From executive skills experts Peg Dawson and Richard Guare, this large-format academic planner is specially designed for students in grades 6-12. It provides a system for keeping track of assignments and due dates while developing the crucial executive skills needed to succeed in school and beyond. Students are guided to build a daily study plan, manage their time, set short- and long-term goals, study for tests, and record their successes. They also get tools for evaluating their own executive skills in order to target their weaknesses and capitalize on strengths.
The Bulletproof Planner is specifically designed for students with Executive Function challenges, including ADHD. The first step is to capture each assignment, which is the first milestone to success, and then to provide a framework for managing tasks to completion. The Bulletproof Planner puts assignments and due dates in the crosshairs of the target, providing visibility and tracking so that work doesn't fall through the cracks or get overrun by competing priorities. But the real value in the Bulletproof Planner is that it provides scaffolding to strengthen and internalize the executive function skills in the process of tracking assignments. It also provides a crucial feedback loop for successes to improve the self-image and motivation of struggling students. The Bulletproof Planner is a platform to create the skills required to be successful in school right now, and beyond.
Get organized, plan effectively, and keep your school running smoothly!Developed for both aspiring and experienced elementary school principals, this unique resource-updated from the top-selling first edition-lays out everyday challenges and administrative necessities to help you plan strategically for the academic year. This month-by-month planning tool, designed by veteran administrators, helps you get off on the right foot in July to set your course for a successful school year. Its emphasis is to help principals develop the skills to foresee future calendar events, and to put into operation specific plans to maintain a calm learning environment. Chapters cover key tasks for each month, beginning in July, and contain: Overview of tasks Communications-letters, memos, correspondence, media relations, including sample documents Planning-workshops, orientations, field trips, fundraising activities Personnel-assignments, schedules, rosters, tenure recommendations Checklists to monitor progress with an assortment of tasks Resources to proactively plan and execute effective and decisive leadership The Elementary School Principal's Calendar offers a handy checklist for each month and the flexibility for modification, helping busy administrators avoid reinventing the wheel each year. It's an essential handbook for every principal faced with the complex challenge of managing all aspects of school administration!
This book has been developed for both new and experienced principals; it lays out everyday challenges and administrative necessities to help principals plan strategically for the academic year. This work provides a month-to-month guide to make the school year run smoothly from opening to closing. Chapters cover key tasks for each month beginning in July: overview of tasks; communications--letters, memos, correspondence, media relationships; planning--workshops, orientations, field trips, fundraising activities; personnel--assignments, schedules, rosters, tenure recommendations; and checklists to monitor progress with an assortment of tasks for each month. These checklists offer flexibility for modification, and the monthly calendar helps busy administrators avoid reinventing the wheel each year. Appendices include sample documents, teachers' manual index, and various memos covering fundraising, building security, class elections, locker cleanup, weekly memo, orientation agenda, and emergency drills, among others. (DFR)
Developed by veteran administrators, the "nuts and bolts" described in the monthly chapters will give middle school principals the tools they need to help ensure a trouble-free opening to the school year.
School counseling that makes a difference—for all students! As an elementary school counselor, you’re implementing a comprehensive program to promote academic and social-emotional development for all students. You’re planting seeds of college and career readiness, which means creating core curriculum classroom lessons, delivering engaging content to students and parents, managing classroom behaviors, providing assessments, and sharing the results. The good news is that you don’t have to do it alone. In this guide, three experienced school counselors take you step by step through the creation and implementation of high-quality Tier 1 systems of universal supports. With a focus on proactive and prevention education through core curriculum classroom lessons and schoolwide activities, this practical text includes: The school counselor’s role in Multi-tiered, Multi-Domain System of Supports Examples to help with design, implementation, and evaluation Guidance for selecting curriculum and developing lesson and action plans Alignment with ASCA National Model and ASCA Mindsets and Behaviors Vignettes from practicing elementary school counselors Recommendations for including families in prevention activities Management tools, reproducible templates, and reflective activities and processing questions You teach the academic, college and career, and social-emotional competencies students need to be successful learners. With this book’s expert guidance, you’re prepared to help them get there. "This book accomplishes what so many school counseling graduates are often left to learn ‘on the job’: translation of theory and ideas into meaningful, evidence-based practice within a multi-tiered system of supports." —Paul C. Harris, Assistant Professor, Counselor Education University of Virginia "This is the book all elementary school counselors have been waiting for! Not only can it deepen our skills as educators and collaborators, it also provides a sounding board for effective school counseling practices that are standards-based, measurable, and focused on closing the achievement gap." —Kirsten Perry, ASCA 2018 School Counselor of the Year Lawndale Community Academy, Chicago, IL
The 2020 - 2021 High School Senior College & Career Workbook was designed to help high school seniors manage their busy schedule efficiently, provide a guide to navigate their way through the process of applying for college and to create a plan they can implement successfully after high school, if they do not plan to go to college. By using the HS Senior Workbook students will be able to balance their schoolwork, extracurricular activities at school, chores at home and any part-time job they have. Students who have work experience or who have experience volunteering are encouraged to use the Student Career Guide. The Student Career Guide provides students with an example on how to organize their work experience and volunteer experience into a resume. It also has examples of how to write a cover letter and a thank you letter, which are valuable to have when interviewing for a job. Students should discuss their plan for college and their career goal with their parents and school Guidance Counselors.
Ready, set, get organized! New 2018-2019 Academic Planner. Beautiful, high-quality weekly planner to keep you on track. Modern, abstract cover. Contains yearly overview, class schedule for fall and spring semesters, monthly calendar, and weekly spreads with plenty of room for notes, schedule, homework assignments, and more! Printed on pure-white, 50 lb stock. Made in the USA.
This highly practical resource and text presents 70 interventions that have been demonstrated to improve the classroom learning environment, academic achievement, and student behavior and social competence. Each intervention is presented in a brief, standardized format with step-by-step procedures that can easily be implemented by Pre-K-12 teachers and other school-based professionals. The volume includes best-practice guidelines for designing, implementing, and evaluating evidence-based school interventions, as well as strategies for combining multiple interventions to create a comprehensive program at the individual, class, or schoolwide level.
Parents and caregivers struggle to cope with the demands of modern day living and need practical ways to help them raise happy, well-adjusted and independent children. This book includes invaluable and practical advice on how to improve a child's planning and organisational skills, how to tackle homework, and general discipline. The Manual That Never Came With Your Child shows parents/caregivers: how to create an appropriate environment for the child to do his or her homework; the setting up of routines; how to organise weekly and monthly planners; how to teach a child to study; how to devise the ultimate homework diary; ideas on games and activities to improve a child's visual and auditory perceptual skills, their reading, spelling and times tables as well as fine and gross motor skills; what children need to eat to optimise brain power. The sticky issue of discipline is also covered comprehensively. Written in easy laymen's terms, the often-humorous text is accompanied by full-colour cartoon illustrations throughout, which 'lightens' the approach to issues that are often regarded as nightmares by despairing parents. Where necessary, there are also colour photographs. Regular 'Handy Hints' boxes are included to summarise the preceding concepts in a nutshell.
