Unconditional Education

Unconditional Education

Author: Robin Detterman

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2019-03-19

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 0190886528

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After decades of reform, America's public schools continue to fail particular groups of students; the greatest opportunity gaps are faced by those whose achievement is hindered by complex stressors, including disability, trauma, poverty, and institutionalized racism. When students' needs overwhelm the neighborhood schools assigned to serve them, they are relegated to increasingly isolated educational environments. Unconditional Education (UE) offers an alternate approach that transforms schools into communities where all students can thrive. It reduces the need for more intensive and costly future remediation by pairing a holistic, multi-tiered system of supports with an intentional focus on overall culture and climate, and promotes systematic coordination and integration of funding and services by identifying gaps and eliminating redundancies to increase the efficient allocation of available resources. This book is an essential resource for mental health and educational stakeholders (i.e., school social workers, therapists, teachers, school administrators, and district-level leaders) who are interested in adopting an unconditional approach to supporting the students within their schools.


Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education

Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education

Author: Alex Shevrin Venet

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-09-01

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1003845118

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Educators must both respond to the impact of trauma, and prevent trauma at school. Trauma-informed initiatives tend to focus on the challenging behaviors of students and ascribe them to circumstances that students are facing outside of school. This approach ignores the reality that inequity itself causes trauma, and that schools often heighten inequities when implementing trauma-informed practices that are not based in educational equity. In this fresh look at trauma-informed practice, Alex Shevrin Venet urges educators to shift equity to the center as they consider policies and professional development. Using a framework of six principles for equity-centered trauma-informed education, Venet offers practical action steps that teachers and school leaders can take from any starting point, using the resources and influence at their disposal to make shifts in practice, pedagogy, and policy. Overthrowing inequitable systems is a process, not an overnight change. But transformation is possible when educators work together, and teachers can do more than they realize from within their own classrooms.


Unconditional Education

Unconditional Education

Author: Robin L. Detterman

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 019088651X

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Unconditional Education outlines an approach by which schools serve students through the integration of special education, general education, and mental health systems. In building the capacity of their communities, schools can meet the needs of their most marginalized students and create inclusive environments in which all students have the opportunity to thrive.


Unconditional Democracy

Unconditional Democracy

Author: Toshio Nishi

Publisher: Hoover Press

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 9780817974428

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The difficult mission of a regime change: Toshio Nishi gives an account of how America converted the Japanese mindset from war to peace following World War II.


Unconditional Teaching

Unconditional Teaching

Author: Paul Harris

Publisher: Faber Music Ltd

Published: 2022-07-22

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 0571592082

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The full eBook version of Unconditional Teaching in fixed-layout format. Paul Harris's ground-breaking and inspirational new approach encourages teachers to explore and transform how they teach. Paul identifies and reimagines the barriers or 'conditions' that can stand in the way of effective teaching, to allow for the most immersive and positive learning experience. Written in Paul's accessible and engaging style, ideas are tackled from both a practical and psychological perspective, rooted in Paul's renowned Simultaneous Learning methodology. For teachers of all disciplines and learners of all ages, this seminal book will begin your journey towards an unbounded, unconditional way of teaching.


Unconditional Parenting

Unconditional Parenting

Author: Alfie Kohn

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2006-03-28

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0743487486

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The author of Punished by Rewards and The Schools Our Children Deserve returns with a provocative challenge to the conventional ways of raising children. Kohn argues that all children have the need to be loved unconditionally, yet conventional approaches to parenting, such as punishment and reward, teach children that they are loved only when they please and impress parents. Kohn cites powerful research detailing the damage this can cause. Unconditional Parenting pushes parents to question their ideas of parenting and offers practical solutions to problems.


Feel-Bad Education

Feel-Bad Education

Author: Alfie Kohn

Publisher: Beacon Press

Published: 2011-04-05

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0807001414

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Mind-opening writing on what kids need from school, from one of education’s most outspoken voices Almost no writer on schools asks us to question our fundamental assumptions about education and motivation as boldly as Alfie Kohn. The Washington Post says that “teachers and parents who encounter Kohn and his thoughts come away transfixed, ready to change their schools.” And Time magazine has called him “perhaps the country’s most outspoken critic of education’s fixation on grades [and] test scores.” Here is challenging and entertaining writing on where we should go in American education, in Alfie Kohn’s unmistakable voice. He argues in the title essay with those who think that high standards mean joylessness in the classroom. He reflects thoughtfully on the question “Why Self-Discipline Is Overrated.” And in an essay for the New York Times, which generated enormous response, he warns against the dangers of both punishing and praising children for what they do instead of parenting “unconditionally.” Whether he’s talking about school policy or the psychology of motivation, Kohn gives us wonderfully provocative—and utterly serious—food for thought. This new book will be greeted with enthusiasm by his many readers, and by teachers and parents seeking a refreshing perspective on today’s debates about kids and schools.


Unconditional Care

Unconditional Care

Author: John S. Sprinson

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2010-01-26

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0199733031

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This clinician-friendly guide presents a model for engaging the most challenging children and families who are served by the child welfare, mental health, juvenile justice, and special educations systems. These children are among the most troubled clients that treatment providers will ever encounter. They have been failed by every adult, every treatment modality, and every system of care that they have encountered.Unconditional Care, a breakthrough guide from the founder and clinical director of California's Seneca Center for Children and Families, offers both a theoretical model and practical guidelines for working with this most difficult group of children. The approach weaves together attachment theory and learning theory into a coherent relationship-based intervention strategy built around a no-fail policy: a child can never be discharged from a program for exhibiting the behaviors that resulted in the placement. Professionals working with these families instead focus on re-building relationships that teach children to secure safe and supportive relationships with caregivers using new behaviors and skills to replace the destructive ones that have, until now, organized their worldview. The concept of unconditional care allows, for the first time, a safe space for youth to reconstruct their perceptions of themselves and those who care for them.Rich case examples, quick-reference bullets and boxes, and sample assessment and planning worksheets make this a handy clinical reference and training tool for mental health and child welfare professionals.


Levinas and Education

Levinas and Education

Author: Denise Egéa-Kuehne

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008-04-02

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1135989400

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This first book-length collection on Levinas and education gathers new texts written especially for this volume, providing an introduction to some of Levinas's major themes of ethics, justice, hope, hospitality, forgiveness, and more.


Sparking Student Creativity

Sparking Student Creativity

Author: Patti Drapeau

Publisher: ASCD

Published: 2014-09-23

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1416619380

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Teaching isn't merely transmitting knowledge to students; it’s also about teaching students to approach learning in engaging and unexpected ways. In Sparking Student Creativity: Practical Ways to Promote Innovative Thinking and Problem Solving, author and researcher Patti Drapeau explores and explains research related to creativity and its relevance in today’s standards-based, critical thinking–focused classroom. The book vividly and comprehensively shows * How creative lessons can meet and extend the expectations of curriculum standards such as the Common Core State Standards, * How to incorporate creativity and assessment into daily classroom practices, * How to develop a "Creativity Road Map" to guide instruction, and * How to design lessons that prompt and support creative thinking. In addition, the book includes 40 “grab and go” ideas that infuse lesson plans with a spirit of exploration. No matter what grade levels or content areas you teach, Sparking Student Creativity will help you to produce creative lesson components that directly address critical content, target specific standards, and require thoughtful products from students as they grow into independent learners and become successful students and adults.