Learning Through Academic Choice (Strategies for Teachers Series)

Academic Choice is a powerful tool for increasing students' motivation and academic skills and building community in the classroom. In Learning Through Academic Choice, long-time educator and Responsive Classroom consulting teacher Paula Denton guides teachers step-by-step through the process of introducing Academic Choice into their teaching.

In this practical and comprehensive book, teachers will:

• learn how to build a strong foundation for Academic Choice;
• follow a teacher through each phase of implementing an Academic Choice lesson;
• learn the details of planning an Academic Choice lesson;
• find a wide range of specific lesson plans and activity ideas for grades K–6.

• The Will to Lead, the Skill to Teach: Transforming Schools at Every Level (Create a responsive learning environment)
• Children's Mathematics, Second Edition: Cognitively Guided Instruction
• The Power of Our Words: Teacher Language that Helps Children Learn
• Worksheets Don′t Grow Dendrites: 20 Instructional Strategies That Engage the Brain
• Putting the Practices Into Action: Implementing the Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice, K-8
• Energizers! 88 Quick Movement Activities That Refresh and Refocus, K-6
• The CAFE Book: Engaging All Students in Daily Literacy Assessment and Instruction
• The First Six Weeks of School
• Simplifying Response to Intervention: Four Essential Guiding Principles (an RTI Book for Professional Learning Communities)
• The Morning Meeting Book