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Your essential guide for bringing students' core thinking, listening, and speaking skills to a higher level! The Language of Learning offers a practical approach to teaching essential communication skills: Listening and understanding Thinking before speaking Speaking clearly and concisely Asking thoughtful questions Giving high-quality answers Backing up opinions with reasons and evidence Agreeing thoughtfully Disagreeing respectfully

Margaret Berry Wilson helps you understand why students sometimes misbehave and how a positive, respectful approach to discipline can transform your classroom. For each problem behavior, she explains which proactive strategies to use, how to respond most effectively when children misbehave, and how to talk with parents.

Bring positive behavior to your school through strong, consistent, and positive discipline. In Responsive School Discipline two experienced administrators offer practical strategies for building a safe, calm, and respectful school-strategies based on deep respect for children and for staff. Each chapter targets one key discipline issue and starts with a checklist of action steps. For comprehensive discipline reform, go through the chapters in order. For help with a particular challenge, go right to the chapter you need.

Learn how teachers can use language words, tone, and pace to increase student engagement, build a positive classroom community, and more effectively manage behavior by helping children develop confidence, competence, and self-control. Since the first edition was published in 2007, thousands of educators have used The Power of Our Words as their guide to getting the most from positive teacher language. The second edition includes the concise explanations, concrete examples from real classrooms, and quick-scan charts showing recommended language for many classroom situations that made this book a bestseller, and adds: Greater academic focus: More on using teacher language to boost academic engagement and achievement Lighter, more open page design: Easier reading and scanning Inspiring foreword: A powerful vision linking teacher language, Common Core State Standards, and 21st century learning. Index: Quick help finding the topic you need