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Tools for Citizenship & Life: Using the Lifelong Guidelines & LIFESKILLS in Your Classroom, 5th Ed. Revised
by Sue Pearson
Here’s the book you’ve been waiting to have at your fingertips! A practical and powerful resource for creating a sense of community that significantly enhances academic learning. With a chapter for each of the Lifelong Guidelines and LIFESKILLS, the book provides a description of each, why practice it, how to practice it, what it looks like in the real world, what it looks like in school, inquiries to develop it, signs of its success, and links to related literature to use with students grades K-12. Can be used as a stand-alone character education program or as a key HET resource. (300+ pages).
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LIFESKILLS & Lifelong Guidelines Wall Posters — Cartoon Set
Includes a Lifelong Guidelines poster (12" x 18") and posters for each of the 19 LIFESKILLS (8.5" x 11"). LIFESKILLS include such traits as Cooperation, Responsibility, Initiative, Problem-Solving, etc. Artwork is whimsical, action-oriented, and multi-ethnic.
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LIFESKILLS & Lifelong Guidelines Wall Posters — Animal Set
Your class will enjoy the playful animals depicting the five Lifelong Guidelines (a 12" x 18" color poster) and the 19 LIFESKILLS (8.5" x 11") color posters, one for each LIFESKILL). LIFESKILLS include such traits as Effort, Perseverance, Friendship, Caring, Sense of Humor, and Creativity.
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LIFESKILLS — Lifelong Guidelines Definitions Poster
This poster includes both the Lifelong Guidelines and LIFESKILLS with their definitions-all on one 18” x 24” glossy poster. Display it in the hallway, office, lunchroom, classroom, or at home.
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: (Available through this website, January 2023)
by Susan J. Kovalik, Linda Jordan, EdE, Terri Patterson, EdD, Sue Pearson, and Karen D. Olsen
As we emerge from our covid nightmare and need more powerful ways to help students re-engage and catch up, there is no better companion to stimulate our thinking than this book. A sequel to the popular first editions that described the Kovalik ITI/HET model and how to implement it, Exceeding Expectations II builds upon that 35-year history of using a neuroscience to guide curricular and instructional decisions.
Exceeding Expectations II includes expanded discussions of curriculum development—especially a fresh look at integrating subjects to both save time and deepen learning plus how to meet the challenge of preparing students for the future world of work—and how to assess implementation in ways that form a bridge from professional development into schoolwide practice.
This schoolwide emphasis is reflected in renaming the model—the Learning-Centered School.
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A wonderful resource for professional development trainings or for personal teacher use. This 2-hour DVD is a compilation of seven ITI/ HET DVDs.
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Classroom Leadership Series — DVD
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Classroom of the 21st Century — DVD
by Robert Ellingsen
Observe an HET/ITI fourth-grade classroom where all curriculum content and skills are orchestrated around a yearlong theme. Hear students speak for the power of the model. (50 mins. DVD)
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LIFESKILLS: How to Build a Class Family — DVD
"LIFESKILLS: Building a Class Family in a HET Classroom" takes the viewer through activities in a multiage classroom of 60 fifth- and sixth-graders with teachers Joy Raboli and Karin Janik. It demonstrates some of the foundational pieces of creating a class family, such as the Lifelong Guidelines, LIFESKILLS, class meetings, and Learning Clubs (15 min. DVD)
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Divide and Conquer: Division in a Day — DVD
with Martha Kaufeldt
When the learning environment is brain compatible, something as "hard" as long division —concept and computation —can be mastered in a single day. Follow a fourth-grade teacher as she takes 50 students, grades 4-6, through an unforgettable day of conquering long division and wiring it into long-term memory.. (55 mins.)
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Jacobsonville —DVD
Few disagree: Learning by doing is the most powerful way to learn. Behind the vocabulary, doing creates meaning, comprehensive and in-depth. Behind the rhetoric, doing builds the capacity to use what is understood in real-world ways-as students and as adults and citizens.
The HET micro-community, as depicted in this video of Jacobson Elementary, provides a realistic and comprehensive experience in self-governance, civics, economics, entrepreneurialism, and community service. Not an add-on, the HET micro-community is a deliberate and strategic means of using real life to integrate curriculum and make it come alive for students, regardless of language or socioeconomic status.
If you're looking for a way to significantly boost student engagement and achievement scores— especially in math— learning and living in a micro-community is your fastest and most direct pathway.
A companion how-to book by Dr. Terri Patterson is due out this fall.
(Book due out Spring, 2023)
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Mission Addition: Mastery Through Integration— DVD
Neuroscience has much to tell us about how to teach to long- term memory. Watch as four classrooms of second-grade students, 85% of whom are second language learners, master addition in two days—concepts and application through combinations up to 20. In two days? What a time saver!
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