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Posted by Chip on November 9, 2011
A recent article by Tina Barseghian on Mind Shift does a great job of focusing attention on the “praise for achievement vs. praise for effort” debate of great interest to Responsive Classroom practitioners.
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Categories: Books, Teachers & Teaching, Thinking Developmentally |
Tags: Center for Courage and Renewal, Mind Shift, mindfulness, Parker Palmer, Paula Denton, Power of Our Words, Responsive Classroom approach, Tina Barseghian | 
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Posted by Chip on October 28, 2011
I have not been so immediately stunned and impressed by a book for teachers as I have by the one I am about to recommend, no, urge you to get as soon as you can. According to the publisher (Stenhouse), it will not be available until mid-November, but you can pre-order it right now.
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Categories: Books, Education Reform, Teachers & Teaching |
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Posted by Chip on August 16, 2011
Hello, readers.
I’m happy to be able to post an interview I recently had with Justin Baeder on Eduleadership Radio about my new book, co-authored with Babs Freeman-Loftis. It’s called Responsive School Discipline: Essentials for Elementary School Leaders. I hope you’ll listen—and then share your comments and questions here on the blog!
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Posted by Chip on March 23, 2011
Three years ago, almost to the day, I wrote a short blog post about an amazing third grader named Clementine.
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Categories: Books |
Tags: Clementine books, great children's books, Marla Frazee, read-alouds, Sara Pennypacker, third grade, third graders | 1 Comment »
Posted by Chip on February 3, 2011
With my last two blog posts, I’ve concluded my collection of “Positive Attributes from Ages 4-14.” (See “Positive Attributes” in the categories list to the right if you’d like to see the whole collection!) It dawned on me that parents of teenagers or tweenagers who might have just read about ages 13 and 14 might also [...]
Categories: Books, Building Relationships & Community, Parent Questions & Concerns |
Tags: Anthony Wolf, children's strengths, Dr. Anthony E. Wolf, parenting teenagers, teenagers | Post a Comment »
Posted by Chip on November 29, 2010
Ninety-nine years ago, in 1912, two young teachers wrote a book for the ages. I was reminded about their work at the recent 60th Anniversary event of the Gesell Institute of Human Development, held in New Haven, Connecticut, in October.
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Categories: Books, Education Reform, Thinking Developmentally |
Tags: Arnold Gesell, Beatrice Gesell, Books, Common Core standards, Education Reform, Gesell Institute, The Normal Child and Primary Education, Thinking Developmentally | 1 Comment »
Posted by Chip on June 3, 2010
I was so inspired by Margaret Wilson’s recent blog post on “Last Read-Aloud of the Year”—she gives such great ideas for final classroom reading-writing connections leading into the summer break!
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Categories: Books, Schoolwide Issues |
Tags: children's writing, encouraging children to write, literacy, Margaret Berry Wilson, Responsive blog, summer literacy | 2 Comments »
Posted by Chip on September 28, 2009
Another provocative, idea-challenging, and idea-changing book I’ve just pored over is NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children. Written by two award-winning journalists, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman, this exciting book is a collection of individual explorations of research and programs in child development and learning that turn conventional thinking, including some of my own, upside down and [...]
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Tags: Books, Nurtureshock, Paula Denton, The Power of Our Words | 1 Comment »
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