 2020.
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Huang, Qi. “LibGuides: Lower School Library Portal: For Teachers.” Library.Harker.Org, 31 Aug. 2020, library.harker.org/lowerlibrary/lower_teacher. Accessed 1 Sept. 2020.
Better Learning Through Structured Teaching
Teacher Resource
Better Learning Through Structured Teaching: A Framework for the Gradual Release of Responsibility Third Edition by Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey
Call Number: TR Gen Edu
"Definitive guide to the gradual release of responsibility--an instructional framework any teacher can use to help students to be more successful and self-directed learners." --Back cover.
Rethinking Classroom Management
Teacher Resource
Rethinking Classroom Management: Strategies for Prevention, Intervention, and Problem Solving Second Edition by Patricia L. Sequeira Belvel
Call Number: TR Gen Edu BEL
"Provides new real-life examples, intervention techniques, and ready-to-use worksheets for addressing potential problems before learning is disrupted and demonstrates ways to foster student leadership in your classroom."
“Rethinking Classroom Management: Strategies for Prevention, Intervention, and Problem Solving: Belvel, Patricia L. Sequeira: 9781412963480: Amazon.com: Books.” Amazon.com, 2022, www.amazon.com/Rethinking-Classroom-Management-Strategies-Intervention/dp/1412963486/ref=sr_1_1?crid=17T783WJARMPQ&keywords=rethinking+classroom+management&qid=1668648291&sprefix=rethinking+classroom+managemen%2Caps%2C688&sr=8-1&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.006c50ae-5d4c-4777-9bc0-4513d670b6bc. Accessed 17 Nov. 2022.
Positive Discipline
Positive Discipline
Teacher Resource
Positive Discipline in the Classroom: Developing Mutual Respect, Cooperation, and Responsibility in Your Classroom by Jane NelsenCall Number: 371.5 NEL
Describes the "Positive Discipline" program, and explains how it can be implemented in elementary classrooms to build character and prepare children for responsible citizenship.
Teacher Resource
Positive Discipline: A Teacher's A-Z Guide: Hundreds of Solutions for Every Possible Classroom Behavior Problem by Jane NelsenCall Number: TR Gen Edu POS
Effective positive strategies for restoring order and turning the teacher-student relationship into one of mutual respect.
“Positive Discipline: A Teacher’s A-Z Guide, Revised 2nd Edition: Hundreds of Solutions for Every Possible Classroom Behavior Problem: Nelsen, Jane, Escobar, Linda, Ortolano, Kate, Duffy, Roslyn Ann, Owen-Sohocki, Debbie: 9780761522454: Amazon.Com: Books.” Amazon.Com, 2020, www.amazon.com/Positive-Discipline-Teachers-Solutions-Classroom/dp/076152245X/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=positive+discipline+in+the+classroom&qid=1598992066&sr=8-4. Accessed 1 Sept. 2020.
Mindfulness Resource
Mindfulness Resource
Teacher Resource
Mindfulness for Teachers by Patricia A. JenningsCall Number: TR Gen Edu 371.102 JenNorton Series on the social neuroscience of education
"This book offers simple, ready-to-use, and evidence-proven mindfulness techniques to help educators manage the stresses of the classroom, cultivate an exceptional learning environment, and revitalize both their teaching and their student's knowledge aquisition." --Back cover.
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