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Every classroom is filled with creative potential. Unlock Creativity will help you discover opportunities that will make every student see themselves as a creative thinker. The keys shared in this book will spark your personal creativity and offer you imaginative ideas that will open new doors for your students to explore.Now, more than ever, it is time to unlock creative opportunities for our students. This is an exciting time in education as students are designing, collaborating, and creating in the classroom. The inclusion of innovative learning spaces and the use of technology to enhance creativity are quickly changing the landscape in our schools.Creativity may be a little different for each of us. It happens through our wondering, exploring, tinkering, and doing. It involves playing around with ideas. It is the opportunity to take what is circling around in our imagination and bring it to life. We can foster this in our classrooms in small ways that will elicit positive change, increase creative confidence, and unlock new opportunities for students.If you feel like you've lost your ability to be creative in the classroom or believe that student creativity needs a jumpstart, then this book is for you. It's for teachers who want to reimagine what teaching can look like in a creative classroom. It's for school and district leaders who recognize that students are more than test scores. It's for curriculum leaders and instructional coaches who want to rethink school curriculum by infusing creative opportunities for all learners. This book will provide tools for you as the teacher to increase your personal creativity as well as strategies to empower your students. This book is for anyone who wants to unlock creativity in powerful ways by unleashing our imaginations and create exciting possibilities for kids!

Carolyn Coffield Mends was an award-winning artist who specialized in pastel portraiture. Ekuwah grew up watching her remarkable mother's passion for painting, drawing, and storytelling. She pulls pieces from Carolyn's studio to paint a biographical picture of love, family, heritage, and humanity. In what ways do Carolyn's life and artwork inspire you to dream and use your gifts to impact the world?

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You remember your favorite teacher, don't you?How about your least favorite teacher?Some were good...Some were not so good...Some were REALLY good...And, some were just plain AWFUL!Teachers have remarkable impacts on everyone. YOUR students deserve to have the best teacher in front of them at all times. In You Are #1, stories and science merge in order to create an understanding about how the power of a teacher stays with everyone for the rest of their lives. See why YOU remember those individuals from YOUR days in school and learn how YOU can become the #1 best teacher and role model for each and every one of your students who learns from YOU every single day.In YOU ARE #1, Blair and Jetter outline research-based characteristics and brain research to explain how teachers SHOULD be and how they WOULD WANT to be in order to improve education EVERYWHERE for all eternity!

Amplify Every Student''s PotentialDo you ever wonder how you''ll reach challenging students (You know the ones.) and bring out the best in every single student?Be Their Warrior will inspire you, stretch you, empathize with you, and empower you to be a warrior for all students.Award-winning educator, Pamela Hall shares her strategies and stories for building unwavering, life-changing relationships through Culture, Community, & Being STRONG. You''ll gain powerful principles that reap rewards of high student engagement & achievement while enabling all students to blossom.Whether you are a novice or seasoned educator, there''s a doable nugget for you.Be Their Warrior is more than a catchy phrase. It''s about being intentional and planning to help every child succeed. You''ll learn to:Create a culture that keeps all kids coming backStart STRONGEmbrace self-careCultivate impactful relationshipsIgnite passionEmpower community & family partnershipsCreate a classroom culture that fosters every student''s gifts and talents, leading to a love of learning.Eliminate average. Be a warrior!

During a career, many people feel like they are part of a great machine. And in being part of this great machine, or a small device, a cog, or widget, can have long-lasting and profound impacts far into the future. In this book, Casey Thomas Jakubowski, Ph.D. traces his career, and creates a series of questions that any person could use to find their own path! This journey is one mixing place, purpose, and persistence. From a family tragedy at a young age to repurposing a career inspired by the idea that all children can learn, this book takes you on a personal journey and adds reflective questions along the way to give you career journey guideposts. Use this book as a mentoring tool with the reading and questions like a dialogue to help you morph from feeling good to OUTSTANDING!

Reflecting on life is important, but what if it leads to discovering your sense of belonging? Dr. Ilene Winokur discovered a sense of belonging by sharing her story about life in two very different places she calls home: Buffalo, NY, and Yarmouk, Kuwait. Friends and family were curious about how she adjusted to life in two different cultures. Dr. Winokur realized that belonging was the common theme and her journey guided her to make connections between belonging, learning, and improving our well-being.Journey to Belonging: Pathways to Well-Being is filled with self-reflection and the author's discovery about different stages of belonging (self, personal, and professional) that can influence how educators approach teaching and learning. Dr. Winokur's research-based explanations about belonging and well-being include why our highest goal is to leave a legacy and a better future for all.Journey to Belonging will help you define YOUR sense of belonging by answering:What is self-belonging and why do we all need it?Why is personal belonging an essential element of learning?How can educators find their sense of professional belonging?What does it mean to become a "good ancestor"?

After serving in linguistically diverse schools for over a decade, Carly Spina has scoured for the most effective and meaningful ways to support multilingual learners. The overwhelming answer has always been this: "Just add visuals!" When it comes to serving our multilingual learners, there are countless ways for us to strengthen our practice! This book will help us to reflect on ways to move beyond our current practices and really dive deep into ways to enhance instruction, create meaningful social-emotional learning experiences, empower families, partner with our community, and more. Let's reflect on our roles as change agents in our systems! It's time to flip lenses and disrupt the deficit narratives of those we serve. Ready? Let's move beyond for multilingual learners!