<p><strong>Save 15% with our !</strong><br /> <br /> Watch out a one-minute of <em>Systems to Transform Your Classroom and School</em>.<br /> <br /> <em>"There are steps teachers and administrators can take-tweaks, if you will-that make a classroom or school a place that's safe for children, one where every student feels noticed and known, one that challenges kids and entices them with the intrinsic rewards of real work done well."</em><br /> <strong>-Nancie Atwell</strong></p> <p>Since 1990, Nancie Atwell and the faculty of the K-8 Center for Teaching and Learning have charged themselves with a mission. "Our job is to innovate for the good of children," Nancie writes, "and then to pass along to other teachers the lessons we learn about instruction that makes a difference." <em>Systems to Transform Your Classroom and School</em> makes CTL's powerful innovations accessible to every teacher and administrator.</p> <p>Nancie and her colleagues have created a culture of engagement and excellence by combining smart practices and policies with rich, community-building traditions and rituals. <em>Systems to Transform Your Classroom and School </em>introduces essential practices such as CTL's: </p> <ul> <li>daily morning meetings</li> <li>student-generated bill of rights</li> <li>school-wide "You can't say you can't play" rule</li> <li>outreach to parents</li> <li>spiraling K-8 curriculum in science and history</li> <li>student-and teacher-self-assessment and goal-setting</li> <li>student-led evaluation conferences</li> <li>systems for school and classroom management</li> <li>workshop approaches to teaching math, reading, and writing-including warmups, mini-lessons, conferences, and rigorous yet kid-friendly expectations based on the research and experience of a faculty of master teachers.</li> </ul> <p>Nancie invites you to: </p> <ul> <li>reflect on your own practice and goals</li> <li>view CTL's systems at work on the accompanying DVD</li> <li>read about her school's solutions to common problems of teaching</li> <li>access resources-forms, guidelines, and protocols-developed by the CTL faculty.</li> </ul> <p> "If we want students to feel a sense of belonging to something that's bigger than they are," Nancie observes, "it's essential that their teachers feel that way, too." Join your own colleagues, along with long-distance colleagues at the Center for Teaching and Learning, to discover how <em>Systems to Transform Your Classroom and School</em> can help turn your teaching ideals into a practical, successful reality.<br /> <br /> Read a chapter, and watch a sample video clip.<br /> <br /> Book study groups, save 15% when you buy 15 copies with our .</p>